A tip of the Panama hat
In the Spring isse of B.C. BookWorld there was a page-and-a-half reiview of Canada: A New Tax Haven, the latest… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Six in a blizzard
Sextet (Talonbooks $18.95) by Morris Panych has been heralded as “a dark and steamy comedy” that presents the harmonies and… FULL STORY
Tom Thomson’s Skull
In Broken Arrow (Orca $10.95) Steve’s plan for a relaxing vacation under the Spanish sun with his friend Laia, ends… FULL STORY
Fifty top healing plants
Ardent naturalist, Dr. Kumi, provides a reference guide to 50 of the most commonly used medicinal plants in Plants That… FULL STORY
Wisdom and the I Ching
Hanne Quillevere’s The Pivotal I CHING (Mac Zen Consulting, 2015) bring’s the ancient Chinese book of wisdom into the modern… FULL STORY
The peanut factory
Peter Speers was born in Cranbrook and grew up in East Vancouver. He was educated at the University of Victoria… FULL STORY
A-sailing we will go
Bill Hapgood was born in Trinity Bay on the Quebec north shore. He grew up in Ottawa. After graduating at… FULL STORY
A chest full Of hope
Born in Germany during World War II, Gerti Herrlich was twenty years old when she left her family and friends… FULL STORY
From autobiography to fantasy
James Southern turned to writing a collection of fantasy stories after previously publishing his autobiography. Each story in Once Upon:… FULL STORY
The able in disabled
As a disabled child in Kimberley, B.C., Nova Bannatyne-Eng fought for acceptance. Born with cerebral palsy, she became one of the… FULL STORY
Dying into a new life
Dr. Yaz Bolkan’s expertise crosses many fields as, alongside her doctorate in engineering, university teaching certificate, professional psychotherapy training and… FULL STORY
Painter in a ghost town
Jim Less painted the mountains of British Columbia for two decades just prior to the rise of the Internet and… FULL STORY
Healings and transformations
As the eleventh child born to a single mother in 1947, Lawrence Cooper grew up poor but he obtained three… FULL STORY
Bone detective gets scarey
Susan J. Crockford is a rarity–someone who has mainly made her living off her ability and scientific technical skill for… FULL STORY
A devilish slumber
Shereen Vedam is possibly the only B.C. author who was born (in 1961) in Ceylon, later renamed Sri Lanka. She… FULL STORY
30 moves, about ten books
Having travelled the backroads of B.C., Alberta, the Yukon and Alaska, Joan Donaldson-Yarney of the Alberni Valley has switched from… FULL STORY
Bringing back the Bees
Lori Weidenhammer is an artist whose life is intertwined with bees. Her father kept bees, and years later Weidenhammer is… FULL STORY
Treespotting
David Tracey’s field guide, Vancouver Tree Book(Pure Wave Media $20) is a continuation of a treespotting project first started by… FULL STORY
In the frenzy of freedom
Caren Powell of Brentwood Bay was born on May 24, 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1994, Caren Powell and… FULL STORY
Unceded Territories
To commemorate forty years of making political and polemical art, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, an artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent,… FULL STORY
