Say Nothing Saw Wood by Joel Thomas Hynes is now available as a Short Fiction Digital Download Single from Rattling Books

Say Nothing Saw Wood by Joel Thomas Hynes, narrated by the author is now available as a digital download short fiction single from Rattling Books.

Say Nothing Saw Wood is one of several pieces of short fiction in EarLit Shorts 1, the first in a new series of audio short fiction anthologies produced by Rattling Books.

It is not available either as a Short Fiction Single (digital download only) or as part of the EarLit Shorts 1 anthology which is available either as an MP3 CD or Digital Download.

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Rattling Books is a Canadian audiobook publisher producing unabridged award winning audiobooks and new audio literature from a perch on the island of Newfoundland overlooking the Northwest Atlantic.

Word of the Week over at REDEFiNE iT (November 23-28): hag

Word of the Week over at REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English

hag

Each week Rattling Books brings you a word of the week from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English.

Rattling Books has a booth at the Annual St. John's Fine Craft and Design Fair

Come visit us at our Booth at the St. John's Fine Craft and Design Fair

Booth 406

November 20th - 23rd, 2008, at the St. John's Convention Centre

Rattling Books has an audiobook title for just about anyone on your Christmas gift list!

For the young or young at heart

The True Meaning of Crumbfest by David Weale, narrated by five year old Antonia Francis (Audiofile magazine Earphones Award winner)

For the lawyer in your family

Judge Prowse Presiding written and performed by Frank Holden

For the navigator among your loved ones

Coasting Trade by Robin McGrath, performed by Robert Joy, Anita Best and Rick Boland and produced by Chris Brookes

For the outdoor adventurer

Adrift on an Ice Pan by Wilfred Grenfell, produced and narrated by Chris Brookes with Jay Roberts and Janis Spence

For the bird lover

Songs for the Songs of Birds poems written and read by Don McKay with field recordings from Dave Fifield

For the Dictionary of Newfoundland English lover

Merrybegot by Mary Dalton, narrated by Anita Best with horn music by Patrick Boyle

We could go on and on but why not just come visit our Booth for a browse and chat.

If you're not able to do that we always welcome you on rattlingbooks.com where you'll find Canadian and Newfoundland audiobooks selected and made with love by Rattling Books.

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Michael Winter wins Writers' Trust Notable Author Award

THE WRITERS' TRUST NOTABLE AUTHOR AWARD ($25,000)

Awarded to a writer in mid-career for a body of work.

- Winner: Michael Winter (Toronto)

"Compulsively readable, crammed with uncommon wit and insight, Michael Winter's fiction is among the best this country has to offer."

Jury: Caroline Adderson (Vancouver), Michael Crummey (St. John's), and Diane Schoemperlen (Kingston, Ontario)

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To put Michael Winter's The Big Why narrated by Robert Joy on your iPod visit rattlingbooks.com.

New short fiction by Kathleen Winter available as a digital download from Rattling Books

His Brown Face Through the Flowers by Kathleen Winter, narrated by Nicola Hawkins is now available as a digital download short fiction single from Rattling Books.

His Brown Face Through the Flowers is one of several short stories in EarLit Shorts 1, the first in a new series of audio short fiction anthologies produced by Rattling Books.

Don McKay reading in St. John's, Newfoundland November 19

Newfoundland Author Reading Series
presents author Don McKay, author of Camber: selected poems, 1983-2000 and Songs for the Songs of Birds

Wednesday, Nov. 19
7 p.m. at the A.C. Hunter Adult Library

The reading is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories by Michael Crummey, read by Ron Hynes, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and the author is now available on iTunes.

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories by Michael Crummey, read by Ron Hynes, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and the author, is now available on iTunes.

Of course it's still available from rattlingbooks.com but if you prefer to shop at iTunes - you can now get it there as well.

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories is also available from CD Baby and for Libraries through Overdrive.com.

Word of the Week (November 9 - 15)) calavance

Word of the Week over at our REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English Blog (Nov 9 - 15):

calavance n also callivance, cavalance

Upcoming reading in St. John, New Brunswick by poet Don McKay

Don McKay will be reading with Anne Simpson in St. John, New Brunswick at 7 p.m on Monday, Nov. 17, in the Ganong Hall Lecture Theatre at UNB Saint John as part of the 2008-09 Lorenzo Reading Series.

Anne Simpson will read from her new novel Falling and Don McKay from his book of poetry, Strike/Slip

Anne Simpson is the author of three collections of poetry, two novels and short stories.

Don McKay has won the Governor General's Award for Poetry twice. Admission is free and all are welcome.

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Don McKay's latest release is Songs for the Songs of Birds, poems on the themes of birds, birding and flight, selected and read by the author. Published by Rattling Books it is available from rattlingbooks.com, iTunes, CD Baby, Overdrive or House of Anansi Press.

Coasting Trade: a performance for three voices by Robin McGrath, with soundscape recordings by Chris Brookes, is now available on iTunes

Coasting Trade: a performance for three voices by Robin McGrath, with soundscape recordings by Chris Brookes, is now available on iTunes. Of course it's still available from rattlingbooks.com but if you prefer to shop at iTunes - you can now get it there as well.

"Coasting Trade" follows the voyage of a Yankee trading schooner, circumnavigating the island of Newfoundland sometime after 1865. As the vessel puts in at various ports, the lyrical narratives weave back and forth through a century of change while the 19th century sailing directions remain timeless.

A smuggler who studies angels, a woman who knits a stove, green martyrs, a homesick immigrant, and a biologist studying the sexual characeristics of caplin all come to the attention of the navigator before he turns southward, to the joy of glad returning.

"Coasting Trade", a performance for three voices by Robin McGrath with navigation notes adapted from "Sailing Directions for the Island of Newfoundland" by J.S. Hobbes (1865) was produced for Rattling Books by Chris Brookes and performed (in order of appearance) by Robert Joy, Rick Boland and Anita Best.

Coasting Trade is also available from CD Baby and for Libraries through Overdrive.com.

Letters from Uncle Val by Andy Jones now available on iTunes

Letters from Uncle Val by Andy Jones is now available on iTunes.



Of course it's still available from rattlingbooks.com but if you prefer to shop at iTunes - you can now get it there as well.



Between 1986 and 1989 Uncle Val, an elderly outharbour gentleman, wrote nineteen letters from his new home in the suburbs of St. John’s to his old friend Jack back home. Val’s move from the Bay to the ‘burbs' to live with his daughter, her obnoxious husband, their youngsters and two useless poodles, is an uneasy one. His slow adjustment and eventual appreciation for life in town is endearingly revealed through his letters to Jack.

Letters from Uncle Val is also available from CD Baby and for Libraries through Overdrive.com.

Word of the Week (Nov 2 - 9): scurrifunge

Word of the Week over at our REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English Blog (Nov 2 - 9):

scurrifunge