Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books.

Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write.

Caroline Graham has been dubbed, "Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie," and, like Poirot or Miss Marple, she has found a truly global audience through the TV adaptation of her novels. The first five episodes of Midsomer Murders were adapted from Caroline’s Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, and are laced with that same compelling blend of rural English whimsy and macabre malevolence.

However, the constraints of adapting a novel into a screenplay did deprive us of Caroline’s flair for writing psychological pen portraits of her characters, and some of the darker aspects of her plots.

But now, audiobook fans can enjoy the original stories in all their unabridged brilliance through new recordings of all seven Chief Inspector Barnaby mysteries, with Midsomer Murders actor John Hopkins narrating them.

Join Caroline, her son David, and Red for a glimpse behind the scenes of the series that made Midsomer the murder capital of the English shires!

My Life in Books airs Mondays at 1 p.m. Eastern on AMI-audio, or download the podcast from your favourite provider via this link: https://www.ami.ca/My-Life-Books/recent_episodes

Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books.

Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write.

Jonathan Whitelaw is an author, journalist and broadcaster with a darkly comic sense of humour and a love of detective fiction. Having worked on the frontline of Scottish politics, he has now turned his skills to writing cozy crime. His HellCorp novels featured the Devil as a beleaguered manager and reluctant gumshoe, and Jonathan’s most recent series centres around a wily group of bingo-playing amateur sleuths from Penrith, in the English Lake District.

Jonathan has recently moved to Ontario, so join him and Red as they get their eyes down for a full house of murder and mayhem!

My Life in Books airs Mondays at 1 p.m. Eastern on AMI-audio, or download the podcast from your favourite provider via this link: https://www.ami.ca/My-Life-Books/recent_episodes

Ellen Jovin is a self-confessed grammar nerd. So passionate is she that, in 2018, she decided to set up a table outside her New York home to answer questions about the correct use of grammar and other knotty linguistic problems that passers-by might have. It proved an instant success and soon she and her husband took the table, and a selection of reference books, on tour around the United States.

In Rebel With A Clause, Ellen documents the most common grammar questions and complaints she encountered and gives examples and guidance for correct usage. If you find yourself wincing at a misplaced apostrophe or puzzling over when and where to use a semicolon, join Ellen and Red around the grammar table.