An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time

In its first time in audio, Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture, an exploration both of land and mind.

From the accession of the thrillingly unappealing James VI & I to his hapless heir, Charles I, to the ruthless Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ackroyd tells the story of the turbulent seventeenth century, in which England suffered through...

Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique...

Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by author and historian John Hirst. Together they form a multi-faceted portrait of Australia as a nation, with it's own political culture, its own character and style, and...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer...

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco...

BLOOD and SAND is the story of a man who was left for dead but - and against all odds - survived. And not only did Frank Gardner survive but, drawing on his journalistic calling, he has given us an extraordinary, terrifying account of...

Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be socially acceptable to abandon your children? Moving from ancient Rome to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America...