Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home.

But girls? Once we’re mamas or once we’re ripe, we can never be girls again.” BLACK WOODS, BLUE SKY (Random House, 306 pp., $29), by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey, features another ...

A Penticton woman captured a photo of a western skink last week when it scurried across her property with its signature bright blue tail. It has been almost a decade since Teresa Taylor last ...