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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Deanna Kawatski
Known for writing creative non-fiction about the wilderness, especially the classic memoir Wilderness Mother (Lyons & Burford, New York, Whitecap… FULL STORY
Memory, My Mother and Me
Nothing prepared Cathie Borrie for living with her mother and attending to her mother’s onset of Alzheimer’s disease, even though… FULL STORY
Boone docs
In 2014, Alix Hawley won the 2014 Canada Writes Bloodlines competition, judged by Lawrence Hill, and was runner-up for the… FULL STORY
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
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
