This week Between the Covers takes us to Canada’s centre with Lawrence Hill’s debut novel Some Great Thing (Turnstone). Mahatma Grafton’s father decided his son would do “some great thing” so gave him a name befitting a hero. But the main character in this story isn’t exactly inspired— at least not at first. As the book begins Mahatma returns home to Winnipeg after university and gets a job chasing crime stories for a local paper.
Each episode of Between the Covers is approximately 15 minutes. The current instalments are below. If you wish to catch up with previous episodes, click here.
Episode one: Mahatma has no idea how to live up to his father's ambitions.
Episode two: Mahatma gets a taste of down-and-dirty reporting.
Episode three: Mahatma gets his first big story.
If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.
And if you’re interested in readings of other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Brad Smith’s racetrack thriller All Hat (Penguin) and Richard Scrimger’s poignant novel Still Life With Children (HarperCollins).
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