Parasailing in Turkey
Born in Terrace and raised in Cranbrook, Leesa Dean later lived in Montreal where she attended Concordia University. A graduate… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
25 and counting
Ron Dart of Abbotsford has taught in the department of political science/philosophy/religious studies at University of the Fraser Valley since… FULL STORY
Ex-bar owner examines alcohol
Book lovers will get the chance to see what the current writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House, Toronto journalist and… FULL STORY
Inge examines her global life
Born of a Russian mother and Polish father in Frankfurt in 1927, Inge Israel escaped Hitler’s rise with her parents… FULL STORY
YA and you
Born in New Westminster on October 16, 1941, Marion McKinnon Crook grew up in Cloverdale and graduated from Seattle University… FULL STORY
Segregated hospitals
Gary Geddes has spent four years interviewing elders for his next non-fiction book, page due in January, more about Medicine… FULL STORY
A carrot can change the world
Inspired by a journey she made to Aix-en-Provence in 2013, Susan McCaslin’s suite of poems about the life and work… FULL STORY
Wolf as healing guide
When Austrian-born Gudrun Pfluger retired from athletics (Mountain Running World trophy winner 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997) the certified field… FULL STORY
21,000 hours above land and sea
Robert “Bob” Gartshore was born in Calgary in 1931, earned his pilot’s licence in 1949 and joined the Royal Canadian… FULL STORY
Rough rides
Kootenay-born-and-raised Luanne Armstrong is an organic farmer on a fourth-generation family farm in the small community of Boswell, B.C. With… FULL STORY
Edison & the Elephant
One of the benefits of book awards, beyond serving as a good excuse for writers and supportive book folks to… FULL STORY
Griffin’s Wood
The Griffin in the Griffin’s Wood (Ekstasis $29.95), a spy novel in the tradition of John Le Carre’s The Russia… FULL STORY
From Southlands to Halifax
Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Marjorie Simmins is a bi-coastal freelancer whose first memoir Coastal Lives (Nimbus 2014) was a… FULL STORY
From Juilliard to just surviving
Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel The Performance (D&M $22.95) contrasts the worlds of elite classical piano with urban homelessness. Hana Knight,… FULL STORY
MacHugh Memoirs
James L. (Jim) McWilliams has created a series of historical novels known as The MacHugh Memoirs. The hero, Rory MacHugh,… FULL STORY
Laurenda Daniells in her own write
In 1970, Laurenda Daniells became the first University Archivist at UBC. She remains UBC’s University Archivist Emerita. Married to Roy… FULL STORY
Grampa gets his due
The grandson of an Alberta farmer, Ted Chamberlin, aka J. Edward Chamberlin, has bred horses and collected stories about them… FULL STORY
Peace in Peril
For The Peace in Peril (Harbour $24.95), independent journalist Christopher Pollon has examined the first steps of construction for the… FULL STORY
In the spirit of Violette Szabo
John Wilson revisits World World I for his 32nd book, A Dangerous Game (Doubleday $14.99), which pays tribute to the… FULL STORY
Frida freedom
Jennifer Croll’s Fashion That Changed the World (Prestel 2014) has been followed by a lighter treatment of similar material for… FULL STORY
