• Simon Dardick on The Crime on Côte des Neiges.


• George Szanto and Sandy Frances Duncan on Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island.


• Al Rae on reading Joyce for therapy.


• Catherine Gildiner on Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Kobo Town, "Higher Than Mercy", Independence
TNC Piano Orchestra, "Marseillaise-ish", The Next Chapter Soundtrack
Christine Bougie & Dafydd Hughes, "They Only Have to Look Like Humans", This is Awesome
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

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• Michael McKinley on The Penalty Killing.


• Shauna Singh Baldwin takes the French Questionnaire.


• Marian Botsford Fraser wins a CBC Lit Award for creative non-fiction.


• Michael Langton wins for poetry, with us unclean.


• Donald Ward wins for fiction, with "Badger".

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
The Undesirables, "Up Above the Clouds", Travelling Show
TNC Piano Orchestra, "Marseillaise-ish", The Next Chapter Soundtrack
James Hill, "One Small Suite for Ukelele", Flying Leap
Sergei Istomin, "Suite 2: Gigue, by J.S. Bach", Six Suites a Violincello
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

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• Will Ferguson on Beyond Belfast.


• Richie Mehta, film director, has been reading The Art of War.


• Maureen Jennings on her Murdoch Mysteries.


• Anthony Bidulka on his Russell Quant mystery, Aloha Candy-Hearts.


• Gail Bowen takes the French Questionnaire.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Blue Sunday", Running for the Drum

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• Rabindranath Maharaj on The Amazing Absorbing Boy.


• Sharon McCartney on "Decaf" from her book For and Against.


• Emily White on Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude.


• Michael van Rooy on Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Sarah Harmer, "Black Coffee", Songs for Clem

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• From CBC St. John's, Christopher Pratt talks about his diaries, published as Ordinary Things.


• Bill Deverell on Snowjob, a savagely funny political mystery set in Ottawa.


• Damhnait Doyle's been reading The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper.


• The Republic of Doyle's Allan Hawco is reading A Man Called Intrepid, the story of William Stephenson.


• Antanas Sileika reviews The Spice Necklace: A Food-lovers Caribbean Adventure, by Anne Vanderhoof.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Damhnait Doyle, "More Than This", Lights Down Low
Charles Spearin, "Mrs. Morris", The Happiness Project

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