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David Sedaris author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames  Vancouver Nov 1.
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Kate Pullinger is nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for The Mistress of Nothing.
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Optimix is a magazine published by teens in Mission.
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Natasha D'Amours is the 13 year old author of "The One He Left Behind" her first published novel.
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Annabel Lyon shortlisted for The Giller and Rogers literary prizes for her novel "The Golden Mean."
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Roy Teed talks about his play The Good Game  to be performed by Stage 43 at the Evergreen Cultural Centre Oct 15-24 and in Ladysmith Nov 12-28
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Douglas Coupland was back in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club this weekend with more on his novel Generation A.
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Brian Brett's new work is a book titled Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life. (GreyStone Books)
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Douglas Coupland in the Studio One Book Club His latest novel is Generation A. The co-host for the Book Club this time is producer and Hot Air host Paolo Peitropaolo.
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Rebecca Hendry is the author of Grace River from Brindle and Glass.
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Angie Abdou's novel is the choice of One book one Kootenay - The Bone Cage.
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Sadmag is a new magazine featuring young Vancouver artists and writers. A Launch party is being held at the Anza Club in Vancouver on September 17th at 8:00 p.m. Listen to a conversation. between Sheryl MacKay and the magazines' founders Deanne Beattie and Brandon Gaukel.

Grant Buday's latest novel is called Dragonflies. It's the story of the last day s of the Trojan War. Listen to the conversation.

Heather Spears is a poet and visual artist originally from BC now living in Denmark. Listen to a conversation.

David Sedaris in the Studio One Book Club.
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Cyndi Sand-Eveland has published her first novel Dear Toni.   (Tundra Books)
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Jen Sookfong Lee hosted a special teen book club to talk about the book she championed in Canada Reads.  Listen to the conversation. Here's part 2.

Alan Bradley is a writer in Kelowna whose first novel, The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie" is getting rave reviews.
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Kate Jacobs was our guest in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club to talk about her debut bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club and the sequel Knit  Two.  Listen to part 1.Listen to part 2listen to part 3

Nancy Robertson is an author in Prince Rupert whose latest book is Searching for the April Moon .
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Christine Lowther is a writer and co-editor of a book of essays titled Writing the West Coast
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Adolph Hungrywolf is an author living north of Cranbrook. He's written a four volume history of the Blackfoot people in Montana. Listen to a conversation.

Naomi Wakan is a writer and visual artist from Gabriola. This week her essay is about shadows.  Listen to her essay.

Heather Burt's first novel, Adam's Peak was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction prize last year.  Listen to a conversation.

David Roche is a humorist, motivational speaker and performer and author.  He was born with a
severe facial deformity which life experience forms the basis for his one man show and book Thc Church of 80% Sincerity.
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Margaret Horsfield has a new book Voices  From the Sound :Chronicles of Clayqouot Sound and  Tofino.  (Salal Books)
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Builders of the Pacific Coast is a new book from Lloyd Kahn, the man who wrote Shelter  in the 1970's. Listen to a conversation.

Peter C. Newman is the author of Izzy:  The Passionate Life and Turbulent times of Izzy Asper. This episode of the Studio One Book Club was Co-hosted by Simi Sara.
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David Western is a master maker of Love Spoons. His book is called The Fine Art of Carving Love Spoons. Check out his blog for further information.Listen to the entire conversation

Chris Czajkowski has a new book titled A Mountain Year: A Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller. (Harbour)  Listen to a conversation.

The Rookie Writer winners from the Southern Interior are Kailey Pederson, a grade 9 student at George Elliot School.  Listen to her story , Janessa Worsfold, a grade 11 student at Kelowna Secondary. Listen to her work. and the overall winner for the region is Bethany Edward, a grade 12 student at Kelowna Secondary.  Listen to her piece.

Pummy Kaur is the author of What Would Ghandi Do ? She's also an educator and social justice advocate in B.C. Listen to our conversation.

Lang Lang, international superstar pianist was in the CBC Studio One Book Club to talk about his autobiography Journey of a Thousand Miles.
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Author Andreas Schroeder's latest book is called Renovating Heaven.
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Nicola Campbell's latest book is Shin Chi's Canoe.
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Lost Books of Your Childhood is back on NXNW.  Meet the new team of librarian-sleuths.

