Voices from the Valleys
Jodie Renner of Penticton is a fiction editor and blogger who has written three editor’s guides to writing fiction, Fire… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
From bartender to life coach
Lorrie Forde is a self-designated life coach in Summmerland who has released Really Good F Words: Your Interactive Guide to… FULL STORY
Mighty Mouse & Monkey Guy
While dividing her time between B.C. and Ontario, three-time Olympic medalist Elaine Tanner, holder of five world records in swimming,… FULL STORY
Tod Inlet gets its due
Every inlet in B.C. deserves a book. Helen Piddington’s The Inlet: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer (Harbour 2001) recalls life… FULL STORY
A Greek myth completely different
Winning a Governor General’s award for children’s literature is high acclaim. Having a member of Monty Python read your books… FULL STORY
Brian, Rick & Mary
One of the most enduring B.C. titles has been In Search of a Legend, and Slumach’s Gold: The Search for… FULL STORY
Iceland beckons
When Harold and Diane Rhenisch first went to Iceland in 2010, they agreed they both wanted to stay. After their… FULL STORY
Compton wins City of Van Award
After a one-year stint at the Vancouver Public Library’s seventh writer-in-residence in 2011, Wayde Compton took over from Betsy Warland… FULL STORY
The upside of Down
Kari Burk is a landscape gardener and artist who lives with her 25-year-old daughter, search Mielle, in Castlegar, after parting… FULL STORY
Aldridge’s bridge to King George III
From 1980, Jim Aldridge, QC, has represented the Nisga’a First Nation in treaty negotiations, mainly as lead counsel, and as… FULL STORY
Kashmiri riches
The central poems of Ontario-born Rahat Kurd’s first poetry collection, Cosmophilia (Talonbooks $16.95), a term that means “love of ornament,”… FULL STORY
The Tree of Life
Since moving to a 2-acre farm and planting dozens of trees, Nikki Tate has come to appreciate “why trees just… FULL STORY
Mack talks back
Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor (Harbour Publishing $24.95) is not a maritime book; it’s a media memoir by a man has… FULL STORY
Everyday Hero
Everyday Hero (Orca $9.95), the second book by Kathleen Cherry of Kitimat, will be a portrait of a schoolgirl, Alice,… FULL STORY
Slavery in Victoria revisited
Just as missionaries in B.C. sought to shelter First Nations women and girls from prostitution, the Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society… FULL STORY
Outback Promise
Raised on the West Coast, Maggie Bolitho of Victoria married an Australian and moved to Melbourne where she began writing… FULL STORY
After Yugoslavian and Iranian strife
Nasreen Pejvack’s novel Amity (Inanna $22.95) charts the life-altering friendship between two very different women who share their stories of… FULL STORY
Eight zestful swallows from Vietnam
While teaching in Hanoi from 2005 to 2011 Elizabeth McLean developed a curiosity about Vietnamese history and folklore. It inspired… FULL STORY
Goldberg’s variations
As Education Director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Adara Goldberg published her first book, Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion,… FULL STORY
Al Lehmann reconfigures Hamlet
After thirty-one years as an English teacher, primarily at Caledonia Secondary School in Terrace, B.C., Alan W. Lehmann retired and… FULL STORY
