Ottawa
Chatting in Old Quebec… about Murder!
Tom Henighan spent a whirlwind 48 hours in Quebec City last week. Culminating with a reading event at La Maison Anglaise bookstore, Tom spent the day chatting with various Quebec City media outlets, and even stopped by CBC Radio Quebec City for an interview.
Tom chatted about his first adult mystery novel, Nightshade, the debut of [...]
Q&A with Tom Henighan, author of Nightshade
Tell us about your forthcoming novel.
My first two attempts at fiction were mystery novels, one of them based on a real murder I investigated in the British colony of Aden (now Yemen), the other set in the north of England, where I lived and studied for several years. Later, as a university professor, I taught [...]
Q&A with Ray Argyle, author of The Boy in the Picture
Tell us about your book.
The Boy in the Picture, my third book, is the one with which I have the strongest personal connection. It tells the story of young Edward Mallandaine, the boy in the iconic photo of the driving of the Last Spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway. That momentous occasion back in 1885 [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews with Peter Herrndorf
Peter Herrndorf – today’s President and CEO of the National Arts Centre (title changed from Director General used in Southam’s day) comments on the importance of good contacts in government to get things done at federal cultural agencies and the connections he developed, especially with former Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, the [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews on the National Arts Centre
Yesterday, in celebration of the launch of Art and Politics, we brought you an interview with G. Hamilton Southam.
Today we’ll continue this series with conversations with Marcel Masse, Marti Maraden, and Robert Lepage.
On political patronage – The Hon. Marcel Masse was the minister responsible for culture on the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. [...]
Art and Politics: Interviews with G. Hamilton Southam
We’re very excited that today is the release of a Dundurn book on the history of the National Arts Centre, Art and Politics.
The author, Sarah Jennings, is a political/cultural journalist who served for nearly a decade as the CBC’s national arts reporter from Ottawa. She’s provided us with some of the MP3’s of her interviews [...]
A Cabin by the Lake
I can think of nothing better than to enjoy the summer by the side of a remote lake, as Gerard Kenney is fortunate to do. Here he tells about his recent book, Lake of the Old Uncles, and his life-long trip to that cabin.
Tell us about your book.
My book is about a one-kilometre trip that [...]
