Countries ending in stan
Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer (“It’s a modern classic.”) and Barry Lopez,… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Shadows, Shells and Spain
Originally from Vancouver, John Meyer, writes fictional travel memoirs—unique adventure stories that combine fun facts of history with present-day drama… FULL STORY
Wolves of Winter
In Tyrell Johnson’s post-apocalyptic suspense novel, The Wolves of Winter (Simon & Schuster $24.95), set in the Yukon, we are… FULL STORY
Dark in them thar hills
Nelson-based R. M. (Rachel) Greenaway’s first novel Cold Girl (Dundurn 2016) won the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First… FULL STORY
Rafe Mair’s last kick (1931-2017)
Born in Vancouver on December 31, 1931, former CKNW talk show radio host, Social Credit cabinet minister and lawyer Rafe… FULL STORY
Getting Tecknical
Whereas books pertaining to logging and fishing in British Columbia are common, literary attempts to profile events in the mining… FULL STORY
Kurtyka bio climbs to the top
Bernadette McDonald continues her winning ways. She first won the $2,000 Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival… FULL STORY
Submerged guilt
The son of German post-war immigrants who were children during World War II, Roger Frie, a non-Jew, was awarded the… FULL STORY
Brazilian whacks
In Grant Patterson’s first two books about a semi-reluctant, private eye in Brazil, we follow Will Bryant, formerly a Canadian… FULL STORY
Rory gets around
Although he can no longer pipe, hike or travel to exotic lands, and although he’s been reduced to shuffling about… FULL STORY
From Sucre to Sucre Lumber
Dan Propp was born in Sucre, Bolivia in 1944 after his parents Arthur and Elsa Propp had fled the Nazis…. FULL STORY
Professor Prawns & Count Snackula
Adrian Sinclair aka “Professor Prawns” (on the left) co-wrote with Karlis Kalnins aka “Count Snackula” (right), Freestyle Focus Group: Learn… FULL STORY
From Crete to Canada to Craiova
The poet’s road can be very long, and it is never straight. Born in Kolibari on Crete in 1947, Manolis… FULL STORY
Creedom reigns
“When I was growing up,” writes acclaimed Cree playwright Thomson Highway in his remarkable prologue to From Oral to Written:… FULL STORY
Austin Andrews’ shadow hymns
Austin Andrews, a film editor and director, published Shadow Hymns: Photography (Durvile Publications + UpRout $29.95). His photographic work has… FULL STORY
Adventures in film wonderland
India-born screenwriter, director and producer, Vic Sarin (1945) has written a memoir EyePiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television (Durvile… FULL STORY
Denman Island anarchist mag
Hillel Wright has published the 30th anniversary issue of MiNUS TiDES international, a small literary magazine mainly from Denman and… FULL STORY
Canada’s founder of Punjabi theatre
Punjabi-born Ajmer Rode is a founding member of several Indo-Canadian literary and performing arts associations. He has written, directed and… FULL STORY
From French apple pies to bikers
Growing up in Lytton, journalist Peter Edwards’ claim to fame in the small interior town was winning the junior boys’… FULL STORY
Noteworthy hangings
Nancy J. Hughes’s second book, Found Art of the Clans Erskine & Holland 1710-1965 (Victoria: Wildflower Publishing House, 2017 $30)… FULL STORY
