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16 books you heard about on CBC Radio recently

Check out some of the Canadian and international reads discussed on national CBC Radio programs between May 6-20. ....

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37 interesting facts about historical fiction queen Hilary Mantel

The celebrated British novelist died on Sept. 22, 2022 at the age of 70. Mantel was best known for the popular Wolf Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell. ....

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John le Carré, master spy writer, dead at 89

A Murder of QualityÂ in 1962. Then in 1963 came
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,Â a tale of an agent forced to carry out one last, risky operation in divided Berlin. It raised one of the author s recurring themes â the blurring of moral lines that is part and parcel of espionage, and the difficulty of distinguishing good guys from bad.
Le CarrÃ©Â said it was written at one of the darkest points of the Cold War, just after the building of the Berlin Wall, at a time when he and his colleagues feared nuclear war might be imminent.
So I wrote a book in great heat which said a plague on both your houses, le CarrÃ©Â told the BBC in 2000. ....

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