BOOKBITS

Author Interviews

2009

AUTHOR

TITLE

SUBJECT

CATEGORY





Edward Rutherfurd

New York

New York epic saga Michener history geography politics war

Fiction

Brian Payton

The Ice Passage

Canada North Inuit exploration Franklin NW Passage

Non-Fiction

Jonathan Lethem

Chronic City

New York City urban-life love sex politics

Fiction

Karen Connelly

Burmese Lessons

Memoir Burma politics love people

Non-Fiction

Adria Vasil

Ecoholic Home

Ecology renovations home environment consumer

Non-Fiction

Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same

Death love life cancer grief memoir

Non-Fiction

John English

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

Pierre Trudeau prime minister Canada Streisand sex

Non-Fiction

Tony Aspler

Tony Aspler's Cellar Book

Wine storage cellar care

Non-Fiction

Gordon Laird

The Price of a Bargain

WalMart economics globalization localization

Non-Fiction

Sarah Gabriel

Eating Pomegranates

Breast cancer ovarian family love recovery

Non-Fiction

Denise Chong

Egg on Mao

History politics China prosecution Tiananmen

Non-Fiction

Terry Walters

Clean Food

Food cookbook recipes health nutrition

Cookbook

William Deverell

Snow Job

Assassination mystery crime Beauchamp Ottawa BC

Fiction

Warren Berger

Glimmer

Design Bruce Mau function form

Non-Fiction

Terry O'Reilly Mike Tennant

The Age of Persuasion

Advertising culture Canada radio television internet

Non-Fiction

Stephen Brunt

Gretzky's Tears

Hockey Canada trading myth family Los Angeles Oilers

Non-Fiction

Denise Vivaldo`

The Entertaining Encyclopedia

Entertaining company cooking guests hospitality

Non-Fiction

Liz Jensen

The Rapture

Ecology religion apocalypse psychology thriller

Fiction

David Allen Sibley

The Sibley Guide to Trees

Trees shrubs bushes foliage birds guide

Non-Fiction

James Ellroy

Blood's a Rover

America 70's drugs sex violence crime

Fiction

Chris Hedges

Empire of Illusion

America collapse decadence porn Rome

Non-Fiction

David Adams Richards

God Is

Religion philosophy atheism Catholicism

Non-Fiction

Thomas Trofimuk

Waiting for Columbus

Columbus mental illness redemption quest

Fiction

Tracy Kidder

Strength in What Remains

Africa Burundi genocide survival America family

Non-Fiction

Linden MacIntyre

The Bishop's Man

Catholic church priest sexual abuse betrayal family

Fiction

Michael Crummey

Galore

Newfoundland history myth legend whales poverty

Fiction

Robert Remington Sherri Zickefoose

Runaway Devil

Murder family love Goth true crime

Non-Fiction

Howard Shrier

High Chicago

Murder real estate Chicago Toronto detective Jewish

Fiction

Gary M. Pomerantz

The Devil's Tickets

Bridge sexes murder 20's 30's game Contract

Non-Fiction

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Angel's Game

Spain Barcelona mystery Faustian Bargain

Fiction

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Thing Around Your Neck

Africa Nigeria America immigrant short stories

Fiction

Lauren Kirshner

Where We Have to Go

Family divorce teenager adulthood

Fiction

Tash Aw

Map of the Invisible World

Indonesia Year of Living Dangerously family betrayal

Fiction

Christopher Buckley

Losing Mum and Pup

William F. Buckley mother father death loss famous

Non-Fiction-Memoir

James Harkin

Lost in Cyburbia

Computers Internet feedback loop Second Life Facebook

Non-Fiction

John DeMont

Coal Black Heart

Nova Scotia coal mining labour Cape Breton

Non-Fiction

Jim Lynch

Border Songs

Canada United States border pot B.C. Bud terrorism autism

Fiction

Lisa See

Shanghai Girls

China immigration America Communism Scare

Fiction

Chris Knopf

Head Wounds

Detective mystery Hamptons murder death love

Fiction-Mystery

Tilda Shalof

Camp Nurse

Summer camp teenagers medicine nurse

Non-Fiction

George Friedman

The Next 100 Years

STRATFOR strategic forecast geo-politics war conflict

Non-Fiction

Aatish Taseer

Stranger to History

Pakistan India partition son father struggle Islam Hindu

Non-Fiction

Wayson Choy

Not Yet

Heart attack death life family connections love

Non-Fiction-Memoir

David Grann

The Lost City of Z

Amazon exploration lost civilization death Fawcett

Non-Fiction

Dragan Todorovic

The Diary of Interrupted Days

Serbia NATO Belgrade Yugoslavia war 1999 death loss crimes

Non-Fiction

Ezra Levant

Shakedown:

Freedom speech democracy Human Right tribunal

Non-Fiction

Jessica Grant

Come, Thou Tortoise

Family loss death immortality coping

Fiction

Elizabeth Kelly

Apologize, Apologize

Famly New England death life loss bravery cowardice

Fiction

Xinran

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

China culture history biography family women life

Non-Fiction

Robert J. Sawyer

Wake

Web internet consciousness Keller blindness computers intelligence

Fiction

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Carbon Shift

Ecology economics Climate change politics Oil Peak hydrocarbons carbon

Non-Fiction

Zoe Heller

The Believers

Faith loss love death religion politics left-wing Orthodox Judiasm

Fiction

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

medicine Ethiopia India surgery family love loss death meaning twins fiction novel

Fiction

Meg Federico

Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother

Aging parents family relationships humor life death

Non-Fiction

Giles Blunt

Breaking Lorca

Torture South America United States

Fiction

Chris Cleave

Little Bee

Nigeria Britain refugees suicide murder oil

Fiction

Lyman MacInnis

How to Succeed in Anything by Really Trying

Business, success, life, opportunity, work

Non-Fiction

Greg Malone

You Better Watch Out

Family, Newfoundland, CODCO, homosexual, life

Non-Fiction-Memoir

Andrew Westoll

The Riverbones

Ecology, Suriname, politics, relationships, violence, colonialization

Non-Fiction

Bryan Prince

A Shadow Over the Household

History, slavery, Underground Railway, Canada, Blacks

Non-Fiction

Lee Gowan

Confession

Family, murder, love, lust, fate

Fiction

Priscila Uppal

To Whom It May Concern

Family, children, accident, India, trust

Fiction

Lisa Gabriele

The Almost Archer Sisters

Family, relationships, sisters, trust, betrayal, home

Fiction

José Latour

Crime of Fashion

Kidnapping, crime, fashion industry, humour

Mystery