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Acclaimed non-fiction writer and doctor Abraham Verghese talks about how his new novel, Cutting for Stone (now available in trade paperback), came to be.
The Age of Persuasion
The Age of Persuasion authors Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant explain just how vast the impact of advertising is on our modern lives.
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Canada's most distinctive commentator, Rex Murphy, chats about talking to strangers on tour, his non-celebrity status at home in Newfoundland, and the politics of Global Warming.
Mother-Daughter team Linda Haynes and Devin Connell share the inspiration and development for their new cookbook, Two Dishes.
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Joan Clark takes up the challenge of writing for teens in Road to Bliss. In this interview, Joan explains why she doesn't try to "teach" through her young adult novels, and how she came to this story.
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For Karen Connelly, Burma united her political and emotional connections to South Asia. From the same period and place that inspired her novel The Lizard Cage comes her memoir, Burmese Lessons.
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In Egg on Mao, Denise Chong brings to light the story of Lu Decheng, a protester who defaced the portrait of Mao using paint-filled eggs – an unthinkable act during the height of China's Communist regime.
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Michael Wex wants to bring the everyday wisdom gleaned from traditional Jewish texts to a modern world in How to Be a Mentsh (And Not a Shmuck).
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Thomas Trofimuk discusses the various voices that weave together the story in Waiting for Columbus.
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Becoming George Sand
In Becoming George Sand, Rosalind Brackenbury explores the complexity and multifariousness of love and relationships.
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Michael Crummey explores the mythology and realities of life in Newfoundland in his new novel, Galore.
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Nurse and author Tilda Shalof shares the stories of ICU nurses from across North America in Lives in The Balance.
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MacIntyre's new novel explores the world of Catholic priests, of guilt, and of betrayal in The Bishop's Man.
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Is the WWE a metaphor for our modern society? This is just one lens Chris Hedges has used to explore our society and its problems in Empire of Illusion.
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Where We Have To Go started out as a short story, but as Lauren Kirshner explains, her character, Lucy Bloom, had a bigger story to tell.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon addresses the twin problems of climate change and oil consumption in our near future in his new book, Carbon Shift.
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Naturopathic Doctor, Natasha Turner, relates her personal experience with hormone imbalances, and how that led to her research the hormonal diet approach in The Hormone Diet.
Eric Walters tells us about how he came to write a non-fiction book for children, Tell Me Why, which is meant to inspire, provoke and engage our youth. Along the way, he met some truly amazing young adults.
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Claire Letemendia explains how her budding academic career led to her debut novel, The Best of Men.
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Damon Galgut explores the idea of corruption in his new novel, The Impostor, and which character, among many, is the title character.
Author Daniel Clay discusses his various inspirations for Broken, a darkly funny debut novel narrated by Skunk, an eleven-year-old girl in a coma.
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Giles Blunt talks to publisher Anne Collins about his new novel, No Such Creature, and his temporary departure from the dark world of his Cardinal series.
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Listen in on a chat between Louise Dennys, Executive Publisher of Knopf, Random and Vintage Canada and Russell Banks, author of The Reserve, as well as The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, among other novels.
Enjoy an audio interview with Jane F. Kotapish, author of the extraordinary debut novel, Salvage.
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Michael Schellenberg sits down with Mary Lou Finlay to talk about her new book, The As It Happens Files. Listen as she tells of her love of 'stories'.
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Listen as Gwynne Dyer, author of Climate Wars, tells us why we need to start honestly talking about Climate, and the disappointing way Canada has failed to act.
A favourite at CityTV's Breakfast Television, Bryce Wylde joins us to talk about The Antioxidant Prescription. Here, he describes why the human health threshold is so important, and how you can get your body to do what it does best on its own.
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Listen in to a conversation between best-selling author Miriam Toews and Associate Publisher Michael Schellenberg as they talk about the themes of her forthcoming novel, The Flying Troutmans.
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Listen as The Gargoyle author, Andrew Davidson, tells Anne Collins about how his lead characters, the eccentric Marianne Engel and the nameless narrator, came to be.
