Retreat by Random House

If I wrote a book and that book later got adapted into a movie, you’d better believe I’d be hanging around the set as much as possible and trying to meet the actors. And, if one were offered, I wouldn’t say no to making a cameo appearance. These nine author cameos show that I’d be [...]

Read the full story

We know there are lots of John Irving fans out there, but did you know many of his books have been adapted into films? Sometimes it’s an easy giveaway when the book and film share the same name, but that isn’t always the case. Some of John Irving’s books have been adapted with completely different [...]

Read the full story

We love looking at book covers. And it’s really interesting to see how different countries approach the cover design for the same books. We’ve put our Canadian covers beside covers from the US or UK in the slideshow below. Let us know which ones are your favourites.

Read the full story

Sometimes there exists a book that upon reading it, you cannot help but want to discuss it. These are the books that make fantastic book club picks and the ones that you can’t help but tell everyone how much you loved. John Irving’s In One Person is this type of book. It’s intriguing and ‘meaty’ [...]

Read the full story

In One Person by John Irving Published: May 08, 2012 by Knopf Canada ISBN: 9780307361783 Price: $34.95 Chapters-Indigo Amazon   1. “Goodness me, what makes a man?” asks Miss Frost. What makes a man, or a woman, in In One Person? Discuss, with reference to as many characters as possible. 2. What are some of [...]

Read the full story

Our Young Adult Random Reader Challenge has come to an end and we’ve gladly hidden our bad school photos once again. Now it’s time to reveal what we have in store for you next:   Our third installment of Random Reader Challenge celebrates the novelist John Irving. With an outstanding thirteen award-winning novels under his [...]

Read the full story

I’ll admit it: I’m a huge John Irving fan (you might have previously read my “Staff Fave” for A Son of the Circus). And I was thrilled to be one of the first internal readers of his newest novel, In One Person, when it was first submitted to Knopf Canada. And let me tell you, [...]

Read the full story

A Son of the Circus, John Irving’s eighth novel, is often overlooked in favor of his more famous books, like The World According to Garp or A Prayer for Owen Meany. But there isn’t another novel like it. For one thing, while most of his novels are set in New England (11 out of 13 [...]

Read the full story