Author Interviews & media
Radio and other media interviews with our talented contributors.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
Mainstreet P.E.I.’s Sheryl MacKay ventured out to the woods for a foraging session with Kate MacQuarrie, a botanist who recently authored a cookbook called Wild Foods of Prince Edward Island. They chatted about the book’s recipes and the inspiration behind them ahead of its official launch this week.
Mainstreet PEI with Steve Bruce
Island author Linda Stewart has really fond memories of growing up in rural P.E.I. in the 1960s – so much so, she’s written her second novel in a series set in that time period in the small community where she was raised. We speak with Linda ahead of the sequel’s launch this week.
Mainstreet PEI with Steve Bruce
Island author Linda Stewart has really fond memories of growing up in rural P.E.I. in the 1960s – so much so, she’s written her second novel in a series set in that time period in the small community where she was raised. We speak with Linda ahead of the sequel’s launch this week.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
Stella Shepard wanted to explore a hidden history of PEI in her latest novel The Baby Train, set around the foster care system on PEI and dealing with the fate of many unwed mothers. Stella joins us to share the story and the personal inspiration behind it.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
Name Your Game is the title of the debut novel from Marlene Campbell, a story of family and community, farming and hockey set in rural PEI. Marlene joins us in studio to talk about the book.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
A new book chronicles the stellar hockey career of Gerard ‘Turk’ Gallant on the ice and behind the bench, playing more than 600 games in the NHL, coaching teams to the Stanley Cup final and winning the award for NHL’s top coach. Turk Gallant joins us in the studio to talk about the past and to look to the future along with the book’s author Fred MacDonald.
The Current with Matt Galloway
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
A Few White Lies is the new novel from Lorne Elliott telling the story of a father-daughter cross-country road trip.
Lorne joins us to talk about the book, balancing his stage and page projects and a potential return of his much-loved comedy show Madly Off in All Directions as a fundraising theatre production.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
For three decades Acorn Press has brought Island stories and poems to the page. The PEI publisher is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a party and a new gallery show of artwork from those printed titles. We hear more about that and look back at Acorn taking root.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
“There’s a big book launch this weekend with three new works from Acorn Press, we hear from one of the featured authors – writer and film maker Susan Rodgers and her new novel The Floating Days.”
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
It’s a story that takes place through multiple generations, from the time of the Acadian expulsion to 1864 on Prince Edward Island to the present day. A Sea of Spectres is the debut novel from former military officer, now Brock University professor Nancy Taber.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie
“Walk With Me – Charlottetown Then and Now. 60 years after his father took photos around Charlottetown, D. Scott MacDonald walked in those same footsteps to look at the changes in the city decades later. We hear about Scott’s updated book project from Acorn Press.”