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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Beyond the Pale
Including her description of a trip to Tanzania with her husband to investigate the high incidence of albinism in that… FULL STORY
Brother XII revisited
Having been born and raised in England, where she was taught how to sail on the River Thames by the… FULL STORY
Hebda in Treasures
Dr Richard J. Hebda is Curator of Earth History and Botany at the Royal BC Museum and Adjunct Professor in… FULL STORY
Reach for the Sky One Hundred
Home on the Waves: A Pacific Sailing Adventure (Promontory $17.95) recounts Patrick and Heather Hill’s home life aboard Sky One… FULL STORY
Crystal City under siege
Winnipeg-born David Korinetz of Naramata was raised on a diet of comic books, Edgar Rice Burrows novels and Lord Of… FULL STORY
Pass the Masala
Born in New Delhi, India, store Bharti Saincher of South Surrey immigrated to Windsor, Ontario in 1967 as a young… FULL STORY
From Clark to Clark
Former Okanagan MLA Judi Tyabji will follow her book on former B.C. Premier Glen Clark, Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination… FULL STORY
Memory Serves, Maracle
Self-described as the most published Native woman author in the country, Lee Maracle has turned her oratory into essays for… FULL STORY
From Tamahnous to Tinseltown
The name is not memorable. Barbara Williams. But this B.C.-born actor, raised in logging camps, has had a long and… FULL STORY
B is for Bily
Photographer and environmental engineer Linda Bily has completed over fifteen long ski mountaineering traverses and her photographs have been published… FULL STORY
Dutch courage
Jack Dixon’s The Barn (Victoria, Friesen Press, 2015) describes the ordeals and bravery of the Mollens, a family of nine… FULL STORY
Paige’s dream
Laura Langston’s tenth title since 1994, Stepping Out (Orca $9.95), traces the ambitions of an insecure, 15-year-old, disabled comedian, Paige… FULL STORY
Let my elks go free
While working as a reporter for the Terrace Standard in Terrace, Josh Massey has published his second novel, The Plotline… FULL STORY
Leaps like a Killer Whale
“The Klondike gold fields are a silent backdrop to Bill Reid’s choice of gold as a material,” claims Jack Lohman… FULL STORY
