Home decorating television personality Debbie Travis talks to Joseph Planta about her new memoir on parenting Not Guilty: My Guide to Working Hard, Raising Kids and Laughing Through the Chaos (Random House, 2008).

The bestselling and acclaimed author Kenneth J. Harvey joins Joseph Planta to discuss his newest novel, Blackstrap Hawco: Said to Be About a Newfoundland Family (Random House, 2008), as well as his career and writing.

Food writer Jeffrey Alford discusses his recent book, Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China (Random House, 2008), with Joseph Planta. Alford co-wrote the book with his wife Naomi Duguid.

Joseph Planta talks to Dr. Woodson Merrell, the author of The Source: Beat Fatigue, Power Up Your Health and Feel 10 Years Younger (Random House, 2008).

The author Steven Galloway talks to Joseph Planta about his already bestselling and highly acclaimed novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo (Random House, 2008).

Author and journalist Patricia Pearson talks to Joseph Planta about her new book A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) (Random House Canada, 2008).

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).

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.

Author and Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn talks to Joseph Planta about his biography of Canada’s first prime minister, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Random House, 2007).

Writer Chris Turner, author of the bestselling Planet Simpson, looks for a more sustainable world in his new hopeful book, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House, 2007).