Shelf Esteem

Trudy Morgan-Cole

I'm a reader, a writer, and a talker. On Shelf Esteem I talk to people about what they're reading and the books they love.

  1. Episode 64: Author Talk with Heather Barrett

    JAN 20

    Episode 64: Author Talk with Heather Barrett

    I talk with journalist and author Heather Barrett about uncovering little-known women's history in her new book The Mill Girls. Stay tuned at the end for a little Canada Reads preview in which Emma Cole and I literally judge books by their covers.

    52 min
  2. Episode 63: Author Talk with Jen Winsor

    2025-11-28

    Episode 63: Author Talk with Jen Winsor

    My latest author talk finds me sitting down with Jen Winsor to talk about the joys and perils of working on a cruise ship, unexpected parenthood, and writing your first book. You're going to want to pick up a copy of Jen's book "Ship Moms." Links to where to find it and more info are in the show notes at https://shelfesteem2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/episode-63-author-talk-with-jen-winsor/

    52 min
  3. Shelf Esteem 62: Author Talk with Debbie McGee

    2025-10-11

    Shelf Esteem 62: Author Talk with Debbie McGee

    In this month's Author Talk, I chat with local filmmaker and first-time author Debbie McGee about her powerful memoir of love and loss, Cautiously Pessimistic -- as well as about why she was initially reluctant to admit that she was writing a memoir. As always, we talk about the writing life as well as the reading life, including the dangers of listening to audiobooks while doing home renovations.

    53 min
  4. Shelf Esteem 61: Author Talk with Angela Antle

    2025-09-08

    Shelf Esteem 61: Author Talk with Angela Antle

    Shelf Esteem is back after a several-month hiatus with a series of Author Talks! My guest this month is novelist, journalist, visual artist and general powerhouse Angela Antle. Listen to find out about her new novel The Saltbox Olive, about Newfoundlanders fighting in Italy in World War Two (and so much more!). If you listen to the end there's a teaser for my new podcast project, Terra Arcana. Show notes, as always, are at https://shelfesteem2017.wordpress.com/

    47 min
  5. Episode 60: We Descend to the Level of the Sentence and We Come Back Up for Air

    2024-11-18

    Episode 60: We Descend to the Level of the Sentence and We Come Back Up for Air

    Episode 60: We Descend to the Level of the Sentence and We Come Back Up for Air by Trudy Morgan-Cole

    54 min
  6. Episode 59 We Do Not Fear the Robot Overlords (Yet)

    2024-10-14

    Episode 59 We Do Not Fear the Robot Overlords (Yet)

    Poet, novelist, and avid reader George Murray drops by to talk about what he's been reading, which gets us into discussing genre boundaries, literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, artificial intelligence, what it means to be human, and why we shouldn't (yet) fear the rise of the robots. For the full list of books we discussed, check out the show notes at https://shelfesteem2017.wordpress.com/

    49 min
  7. Episode 58: We Learn How To Get Away With Murder

    2024-05-06

    Episode 58: We Learn How To Get Away With Murder

    It's time for murder and mayhem as librarian Julia Mayo and I discuss two bookswapped mysteries - Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes, and The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (which is, arguably, not a mystery at all). We end up talking about those two novels and many, many others in this crime-filled episode.

    54 min
  8. Episode 57: We Run Only Slightly Towards Danger

    2024-03-22

    Episode 57: We Run Only Slightly Towards Danger

    Journalist and broadcaster John Gushue joined me in my new recording location at Bad Times Club Studio to discuss what we've been reading lately, particularly the memoirs that have fascinated us. That led us into a deep dive into a book that I read on John's recommendation and we both had a lot of thoughts about: Sarah Polley's collection of personal essays Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory.

    43 min
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I'm a reader, a writer, and a talker. On Shelf Esteem I talk to people about what they're reading and the books they love.

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  • Creator
    Trudy Morgan-Cole
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Shelf Esteem