Poetry by Sue Sinclair, and new novels from acclaimed authors Stéphane Audeguy, Amanda Boyden, Linda Grant and Simon Montefiore. Anne Hines hosts.
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Stéphane Audeguy is the author of the prize-winning novel The Theory of Clouds. He lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and the arts. He presents The Only Son, translated from the French by John Cullen. Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions his older brother François only two times in his classic Confession. In The Only Son, Audeguy resurrects Rousseau’s forgotten brother in a picaresque tale that brings to life the world of 18th century Paris.
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Amanda Boyden is the author of the acclaimed novel Pretty Little Dirty. She received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she currently teaches English. Boyden presents Babylon Rolling, the story of five families living along an Uptown block in New Orleans the year before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
Winner of The Orange Prize and the David Higham Award, Linda Grant is the author of two works of non-fiction and three novels, The Cast Iron Shore, When I Lived in Modern Times, and now The Clothes on Their Backs. Set in modern-day London, The Clothes on Their Backs is the coming-of-age story of Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents, and of 1970s Britain, insecure about its evolving racial mix.
Anne Hines is the author of two collections of nonfiction and three novels. She is former humour columnist for Canadian Living and currently writes a weekly humour column for Metro newspaper.
Simon Montefiore spent much of the 90s travelling through the former Soviet Empire, and wrote widely on Russia for the The Sunday Times, New York Times and Spectator. He is the author of the international bestseller Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, and the Costa Award-winning biography Young Stalin. Montefiore presents his novel Sashenka, in which a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and discovers the heartbreaking story of a woman forced to make an unbearable choice.
Sue Sinclair has written three previous books of poetry, Secrets of Weather & Hope, Mortal Arguments, and The Drunken Lovely Bird. Her work has been nominated for awards including the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Awards and the Atlantic Book Prize for Poetry. Secrets of Weather & Hope was a Globe and Mail 100 title. She reads from Breaker, her fourth poetry collection.
