Give peas a chance
Pulses is a term for chickpeas, favas, peas, lentils and beans. As one of the forefathers of ecological awareness in… FULL STORY
Chatting up the dead
Alma Lee’s CUFFED Crime Writers Festival in March will feature Grant McKenzie, a former newspaper editor who now writes thrillers… FULL STORY
Mission was impossible
As in Grubisic’s first novel, The Age of Cities, Mission is called River Bend City. By Carellin Brooks Brett Josef… FULL STORY
The dim light of redemption
At emotional rock bottom, the only options for Maggie and Ben in Livingston’s new novel are death or the long,… FULL STORY
A Better World is Possible
The futurist who started Victoria’s first car co-op has an impressive track record for encouraging people to imagine bold solutions… FULL STORY
A return to Burns Lake
“Laura didn’t feed us information,” said hereditary chief Ronnie Alec, “and she didn’t make us feel worse. She just listened,… FULL STORY
“We don’t catch the smart ones.”
Stats reveal Vancouver is a good place not to be murdered now that the average age of the populace has… FULL STORY
A lure of pheromones for anglers
More than a 340-page cookbook, Susan Musgrave’s A Taste of Haida Gwaii has 125 photos of nature and island life,… FULL STORY
Light years and humpback lullabies
She now happily writes on her rocky island “in-between doing weather reports, painting, power-washing and lawn-mowing.” At the outset of… FULL STORY
Warming up to Iceland
After three trips, he has produced The Art of Haying: A Journey to Iceland. Having first travelled to Iceland in… FULL STORY
Those were the days, my friend
Trevor Carolan ensures acquaintances will not be forgot with The Literary Storefront, The Glory Years, Vancouver’s Literary Centre 1978-1984. In… FULL STORY
The upside of Down
Kari Burk, a landscape gardener and artist in Castlegar, lives with her 25-year-old daughter, Mielle, after moving to the Kootenays… FULL STORY
DON’T MOURN – ORGANIZE!
Their new book is Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932/33 Miners’ Strike (New Star). WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 22… FULL STORY
Halt, who goes there?
She understands why Greeks have difficulty accepting the influx of mostly Syrian migrants. In Stella Harvey‘s new novel, a young… FULL STORY
The English suitcase
With the retrieval of a suitcase, Spanish Civil War photographer Alec Wainman of B.C. can finally be recognized as a… FULL STORY
Bee-guy Mark Winston wins again
“Honeybees are hurting,” he says, “with one-third of all colonies dying annually across most of the world.” In Bee Time… FULL STORY
Ever-perplexing Alice finds Daylight
Alice in Wonderland is 150 years old. Literary sleuths remain baffled; readers remain delighted. David Day has celebrated with a… FULL STORY
Sicilian sacrifices honoured
Now Zuehkle’s Through Blood and Sweat recalls Canada’s role in Italy’s liberation. The full title for Zuehlke’s 19th volume on… FULL STORY
B.C.’s oldest author kicks the bucket
Frank White, pioneer, raconteur and author of bestselling books, has died at his home in Garden Bay, B.C. on the… FULL STORY
Comeback kids
Now they’ve got an Incredible Journey-type story. by Alex Van Tol You know you’re stuck on a story when it… FULL STORY
