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True North Stories

True North Stories

By: Alan Warren
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True North Stories is a compelling radio series featuring in-depth interviews with Canada's most intriguing literary voices—authors who have previously appeared on the renowned House of Mystery Radio Show. From bestselling crime novelists to award-winning poets, memoirists, and emerging storytellers, this show shines a spotlight on the diverse and dynamic talents shaping Canadian literature today.

Hosted with curiosity and warmth, each episode offers listeners an intimate conversation with a Canadian author—exploring their inspirations, writing process, cultural influences, and the stories behind their stories. Whether you're a passionate reader, a fellow writer, or simply fascinated by the creative journey, Canadian Writers delivers thought-provoking dialogue and insightful perspectives from the country's literary frontlines.

Tune in to hear the voices that are defining Canadian storytelling—one interview at a time.

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Alan Warren Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • A-M Mawhiney - Fugitive Rifts

    A-M Mawhiney - Fugitive Rifts
    Jun 26 2026

    Does everyone have secrets?


    When four teens are invited to meet after school with a teacher, the butterfly effect of this one small event soon changes their dreams about their futures. Thrown together to form, of all things, a debate team, the four—Grace, a popular star basketball player, Drew, a privileged hotshot, Ollie, an artistic new student, and Dottie a shy, brilliant loner—seem to have nothing in common. And not one of them believes they have what it takes to be successful debaters.


    Over time, the four teens start helping each other through tough times and begin to realize they are more alike than they thought.


    Taking part in a public debate turns out to have unintended consequences that affect the four teens, each in different ways. Then the disappearance of one upends not only the lives of the four teens, but it also creates a ripple effect that shapes, over time, what happens to other people from their communities, their country—and even the world.


    Fugitive Rifts is a compelling and empowering story of coming of age, resilience, and friendship, with emotional passages that are authentic, visceral, and bring the characters to life.

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    24 mins
  • Alison McBain - The Rose Queen

    Alison McBain - The Rose Queen
    Jun 25 2026
    The Rose Queen was a fantasy finalist for 2019 IAN Book of the Year, and also a finalist for the 2019 Literary Classics Book Award. In addition, it was named as one of the best books of 2018 by the reviewer website Bookshine and Readbows. What makes it so intriguing? Perhaps it's because the Beast doesn't always wait for Beauty. Sometimes, Beauty IS the Beast. Princess Mirabella is betrothed to a repulsive old man a year after her mother's death. She refuses the marriage, only to find out her betrothed is a sorcerer as well. He takes his revenge by transforming her into a savage and frightening beast, giving her an ultimatum: she has three years to solve the mystery of her curse—or die. Exiled to her mother's estate to hide the scandal, Mirabella learns that the sorcerer was not alone in keeping secrets. Her grandfather was murdered before Mirabella was born, and her mother's death is looking less and less as if it came from natural causes. The only point in common to all their ruined lives: her father, the king. Faced with a conflict between saving her family and saving her own life, the choices Mirabella makes will change the future of the kingdom—and magic—forever.

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    26 mins
  • Nick Cutter - The Dorians

    Nick Cutter - The Dorians
    Jun 10 2026

    The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop!


    On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause—forever, perhaps. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent…one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose that has helped it persist for eons: the will to survive. The dark heart of unbridled human ambition finds its apex in an unholy experiment that now tests the limits of both creator and subject, eclipsing all bounds of morality and sanity….


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    30 mins
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