Talkingbooksandstuff's podcast

Kelly Anne Manuel is the good kind of contagious. She is an eternal optimist who strives to see the good in all her days and throughout all aspects of her life journey. She has a unique voice that Children respond to because it is characterized by her own actively vibrant Inner Child.

After becoming a mom she wanted to feed her children well, as all mothers do. She began learning about the impact of processed food and started cooking differently. 

Dennis and Rob dive in to his new book, Brave Face - about hockey's earliest maskless warriors.

Dennis meets again with Joel to talk his new book Drums and Demons - The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

Going Steady was created by Jacinta and Taylor – mother-daughter divorce lawyers, who work together! They were sick of breaking people up and thought that they must have learned something from their years of working with families in conflict that could help people stay together.

Samantha is an author, actor and award-winning filmmaker living in Toronto, Canada.  She is a certified Dr. Shefali Conscious Parenting Coach and received her MFA in film production from The University of Southern California.  When not creating, Samantha can be found spending time with her husband, son and mini Poodle.    In her book Help Me Be Me, she wants parents to be able to let go of their f...

Dennis interviews Hana Shafi about her latest book, People You Know, Places You've Been, a collection of peoms and illustrations. 

Dustin Galer is an award-winning writer, biographer, and historian. ​ He is known for his exceptional contributions to the world of disability history and labour. He earned his doctorate in History from the University of Toronto and has solidified his reputation as a prominent figure in the field.  Dennis and he discuss his book, Beryl.

Lori writes fiction about love, loss, longing, music, history, and the lives of women. Her first novel was loosely based on the formative experience in her teen years of playing in Calgary band The Virgins, in the context of the male-dominated world of 1980's punk music. She is fascinated by outsiders, misfits, the strange, and the forgotten.

Rona Maynard had lost her spark. Then she agreed to let a dog into her life—and found a whole new way to meet the world.

Meg Braem's plays have won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Literary Awards and the Alberta Playwriting Competition, and Blood: A Scientific Romance was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. Her work has been presented at the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Lunchbox Theatre, the Belfry Theatre, Sage Theatre, Sparrow & Finch Theatre, Theatre Transit,...

Bruce Gerald Belland was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 22nd, 1936, the second son of Rev. Stanley G. Belland, a Fundamentalist minister and his wife Hertha, a Gospel radio singer. It was in 1954 that Bruce convinced Glen Larson, a friend since grammar school, to co-found a vocal group for that year's student talent show. Bruce, Glen and two pals from the school choir, stole the show with th...

Nick Bantock is a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, known for his series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy.  In 1993, he won the Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award for Sabine's Notebook. In 2006, he adapted the Griffin and Sabine series into a play, also called "Griffin and Sabine", which premiered in Vancouver at the Granville Island Stage and ran from 5 Oct...

Rupert Adams specializes in growing medicinal herbs and runs his own medicinal herb and tincture business, Kairos Botanicals. Adams worked for three years as a coordinator and advisor to the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security. He currently resides and grows at Abundance Community Farm in Agassiz, BC.

Stephen has written ten books on the history of exploration, science, and ideas--including books on the medical mystery of scurvy, the Treaty or Tordesillas, the lives of Captain George Vancouver and of Roald Amundsen and a doomed Russian sea voyage. His books have been published in multiple English-speaking territories, translated into nine languages and shortlisted for many awards. Dennis interv...

Dennis meets with Tara Sidhoo Fraser about her book When My Ghost Sings, a brave tale of of disability and queerness.

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada's best-known writers of literary non-fiction. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she began her writing career in England as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. After coming to Canada in 1979, she worked as a political commentator, book reviewer and magazine columnist before she turned to biography...

Steve Ivings is a comedian, impressionist, actor, MC, radio announcer, public speaker, recording artist, comedy writer, playwright, author, lyricist, director and producer. Individually or all at the same time.

Dennis meets with Ron and Prudence to discuss life at the Savoy

Dennis talks with Jenny Kay Dupuis about her book Heart Berry Bling

Dennis meet with Ken again to discuss "Blood on the Coal", the riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it.

Dennis speaks to reporter Mike Boone.

Vancouver writer and arts policy consultant, and one of Canada's leading cultural commentators. Born and educated in England, he spent several years as a journalist in London before emigrating to Canada in 1967. He was dance, music and drama critic for The Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio for over 30 years, and is the author of a number of books on the arts in Canada, among them Dance Canada: An Illust...

Kevin Miller returns to talk about Book 7 of the Milligan Creek Series

Catherine Graham started to write poetry as a way to explore and make sense of the death of her parents, whom she lost while she was an undergraduate student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. But what began as an outlet for her grief transformed into a passion of its own.