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WELCOME TO THE BROADCAST
NEWMAN, DON
In his first book, Welcome to the Broadcast, titled after his famous greeting to his viewers, Don Newman
writes about his many decades of reporting on Canadian and international politics. He covered some of
the most important political events of our time, including Canadian federal elections, the free-trade
discussions, the failed Meech Lake Accord(his coverage won the parliamentary bureau a Gemini Award),
the U.S. presidential elections, State of the Union addresses and the state funeral of Ronald Reagan.
Newman started out as a print and broadcast journalist in Winnipeg and Regina, then moved to Toronto to
join The Globe and Mail before joining the Globe bureau in 1969. In 1971, he joined the CTV
parliamentary bureau and in 1972 became CTV’s first Washington correspondent. Joining the CBC in
Washington in 1976, he went to Edmontonto cover the energy and constitutional conflicts, and he
returned to Ottawa in 1981 to This Week in Parliament. In 1989, he helped launch CBC Newsworld,
hosting the daily show Capital Report.
MEMOIR
HARPER COLLINS CANADA
9781443416825
$32.99 HC
OCTOBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 20,000 IN CANADA
320 PAGES
WEST'S WORLD: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF DAMA REBECCA WEST
GIBB, LORNA
Cicely Fairfield was born in 1892, but as a young woman - and a budding actress - she changed her
name to that of the feminist heroine in Ibsen's play, Rosmersholm . A passionate suffragist, socialist
(though in later life she was also a passionate supporter of Mrs Thatcher), fiercely intelligent, Rebecca
West began her career as a writer with articles in The Freewoman and The Clarion, and published her
first book, a biography of Henry James, when she was only twenty-four and her first novel two years later.
She had a notorious affair with H.G. Wells, and their illegitimate son, Anthony, was born at the beginning
of the First World War. The author of several novels, she is perhaps best remembered for her classic
account of pre-war Yugoslavia, Black Lamb, Grey Falcon (published by Macmillan in 1941 and as
relevant today as it was sixty years ago) and for her coverage of the Nuremberg Trials. When she died in
1983, aged 90, William Shawn then editor in chief of The New Yorker said of her: ‘Rebecca West was one
of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more dazzling
prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more
intelligently.’ Formidably talented and indeed formidable, West was a towering figure in the British literary
landscape Lorna Gibb's vivid and insightful biography affords a dazzling insight into her life and work.
BIOGRAPHY
MACMILLAN
9780230714625
$39.99 HC
JUNE 2013
304 PAGES