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Enjoy an interview with one of Canada's best poets, as Patrick Lane discusses Red Dog, Red Dog, his extraordinary debut novel.
Listen in as Mel Hurtig chats about his latest book The Truth About Canada with Douglas Gibson, Publisher of Douglas Gibson Books at McClelland & Stewart.
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Perhaps the Gods were smiling on Marie Phillips when she submitted her book Gods Behaving Badly for publication. Listen in on this conversation with Anne Collins, Publisher Random House Canada, to discover the good luck in getting thirteen deals within three weeks.
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Check out this video trailer for two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self. It’s a boisterous, moving tale about a monumental adventure in the life of a precocious seven-year-old boy as he seeks out his parents.
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Sit in as Nick Heil chats about his experience in writing about the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Mount Everest. Dark Summit is a riveting account of the death of climber David Sharp, and the troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiraled out of control.
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Listen in on the conversation between Mark Veldhuizen, Advertising Director, and Catherine O'Flynn as they discuss the background of her new novel What Was Lost, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Costa First Novel Award in the UK.
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Listen in as Mike Fuhr, Director of National Accounts Marketing chats with award-winning journalist Jan Wong about Beijing Confidential and her quest to find someone she encountered briefly in 1973, and whose life she was certain she had ruined forever.
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Listen to Publisher of Vintage Canada Marion Garner in conversation with Henning Mankell, internationally acclaimed author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries about his new thriller Kennedy’s Brain.
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Michael Schellenberg, Senior Editor for Knopf Canada sits down with William Marsden to discuss Stupid to the Last Drop – Marsden’s controversial book about the environmental Armageddon that Alberta is bringing to Canada.
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Listen in as Mark Veldhuizen, Advertising Director for Random House of Canada, speaks with Janette Turner Hospital about her new novel, Orpheus Lost, and the role of music in the story.
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Sit in on this candid conversation between President & Publisher of McClelland & Stewart Doug Pepper and his long-time friend and author of The Solitude of Emperors David Davidar.
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Don’t miss this one! Lara Hinchberger, Editor at Doubleday Canada speaks with Mary Novik, author of Conceit — a historical first novel (long-listed for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize) about the poet John Donne’s daughter Pegge.
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Hear our interview with the award-winning author of The Garneau Block as he discusses his new novel, The Book of Stanley.
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Sit in as Sir Martin Gilbert speaks with Marilyn Biderman, Director of Rights & Contracts for McClelland & Stewart, about Churchill and the Jews and the effect on today’s terrorism if Churchill had lived for another twenty years.
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Listen to an interview with bestselling author of Random Passage and Waiting for Time, Bernice Morgan, as she describes her upcoming novel Cloud of Bone.
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Don't miss John Mighton's revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn as he talks about his important book, The End of Ignorance.
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Sit in as Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and his desire to get inside the minds of characters that we as a society know very little about.
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Enjoy an interview with one of the greatest Canadian literary voices, as Michael Ondaatje discusses Divisadero, his most intimate and beautiful novel to date.
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Enjoy an entertaining conversation with Heather Mallick, as she mulls over excruciating choices like Cake or Death and reflects on the complicated state of our lives and our world today.
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Don't miss 2007 New Face of Fiction author, Jen Sookfong Lee, in this delightful interview about her exquisite, evocative and often-funny novel, The End of East.
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Listen to our interview with Canadian journalist, Sally Armstrong, as she explores the story of her great-great-great-grandmother, Charlotte Taylor, the first woman settler of the Miramichi.
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Enjoy an audio interview with Alissa York, one of Canada's best young fiction writers. York speaks with Anne Collins, VP, Publisher, Random House Canada, about her new novel, Effigy.
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Listen as celebrated political scribe, Chantal Hébert, talks about her new book, French Kiss, and the Conservative's attempts to woo Quebec.
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Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley as she discusses love, Hollywood-style, in her new novel, Ten Days in the Hills.
Listen as Tim Rostron, Senior Editor of Doubleday Canada, chats with Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit. Lando is a Canadian, who worked as an investigative reporter on 60 Minutes for 25 years. His insight into the situation in Iraq should not be missed.
