Goodbye Dubai
Raoul Fernandes spent his childhood in Dubai, U.A.E. before moving to British Columbia in 1993. His poems have been previously… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Getting to Gurta
Goethe. Like van Gogh, you probably still can’t pronounce his name properly. But you’ve seen it often enough. On a… FULL STORY
Chilcotin trilogy has next installment
Vancouver lawyer Bruce F. Fraser QC and his wife, Gail, own a ranch at Lac La Hache in the Cariboo,… FULL STORY
Nana follows her heart
Author and illustrator Moreah Sinclaire of Richmond was born in Winnipeg. Her experiences as a grandmother, known as Nana, motivated… FULL STORY
Getting it down Pat
In early 1996, as a volunteer for the Sunshine Coast White Cane Society, Ben Nuttall-Smith met Ayliffe “Pat” Carey, a… FULL STORY
Inside an epidemic
Trisha Cull’s first book, The Death of Small Creatures (Nightwood $22.95), forthcoming in April, is a memoir about her experiences… FULL STORY
Tibetan exiles suffer in India
Pauline MacDonald is the pseudonym of an independent researcher. Her first book, Dharamsala Days, Dharamsala Nights ($19.95) is an account… FULL STORY
Erich the read
Author of sixteen books, mostly pertaining to whales, starting with Orca: The Whale Called Killer (Dutton, New York, 1981) based… FULL STORY
Honouring the global forest
The Trees of Calan Gray (Oolichan $19.95) by Danial Neil is a novel that was slated to appear in spring… FULL STORY
Bateman gets rambunctious again
Jackie Bateman commenced her trilogy of thrillers about a suspected serial killer named Oliver with the oddly titled Nondescript Rambunctious… FULL STORY
Ways to Disappear makes appearance
Julia Leggett has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UBC. Born in Calgary, Alberta, she grew up… FULL STORY
Primal poems from Gabriola
P.C. Vandall lives on Gabriola Island with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Carousel, FreeFall,… FULL STORY
Chitchatting
Laurel Mae Hislop’s debut, self-published collection of short stories, Chitchat (Manna Mark $9) is set in the fictional town of… FULL STORY
Learning to let go
PamPam Galloway’s memoir in poetry, Passing Strangers (Innana $18.95) recalls the complexities of a long marriage and motherhood, leading to… FULL STORY
Light days journey into Knight
Another graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU, Vancouver-born Chelene Knight, while a member of the editorial board of Room,… FULL STORY
Longhand lives — for $5,000 per copy
This work is being touted as, “The only longhand book of its kind–a long poem 500 years old–transcribed by an… FULL STORY
Chitchat in Chat, B.C.
Laurel Mae Hislop’s debut, self-published collection of short stories, Chitchat (Manna Mark $9) is set in the fictional town of… FULL STORY
No soft pedalling
These days, it’s hard to write a shocking novel. Chelsea Rooney, an MFA graduate of UBC’s creative writing program, and… FULL STORY
Blood, sweat & mulberries
Just as Christopher Columbus is usually credited with ‘discovering’ America instead of the Vikings who arrived much earlier, the history… FULL STORY
Extremely Boring, they’re not
The title for Marguerite Pigeon’s dazzling collection of fourteen stories, Some Extremely Boring Drives (NeWest $19.95), is hipster-ironic, but Caroline… FULL STORY
