BC Booklook

The bicycle thief gets his due

Not so great at school, Glenn Ryder would arrive late each day to, ahem, borrow a bicycle. He needed transportation… FULL STORY

Amor De Cosmos, our second premier

Now a new biography by Gordon Hawkins, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95), brings the brilliant and odd character of… FULL STORY

Aislinn Hunter wins top fiction prize

Hunter’s novel was reviewed eight months ago in BC BookWorld. “This is a book about affection, ” she said. “…Our… FULL STORY

Pony Tales

It’s a horse race, of sorts. Nikki Tate has seven equestrian novels and now Julie White is catching up with… FULL STORY

Bring back the tar ‘n’ feathers

Nobody wants to read about poverty. So let’s ignore this article. Ever since slave owners in the United States wrote… FULL STORY

Ryga Award gets a boost

Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queens $39.95) has… FULL STORY

Comox looks gift houses in the mouth

It happens more than you think. A person or a group makes a donation to the public to preserve a… FULL STORY

Goodbye Dubai

“My childhood was not that strange,” he says. “Riding bikes, camping, being bored at church or school, being nervous around… FULL STORY

From the Azores to Brockton Point

As well, she profiles First Nations artist, Luke Marston, who created the monumental bronze sculpture. Suzanne Fournier is a journalist… FULL STORY

B.C. leads the way in homebirthing

These illustrated memoirs, all by mothers and fathers in British Columbia, are celebratory endorsements of the homebirth process. Preece’s “manifesta”… FULL STORY

Deranged B.C. author cuts off both ears

Being compared to van Gogh in the Spring issue of BC BookWorld has proven hazardous for do-it-yourselfer Ernest Hekkanen, who… FULL STORY

The Family Stone, Vanderhoof style

Stone women are connected through summers spent at the family cabin under the shadow of Mount Pope, at Stones Bay on… FULL STORY

Festival founder Keller gets her due

Betty Keller has been chosen to receive the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence at the next B.C. Book Prizes gala.. “It’s… FULL STORY

Lamp Post Lit

This ongoing project was kickstarted by the vision of poet and philanthropist Yosef Wosk and spearheaded by the city’s Chief… FULL STORY

A better world is possible

Instead of dystopianism, the Victoria futurist wants to encourage people to imagine bold solutions to environmental challenges. On its way… FULL STORY

The prime of Ms. Jean Barman

Jean Barman, recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award in 2014, will be celebrated on Saturday, April 11, in Vancouver…. FULL STORY

Getting the goods on Godwin

Fred Braches has produced a monograph that includes revelations from Geroge Godwin’s correspondence. B.C.’s universities have undertaken precious little spadework on… FULL STORY