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Kobo in Conversation

In-depth conversations with authors—about how and why they write, the books and authors they admire, and so much more. Plus, occasional takes on what's going on in the business of books, and year-end roundups of reading recommendations from the Kobo staff.

Wally Lamb waded into autobiography for The River is Waiting

Jul 23, 2025

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with novelist Wally Lamb, the author of novels including She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The Hour I First Believed. His new novel, his first in nearly a decade, is The River is Waiting. It’s about Corbin Ledbetter, Corby to his friends, husband to Emily and father to twins...

Eliza Reid on paying homage to the difficult work of diplomacy

Jul 9, 2025

Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with Eliza Reid, author of the novel Death on the Island. It’s a mystery set on a remote island in Iceland where a dinner party of diplomats turns fatal for the deputy ambassador of Canada.

And it just so happens that the elements of this story—Iceland, diplomacy, and the perils of being a...