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Vancouver author and poet, Shaena Lambert, sat down recently to talk to Mike Fuhr, about her latest novel. Radiance examines the experience of a young Hiroshima survivor as she travels to New York for reconstructive surgery in 1952.
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New Face of Fiction author Neil Smith sits down to talk to Nadine Silverthorne, Online Marketing Specialist at Random House of Canada. Smith talks candidly about his new book, Bang Crunch, which features nine highly original and well-crafted short stories.
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Listen to an interview with Cuban-Canadian mystery author José Latour as he discusses his latest novel, Outcast, with Dinah Forbes, Executive Editor, McClelland & Stewart.
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Listen as Diane Martin, VP, Publisher Knopf Canada, interviews author and friend Don Hannah about his new novel, Ragged Islands.
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Listen to our highly entertaining interview as Anne Collins, VP, Publisher of Random House Canada, sits down with Douglas Coupland to dissect his latest novel JPod and everything from Google to clowns, and our world today.
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Bestselling author of Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier, sits down with Anne Collins, VP, Publisher of Random House Canada to discuss his latest novel Thirteen Moons.
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Listen as Mark Veldhuizen, Director of Advertising for Random House of Canada, speaks with Stephen Cole, author of The Canadian Hockey Atlas about our national obsession.
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Listen as Managing Editor of Random House Canada, Pamela Murray, interviews journalist and author Carol Off, author of Bitter Chocolate, a shocking expose of the dark side behind a much-loved indulgence.
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Barbara Stoneham
Heather Sangster, Freelance Editor for McClelland & Stewart, interviews National Post columnist Noah Richler about his new book This is My Country, What's Yours? Richler travelled Canada, interviewing 100 authors to map out A Literary Atlas of Canada.
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Listen as Senior Editor of Knopf Canada Michael Schellenberg interviews John English, author of Citizen of the World, the authorized biography of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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Listen as New York Times bestselling author Diane Setterfield sits down with Mark Veldhuizen, Advertising Director for Random House of Canada, to discuss the books which inspired The Thirteenth Tale.
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Anna Wilcox
Listen as Valerie Gow, Imprint Sales Director for Doubleday Canada, interviews Michael Redhill, author of Consolation. Redhill's previous novel, Michael Sloane, was short-listed for the Giller prize.
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Bruce Peters
Listen as Giller Prize-winning author, David Adams Richards, sits down with Lara Hinchberger, Associate Editor for Doubleday Canada, to talk about his latest work of fiction The Friends of Meager Fortune.
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Stephen Elphick
Tony Aspler has spent over two decades detailing the journey from grape to glass, both as the wine columnist for the Toronto Star and as the author of eleven books on food and wine. Nadine Silverthorne, Online Content Specialist for Random House of Canada, sits down with Tony Aspler to uncork his latest book, The Wine Atlas of Canada, a stunning and thorough look at the Canadian wine industry.
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Jerry Bauer
Celebrated screenwriter and author William Boyd sits down with Scott Sellers, VP, Director, Marketing Strategy for Random House of Canada. Listen as they discuss Boyd's latest novel, Restless, a riveting tale of espionage and family secrets.
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Don Denton
Hear bookseller and debut novelist, Robert J. Wiersema, as he discusses his heart-wrenching first book, Before I Wake, with Vintage Canada Editor Kendall Anderson.
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When Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time hit bookstores, it captured the hearts of everyone who read it. Martha Kanya-Forstner, Executive Editor Doubleday Canada, speaks with Mark Haddon from his home in England, about his new novel A Spot of Bother.
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Louise Dennys, Executive Publisher of Knopf Canada, Random House Canada and Vintage Canada, interviews award-winning author, Anita Rau Badami. Listen in as Anita talks about her deeply personal new novel, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? and her own experiences as an immigrant in Canada.
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Listen to Random House Canada Publisher, Anne Collins in conversation with author Kevin Patterson. His first novel, Consumption, is an epic Canadian tale of north and south, infused with stark beauty, startlingly realized characters and fierce truths.
