Working class heroes
How does a person like Ginger Goodwin decide to risk his life for the good of others? Is it safer… FULL STORY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Gregor Craigie looks at both the dangerous walls and those that are benevolent. He has embraced the challenge of educating… FULL STORY
Forgotten resistance stories
This small but courageous group fought for political and workers’ rights. Michael Kluckner discusses his contributions to a new graphic… FULL STORY
The unlikely rise of an English sailor
Coming to Victoria as a “working man,” no one could have predicted Hankin would become the Colonial Administrator in five… FULL STORY
The Zen of jigsaw puzzles
Farrant’s 93 short stories, inspired by her “puzzling,” are full of humour, irreverence and insights into the puzzle that is… FULL STORY
Thrashing with life
From a coiled rattlesnake to dangerous father figures, Rodney DeCroo relives encounters with nightmarish creatures in his third poetry collection…. FULL STORY
Best of intentions
At the start of the new school year, Molleigh is bluntly asked by one of her new students, “Teachers always… FULL STORY
A temple of the soul
“Debbie Bateman takes an unflinching look at what our bodies get up to when our minds are riddled with conflicts,… FULL STORY
Surviving residential school
“We were children witnessing trauma twenty or thirty times a day. We saw kids as young as three or four… FULL STORY
Capturing Canada’s highest mountain
Joined by naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, who went to collect specimens, a climbing expedition faced a maze of towering ice… FULL STORY
The missing beehive mystery
Leo and his sister Lizzie “bumble” around with grandpa’s friends looking for the beehive thief and in the process, learn… FULL STORY
A “Gone Viking” excursion … in BC
Arnott’s series of travel memoirs retracing Viking journeys all lead back to British Columbia where he sees similarities in Indigenous… FULL STORY
Funny about murder
In the second Priscilla Tempest Mystery series installment, the plucky heroine is a murder suspect but can’t provide an alibi… FULL STORY
Bamboo water pipes in the Kootenays
Facing hardships and systemic racism, early Chinese settlers in the Kootenays forged new lives for themselves, some even prospered although… FULL STORY
Lessons from the bard
Dickson co-authored a book examining four of Shakespeare’s plays that she says “engage in conversations about hope, empathy and love,… FULL STORY
Living the dream, off-grid
The Neads used solar power and internet communications to create a modern lifestyle while enduring long winters, wicked storms, forest… FULL STORY
Naval architects to the world
The company bearing Robert Allan’s name managed to survive the Great Depression and eventually thrive. Three generations later, Robert Allan… FULL STORY
Doukhobor lovers in a dangerous time
In July, 1998, two teenagers are running away from a tragedy involving Hell’s Angels bikers. Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin… FULL STORY
Great mind, sad life
A new biography of Ron Thom is an insightful and enlightening examination of a brilliant Canadian architect who returned from… FULL STORY
The big tree seeker
Nelson features rare old trees in his new book, many of which are an easy walk from a forest service… FULL STORY
