 | Friday, March 12, 2021 | |  | | | | Actor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs successfully championed the novel Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead to Canada Reads 2021 victory!
Jonny Appleseed is a coming-of-age story about a two-spirit person named Jonny trying to put his life back together following the death of his stepfather. | | |  | | | | Canada Reads champions Devery Jacobs and Joshua Whitehead joined Tom Power on CBC Radio's q to talk about winning this year's battle of the books with Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed. | | |  | | | | Canada Reads 2021 was a week of milestones. As the show celebrated its 20th edition, actor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs championed the novel Jonny Appleseed by two-spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw Indigiqueer scholar Joshua Whitehead to victory, making it the first book by an Indigenous writer to win Canada Reads.
Relive the week's most powerful moments! | | |  | | | | Jonny Appleseed is a novel about a two-spirit Indigiqueer young man who leaves the reserve and becomes a cybersex worker in the big city to make ends meet. But he must reckon with his past when he returns home to attend his stepfather's funeral.
It won Canada Reads 2021. Read an excerpt from this moving novel now! | | |  | | | | The Reading Collection features The Book of Negroes, Canada Reads, The Breadwinner and more!
Stream them all for free on CBC Gem. | | |  | | | | Eden Robinson returns with the anticipated novel Return of the Trickster, the third and final outing in the bestselling Trickster book trilogy. In Return of the Trickster, Jared is coming to terms with his trickster powers — and with the havoc they create for him and everyone he loves. Robinson spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing Return of the Trickster on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Mrs. Len Beurton of Great Rollright, a tiny village in the Cotswolds, was not an ordinary housewife. She was Agent Sonya, a top Soviet operative, transmitting plans for the atomic bomb from an outhouse in her Oxfordshire garden. Her real name was Ursula Kuczynski.
Ursula's eventful life is the subject of Ben Macintyre's compelling new book, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. Macintyre spoke to Eleanor for the latest episode of Writers & Company. | | |  | | | | Dr. Bonnie Henry is an epidemiologist, or microbe hunter, and currently the provincial health officer for British Columbia. he co-wrote the new book Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe, which looks at the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Bonnie Henry and her co-author, her sister and publishing director of Knopf Canada Lynn Henry. spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe on The Next Chapter. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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