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- Happiness 660 copies, 17 reviews
- How to Be a Canadian 476 copies, 13 reviews
- Hokkaido Highway Blues 432 copies, 13 reviews
- Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada 283 copies, 14 reviews
- Why I Hate Canadians 205 copies, 4 reviews
- Canadian History for Dummies 130 copies, 4 reviews
- 419 126 copies, 14 reviews
- Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present 73 copies, 3 reviews
- Spanish Fly 59 copies, 3 reviews
- Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet 50 copies, 5 reviews
- I was a teenage Katima-victim: A Canadian odyssey 33 copies
- The Penguin Book of Canadian Humour 22 copies, 1 review
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan 18 copies, 1 review
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Will Ferguson has 4 past events. (show)  419: One on One with Will Ferguson We are thrilled to welcome Will Ferguson back to the capital to celebrate his Giller Prize winning novel 419 ! Epic in its sweep and intimate in its portrayal of human endurance, 419: A Novel is literary thriller that spans continents and tells the story of a woman's quest to track down the man she feels is responsible for her father's death. (thebookpile)Spanish Fly in Words and Music Will Ferguson, Spanish Fly.; Tom Phillips"These days it's done over the telephone or the Internet but the result is the same as it ever was: the mark hands over the money to the smooth-talking swindler; it's nothing new. The characters in Will Ferguson’s second novel Spanish Fly (Viking Canada, 2007), pull every kind of scam—from dead simple to elaborately choreographed—on every type of gullible mark, from store clerks to bank managers to other con artists. They do it while criss-crossing the American southwest during the pre-war, depression era. It is a fast-paced read that is a departure from Ferguson’s stock-in-trade, humour-driven, Canadian historical non-fiction, which includes the bestseller, How to Be a Canadian, co-written with his brother Ian. Will Ferguson is also the author of the tongue-in-cheek Why I Hate Canadians as well as the 2005 Leacock Medal for Humour winner, Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw. His first novel, Happiness, was also a Leacock Medal winner in 2002.
Somewhere in between James Taylor’s voice (if it was a little more whiskeysoaked and cigarette-smoked) and Waylon Jennings’s voice (if it was a little less soaked and toked) you get the voice of Tom Phillips: not too sweet, not too rough—just about perfect for a soundtrack to Will Ferguson’s gritty novel Spanish Fly. You can count the number of novels that have an accompanying soundtrack on one finger. This is it; it is a publishing first. Will contributed the lyrics to three of the 15 songs and Tom did the rest. The CD is a perfect companion to the book and its success sets an interesting precedent. Tom Phillips and his band, The Men of Constant Sorrow, have produced three studio CDs of original music, along with a live recording. They have played their infectious brand of hard-core honky-tonk and heart-wrenching cryin’ songs at clubs, concert halls and festivals all across Canada.
This is sure to be one of the most interesting and entertaining closing events in Festival history.
Josh Marantz, who provided background vocals and the voice of the radio announcer on the Spanish Fly CD, will join Will Ferguson and Tom Phillips onstage for this year's closing event. This one just keeps getting better." (christiguc)… (more)
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