Mark Zuehlke is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Canadian Battle Series. In 2014, he won the Governor General’s Award for Popular History, the Pierre Berton Award.
=0D=0A=In 2006, he won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and in 2007 the Canadian Author’s Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History. His latest book, Through Blood and Sweat, is an account of walking with Operation Husky in 2013 to retrace the steps of Canada’s soldiers who fought in Sicily seventy years earlier and whose sacrifice have been largely forgotten.
=0D=0A=Zuehlke is a consummate writer who has also written a mystery series and has recently turned his hand to graphic novels. He lives in Victoria with his partner, Frances Backhouse.
=0D=0A=Frances Backhouse is the author of six books, including the just released Once They Were Hats, a quirky historical/cultural/ecological exploration of the mighty beaver. Children of the Klondike, won the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She is also a veteran freelance magazine writer and teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria.
=0D=0A=She lives in Victoria with her partner, Mark Zuehlke. Paula Wild is an award-winning author of six books and has written more than 1,000 articles for numerous periodicals including British Columbia Magazine, Reader’s Digest and Canada’s History Magazine. A BC Bestseller, The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous is the Gold Winner for Nature Book of the Year at Foreword Reviews’ USA IndieFab Awards and was a finalist for the BC Book Prizes’ Booksellers’ Choice Award. She lives in Courtenay and is currently working on a book about wolves.
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