Amy Spurway is a Canadian writer from Cape Breton, which is also the setting for her debut novel, Crow.

When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three unpredictable, and inoperable, brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother’s scruffy trailer in the backwoods. On Cape Breton, Stacy is known as Crow, and everybody believes that her family is cursed.

With the ticking time-bombs in her brain sending her increasingly vivid hallucinations, Crow obstinately sets out to gather the strands of her life together and weave them into some kind of coherent story about who she is and where she came from, before it’s too late.

By turns hilariously irreverent and deeply moving, Crow unapologetically asks challenging questions in a voice that revels in its regionality.

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In 1898 Joshua Slocum completed the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. His account of the three-year, 46,000-mile adventure, Sailing Alone Around the World, became an instant classic that has remained in print ever since. A decade later, he set out for the Amazon and was lost at sea.

In Captain Solitude: One Surfer's Search for the World's Greatest Sailor, his fellow Nova Scotian, RC Shaw, sets out on a solo journey of his own:

to cycle and surf his way through Bluenose country, to Slocum’s childhood home of Brier Island.

Wild camping, avoiding bears, and with his trusty surfboard strapped to his cargo bike, he chases waves, encounters the ghosts of maritime history, and contemplates the spirit of adventure that drives us to explore beyond the ordinary.

Join Ryan and Red as they discuss high stakes fun, and the enduring power of literature to inspire people to explore their boundaries.

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With global sales figures of over six and a half million books, Mark Billingham is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, crime writers in the business.

His Tom Thorne series has kept readers gripped for quarter of a century, with a combination of gritty realism, psychological depth, and consummate plotting.

The 18th book in the series, What the Night Brings, sees DI Thorne investigating a cop-killer who appears to be feeding off a loss of faith in London’s Metropolitan Police – the very force Thorne has devoted his life to serve.

And the cherry on the cake for those of us reading the audiobook is that What the Night Brings is narrated by Mark Billingham himself.

Join Mark and Red as they discuss the importance of character, humour and empathy in detective fiction, and Mark’s role as rhythm guitarist in The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers.

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