Leah McLaren from the Globe and Mail talked with Joseph Planta about her new bestselling novel, The Continuity Girl (HarperCollins, 2006). She discussed her book’s heroine, the ‘sperm bandit’ Meredith Moore, and the reaction that the book has had so far, including a rather savage review from Ryan Bigge.

Michael Adams, president of Envronics, talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States (Viking, 2005). As a pollster, he offered his thoughts on the current federal election campaign in Canada, and the substance of his book, the direction of America, politically and culturally.

Journalist and author Adam Daifallah, co-author of Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, talked with Joseph Planta about the conservative revolution in Canada and how it’s going, offering his thoughts on what right-minded people should do.

University of Toronto political science professor Stephen Clarkson talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics (UBC Press, 2005).

Tasha Kheiriddin talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, which she co-wrote with Adam Daifallah, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution (Wiley, 2005). Kheiriddin is also the Ontario director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Harbour Publishing’s Howard White joined Joseph Planta to talk about Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five, which he’s edited, a large collection of stories, poems and articles on British Columbia identity, culture, and history.

A new book, The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper (ECW Press, 2005) attempts to shed a little more light on the politics and faith of Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. Its author Lloyd Mackey talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and about the man who could be prime minister.

Kim Bolan, the Vancouver Sun reporter who has spent 20 years covering and who sometimes found herself part of the Air India bombing story, talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).

Joseph Planta has a neat conversation with the sports columnist and author Jim Taylor, who has edited a new book, The Best of Jim Coleman: Fifty Years of Canadian Sport from the Man Who Saw it All (Harbour, 2005). It’s a collection of the legendary Coleman’s classic columns representing a remarkable look back at Canada and the sports that the country watched.

Dennis Brown, former fishery policy advisor to the premier of BC, and the author of a new book, Salmon Wars: The Battle for the West Coast Fishery (Harbour, 2005), gives Joseph Planta a terrifically informative overview of the industry’s history in this province, discussion about the resource, and the political management, or mismanagement, as Brown charges.