Witnessing the island

“Dave and Kelly Hutchison (left) reflect on creativity, partnership and what it means to witness Vancouver Island change over time in this Q&A.” FULL STORY



 

 

 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Caryl E. Dolinko

Traveller, entrepreneur and author, Caryl E. Dolinko has released A Woman’s Guide to World Travel (Whitecap $29.21), a comprehensive travel… FULL STORY

Kelly Shepherd

Kelly Shepherd’s latest collection of poetry, Dog and Moon (University of Regina Press $19.95), illustrates his ability to paint images… FULL STORY

Paul Bramadat

Through his book, Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World (McGill-Queen’s University Press $29.95) Victoria-based… FULL STORY

Kim Spencer

Kim Spencer has followed up her multi-award-winning middle-grade debut novel about a young Indigenous girl, Mia, growing up in Prince… FULL STORY

Leigh Joseph

Passionate ethnobotanist and author Leigh Joseph uses her book, The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom (Epic… FULL STORY

Philip Seagram

From bench to busking, No Judgment and other Busking Stories (Caitlin Press $24) follows former criminal lawyer and BC provincial… FULL STORY

Heather Ramsay

Chilliwack-based Heather Ramsay sets her debut novel, A Room in the Forest (Caitlin Press $25), in Haida Gwaii, where Ramsay… FULL STORY

Kate Braid

Some know Kate Braid for her poetry about the artists Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe. Some are more familiar with… FULL STORY

Natalie Appleton

The story of Belle Jane, a woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving gangs in the 1920s, is… FULL STORY

Bea Oertel

A hundred years into the future after wars and drought have created food scarcity, the world has fallen under the… FULL STORY

Louise Sidley

Ten-year-old Robbie finds a wild mallard duckling that has become separated from her family, and takes her under his wing,… FULL STORY

Marion Gonneville

Maddy’s Sash (Gabriel Dumont Inst. $17.50), by Marion Gonneville, with illustrations by Kate Boyer, is the story of a young girl… FULL STORY

Meredith Hambrock

Meredith Hambrock’s latest, She’s a Lamb! (ECW Press $24.95) is a darkly comic suspense novel about ambition, delusion and the… FULL STORY

Christine Stringer

Set in 1997 Hollywood, Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous (SparkPress $17.99) by Christine Stringer is a novel based on… FULL STORY

Dr. Brett Finlay

In their latest book, The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality (D&M $21.95),… FULL STORY

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus’s Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck (Arsenal Pulp Press $23.95) chronicles the tragic sinking of… FULL STORY

Norma Kerby

Terrace’s Norma Kerby has written Hidden Waters, a Love Letter to Water in the Temperate Rainforest (self-published $39.95), a full… FULL STORY

Y is for Young

Clea Young’s latest collection of stories, Welcome to the Neighbourhood  (Astoria/Anansi $22.99) explores the intricacies of human connection, set against… FULL STORY

G is for Grindler

The latest addition to the Little Explorers series by Sarah Grindler, Ocean Secrets: A Guidebook for Little Underwater Adventurers (Nimbus… FULL STORY

M is for McKay

In Grandmother Mouse (Medicine Wheel Pubishing $19.99), due out in February, Peter Thomas McKay introduces a nurturing protector to the… FULL STORY

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