Diego Bastianutti is a poet. His latest book of poems in both English and Italian is called Per un Pugno di Terra or For a Fistful of Soil.
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Margaret Atwood was in the CBC Studio One Book Club to talk about her Massey Lecture and book titled Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.
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Mona Fertig has produced a new anthology of BC contemporary titled Rocksalt.
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Joan Givner's latest book for young readers is Ellen's Book of Life.
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Jeffrey Alford and his wife Naomi Duguid have a new book about food and travel in remote regions of China.
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Julie Angus has written a book about her adventures crossing the Atlantic in a rowboat.
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The Rookie Writers contest winners from the Lower Mainland are being broadcast on NXNW Oct 18, 19 and 25.
Listen to the grade 9 winner; Sarah Glass. Listen to the grade 10 winner Jeanette Steinmann
Listen to the grade 8 winner, Riza Macarainas Listen to the grade 11 winner, Allan Tain.Listen to the overall winner, Ryan Faliszewski from Grade 12

Jacqueline Samuda is a prolific actor, writer, director and winner of this year's Women in Director's Chair feature film award.
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Earl Brown is the organzier of the Toad River Writer's Retreat Listen to a conversation.

Martin Mitchinson is the author of The Darien Gap:Travels in the Rainforest of Panama Harbour PublishingListen to a conversation.

Richard Wagamese has published and inspiring collection of personal stories titled One Native Life.  Listen to a conversation.

Margaret Visser is our latest guest in the CBC Studio One Book Club.  Her new book is The Gift of Thanks.  Listen to a conversation. Listen to part 2.Listen to part 3 Listen to part 4

Richard Wagamese has two new books out this fall. One is Ragged  Company, a novel.
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A Well Mannered Storm is a new collection of poetry inspired by pianist Glenn Gould.
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Pamela Proctor is a retired teacher who has just written a book about her experiences in the classroom.  It's called Honouring the Child:Changing Ways of Teaching.  
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Roy Jonsson is a master gardener, garden instructor and consultant.  His book is Garden Sense :Secrets of an Experienced Gardener.
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Laurie Ricou is the author of Salal Listening for the Northwest Understory.
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Princess Der Ling is the very colourful subject of a new biography from a Vancouver Island author.
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Subterrain Magazine is celebrating a 20 year anniversary.
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Charles Helm is a writer and doctor living in Tumbler Ridge.  His new book is Exploring Tumbler Ridge.  Listen to a conversation.

Angie Abdou is a novelist from Fernie. Her book The Bone Cage tells the story of two athletes aiming for the Olympics near the end of their careers.  I talked to Angie and her brother Justin Abdou who is a former Olympic wrestler and a current coach at SFU.
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Mary Novik's debut novel Conceit  has gained much critical acclaim and the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction in BC this year.
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Calvin Sandborn is a writer, journalist, activist and lawyer.  His latest book is Becoming the Kind Father, A Son's Journey.
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Kate Jacobs is a best selling author with a brand new novel called Comfort Food.
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Ode to the Lotus  is a book of Chinese Poetry in translation. It's published by
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Ann Alma is a Nelson writer with a new book for young readers about a Dutch family who saved many children and adults from the Nazis.
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Kevin Loring is an actor and playwrite. His new play Mixed in the Blood   is part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver.
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Maria Coffey's new book is Explorers of the Infinite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes.
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Valdine Ciwko teaches grade 5 at Sir James Douglas Elementary in Vancouver and asked the students to write journals as if they were a character in a play by Shakespeare.
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Elizabeth George was our June guest in the Studio One Book Club. Her latest book is Careless in Red.
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Melanie Watt's latest book for children is
Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach. She was a guest in our NXNW Kid's Book Club.  Listen to a conversation.

Taras Grescoe is our guest in the CBC Studio One Book Club with his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. (Harper Collins)
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Padma Viswanathan is our guest in the CBC Studio One Book Club to talk about her novel The Toss of Lemon.
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Rita Wong won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award at the BC Book Awards. Listen to a conversation.

Philip Stone is the author of A Guide to West Coast Hiking in BC and Washington. Listen to a Conversation.

Robert Heidbreder is the winner of the Christie Harris BC book award.Listen to a Conversation.

Gary Gedes is the Leuitenant Governor Award Winner. Listen to a conversation.

CBC's Jennifer Chen takes us to a letter writing club. Listen.

Alan Twig celebrates Vancouver writer Joy Kegowa. Listen to a conversation.

Steven Galloway's latest novel is called "The Cellist of Sarajevo". Listen to a conversation.

