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  • Kylie Fitzpatrick

    Kylie Fitzpatrick
    2024/09/09
    Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Szell for the latest episode of AMI-audio's My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. Since the publication of her debut, The Secret of the Ninth Stone, Kylie Fitzpatrick has established a reputation as a historical novelist that has won her fans around the globe. Her latest novel, Under the Black Mountain, is written under the pen name KT Fitzpatrick and blends history with mystery, to transport the reader back to 1919 and far northern Queensland, Australia. It's a tale that reveals how the shockwaves of the First World War radiated to affect even that remote corner of the world. Join Kylie and Red as they discuss the shell shock, narcotics and strange goings-on in the outback.
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    56 分
  • Naben Ruthnum

    Naben Ruthnum
    2024/08/19

    Naben Ruthnum is an award-winning author whose work encompasses memoir, food writing, screenplays and thrillers. His latest book takes a pinch of all those ingredients, ventures into the realm of Young Adult fiction, and adds a dash of classic 1990s supernatural horror.

    The result is The Grimmer, which is a must-read for fans of Stranger Things and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but which is also subtly seasoned with questions around identity and addiction.

    So, prepare to be hooked, and irresistibly reeled back into the realm of 1996.
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    56 分
  • Alexis Soloski

    Alexis Soloski
    2024/08/05

    There’s an old adage among authors that you should write what you know. And as a prize-winning New York Times theatre critic, Alexis Soloski has an intimate knowledge of the theatre scene both on and off-Broadway.

    Her debut novel, Here in The Dark, follows an acid-tongued theatre critic as she investigates a stranger’s disappearance.

    By turns caustically funny and brutally dark, the book draws the reader deep into a world where the boundaries between theatre and reality become increasingly blurred and tenuous.

    Join Alexis and Red as they discuss how life and art reflect each other, and the star performance given by Broadway actress Laura Benanti as the narrator of the audiobook.

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    55 分
  • Erum Shazia Hasan

    Erum Shazia Hasan
    2024/07/23

    For this episode, Red is joined by Canadian author Erum Shazia Hasan, whose compelling debut novel, "We Meant Well," explores the complex moral and emotional landscape of international aid work.

    Set in an unnamed post-colonial failed state, the book grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide.

    With her background as a Sustainable Development Consultant for various UN agencies, it’s a world that Erum is well qualified to discuss. Join Red and Erum as they explore the contradictions and consequences of Western intervention in the developing world.

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    56 分
  • Tyler LeBlanc

    Tyler LeBlanc
    2024/07/08
    PAGING ALL BOOK LOVERS! Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. Tyler LeBlanc was working as a bicycle tour guide when a chance encounter led him to look into the history of his name. Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, he’d been unaware of his Acadian roots. But the discovery that he could trace his family all the way back to the Acadian Expulsions parked a curiosity that has transformed the way he views identity, family and the place he calls home. Painstakingly researched, his book, Acadian Driftwood, pieces together the lives of his ancestors after they were shattered by their enforced removal from their homeland by the British in 1755. Join Tyler and Red as they explore the history behind and legacy of Le Grand Dérangement.
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    56 分
  • Rebecca Thorne

    Rebecca Thorne
    2024/06/17
    Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio's My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. A week-long retreat on a beautiful country estate with no phones and no wi-fi might sound like the perfect getaway, but not in Rebecca Thorne's book. The Grief House is a spine-chilling mystery that blends psychological suspense with supernatural terror. Cut off from the outside world, a small group of guests and the couple who run the retreat find themselves battling not only their own demons but rising flood waters and a sense of menace that threatens to engulf them. As the reader is led deeper into the recesses of each character's mind, we too discover that "There is nothing like the cold that freezes from within." Join Rebecca and Red as they discuss the psychology of fear and the realm of spiritualism in the lives and literature of those who dare to explore them. My Life in Books airs Mondays at 1 p.m. Eastern on AMI-audio, or download the podcast from your favourite podcast provider.
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    56 分
  • Femi Kayode

    Femi Kayode
    2024/05/20
    Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. Femi Kayode’s debut novel, Lightseekers, introduced the world to Philip Taiwo, a U.S.-trained forensic psychologist investigating crime and corruption in Nigeria. It became an international bestseller and its sequel has been eagerly anticipated. Gaslight certainly doesn’t disappoint. Like Lightseekers, it’s a tense thriller inspired by real events, this time revolving around a Nigerian megachurch with a global reach. By turns hard-hitting and emotionally sensitive, the book not only probes the underbelly of Nigerian society but also explores wider questions of faith and identity. Join Femi and Red as they discuss the corruption of power and the portrayal of diversity in fiction.
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    56 分
  • John Vaillant

    John Vaillant
    2024/05/06
    Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. It was the most costly and destructive disaster in Canada’s history. The 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire reduced Alberta’s fourth-largest city to ash, displaced 90,000 people and took 15 months to put out. Miraculously the death toll was extremely low, but as John Vaillant argues in his internationally best-selling book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, the inferno that consumed Fort McMurray is a harbinger of our near future. Combining a flair for storytelling that reads like the screenplay of a disaster movie, and a searing examination of mankind’s exploitation of fire and the fossil fuels that feed it, John explains how we have supercharged our atmosphere and now live in a world that is more explosively flammable than at any time in human history. Join Red and John as they discuss the history of fire, the role of the fossil fuel industry in global warming, and some of the extraordinary stories of those caught up in the Fort McMurray fire.
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    56 分