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Elizabeth Hay-Late Nights on Air-Bookbits author interview 2007 GILLER PRIZE WINNER!!!! Former CBC Radio producer turned novelist Elizabeth Hay's new book "Late Nights on Air" has won Canada's richest literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Tags: Yellowknife radio CBC 1975 Berger north fiction |
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Hermione Lee-Edith Wharton-Bookbits author interview Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, a celebrated designer and a close friend of fellow novelist Henry James. Hermione Lee, who has previously written a biography of Virginia Woolf says Wharton was both chronicler and critic of life in the upper classes of New York City at the dawn of the 20th Century. Tags: Edith Wharton biography Bookbits author interview |
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The Flu Pandemic and You-Bookbits Interview How much of the media coverage of the seemingly always threatening flu pandemic is hype and how much is real? Doctors Vincent Lam and Colin Lee prescribe a cool head and realistic precautions in their new book The Flu Pandemic and You. Tags: flu epidemic bird-flu Vincent Lam Colin Lee |
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Bill Buford-Heat-Bookbits author interview Once upon a time Bill Buford had a great job behind a desk, but six months later he found himself the galley-slave and general whipping-boy to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany. How he got there via famed cook Mario Batali's kitchen is the story in "Heat"! Published by Doubleday Canada. Tags: Batali cooking Italy New York author interview |
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Mark MacKinnon-The New Cold War-Bookbits author interview George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin may be all smiles and handshakes when they meet, but nevertheless tensions between their two nations are rising. Former Globe & Mail Moscow correspondent Mark MacKinnon examines the revolutions, rigged elections and pipeline politics in the former Soviet Union and the 'industry' which has aided the so called 'Color Revolutions'. It is all part of "The New Cold War". Tags: Russia former Soviet republics Orange Rose democracy |
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Julian Sher-One Child at a Time-Bookbits author interview Recently a huge internet-based child pornography ring was broken up because of a co-ordinated effort by police around the world. Author and investigative journalist Julian Sher has the inside story of this battle in "One Child at a Time". Tags: kiddy-porn exploitation justice non-fiction |
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Mark McNay-Fresh-Bookbits author interview First time novelist Mark McNay makes an impressive debut with "Fresh" the story of a day-dreaming worker in a Scottish chicken processing plant. Tags: fiction Scotland poultry violence family |
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Bret Hart-Hitman-Bookbits author interview Bret "The Hitman" Hart was a World Wrestling Federation champion in and out of the ring. Beyond his remarkable physical skills he also spoke out on behalf of his wrestling brothers and sisters. His new book "Hitman" is a warts-and-all look at his life, his father Stu the wrestling teacher, his profession and the colourful characters of wrestling. Tags: Hitman Bret Hart WWE VInce Hulk Hogan Andre |
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Beppe Severgnini-La Bella Figura-Bookbits Interview The subtitle of Beppe Severgnini's book is "A Field Guide to the Italian Mind". It is a funny, rollicking, fascinating and sometimes infuriating look at Italy in all its glory and with all its warts showing. Published Random House. Tags: Italy fashion tourism quirks author interview Bookbits |
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M.G. Vassanji-The Assassin's Song-Bookbits author interview 2007 GILLER PRIZE FINALIST M.G. Vassanji has won the prestigious Giller prize for fiction twice. Now he has been nominated again for his latest novel "The Assassin's Song". Tags: India guru family Harvard fiction Giller |
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Orhan Pamuk-Other Colors-Bookbits author interview Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. This Turkish-born writer, and Columbia University professor is the author of several books including: "Snow", "The Black Book" and "Istanbul: Memories of a City" for which he was awarded the Nobel. His latest book "Other Colors: Essays and a Story" is exactly what the subtitle suggests. Tags: Nobel Prize literature Turkey essays non-fiction |
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John Loftus-The Witness Tree-Bookbits author interview Former US Justice Department Nazi war crimes investigator and intelligence journalist John Loftus has ventured into the world of fiction with "The Witness Tree". It examines the Dulles family: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, Allen Dulles, the first head of the CIA and their little known sister Eleanor who was critical to the founding of the state of Israel. Tags: fiction Dulles spies Nazi corruption Rockefeller banks Bush Loftus |
