Book Club Videos

CBC Book Club host Hannah Sung says goodbye before she heads off to travel Korea and Thailand during the winter months, and introduces the interim host, Julie Wilson.

Linwood Barclay talks about his new novel, No Time for Goodbye, making the transition from humour columnist to crime fiction author, and how having his book chosen by the UK's Richard and Judy Bookclub helped to launch his career.

David Sax is the author of Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen. As David puts it, the smoked meat sandwich is a food that is as Canadian as it gets. Back bacon wasn't invented here, neither were donuts, but smoked meat sandwiches as we know them, well they were. sandwich, "that was basically invented there." In Toronto, David met the Book Club at Caplansky's, where he gave us his top rules in making the perfect deli sandwich.

CBC Book Club host Hannah Sung samples the miracle berry in Florida, after being inspired by Adam Leith Gollner's book: The Fruit Hunters.

Jamie Mason, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Gail Konop Baker, author of Cancer Is a Bitch: (Or I'd Rather Be Having Be Having a Midlife Crisis) published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. Gail Konop Baker is an award-winning writer and essayist. A former columnist at Literary Mama, is a regular contributor to thedebutanteball.com. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her family. Visit her Web site at www.gailkonopbaker.com.Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.Visit KD Booksellers for affordable quality fiction and non-fiction books online

Filed under: News, Exclusive, Book Club, Movies, Television Nick Cave is no stranger to the big screen. Along with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis, he's scored 'The Assassination of Jesse James' and 'The Road,' penned the scripts to 'The Proposition' and a forthcoming feature entitled 'The Death of a Ladies Man' and even dabbled as an actor, popping up in Wim Wenders' 1987 film 'Wings of Desire' as well as ' Jesse James.' But when we spoke to him about his new novel, we were certain that he had aspirations to translate the adventures of his main character 'Bunny Munro' into a film. He said that's not so -- instead, Cave is shooting for the small screen. "I want to do a TV series or at least like a three-part TV series," Cave tells Spinner. "You can go deeper with TV in a way, within actually creating a character. You have more time to live with the character."

Hope's book club, turns into a wild girls' night out when Faith joins.