READ magazine - Volume 6 Issue 1

Nigella Lawson comes to Canada to promote her new TV show and book, Feast

Bestselling authors come to Canada: Alexander McCall Smith, Mary Lawson, Suzanne Somers, Robert Hughes, Terry Brooks

The Eragon movie trailer is now online! Based on the book by Christopher Paolini, the movie opens in theatres on Dec. 15.

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in this issue

VOLUME 6 ISSUE 1

regular features
Author Workspace: Warren Kinsella
CRAIG PYETTE

Book Browser The Bedside Book of Birds

Great Authors 101 Salman Rushdie
MAYLIN SCOTT

BookSteps:
  Scientific progress
  Ripped from the headlines
  Around the world in six books
  Knit one read two

excerpts
Children of the Day
SANDRA BIRDSELL

The Girls
LORI LANSENS

Mangoes & Curry Leaves
JEFFREY ALFORD AND NAOMI DUGUID

The Hungry Years
WILLIAM LEITH

Don't Get Too Comfortable
DAVID RAKOFF

Alice Munro
ROBERT THACKER

A Soldier's View
BLAKE HEATHCOTE

Bud Inc.
IAN MULGREW

11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada from The Book of Lists
KATHERINE BARBER

Your Mother and I from How We Are Hungry
DAVE EGGERS

articles
Salvaging Stories An interview with Michael Crummey
SCOTT SELLERS

Tête-à-tête An interview with Lori Lansens
SHARON KLEIN

The Myths Series & Me
MARGARET ATWOOD

gifts for readers
Canadian Fiction
Biography & Memoir
Beautiful to Browse
Books for Food Lovers
International Fiction
Mystery

kids read

Touching Base with Paul Kropp
An interview by ADRIENNE PHILLIPS

Why Should Young Readers Have All the Fun?
LAHRING TRIBE

Introducing Britain's New Children's Laureate
An interview with Jacqueline Wilson by ROBIN THOMAS

Gifts for Young Readers
Ages 0-5, 6-12, 12 & up

shopping lists
Adult Books Shopping List
Children's Books Shopping List
Jacqueline Wilson Book List

Photos credits above, from left: Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid; Tom Ingham; The Penelopiad book jacket