Naomi Beth Waken has a new book on writing called "Compositions: Notes on the Written Word." Listen to a conversation.

One Hen by Katie Smith Milway is the story of how one small loan made a big difference in the life of one small boy. Listen to a conversation.

Pat Morrison and Sadao Katagiri have found a special way to keep their son Adam's memory alive. Listen to a conversation.

Linda L. Richards has a new mystery novel that takes readers back to the time of Prohibition in the U.S.
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PRISM International is the oldest literary journal in western Canada and its editors are students in the creative writing department at UBC.
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Miranda Huba is an actor and playwright in Vancouver. She is one of the young artists whose work has been commissioned by the Playwrights Theatre Centre under The News program.
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Tom Koppel's latest book is Ebb and Flow:Tides and Life on our Once and Future Planet. (Dundurn)
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Photographer and writer Chris Harris has a new book called Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo and Chiilcotin's Forgotten  Landscape.
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  WINNERS OF THE ROOKIE WRITERS CONTEST FOR 2007
Jordan Balanko, Grade 11, Sentinel Secondary School
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Christina Guan, Grade 9, Moscrop
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Kailey Fuller Jackson, Grade 12, Sentinel School
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Chloe Belanger,  Grade 10, Handsworth School
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Sam Griffiths,  Grade 8, Mulgrave School
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Liz Mitten Ryan is an artist, photographer, writer and horse breeder in the Nicola Valley. Her latest book is One With the Herd.:A Spiritual Journey.
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Steven Keewatin Sanderson and Sean Muir are two of the people behind a new series of comic books directed at helping first nations youth make positive choices in life.
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Writer Jane Rule died very recently at her home on Galiano Island.  Alan Twigg of BC Bookworld and a friend of hers,  pays a tribute to this woman who changed so many lives.
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Ian McAllister has a brand new book called The Last Wild Wolves (Greystone)
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Sarah Ellis is an award winning author of many books for younger  readers.  Her latest Odd Man Out   tells the story of a boy who goes to spend the summer with his eccentric grandmother and gang of girl cousins in a big old house on an island.  The book has received several big awards including the TD CCBC book prize.
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June Wood has written the story of her father, Bert Irvine, from his childhood in Alberta to  his years as a wilderness guide in BC in Nechako Country.
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Anne DeGrace and Shaena Lambert dropped into the studio recently to talk about Anne's new novel Windtails and about the work Shaena did with Anne as a mentor during the process of writing.
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Long John Baldry is the subject of a new biography from Paul Meyers. It Ain't Easy tells the story of Baldry and his place in the birthof British blues scene in the 60's, how he launched the careers of Elton John and Rod Stewart, and how he came to live in Vancouver.
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Eating Stories  is a new book of family tales and recipes from the Chinese Candian Historical Society in BC.
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David Chariandy is nominated for a Governor General's award for his first novel, Soucouyant.
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Kaija Pepper has written a biography of dancer and choreographer Peter Bingham.
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Alberto Manguel is this month's guest in the CBC Studio One Book Club.  In this sessions we discuss themes from his Massey Lectures, entitled City of Words.
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Kit Pearson's newest novel is A Perfect Gentle Knight (Penguin)  It tells the story of a family of children who seek escape in a land of Round Table make believe as they try to cope with the death of their mother.  It seems like it's been a while since we had a new Kit Pearson novel.
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Ameen Merchant's debut novel is Silent Raga. It tells the story of two sisters growing up in India and of the events that divide them and untimately bring them back together.  It's a novel filled with the sights and sounds and smells and tastes of India.  (Douglas & McIntyre)
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Professor Janet Todd was in Vancouver for the AGM of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
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Arthur Black's latest book is Black to the Grindstone (Harbour).
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John Lekich has a new book for young readers titled King of the Lost and Found.
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Bill Stenson has written a novel Svoboda (Thistledown) about a Doukhobor boy growing up in the Kootenays in the 1950's.  Listen to a conversation.

Anne Stone's latest novel is Delible.  It tells the story of a young teenager dealing with the fact that her sister has gone missing.
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William Gibson was our September guest in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club. His latest novel is Spook Country  (Putnam).  The book follows a former indie rocker turned writer, a member of the smallest organized crime family in the U.S., several visual artists, a quasi military guy, a drug addicted Russian translator and a rich, eccentric Belgian as they race to find a mysterious cargo container.  Listen to part 1Listen to part 2 Listen to part 3Listen to part 4

Sheila Peters and Perry Rath have produced a book of poems and paintings titled The Weather from the West.  Listen to a conversation.

