Tick Rider on Mexican border
At age 85, former B.C. rancher Bill Street has published his first novel, The Tick Rider (2015), set in contemporary… FULL STORY
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Carter on Carr by car
Laurie Carter’s personal take on Emily Carr has been self-published as Emily Carr’s B.C.: Book One, Vancouver Island (Little White… FULL STORY
Mills still grinding
John Mills is back and he never went away. Having moved to Saltspring Island with is wife Elaina in 2000,… FULL STORY
More than a footnote
In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, “I’d also like to see if I can’t make my own portrait in writing…. FULL STORY
From Yarrow to Anatolia
Yarrow was a once thriving Mennonite community that was established in 1928 when 86 settlers arrived from Europe, including the… FULL STORY
When it was almost French Columbia
She will receive the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for best academic book about B.C. on June 9th at UBC Library for… FULL STORY
Huskies to the rescue
Glen Lovett worked for many years on animation storyboards for major film companies including Disney TV, Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbera,… FULL STORY
Ian times two
It can happen. Like two women wearing the same new dress to a wedding, publishers can release books on the… FULL STORY
ASD brother, where art thou?
by Cherie Thiessen “What is it about sea monsters?” nineteen-year-old Justine Richter asks her twin brother. “Why are you into… FULL STORY
Jarnail Singh & Komagata Maru
Jarnail Singh of Surrey is an artist, illustrator, designer, photographer, and art journalist who immigrated to Canada in 2000. Born… FULL STORY
Git your motor running
R.E. (Ruth) Donald is the best novelist in Lone Butte, B.C. As a former RCMP homicide investigator, Ruth Donald’s protagonist… FULL STORY
Boonesborough or bust
Daniel Boone is one of the most-storied frontiersmen in United States’ history, but I didn’t know much about him prior… FULL STORY
SOBO means sophisticated & bohemian
Lisa Ahier’s The SoBo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road (Random House $29.95),… FULL STORY
From Port Moody to Midnight’s Children
The award-winning actress, playwright and dancer Anita Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, where she did not speak English… FULL STORY
A stroke of luck
Sterling Haynes’ tales of being a country doctor in Williams Lake are not for the squeamish. They entail lots of… FULL STORY
Lane gets Order of Canada
Patrick Lane will be invested into the Order of Canada later this month. Patrick Lane was born on March 26,… FULL STORY
Withnail & I Go To The Okanagan
Anyone who has enjoyed the wisecracking tomfoolery of Steve Coogan and his fellow impressionist Rob Brydon as unlikely restaurant critics… FULL STORY
Kafka goes to Manning Park
Ernest Hekkanen will be launching his novella, I’m Not You, at the Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, B.C. on November… FULL STORY
Dan, Dan, he’s our man
The Mayor’s Arts Awards for the City of Vancouver has accorded Daniel Francis its 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award for Literary… FULL STORY
How Gail got her groove back
Lately some high profile female writers have been putting their names on books for children and reluctant readers. Poets Susan… FULL STORY
