The sawmill that became a city
Later called Hastings Mill, a company town grew up around Captain Stamp’s venture when he built a store to supply… FULL STORY
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Picture of a killer
She was able to put a human face to the atrocious and horrific deed. “I can come no closer to… FULL STORY
The quiet reckoning
Reviewing The Quiet In Me: Poems by Patrick Lane, Trevor Carolan writes “This is the receding artist’s sayonara, when love… FULL STORY
A canine’s war effort
Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero tells the true story of a dog who raised… FULL STORY
Risky ventures
Here Edwin Wong chats with BCBookLook about his passion for theatre and the books he has recently written about “Risk… FULL STORY
Science NOT silence
When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY
Solving BC’s drug overdose epidemic
Many illicit drug users die needlessly of overdoses says scholar and activist Susan Boyd. In this Q&A, she lays out… FULL STORY
Boy’s best friend
Author Darren Groth, an advocate for neurodiversity in literature based the boy, Kasper and dog, Tao on his son and… FULL STORY
Charity begins at home
Keath Fraser contends in his new novella that charity, like its sister virtues of hope and faith, is fundamental in… FULL STORY
Just another mountain to climb
After a devastating diagnosis, Wood finds his lifelong passion for a more profound connection with nature — what he calls… FULL STORY
B.C.’s forgotten uprising
One of the largest, most broad-based political protests in Canadian history gets its due in a new book by David… FULL STORY
Going for Wayman
Wayman helped bring into being a new movement of “work poetry” in North America, and was a co-founder and prominent… FULL STORY
Carving a doorway into belonging
Although piously religious, both women write of their mutual questioning of Islam and their outrage at patriarchy, prompting these lines:… FULL STORY
Plant tips from an Indigenous elder
Reviewer Alexander Varty discovers that Luschiim’s new book introduces readers to the joys of hazelnuts in the wild and other… FULL STORY
B.C.’s forgotten Métis leader
Joseph McKay became an explorer, a Hudson’s Bay Company manager, an elected official, a signor of many treaties with First… FULL STORY
The rise of graphic novels in B.C.
Early artists who combined drawings with words include Emily Carr who drew cartoons for Western Women’s Weekly in 1918 and… FULL STORY
Ode to the womb of war
The four poetic narratives in “The Ventriloquist” all share Gary Geddes’ preoccupations with the physical and psychological ravages of conquest… FULL STORY
Ronsdale Press carries on
With Holocaust stories gleaned from 85 B.C. authors and 160 books, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia includes… FULL STORY
Displaced, downtrodden and deranged
Tamas Dobozy’s new short story collection tells of, among others, a professional wrestler previously an Olympic hopeful in his ancestral… FULL STORY
Failed to return
Much has been written about Bomber Command but little of the feelings of the aircrew who followed orders without question… FULL STORY
