Boarding house outreach
Emily Carr famously ran a boarding house in Victoria. Susan Musgrave runs a bed ‘n’ breakfast on Haida Gwaii. Now… FULL STORY
Off-the-continental breakfasts
Susan Musgrave has veered away from everything safe in her life, even now as the proprietor of Copper Beech House,… FULL STORY
From the beautiful to the bizarre
Douglas L. Hamilton and Darlene Olesko’s Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island (Caitlin $24.95) tells it like was. It’s… FULL STORY
EVENT founder resurfaces
Around the time David Evanier founded EVENT, when Douglas College was little more than a collection of trailers, Jon Paul… FULL STORY
Strait goods
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, 384-page book about the geology,… FULL STORY
A borrower and a lender be
The response to an article in B.C. BookWorld [The Roving Bookseller] about David Ellis has prompted Ellis to speak his… FULL STORY
Giving voice to The Native Voice
It will be presented at the York Theatre, at 639 Commerical Drive in Vancouver, Feb. 5-7, during the PuSh Festival…. FULL STORY
Gabriola chutzpah propels Tucson tale
Although Manitoban Carol Matas has more than forty titles, she turned to her friend Morri Mostow on Gabriola Island to produce… FULL STORY
John Vaillant, third time plucky
John Vaillant can easily be described as one of the rising stars of British Columbia literature–if not the rising star…. FULL STORY
Longhand lives — for $5,000 per copy
This work is being touted as, “The only longhand book of its kind–a long poem 500 years old–transcribed by an… FULL STORY
Extremely Boring, they’re not
The title for Marguerite Pigeon’s dazzling collection of fourteen stories, Some Extremely Boring Drives (NeWest $19.95), is hipster-ironic, but Caroline… FULL STORY
The poet beats the lawyer
But literature scored a victory over law recently on Burnaby Mountain. Poet and professor Stephen Collis was front and centre… FULL STORY
One Book Whonnock
One of the books they’ve selected is the 1994 edited version of The Eternal Forest by George Godwin. by Fred… FULL STORY
The roving bookseller
David Ellis’s father was pioneer B.C. bookseller Bill Ellis who served on the Native Arts and Crafts Committee, alongside Jim… FULL STORY
Lucia’s choice
During yet another famine, Lucia Jang was expected to choose between aborting her late-term baby or give it up to… FULL STORY
Ralph Maud (1928-2014)
Born on December 24, 1928, Ralph Maud was an iconoclastic professor and eccentric pamphleteer who died on December 8, 2014…. FULL STORY
Why Michael Buckley became a Yaktivist
Adventure travel writer Michael Buckley of Vancouver explains the genesis of Meltdown in Tibet: China’s Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from… FULL STORY
Never mind the glitzy Giller
Now philosophy professor Andrew Irvine has produced a definitive bibliography listing all 651 winning titles since 1936. Based on Irvine’s… FULL STORY
Emily returns to England
Emily made the most of her early training in England despite acute anaemia and being interned in the East Anglia… FULL STORY
Betty Pratt-Johnson (1930-2014)
Pratt-Johnson’s where-to-go divebook 151 Dives has been the Bible for divers and snorkelers from Olympia, Washington to Seymour Inlet. “I… FULL STORY
