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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Strange Things Done
Set in present-day Dawson City, Elle Wild’s debut novel, Strange Things Done (Dundurn $18.99), won the Arthur Ellis Award in… FULL STORY
Fantasy novels in Nanaimo GEEKCon
The festivities at GEEKCon will include board games, PokemonGo, a cosplay competition, video games, Magic the Gathering and panel discussions…. FULL STORY
The dim light of redemption
Review by Jeremy Twigg. In the world of facebook, everybody’s life appears shiny and perfect: happy couples vacation in… FULL STORY
Fences and Nightgowns
Diana Stevan has just published her second novel, The Rubber Fence (Island House Publishing). The Rubber Fence is a work of… FULL STORY
“At the time of my own choosing.”
Review by Mark Forsythe The heart-wrenching stories that Gary Bauslaugh tells in The Right to Die: The Courageous Canadians Who… FULL STORY
Clark’s drive
Review by Shane McCune There are two kinds of biographies of living persons: authorized and unauthorized. Unauthorized biographies, while not… FULL STORY
It’s complicated
Review by Alex Van Tol Millions of people have been following Caitlyn Jenner’s tweets, so suffice to say there’s a… FULL STORY
Audacious Audain
If you care deeply about B.C., a visit to the Audain Art Museum can be exhilarating. This new $43.5 million… FULL STORY
