Twisting, turning, teasing
“The only part that surprises me is that it didn’t win… Maybe it was deemed too ‘regional’ to win a… FULL STORY
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#351 Essays from the north
Where it Hurts: Essays by Sarah de Leeuw Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2017 $19.95 / 9781926455846 Reviewed by Heidi Greco *… FULL STORY
Finding Franklin, nailing Harper
While covering the Franklin story, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist got sacked for blowing the whistle on Prime Minister Harper’s… FULL STORY
#305 Finding Franklin, nailing Harper
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2017. $34.95 / … FULL STORY
Invalidating Judge McEachern’s folly
President of the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council in the 1980s, Neil J. Sterritt has recalled his essential role in successful land… FULL STORY
#271 Birding hotspots of B.C.
Best Places to Bird in British Columbia by Russell Cannings and Richard Cannings Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2017. $22.95 / 9781771641661… FULL STORY
The malleable truth
Stephen Wadhams’ The Orwell Tapes is a collection of memories from those who crossed paths with the complex character who… FULL STORY
#233 The malleable truth
In the Trump era, George Orwell’s insights resonate profoundly. Stephen Wadhams’ The Orwell Tapes is a collection of memories from… FULL STORY
Getting Wagamese into the circle
Four prizes out of seven went to books with Indigenous content at the 33rd annual B.C. Book Prizes. Richard Wagamese… FULL STORY
Hawley wins six grand for Witching
Alix Hawley of Kelowna has won the $6,000 CBC Short Story Prize for her story, Witching. Hawley was runner-up in… FULL STORY
Ormsby #121 A 100-mile crime novel
From Alisa Smith, co-author of The 100-Mile Diet, comes a tale of WW II espionage that takes place roughly within… FULL STORY
Douglas Coupland gets his due
Douglas Coupland has been selected as the 14th recipient of the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in B.C…. FULL STORY
B.C. authors & illustrators shortlisted
The 33rd annual BC Book Prizes gala awards will be presented in Vancouver on April 29. Adèle Barclay of Vancouver… FULL STORY
Ormsby #81: A Fen fan on Lansdowne
The ROM was showing J. Fenwick Lansdowne’s work in 1956, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a one-man show in 1981,… FULL STORY
#81 A fan of Fen
REVIEW: J. Fenwick Lansdowne by Tristram Lansdowne (editor) Portland, OR: Pomegranate Communications, 2014 US $65 / 9780764966705 Reviewed by Briony Penn… FULL STORY
#179 Katherine Gordon
LOCATION: Mt. Tarawera, north island of New Zealand, site of an 1886 volcanic eruption that buried many Maori villages. In… FULL STORY
First and foremost, a writer
Alan Twigg named recipient of the 13th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence The West Coast Book Prize Society… FULL STORY
Lost ‘n’ Harbour founder
The documentary has resurfaced twenty-six years later. Introduced by Rowland Lorimer, who co-created the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing,… FULL STORY
#116 Michael Turner
LOCATION: Northeast corner of Gladstone and Kingsway (2211 Kingsway). As described in Michael Turner‘s third book, Kingsway, here the Gladstone… FULL STORY
#85 Andrew Scott
LOCATION: Telegraph Creek, the only town on the Stikine River, about 260 km upstream from its mouth. Accessible by the… FULL STORY
