The Bookshop Podcast Stephanie Minett, The Bookshelf, Guelph, Canada, and Caitlin Hicks, Author, Playwright, Actress
Today, I’m in Canada, starting in Guelph, Ontario, and moving across to the Sunshine Coast, British Colombia.
In the city of Guelph, Ontario is a one-of-a-kind bookstore called The Bookshelf: A bookstore that shows movies. A cinema that serves dinner. A resto-bar that launches books. This is a family-run business, started in 1973 by Barb and Doug Minett, after visiting Britain and relishing all the British bookstores. I caught up with Stephanie Minett to find out more about this special place.
Caitlin Hicks is an author, international playwright, and acclaimed performer in British Columbia. Her debut novel A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE published in the US, won numerous awards: iBooks Best New Fiction, Bronze Book of the Year in Literary Fiction (Indiefab Award), Best Inspirational Fiction (Next Generation Indie Awards), Literary Fiction (Somerset Awards) Silver Medal: Inspirational Fiction (Reader’s Favorite) and JDC Top Must Read Books of 2015.
Enjoy!
Here are the links for this episode:
You And I Eat the Same, René Redzepi
A Theory of Expanded Love, Caitlin Hicks
Some Kind of Woman, Stories of Us
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy