Turn The Page – Episode 398G – Nick Horrell

Nick Horrell shares his fascinating and moving documentary, FRANK WHITTLE: GENIUS IN THE FAMILY, which explores the life and career of the English engineer, inventor and RAF officer whose work on the turbojet engine changed the course of WW2.

Turn The Page – Episode 398E – Tamika Thompson

Tamika Thompson brings us a story of a haunting that exists as much in the structure of the society where the characters live, as much as it is a literal haunting in a public housing community. THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS introduces us to Nona who so desperately wants to get her sons out of the public housing neighborhood that has kept them locked into a cycle of trauma and gun violence.

Turn The Page – Episode 398D – Della Leavitt

Della Leavitt chats about VIVIAN’S DECISION, an evocative work of historical fiction and all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one’s own.

Turn The Page – Episode 398A – Emmanuel Laroche

Emmanuel Laroche stopped by to talk about A TASTE OF MADAGASCAR: CULINARY RICHES OF THE RED ISLAND, which takes you on a rare sensory journey of the island’s flavors from the world-renowned vanilla beans to the endemic voatsiperifery wild pepper, and more.

Turn The Page – Episode 397F – Ruth McKell

Ruth McKell talks about the healing power of bees, nature, and kittens, as told in HONEY IN HER VEINS, a beautiful fantasy with dark edges that introduces us to Arthur and Eva, two former lovers who grapple with the ghosts of their pasts in more ways than one.

Turn The Page – Episode 397E – Justin Feinstein

Justin Feinstein shares YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED: a compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestling with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. It’s an all too plausible near future in which emotionally intelligent AI go up against emotionally stunted humans.