Talkingbooksandstuff's podcast

Host Dennis Rimmer of Talking Books and Stuff interviews Saskatchewan author Candis Kirkpatrick about her novel Crows and Cheesecake, which follows Natty, an older woman who leaves a seniors' home to live life on her own terms. Kirkpatrick discusses growing up in Mossbank, her career with Tourism Moose Jaw, her award-winning play, and how a writing contest and a Saskatchewan Writers Guild retreat...

Dennis speaks with Norma Dunning, Author of Naoyak: A Novel.  Funny, biting, tender, fantastical and spiritually charged, Naoyak is a blend of social satire and a loving ode to Inuit women and mothers.

Cutting Edge: An examination of ice hockey through a queer lens-  Dennis discusses this book with auth Daniel Gawthrop.

In this tender, humorous and moving tribute, former journalist and broadcaster Mike McCardell brings his sharp eye and sense of compassion to the story of his fifty-eight-year marriage to his late wife, in an unforgettable expression of love, loss and the solace of memory.

Dennis talks "The Angels' Share" with Jane Bow, where 39 year-old Dion leaves her government job to help save her family's winery in Crete from a Russian oligarch, only to be drawn into a high-stakes heist of a two-million-dollar bottle of cognac.

Dennis talks to Will Ferguson, a Calgary based award winning travel writer and novelist about his book "Meanwhile,  Back in Nokomis."

Dennis interviews The Honourable Whit Fraser, former vice regal consort of Canada, on the book "From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall."

Dennis talks with NHL Hall of Famer and referee aobut his book, "Ice Level"

Dennis talks about The Road to Bard, about Shakespeare and Bard on the Beach and all sorts of other things. 

We meet again with Sam Wiebe to discuss his gripping sixth Wakeland novel. Guns Across the River delivers a taut, atmospheric mystery that dives into corruption, crime and family secrets deeply rooted in Vancouver's underworld.

  Dennis talks about Cheapskate in Lotus Land by Steve Burgess...How to live well on a small budget. 

Since 2003, Mo has worked as writer, teacher and editor. In her early career Mo taught Business Communications and English as an Additional Language. Her years spent working with international students, travelling and exploring the world inspired her to write, and in 2015 she received her Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her own memoir, Unpacked: f...

In her second novel Rufous and Calliope (Douglas & McIntyre), a cartographer with a novel form of dementia attempts to cross a perilous mountain pass, seeking the treehouse hideaway where he spent one memorable childhood summer on the run with his three older siblings and his twin sister, Calliope. Released fall 2025, and recently shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction prize. The French edition...

When Betty Baxter was hired to coach the Canadian women's volleyball team in 1980, she was met with a media frenzy as the first woman in the position. Then her career was cut short—Baxter was fired in January 1982 and tossed from volleyball at age twenty-nine because of rumours about her sexual orientation. This personal memoir chronicles Baxter's journey from a small-town prairie girl discovering...

Shirley is only five years old when she is taken away by the Indian agent to live at a residential school. She loves learning, but she is not there by choice. From the first day walking up the long, lonely stone steps of the school building, life is hard and full of rules. Separated from her brothers and sisters, she is truly on her own.  Shirley is very brave, but there is no one she loves to hol...

In this compelling novel, acclaimed author Robert Hough recreates the political violence and revolutionary idealism that flowed through New York City during the Gilded Age of the 1890s. At its centre are real-life revolutionists Emma Goldman and Alexander "Sasha" Berkman, whose passionate love affair fuels their commitment to creating a better world.

Crystal Shawanda is an Ojibwe Potawatomi blues and country music artist from Canada. CMT documented her rise to fame in the six-part series Crystal: Living the Dream, which was broadcast in February 2008.

The first novel from award-winning poet Ben Ladouceur, I Remember Lights depicts a time when the world promised everything to everyone, however irresponsibly. In summer 1967, love is all you need…but some forms of love are criminal. As the spectacular Expo 67 celebrations take shape, a young man new to Montreal learns about gay life from cruising partners, one-night stands, live-in lovers, and fri...

His book House Built of Rain (2003) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the 2004 ReLit Award.  

Creating dark, pop‑inspired illustrations and write poetry that leans into the bittersweet and the bizarre. Also running Lobotomy Press, where she publishes poetry, art, and chapter books. 

Food, with Felicia Fox

Author of Star-Crossed Alliance and A Valley Girl Dilemma

Since the 1970s, the field of primatology has been characterized by a predominance of women. Against the backdrop of McGoogan's journey as a field scientist studying wild primates in Belize and Madagascar, Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Primates explores the stories of the many women who came before her.

Drawing on author John Cullen's years of experience as both a stand-up comic and an elite curler, Curling Rocks! offers a lighthearted, expertly detailed look at a unique sport and its history, from the most absurd curling fashions to the most sublime matches ever played.

Chester L. Richards: Aerospace Engineer (Ret.), Inventor, Adventurer, Author, Storyteller, Romantic.