The agonies & ecstasies of Doug Hepburn
World champion lifter Doug Hepburn’s early liabilities were a club-foot, shyness, a cross-eyed condition and an alcoholic father. Tom Thurston,… FULL STORY
Essays
Jeannette Armstrong: In the spirit of En’owkin
Jeannette Armstrong is a grand-niece of Hamishama [Mourning Dove], the first female Native novelist in North America. As a poet,… 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
What’s the matter with kids today?
According to Don Sawyer, former director of Okanagan College’s International Development Centre, in 2008 only 45.7 percent of Americans read… FULL STORY
Everything is Funny: A review of Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
Too Much Happiness (Douglas Gibson Books / M&S) I’ll never forget what Alice Munro said to me the first time… FULL STORY
Laughter is the best sports medicine
Born on March 16, help 1937 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Taylor began his newspaper career in 1954 as a part-time sports… FULL STORY
Mother & Daughter Reunion
During the past year, rx I’ve often brooded on the following paragraph from the jacket of one of my own… FULL STORY
Who Do You Think We Are?
BC BookWorld editor and author of numerous books, try Alan Twigg published the following essay in the Autumn 2007 issue… FULL STORY
The Conqueror and the Concubine
The Conqueror and the Concubine: How the most influential woman in North American history translated her way to the top… FULL STORY
Ape Populations in Decline Worldwide
On the occasion of the publication of her book, medical Great Ape Odyssey (2005), Galdikas wrote the following essay for… FULL STORY
Before After Goodlake
There are always stories behind the stories. Over the last quarter century, visit this site BC BookWorld has frequently invited… FULL STORY
The narrowness of Vladimir Nabokov
Hungarian-born Stephen Vizinczey, medicine a Canadian citizen who lives in London and Italy, page is the author of In Praise… 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 Drifters: Allen and Sharie Farrell
I was reminded of why I sold the only sail boat I ever owned after reading Maria Coffey’s Sailing Back… FULL STORY
George Manuel: The Shuswap Kid
“The torch George Manuel inherited was barely aflame. The torch he passed on was burning bright.” – Harold Cardinal. —… FULL STORY
Discovery Press duo sails again
In their seminal B.C. history title British Columbia Place Names (Sono Nis) G.P.V. and Helen B. Akrigg devoted less than… FULL STORY
Bending the Knee: Woodcock on Birney
It is said that someone asked Beethoven what he thought – what he really thought – of Handel. He looked… 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
British Columbia has always been the right place for me
Publishing is much like the movies; no one has a clue as to what will be successful, ask and when… FULL STORY
Getting a Grip on 9/11
Formerly a Defense Officer in the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau, Ian Slater is a political scientist and the author of… FULL STORY
