The train of mourning
Hank Schachte’s The Train (Ad Hoc 2015) is a self-published novella about a man writing the eulogy for his father… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
From Vehicule Days to Perfect
Born in Budapest in 1947, Tom Konyves escaped Hungary in 1956 and settled in Montreal where he published a Dadaist… FULL STORY
Saltman wins IBBY honour
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Canada has announced the recipients of the 2014 Claude Aubry Awards… FULL STORY
Kennedy in running for prestigious prize
While slick newbies to environmentalism are jumping onto the “rewilding” bandwagon, rhapsodizing about dirt and water and plants as if… FULL STORY
Whoopee, gluten free
West Vancouver resident Kristina Stosek has used her website solely devoted to gluten-free recipes as a springboard for her first… FULL STORY
I Remember Horse Buns
Former CKNW talk show host and Socred MLA Rafe Mair stopped contributing to the online publication The Tyee after a… FULL STORY
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
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
