Keeping alive
A significant vote of thanks to you for keeping the written word alive in the Amazon jungle and a grateful… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Setting the record straight
As a child I didn’t know anything about our history or culture when I received a book by Isabel M…. FULL STORY
Soldier on!
Good on ya, B.C. BookWorld. It’s no mean feat to survive in today’s “book world” with so many readers. My… FULL STORY
Toronto thrilled
I’m the sales and e-marketing coordinator at University of Toronto Press, and we were thrilled to see the blurb in… FULL STORY
Correction
Just wanted to THANK YOU for BookWorld’s inclusion of the article about my self-published novel The Desserts of War. It truly was… FULL STORY
Remembering Jane Rule
For six decades, Jane Vance “Jinx” Rule was one of the most mature, humourous and responsible voices in Canadian letters,… FULL STORY
The life and times of Bill Bissett
After 45 years as a writer and publisher, bill bissett is the first recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement… FULL STORY
Prodigious Talents: Woodcock & Skelton
George Fetherling, one of Canada’s foremost men of letters, credits two prolific B.C. writers, George Woodcock and Robin Skelton, as… FULL STORY
You can go home again: Eden Robinson, Haisla novelist
The gritty urban world of Eden Robinson’s new novel Blood Sports (M&S), of Kitamaat (pop. 700), the setting for her… FULL STORY
The Life of Brian Brett
Brian Brett’s memoir shows him as a girlish youth and as a Jethro-like character near his woodpile. That duplicity reflects… FULL STORY
Morris Panych
Morris Panych made his playwriting debut with a musical, Last Call: A Post-Nuclear Cabaret, in 1982, produced by Tamahnous Theatre… FULL STORY
Bill bissett: Leading Luddite
bill bissett was born in Halifax in 1939. Severely bed-ridden in the hospital from age ten to twelve, bissett continually… FULL STORY
Who’s not afraid of Virginia Woolf?
With four titles under her belt, Meg Tilly has a growing reputation as a novelist – her young adult novel… FULL STORY
Alice has not left the building
Most artists end up imitating themselves. Their art degenerates into a copy of a copy of a copy. Alice Munro… FULL STORY
Before After Goodlake
There are always stories behind the stories. Over the last quarter century, BC BookWorld has frequently invited novelists to discuss… FULL STORY
The shooting of Ginger Goodwin
Hollywood discovered me two years ago. One morning a movie-type phoned and asked if we could talk about producing a… FULL STORY
Publishing / Morriss the major printer
Although seldom recognized as a trade publisher, the venerable Victoria printing company that doubles as the home of Sono Nis… FULL STORY
Howard Adams: Half-breed at full throttle
Blessed be the English and all that they profess. Cursed be the savages that prance in nakedness. Blessed be the… FULL STORY
The low-key mysteries of L.R. Wright
Mystery writer L.R. ‘Bunny’ Wright exhibits in the words of her screenwriting partner and husband John Wright, “great privacy and… FULL STORY
Divining Jane Rule: A profile of progress
Jane Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931. She came to Canada in the late 1950s to teach at… FULL STORY
