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Schedule
Between The Covers
July 2009
SIRIUS Schedule
June 29- July 17
MEMORY BOOK
By Howard Engel
Published by Penguin
Canada’s loveable private eye Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in a most puzzling mystery. A vicious blow to the head has given Benny a condition both rare and challenging. He has ‘alexia sine agraphia’, a condition shared by author Howard Engel.
Benny can write but he cannot read. And his memory is no hot shakes either. Stuck in a hospital room with people he only occasionally remembers, Benny must piece together what happened to him and figure out why.
Read by Ron Halder and Donna White. Produced in Vancouver by Heather Brown.
July 20 – Aug. 7
ASCENSION (R)
by Steven Galloway
Published by Knopf
As a wirewalker from the heyday of the Big Top, Salvo has traveled from Transylvania through America to small-town B.C. Steven Galloway’s novel Ascension takes us on a dazzling trip through carnival culture, with the rise and fall of the circus era as a backdrop for the story of Salvo Ursari – a man only truly alive at fearsome heights.
Read by Damir Andrei. Produced in Toronto by Mladen Oliveja.
PODCAST schedule
You can download several episodes each week from the Between The Covers podcast. At the moment you can hear:
June 3- July 17
OPEN ARMS
By Marina Endicott
Published by Douglas and McIntyre
Funny and clear-eyed, Marina Endicott’s tantalizing first novel follows the willful Bessie as she leaves the Maritimes for a reunion with her ex-rock band mother in Saskatchewan. Once there, she struggles with her place in an eccentric and expanding family. When her mother disappears again, Bessie and her grandmother are hot on her trail and pick up the threads of what connects the three women across generations.
Read by Tabitha St.Germain. Produced by Heather Brown.
July 20 - Sept.4
THE LAST CROSSING
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published by McClelland and Stewart
Some of Canada’s best performers bring to life this CANADA READS winning book.
Two Englishmen find themselves on a journey across the unknown landscape of the American and Canadian west in a search for a missing brother. Set in the last half of the nineteenth century, THE LAST CROSSING is a rousing adventure, full of fascinating characters and intricate stories.
Produced by Ann Jansen. Read by Eric Peterson, Joseph Ziegler, Patrick Galligan, Hardee Lineham and Shauna Black.
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