Book Review: Raven Lane by Amber Cowie
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 […]
A Conversation with Maude Barlow, author of Whose Water Is It, Anyway?
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 […]
Book Review: Akin, by Emma Donoghue
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 […]
Talk is the Stuff of Story: Katherine Koller blog
Can we talk? That’s what I’d say to the friendly-looking young couple who trailed me through Save-on Foods. After I paid for my huge order (at the time I cooked for eight), I pushed my grocery cart, in the winter dark, over the snow-rutted parking lot. One half of the young couple ran from behind […]
Food as the Great Conversation Starter: Christina Loucas blog
When asked to write a little blog about combining the idea of discourse and some element of my book, what came to mind first is how food is one of those topics that seems to engage most people. No matter whether I was a lawyer practising in Singapore, out for a client lunch years ago […]
Talking with Alta Lake: A blog by Cornelia Hoogland
Swimmers in wet suits, the fins of their arms rhythmic, choreographed, elbowing up, splashing down. The sounds paddles make––the boarders and kayakers who dip them into, then stroke them out of the water. Sounds in miniature. Blue jay skirts over the cedar rail, its nails clicking. Blueberry Hill on the east side of the lake, […]
Yvonne Blomer on Discourse
“Yvonne!” “Hi, how’s it going?” “Great, but you won’t believe this. Refugium has a review in Pacific Yachting!” “What?!” “I know, right!” A friend and subscriber to Pacific Yachting had called with this news. As a kid, growing up in land-locked Alberta, the most I knew of the Pacific was my dad’s yearly trips to […]
A Conversation with Omar El Akkad, author of American War
Whistler Writers Festival’s Alli Vail caught up with Omar El Akkad to talk about his book American War, and this year’s theme of the festival – Discourse. He’ll be appearing in the Saturday Night Gala, with author Maude Barlow Oct. 19. Alli: American War was a 2018 CBC Canada Reads Selection, A Globe and Mail […]
What will the neighbours think? Blog by Amber Cowie
Last September, I waved goodbye to the moving truck with relief. Not only did our new neighborhood seem to be friendly—many of the residents had come by to say hello as we were unpacking—our house was also located on a dead end street. With two kids under the age of six, the safety of a […]
A Very Long Gestation Period. Blog by Tim Wynne-Jones.
I’m thrilled to be visiting the Whistler Writers Festival with my new book The Starlight Claim. It’s a sequel… well, sort of. My first novel for young adults, The Maestro, came out in 1995, winning The Governor General’s Award and going on to be published around the world. Wherever I’ve talked to readers about it […]