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CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
Yann Martel didn’t think anybody would read Life of Pi when he first published it. 25 years later, his story of a teenage boy and a tiger ad...
When Mai Nguyen lost her daughter just days after she was born, writing about a similar character in a novel brought her comfort. Her new bo...
The “wolf hour” is a term for the deep-night period between roughly three and four in the morning. The world is quiet, your guard is down …...
In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear , a modern day tradwife influencer shares her picturesque farm life with 8 million followers...
Ben Lerner’s new novel is all about how technology shapes memory and connection … and it kicks off when a guy breaks his phone. In Transcrip...
Even if you’re living in a dystopia, life goes on. Carrianne Leung’s new novel, Wonderland Road , is about making it work and finding hope i...
In Michael Redhill’s new novel, The Trial of Katterfelto , the titular Katterfelto is a traveling magician and scientist in the late 1700s....
What does it mean to love a place that is so complicated? Pulitzer prize finalist Daniyal Mueenuddin’s new novel, This Is Where the Serpent...
Julian Barnes says his new novel is his final. It’s called Departure(s) , and it’s about two people who fall in love when they’re young and...
For Michael V. Smith, the answer is a resounding yes … and he explores that in his new book, Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir . It’s a collection...
This week, Bookends is celebrating libraries with a special Canada Reads event at the Hamilton Public Library. Morgann Book truly lives up t...
In Tara Gereaux’s new novel, Wild People Quiet , a Métis woman works tirelessly to hide her identity for years … until everything starts to...
What does family mean to two motherless daughters? That question is at the centre of Kin , a new work of historical fiction by Tayari Jones....
Toronto’s most infamous women’s prison was meant to rehabilitate women … but its real history tells a much darker story. Heather Marshall di...
If you had to tell a story to stay alive … what story would you tell? Jeanette Winterson’s new book, One Aladdin Two Lamps , is a nonfiction...
What does it mean to come of age in a place where violence is a daily fact of life? Ashraf Zaghal’s debut novel, Seven Heavens Away , is abo...
What happens behind the closed doors of a strip club? Pole dancing, booming basslines … and in Nic Stone’s new novel, the chilling mystery o...
Can you inherit fury? Kagiso Lesego Molope’s new novel, We Inherit The Fire , follows a mother and daughter at the end of apartheid in South...
What do you know about Appalachia? Fancy Gap is the debut novel by Zak Jones, and it challenges the preconceptions we might have about the r...
When Chris Kraus became fixated on a murder case in a Minnesotan town, she decided to try her hand at a true crime novel ... but the project...
Did the Olympics get you in the hockey spirit? If not, here’s a book that certainly will. Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard is a...
Tamara Jong grew up going door-to-door for the Jehovah’s Witnesses … and her new memoir, Worldly Girls, is all about breaking away from the...
Murder Bimbo is a new book about a sex worker-turned assassin … and it’s the debut novel by Rebecca Novack, a former priest-in-training. The...
If you’re worried about being lonely in the afterlife, don’t worry. Just hire a corpse bride to keep you company in the coffin! In Lindsay W...
Carla Ciccone was 39 years old when she was diagnosed with ADHD. That diagnosis changed everything for her ... and she shares her experience...
If you’re feeling jaded by money, politics and modern dating … you’re not the only one. Conor Kerr’s new novella, Beaver Hills Forever , fol...
What would you do if there was a jellyfish in your eye? And what if it started multiplying, blocking your vision completely? That’s the prem...
The winner of the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is the Vancouver poet Jordan Redekop-Jones. Jordan’s winning poem, Mixed Girl as Cosmogonic Myth , w...
“You’ve changed” isn’t necessarily something you want to hear … especially when you’re trying to keep a marriage alive. That’s the premise o...
Would you steal? Would you kill? In Megha Majumdar’s new novel, A Guardian and a Thief , a mother prepares to escape a city in the midst of...
To be a good cult leader, you’ll need some natural charisma and a pathological desire for control … and according to Rob Benvie, it might al...
Louise Penny is one of the biggest mystery novelists alive today … but it didn’t start out that way. Her latest novel, The Black Wolf , is t...
Jane Austen is one of the most enduring novelists of all time. But what do we know about the woman behind the stories? To celebrate Austen’s...
After releasing her breakout hit My Sister the Serial Killer in 2018, Oyinkan Braithwaite struggled to write under the pressure of high expe...
Christmas is a time for togetherness, good food … and lying to your family about your love life. At least, that’s the case in Uzma Jalaluddi...
Video games make you violent. Video games corrupt the youth. Video games rot your brain! You’ve probably heard that narrative before … but K...
What’s more horrifying than slashers, monsters … and Vancouver real estate? This week, Bookends brings you on-stage at the Vancouver Writers...
… and they can’t keep their hands off each other. That’s the premise at the centre of Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, Minor Black Figures. It...
What’s more romantic than planning an assassination together? You’d have to ask the radical activist Emma Goldman, who did just that with he...
John Irving’s books are on many readers’ list of favourites. He’s written novels like The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules...
It’s a bit of an understatement to say that Canisia Lubrin has a way with words. Last year, she took home the Carol Shields Prize for her de...
Leila Mottley was only 17 years-old when she wrote her debut novel, Nightcrawling … and she was 20 when she became the youngest author ever...
You might know Chris Hadfield, decorated astronaut and former Commander of the International Space Station. But do you know Chris Hadfield,...
In Aurora Stewart de Peña's debut novel, Julius Julius , ads are inescapable … which isn’t far off from real life. If you ever feel unsettle...
Not many people can say that a Booker prize nomination feels like deja vu … but Kiran Desai is one of those rare people. Twenty years after...
Torrey Peters was in the woods building her own sauna when she came up with the titular story in her new collection, called Stag Dance . The...
It’s hard to believe that Zadie Smith was just 24 years old when she wrote White Teeth , the book that made her a literary star. 25 years la...
In the new novel Pick a Colour , the answer to that question is a resounding yes. The debut novel from Souvankham Thammavongsa centres on Ni...
A century from now, how will historians look back on your life? In his latest novel, What We Can Know , Ian McEwan imagines the future in 10...
The bunnies are back … and they’re bloodier than ever. In We Love You, Bunny , Mona Awad returns to the surreal world of her best selling no...