Energy for kids
The first non-fiction book for kids by Vancouver actor and writer Shaker Palega, clinic Native Americans: A Visual Exploration (Annick… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Koping mechanisms
Falling Season (Leaf $15.95), Beth Kope’s first poetry book, recalls coping with her mother’s dementia. “The very nature of Lewy… FULL STORY
Big Dream Farmer
In 1999, Nathalie Chambers and her husband David Chambers restored and transformed his family’s Madrona Farm in Victoria into a… FULL STORY
Facts for the fragile
As a University of Victoria instructor, Jillian Roberts first co-wrote School Children with HIV/AIDS (Detselig, 1999) with Kathleen Cairns. As… FULL STORY
Honey not forsaken in Sooke
Sooke-based gourmand Angelo Prosperi-Porta has concocted more than 85 sweet and savory recipes for Honey (TouchWood $26.95), his paean to… FULL STORY
J is for Judson
As a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, a director of the Imaginative Education Research Group and coordinator of the Imaginative… FULL STORY
From Russia with science
Born in Russia, literary scientist Irina Kovalyova of Vancouver interned for NASA and worked for two years as a forensic… FULL STORY
Czaga nets nomination
Born in Alberta, Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat before moving to Victoria to complete her undergraduate degree in writing… FULL STORY
Flour power nominated for Ryga Award
Chris Hergesheimer (beard) was hand-milling flour at Sechelt’s Farmer’s Market when he came up with a simple idea: build a… FULL STORY
Vancouver Blue
Wayne Cope is a retired Vancouver Police Officer who spent more than 30 years with the force. He spent many… FULL STORY
Molecules R Us
As part of a catering crew, Susin Nielsen-Fernlund of Vancouver got her big television break in the off-camera cafeteria for… FULL STORY
Zeballos revisited
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. Her family mainly… FULL STORY
Wake-up and smell the land
A member of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Secwepemc Nation based in Kamloops, Arthur Manuel has co-written Unsettling Canada:… FULL STORY
Waste Not, Want Not
Many North Americans waste 40 percent of the food they purchase. It’s like throwing away a bag full of groceries… FULL STORY
Flett no fluke
Along with poet and civil rights activist Roy Miki and his wife Slavia Miki as authors, First Nations illustrator Julie… FULL STORY
Fight or flight
Darwin Marsh,the hero of Lillian M. Varcoe’s first novel, Headwinds: Seeing a Murder Forgotten (Amazon $7.99), is a veteran floatplane… FULL STORY
Slaymaker gets Order of Canada
Prolific and much-decorated UBC geographer and author Olav Slaymaker–surely one of the most memorable names in B.C. literature–wasn’t be able… FULL STORY
The Truth Commission & Republic of Dirt
Susan Juby’s sixth novel for teenagers, The Truth Commission (RazorBill/Penguin Canada 2014), is a humourous story about Normandy Pale and… FULL STORY
Friesen’s crazy bone libretto
Once in a rare while a jacket blurb competes for resonance with the book it endorses. Sharon Thesen describes Patrick… FULL STORY
