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Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories$32.00 add to cart

In his new book, Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories, Bachman shares his favourite stories. A legendary figure in the rock and roll world through his talents as a guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer with The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, he has earned more than 120 gold and platinum album/singles awards around the world. Even with all his success he is still that kid from Winnipeg, and his enthusiasm for great music is as strong as ever. Encounters with celebrities and rock legends abound in Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories, but it is the music that is the driving force behind his extraordinary career, and what brings us back for more stories from Randy's Vinyl Tap.

Randy will be joining us in our Grant Park store Saturday, September 24, 11:00 am, for a reading and signing.

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Penguin, 2009)

Let's start off with the obvious. I'm publishing a comic novel this fall (Dadolescence, Turnstone Press) about a pop-culture-obsessed middle-aged man who desperately needs to grow up and find a purpose. How could I not be a Nick Hornby fan? In his latest novel, he focuses on Annie, the wife of Duncan, a typically Hornbyesque music obsessive who treats an obscure 1980s rock album called Juliet with religious devotion. Like the rest of Hornby's books, it's funny, sad, hopeful, and honest.

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The Bells$19.95 add to cart

Here are a few Bookclub suggestions, from our head buyer Chris Hall.
The Bells by Richard Harvell
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin
The Sea Captain's Wife, by Beth Powning
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skooot
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Chris Hall is our Head Book Buyer. This is his list of most anticipated releases for September.

On Canaan's Side. Sebastian Barry's new book has been generating a lot of buzz in the UK and has been named to the Man Booker Prize Long List for 2011. His previous novels, Long Long Way and Secret Scripture have been under the radar yet steady sellers over the years. I suspect I'm not alone in anticipating his new work.

That Used to Be Us. Thomas Friedman has written what I think are the best two books to read if you want to understand our world as it is oday and how it got to be this way. The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a history of economics from about 1995 to 2000 and The World is Flat is a history of economics from about 2000 to 2005. I'm looking forward to this new book which attempts to explain how America got itself (and the world) into the mess it's in.

Winter. Adam Gopnick has been a McNally Robinson favourite ever since the release of his first book, Paris to the Moon, which details the adventures of his young family in Paris. Winter is this year's Massey Lecture and presents five different takes on winter. I think our appreciation of the coldest season can't help but be increased with the help of such a fine writer.

The Reinvention of Love. Helen Humphreys is back with a novel about the love story of Charles Sainte-Beauve and Adele Hugo, Victor's wife. Charles and Adele create a scandal in Paris until Victor exacts his revenge. This is a well told story of the clash of love, art, and ego.