Adventure travel, 1950s-style
Renate Belcyzk and Sigrid Hirte’s advice for a successful trip: be positive, keep an open heart and take a chance.
In pursuit of Charlie
Sarah Louise Butler’s debut novel never mentions the words Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Rather the mysterious primate is a universal symbol… FULL STORY
Enter, colonizing settlers
Her 16 essays are “thought-provoking” says reviewer Ian Chunn and give opportunities to ponder how the difficulties of colonialism can… FULL STORY
Pro Choice YA book wins Egoff Prize
Stevenson says she wants her title, My Body My Choice to generate discussion about abortions and to de-stigmatize these medical… FULL STORY
Laboratory achiever
After earning a Ph.D. in England in 1958, Julia Levy returned to UBC to teach and work in her own… FULL STORY
Drawing social struggle
“I didn’t want the drawing sequence [of June 21, 1919, known as ‘bloody Sunday’] to be entertaining,” Lester says. “I… FULL STORY
Goliaths of the beach
At the end of the 19th century, elephant seals had been overhunted to the brink of extinction. Actions by the… FULL STORY
Hope with its sleeves rolled up
Elin Kelsey’s latest book is packed with examples of hope-driven action, stories of nature’s resilience and tips for keeping our… FULL STORY
Sky highs
Kirkby’s trip to the ancient Himalayan region of Zanskar and a 1000-year old Buddhist monastery, traveling with his wife and… FULL STORY
Self-isolate with Iona
Past episodes of Iona Whishaw’s series saw romance bloom between amateur sleuth Lane Winslow and Inspector Frederick Darling; now Winslow… FULL STORY
Heart-Wrinching heroism
When he moved to Hazelton in 1900, Horace Wrinch built the first hospital in B.C.’s northern interior and it served… FULL STORY
Express ways and means
To counter the flawed myths about Barnard, Ken Mather offers an accurate telling of the man and his efforts to… FULL STORY
Playing with fire
Piles of wood debris — called slash — left behind by logging operations in B.C. must be destroyed by slashburning… FULL STORY
The big league
A new collection of non-fiction stories from 26 plus-sized people tells how they navigate a society obsessed with thinness, including… FULL STORY
Neil Sterritt: a Gitxsan hero
In Mapping My Way Home (Creekstone 2017), Sterritt traced the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers’ junction history, his Hazelton boyhood, and… FULL STORY
The stutterer and the statesman
Macnair will have readers reaching for the ‘P’ section in their dictionaries to check the meanings of words like panegyric, psellism… FULL STORY
Botanists arrive on Vancouver Island
“In Nature’s Realm” completes Michael Layland’s Vancouver Island historical trilogy covering early maps, explorers’ tales, and now stories and pictures… FULL STORY
B.C.’s long-suffering suffragists
In 1917, B.C.’s women were finally allowed to vote but not until after Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta got the franchise… FULL STORY
Cast out of the garden
As bombs fell and armed militias invaded cities, towns and the countryside, Juma’s friend said, “Maison Rouge is a refugee… FULL STORY
Off the beaten track
Reviewer John Moore says the constant in Carolan’s stories is the timeless-centered lives of people he encountered, whether they are… FULL STORY
