Fiddling with fate
Katherine Fawcett started her career as a sports reporter before venturing into freelance journalism and commercial writing. After becoming a… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Welcoming ghosts
Earle Birney once wrote, when considering the literary climate of B.C., ‘it is by our lack of ghosts that we… FULL STORY
Greening your boat
Having worked as a wildlife biologist for about 40 years and an environmental lawyer for almost 20 years, physician Ben… FULL STORY
Auschwitz anniversary reverberates
There are more than a few books by B.C. authors that pertain to the Holocaust. A section of Undaunted: The… FULL STORY
Wild rides, wide-eyed philosophy
Recently Brian Poletz rode the entire length of Laos on a bicycle. Back in 2004 he cycled the entire spine… FULL STORY
Getting board with Star Wars
Jack and Holman Wang, as twin brothers growing up in Vancouver, were big Stars Wars fans when they were little…. FULL STORY
Bastard of Fort Stikine
As a forensic anthropologist in the US, UK, and Canada for over twenty years, Debra Komar investigated human-rights violations resulting… FULL STORY
Bears, cougars, snakes & kids
Whereas Jayne Seagrave’s Camping with Kids: The Best Family Campgrounds in British Columbia and Alberta, published back in 2005, had… FULL STORY
A hidden child bears witness
M. Rene Goldman, who taught at UBC and retired to Summerland, is a childhood survivor of the holocaust. His self-published… FULL STORY
Kimchi, kombucha & aquaponics
With a Ph.D. in conservation biology, Michelle Nelson started “homesteading” in a one-bedroom East Vancouver apartment. Five years later she… FULL STORY
First book, Second Growth
Fabienne Calvert Filteau, born in Ontario in 1984, grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Victoria in… FULL STORY
Dyed in the Greenery
E. George Mercer of North Saanich was born on May 1, 1957 at Gander, Newfoundland. He came to B.C. in… FULL STORY
Kyi’s keys to survival
A shipwreck on a remote island. A plane crash in the Peruvian jungle. Trapped deep in the earth with 33… FULL STORY
Durrell deciphered
James Gifford , an Associate Professor of English and director of the university core at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Vancouver,… FULL STORY
Tofino whales and Vietnam
Set during the Vietnam War and the so-called counter-culture reaction, The Whale Chaser (Chicago Review Press $16.95 pb US) follows… FULL STORY
Hastings-Sunrise
Bren Simmers’ book-length poem Hastings-Sunrise (Gibsons: Nightwood Editions $18.95) is a tribute to the neighbourhood of Vancouver in which she… FULL STORY
Exstew River, Itcha-Ilgachuz & Kakwa
Tania Millen was born in Ottawa to an engineering father and a botanist mother. With an older sister and a… FULL STORY
Globe-trotting adventure tale
Winnipeg-born Bob Nixon is a television journalist who first co-authored Tiananmen Square (Douglas and McIntyre 1989). He has now produced… FULL STORY
Scallywags vs. Beards
A former songwriter who performed in Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver, Trevor Newland now teaches literature and creative writing at… FULL STORY
Cedar, Salmon and Weed
After retiring as professor of marine botany at Simon Fraser University for thirty years, Louis Druehl turned his hand to… FULL STORY
