Book Review by Libby McKeever Amber Cowie is a new voice on the domestic thriller-fiction stage and her second novel Raven Lane is one that sticks to your skin and makes you second guess your assumptions. Leafy Raven Lane is a secluded cul-de-sac of five similar homes hidden above Fraser City, where resident realtor Kitty…

Whistler Writers Festival’s Alli Vail caught up with Maude Barlow to talk about her book Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands, and this year’s theme of the festival – Discourse. She’ll be appearing in the Saturday Night Gala, with author Omar El Akkad Oct. 19. Alli: As a writer and…

 By Nicola Bentley Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, Akin, transports the reader from the streets of New York, where the drug trade’s worst outcome is death, to the Promenade in Nice, France, where the city is about to celebrate its annual Carnival. Retired professor Noah Selvaggio is preparing to travel to Nice, a place he has…