4 poets: Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, Onjana Yawnghwe The first of Mother Tongue Publishing’s new series titled New BC Poets, 4 poets highlights over a dozen new poems by emerging poets Daniela Elza from Vancouver, Peter Morin from Victoria, Al Rempel from Prince George & Onjana Yawnghwe from Burnaby. 4 poetsalso includes poetry drafts, interviews, author photographs, poetics and [...]
A “HERITAGE” GEM by Larry Eugene Gray The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything – they just make the best of what they have. Sandra and Larry Gray have certainly done so with this 20 year history of operating the Heritage House Bed and Break-fast in the beautiful city of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [...]
A Crack in the Wall by Betty Jane Hegerat. Oolichan Books, 2008 The characters in the short stories in A Crack in the Wall share a strong sense of home, whether it is a lifelong sanctuary, or a shell as fragile as the person who inhabits it. A young kleptomaniac ventures outside the shaky walls of [...]
A Crack in the Wall by Betty Jane Hegerat Oolichan Books, 2008 240 pages Reviewed by Elizabeth Nolan The attempt to understand the human condition is at the heart of all great art and literature. For Albertan writer Betty Jean Hegerat, this quest must have even more profound depths, coming as she does from [...]
A New Leaf: Growing with My Garden by Merilyn Simonds Random House, 2011 A Note from Merilyn Simonds For most of my life, I’ve grown the food my family eats and the flowers that bring beauty to our table. I’ve often thought, as the world where I live became affluent and the drift toward urbanization [...]
Desiree Nichols is no stranger to heartbreak, but when her hot, young boyfriend abandons her after two years of being together, Dez’s foundations begin to crumble. To make matters worse, a family crisis is calling her home to face the people she left behind, the ones who never accepted her as anything but trouble. Fine. [...]
According to Luke, by Rosanne Dingli. Bewrite Books, 2011. 366 pages. Shattered by the breakdown of yet another romance, Jana Hayes becomes a recluse in her tiny Venice apartment and buries herself in her work as an expert art conservator … until an ancient religious icon brings Roman Catholic priest Rob Anderson into her life. The secret they [...]
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound. Harbour Publishing. $26.95 From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps [...]
Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay McClelland & Stewart, 306 pp. In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to [...]
Fans of Harlan Coben and James Patterson will enjoy this book. Val Bosanquet, a former New Orleans detective, is offered a job as Chief of a campus PD. A Haitian child killer he helped convict for the murder of her mother has just been enrolled at the university. His estranged wife, now living with Val’s brother, [...]
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