Kathy Page is a good sport and discusses her work as Book Club Buddy interrupts her during a yoga session. About The Find: A day’s prospecting leads paleontologist Anna Silowski to make an extraordinary discovery in a remote part of British Columbia, but at the same time, tensions below the surface of her successful career [...]
Running Toward Home by Betty Jane Hegerat. NeWest Press. 2006. 216 pp Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, twelve-year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away. His new foster parents, Wilma and Ben Howard, are determined to hold onto Corey, but old habits are hard to break. Wilma takes [...]
ABOUT Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me What do you think readers will find most notable about Tangles? Tangles is a graphic memoir about my mother dying of Alzheimer’s. A number of readers have told me that it’s the first graphic narrative they’ve read (I use the term “graphic narrative” to include [...]
Sex in Russia is comprised of mostly new and a few award-winning stories that still resonate over the years. Adroitly combining accessibility and subtlety, understated wit and restrained emotion with a predilection for the slightly off-centred, the collection explores a range of human experiences locally and internationally. From a gifted student of science embarrassed by [...]
About Confessions of a Tea Leaf Reader: Why should readers be interested in Confessions of a Tea Leaf Reader? It will help the reader understand or understand better the art of tea leaf reading and why someone would have a passion for it. I invite readers into my unusual lifestyle, as the book is written in [...]
The Violin Lover Winner of the 2007 Canadian JewishBook Award for Fiction. Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman’s The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler’s escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story of Clara Weiss and Ned Abraham, “the violin lover,” brought together by [...]
Bruce Hunter is a poet of people, places and histories. His poems cover locations from the West Coast, to the mountains of Alberta, towns and cities across Canada, and to the Northeast coast of Scotland. A storyteller and a lyricist, Hunter’s depictions of characters and locales demonstrate a commitment to and compassion for his people [...]
At an awards gala Thursday evening, October 14, 2010, two Greater Victoria authors were recognized for their literary achievements. Frances Backhouse, author of Children of the Klondike, was named the winner of the 7th Annual City of Victoria Butler Book Prize; and Sylvia Olsen, of Counting on Hope, was named the winner of the 3rd Annual Bolen Books [...]
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