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Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham talks to Joseph Planta about her new book The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect (Random House, 2008).
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Legendary Edmonton bookseller, publisher and creator of The Canadian Encyclopedia, political activist and author, Mel Hurtig talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things all Canadians Should Know About Our Country (McClelland & Stewart, 2008).
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Author Anthony Horowitz talks to Joseph Planta about writing–how he writes and his favourites–and his new novel Snakehead (Philomel, 2007), the seventh in the Alex Rider series, which has already sold millions of copies worldwide.
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Tom Zytaruk, a staff reporter at the Now newspaper in Surrey talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story (Harbour, 2008), and the controversy that’s ensued with regards to the insurance policy the Conservative Party offered to the late Surrey North MP who died of cancer in 2005.
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Playwright Michele Riml talks to Joseph Planta about her new play Poster Boys, currently playing at the Arts Club on Granville Island until 26 April 2008, as well as her career as a writer.
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Environics president Michael Adams discusses his latest book, Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism (Viking, 2007) with Joseph Planta.
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Writer and journalist Jane Christmas talks to Joseph Planta about her book What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Greystone, 2007).
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Writer and journalist Susan Bourette, author of Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, A Search for the Perfect Meat (Viking, 2008) talks to Joseph Planta.
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Author Marie Phillips talks to Joseph Planta about her debut novel, Gods Behaving Badly (Random House Canada, 2008), already a literary sensation in Britain and recently optioned by the Ben Stiller production company, Red Hour Films.
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Andrew Merrifield talks to Joseph Planta about his new book The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World, a thoughtful and pensive look at life in Southern France’s Haute-Auvergne region, life’s larger mysteries, and his faithful companion, a donkey, Gribouille.

