My guest on today's show is Jack Cavanaug

Jack is a veteran sportswriter whose work has appeared most notably on the sports pages of the New York Times, for which he has covered hundreds of assignments. He is the author of Giants Among Men and Tunney, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography. Cavanaugh has been a frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Tennis, and Golf magazines as well as other national publications. Cavanaugh is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives with his wife, Marge, in Wilton, Connecticut.

Jeff Sherratt is my special guest on today's show talking about his book Detour to Murder

Why did Al Roberts meekly confess to a brutal

murder in 1945, then nearly three decades later

swear that he’s innocent?

Jimmy O'Brien, defense attorney to the dregs of

the criminal world, digs into the past, igniting a

powder-keg that threatens to expose the long-held

secrets behind Detour, the iconic Hollywood film

documenting Roberts' story. Secrets that could

destroy the underground aristocracy holding

power in Los Angeles, city of broken dreams.

Jimmy’s ordeal takes him from the bleakness of

Roberts' prison cell to the seedy streets of

Hollywood, searching to find out who took this

DETOUR TO MURDER.

I am having another chance to chat to Carole Estby Dagg, whose show I had to cancell owing to my illness last Saturday. So this Sunday it is finally "A Book and a Chat with Carole Estby Dagg".

Carole Estby Dagg nickname ‘Slasher’ for her feat of paring a 400-page manuscript to a spare 227 wuill be along to chat about her book "The Year We Were Famous" . Based on the true story of the author’s great aunt and great grandmother, this is a fast-paced historical fiction adventure that sets the drama of Around the World in 80 Days against an American backdrop of the suffragist movement, the 1896 presidential campaign, and the changing perception of “a woman’s place” in society. Add to that Carole's own adventures tip-toeing through King Tug’s tomb, sand-boarded the dunes of western Australia, ridden a donkey up the cliffs of Santorini, snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef, and smelled the penguins in the Falkland Islands, and you'll see it promises to be a great show.

A fresh memmber of the class of 2K11, Bettina Restrepo is todays guest. Her debut YA novel book "Illegal" has already made quite a splash around the blogasphere, and I also want to ask about her childrens book Moose and Magpie as well as anything else I can find out about Bettina. Let's face it somewbody whose described as "endearingly weird" must be good as a guest

Fran Lewis stops by to be a guest on today's A Book and a Chat. Reviewer, author and fellow radio show host, I am looking forward to chatting to Fran about her life, working on education and her childrens books, as well as her own radio shows

Being and ex rugby playing Englishman who enjoyes his pint of good beer, todays show has a real interest. Amy Mittleman's book "Brewing Battles:A History of American Beer" is the comprehensive story of the American brewing industry and its leading figures, from its colonial beginnings to the present day. Although today’s beer industry has its roots in pre-Prohibition business, major historical developments since Repeal have affected industry at large, brewers, and the tastes and habits of beer-drinking consumers as well.

Owing to being sick as a doog with fever and broncitus I've had to cancell todays show,,,,,,I will addit perhaps next Sunday meanwhile I am just too sick

Carole Estby Dagg nickname ‘Slasher’ for her feat of paring a 400-page manuscript to a spare 227 wuill be along to chat about her book "The Year We Were Famous" . Based on the true story of the author’s great aunt and great grandmother, this is a fast-paced historical fiction adventure that sets the drama of Around the World in 80 Days against an American backdrop of the suffragist movement, the 1896 presidential campaign, and the changing perception of “a woman’s place” in society.

Add to that Carole's own adventures tip-toeing through King Tug’s tomb, sand-boarded the dunes of western Australia, ridden a donkey up the cliffs of Santorini, snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef, and smelled the penguins in the Falkland Islands, and you'll see it promises to be a great show.

Back in 1979, my guest today, Mike L Kilday, went for a deep-trance, past life session with nationally-renown medium Elwood Babbitt, instead of learning about a past life, Mike found himself receiving a prediction of future Earth changes. Ten years and much study later Mike produced his book “Truth Never Changes: Earth Does”.Today he is back to talk about his new book

Rose A. Valenta knows a thing or two about making people laugh, which as you know is a good thing on A Book and a Chat. So you can imagine I am really looking forward to chatting to her about her life and her book "Sitting on Cold Porcelain" is a compilation of humorous essays

Think about Sleeping with the Enemy out in the woods when the enemy totes a Bible and packs a .38. That is the description of As the Sycamore Grows is a true story about abuse, loss, redemption and hope. Written by todays guest Jennie Herlderman