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Book Review: Frances Barkley: Eighteenth-century Seafarer sails life's ebbs and flows
A tale that weaves research with imagination and the realities of true life.
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: Up the Coast tells stories by the light of a kerosene lamp
With endless forests and a rugged coastline this memoir’s humorous and candid collection of stories delights readers, even if far away from…
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: One Inch from Disaster features comfortable stories in a rambunctious memoir
Braggadocio is part of his charm and provides a lively source for these tales from the wilds of British Columbia
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: Wilson Duff, Coming Back, a Life chronicles a genius
To appreciate Wilson Duff’s biography, you need not know who he was—Wilson Duff Coming Back, a Life is about more than just one man.
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: Orphans of Empire is laced with tenderness and humour
Grant Buday’s Orphans of Empire weaves three desolate tales of British Columbia’s lesser-known history
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: A Journey Back to Nature reconciles Strathcona Park's beleaguered history
Take a summer drive up Highway 28 between Campbell River and Gold River and along the brim of Buttle Lake you’ll glimpse a broad shore of sun-bleached…
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Dave Flawse
Book Review: Possessing Meares Island details a pivotal moment in BC history
In a meditative, essay-style narrative, Barry Gough’s Possessing Meares Island guides the reader from the island’s murky origins to a court case of…
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Dave Flawse
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