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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Tracking the Great Bear
The Great Bear Rainforest on B.C.’s central and northern coastline covers an area three times the size of Prince Edward… FULL STORY
Thompson Highway goes to Peking
Alan Twigg’s Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800–1850 has now been published in China as British Columbia’s Fur Trade,… FULL STORY
Ocean friendly fancy grub
Jane Mundy is a Vancouver freelance writer and editor who also has twenty years of experience as a professional cook…. FULL STORY
On the Trail of good fortune
In his retirement, Gerry LaRouche of Trail, B.C., a former engineer with Teck Resources, has produced a compendium of financial… FULL STORY
Uniquely Canadian
For seventeen years Donald Allan Gillmore gathered materials about Canada for his six-volume, 540-page, hardcover collection of encyclopedic facts and… FULL STORY
Lazare ladies don’t do lunch
Evelyn H. Lazare is a retired health care executive living in Steveston, B.C. Originally from Montreal, Lazare spent many years… FULL STORY
Barbara-jo gets second-go
Having studied at the Dubrulle French Culinary School in Vancouver, McIntosh worked at the Mandarin Hotel and for the Umberto… FULL STORY
