An Exciting Spring

We have wonderful books and events to look forward to in spring 2012. In February, the long -awaited new volume by Modris Eksteins will be published in Canada with the US edition following in April. Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, will change the way you think about events shaping the murderous 20th Century. His 1989 classic, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age will be reissued at the same time. For more information, click here. 

Canada Reads: Prisoner of Tehran

Also in February, Canada Reads takes to the airwaves to recommend a single non-fiction book that the nation should read. It is a literary survivor show with high drama and heated debate. Five celebrities have chosen their favourite book and then try to knock the others out of the running. Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat is one of the finalists and her champion is Arlene Dickinson of Dragon’s Den fame. Don’t miss it Feb. 6 to 9 on CBC radio and cbc.ca

The Play: Prisoner of Tehran

Marina Nemat, usually calm and unflappable, may have to struggle to remain serene. There is the drama of the Canada Reads competition. But in April, a play based on her searing memoir debuts in Toronto from April 11 to April 28. Don’t miss it. Here is the website link for tickets on sale now.

Titanic Anniversary

The publication in Feb/March 2012 of Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster is timed for the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 12, 2012. 

Millions of books have been sold on aspects the ship and the catastrophe, but Hugh Brewster, who as a publishing executive created many of them, has now written the book he wanted to read--the dramatic story of beautiful women and establishment men who partied together and made fateful decisions as the grand ship was on its collision course with an iceberg.