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Lloyd Jones-Mister Pip-Bookbits author interview New Zealand author Lloyd Jones' new book "Mister Pip" won the Commonwealth Writers' Overall Prize for Best Book and was short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize. The story is set on a South Pacific paradise where the last white man on the island teaches the native children using Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations". Tags: Dickens war rebels struggle fiction Lloyd Jones prize |
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Joy Fielding-Heartstopper-Bookbits author interview Author Joy Fielding is back with another thriller. The protagonist of"Heartstopper" is the deputy sheriff in a small Florida town dealing with the disappearances of attractive teenage girls. Tags: fiction mystery Florida murder Bookbits |
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Colin Angus-Beyond the Horizon-Bookbits author interview Colin Angus is the first man to circumnavigate the planet using only human power. He began his adventure with one partner, but when they had a falling out his fiancee Julie joined him. 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing, two tropical storms and two mid-Atlantic hurricanes later, he tells the story of how they made it home in his book "Beyond the Horizon". Tags: rowboat world circumnavigation record first bicycle |
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Austin Grossman-Soon I Will Be Invincible-Bookbits interview Look up on the shelf! It's a literary novel! It's a super-hero comic! It's Austin Grossman's debut novel "Soon I Will Be Invincible"!!! Tags: superhero comics literary genre Bookbits author fiction novel |
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Liam Durcan-Garcia's Heart-Bookbits author interview Neuroeconomics is a very new science which examines, on a biological level, how people make buying decisions. It serves as part of the backdrop to Lian Durcan's first novel "Garcia's Heart". Tags: Honduras torture neuroeconomics fiction |
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Hakan Nesser-The Return-Bookbits author interview For years Swedish mystery novelist Hakan Nesser has been a best-selling writer in Europe. Now he is gaining a new audience in the English-speaking world. "The Return" features his detective the taciturn Van Veeteren. Tags: mystery Sweden Van Veeteren Hakan Nesser |
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Carol Off-Bitter Chocolate-bookbits.ca interview As you bit down on a delicious piece of chocolate did you ever wonder just where the cocoa originated? Who picked it? How much they were paid? Journalist and the host of CBC's "As It Happens", Carol Off , has investigated the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet in Bitter Chocolate. Tags: chocolate Carol Off slavery author interview |
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Conrad Black-The Invincible Quest-Richard Nixon Bio-Bookbits Conrad Black, currently appearing in a Chicago court on fraud charges, is also a highly respected biographer. "The Invincible Quest: The Life of Richard Milhouse Nixon" is the most thorough biography ever written about America's most controversial President. Tags: Richard Nixon President Conrad Black Biography Bookbits |
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Sarah Susanka-The Not So Big Life-Bookbits author interview Architect and writer Sarah Susanka, whose "The Not So Big House" books have been hugely successful, has now written "The Not So Big Life". At first it might seem that the jump from design to self-help is a great one, "The Not So Big Life" is in many ways a prequel because before she could write her first six books, she had to change her own life. Tags: architecture self-help motivation meditation space design life |
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Lorri Neilsen Glenn-Combustion-Bookbits author interview Lorri Neilsen Glenn only 'came out' as a poet in 2001. Before that she had been an academic. Now she is poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The reasons for her rapid rise are clear. She is a stunning new writer who can stir laughter and tears with equal skill. Lorri Neilsen Glenn spoke recently about her new collection "Combustion" as she prepared for a reading at a Toronto book store. Tags: poetry Halifax Nova Scotia Combustion Bookbits |
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Carol Shields-The Republic of Love-Bookbits author interview The late Carol Shields won both Pulitzer prize and the Governor-General's Award for "The Stone Diaries". She was in the midst of writing it when she spoke with Bookbits about her just published novel "The Republic of Love". Tags: Carol Shields |
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Christie Blatchford-Fifteen Days-Bookbits author interview Canadian soldiers are still fighting and dying in Afghanistan. Globe & Mail journalist Christie Blatchford has spent time on the ground with the troops talking about the lives of some of the soldiers who have been killed. The book is "Fifteen Days". Tags: Canada Afghanistan war non-fiction |
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Catherine O'Flynn-What Was Lost-Bookbits author interview First time novelist Catherine O'Flynn has won the prestigious First Novel Costa Book Award for her creepy story "What Was Lost". Tags: fiction mystery shopping mall child disappearance Catherine O'Flynn Costa |