Susan Mayse is an author living on Vancouver Island. She was discussing the life of Ginger Goodwin. Listen to part 1Listen to part 2.Listen to part 3.

Blanche Howard has published A Memoir of Friendship; The  Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard.
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David Diamond of Headlines Theatre in Vancouver has written a book about his work with community, interactive productions called Theatre for Living.
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Shaena Lambert's first novel Radiance. (Random House) has been getting many great reviews.
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Vicki Wong is an artist, designer and writer, and one half of the creative team Meomi.
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Gary Gottfriedson is a writer,  a rancher and a teacher.  His latest book is a collection of poetry called Whiskey Butllets
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Dutchie Mathison is an artist with a new book about growing up on a northern Canadian homestead.
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Jen Sookfong Lee is in the Studio One Book Club with her novel The End of East..
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Alexandra Oliver has a new book of poetry called Where the English Housewife Shines.
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Helen Stewart's new illustrated book for children is The Patched Heart.
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Ruth Ozeki's novel My Year of Meats  is the selection for One Book One Vancouver from the VPL this year.
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Mireille Guiliano's lastest book is French Women for All Seasons. It's a follow up to her besteller French Women Don't Get Fat. . Listen to a conversation.

Bill Richardson is our latest guest in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club.
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Kevin Bazzana has a new biography, about a most colourful and talented pianist who lived a turbulent life. The book is Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick.
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John Izzo of North Vancouver has a television series titled The Five Things You Must Discover Before You Die. It's on Biography Channel and Omni Television.
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Alisa Smith is one of the authors of The  100 Mile Diet: A Year of Eating Locally.
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Rachel Lebowitz is the author of Hannus  an inventive biography of her great-grandmother who moved to BC from Finalnd.
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Vikram Chandra is our latest guest in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club with his book Sacred Games.
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Adam Lewis Schroeder has a new book called Empress of Asia.. IIt's a love story with lots of high seas adventure thrown in, set in WW2.
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Rhea Tregebov has edited a new collection of stories written by Yiddish women called Arguing  With  T he Storm..
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Barbara Gowdy is the latest guest in the CBC Studio One Book Club.
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The SPiN writing group in Vancouver is running three for three with publishing deals for each of the members.  Recently I talked to Mary Novik, Jen Sookfong Lee and June Hutton about their group.
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Des Kennedy's latest book is The Passionate Gardener(Greystone)
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Blake Parker was working at two big projects when he died recently. Broadcaster Bill Metcalfe has a documentary about that work.
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Craig Taylor has a new book called Return to Akenfield , a follow up to the bestselling Akenfield  by Ronald Blythe in the 1960s.
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Kerissa Dickie is a young writer from Fort Nelson who won a prize in an cross-Canada competition this year.
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Carolye Kuchta has the story of her grandmother Barbara Buckley in the Cariboo. Listen to her story

Bill Gaston is nominated for a Governor General's award for his latest collection of short stories; Gargoyles.
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radiant danse uv being; a poetic portrait of bill bissett (Nightwood Editions) was the inspiration of poets Jeff Pew and Stephen Roxborough.
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Heather Pringle's latest book is titled The Master Plan (Penguin Canada) and tells the story of archaeology used for some grim ends by the Nazis during WW2.
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Rick Hudson is the author of Gold, Gemstone and Mineral Sites of BC (Sites within a day's drive of Vancouver)
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Denise Chong's book The Concubine's Children has been reissued by Penguin.
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Patrick Lane's book There is a Season was the One Book One Vancouver choice for 2006 from the Vancouver Public Library.  NXNW and the VPL got together to celebrate  at Van Dusen Gardens.
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Ryan Knighton talks about his new book Cockeyed: A Memoir, which recounts his experiences of coming of age while losing his sight.
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Nicola Campbell's first book is Shi-shi-etko (Groundwood Books)  It's aimed at young readers and tells the story of a little girl on the eve of leaving for residential school
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The award winning John MacLachlan Gray's latest book is White Stone Day.  (Random House)
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Jack Hodgins won the Lieutenant Governor's Awards for Literary Excellence for 2006.
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A Tribute to Al Purdy in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club featuring Susan Musgrave, Patrick Lane, Howard White and Hal Wake of the VIWF.
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