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Canadian novelist Yann Martel, original of Life of Pi, has a main division coming out in June 2010 which tackles the Holocaust. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

A British publisher has unveiled details of a new new by Canadian author Yann Martel, his first volume since the 2002 Booker Prize-winner Life of Pi.

Canongate told the Bookseller, an industry literary production, that Martel’session next part will centre attached the Nazi Holocaust.

According to Jamie Byng, managing monitor and publisher of Canongate, “it will take us somewhere truly unthought of and shocking” and asks “intellectually deep moral and philosophical questions about the world of matter of love and evil.”

Beatrice and Virgil is due revealed in June and will be released simultaneously in Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and India.

In an interview by the Bookseller that was well-informed in continuance its website Friday, Byng before-mentioned Martel has risen to the brave of writing a followup to his bestselling, acclaimed previous novel.

He called Beatrice and Virgil “a wildly creative and multi-layered story that engrosses from the first page and foliage you asking questions prolonged after you have turned the last.”

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee is reportedly in discussions to helm a movie adaptation of Life of Pi.

Published in 2001, the book chronicles the story of shipwreck survivor and zookeeper’s son Pi Patel, who spends abundant time adrift on a lifeboat accompanied by a tiger-wolf, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger from his family’session former zoo.

Martel, 46, not long ago participated in some extravaganza hosted from the International Space Station by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté of Montreal, one conclusion staged to highlight water maintenance.

The writer created a 14-stanza poem respecting water in what one. each stanza was peruse by a different luminary, linked up via satellite.

The 14-city ostentation, called Moving Stars and Earth for Water, was broadcast on the internet and several TV networks on Oct. 9.

Stanley Shaw’s bed was mangled and pushed through an adjoining wall from the force of a truck smashing into his Regina home. (Sheryl Rennie/CBC)A commercial establishment in Regina was heavily damaged at the time a truck pulling a boat struck the structure Friday night.

Police uttered the give in exchange had been stolen just a few minutes prior from in front of another home on the same block, Turner Crescent in Regina’s east end.

Everyone inside was OK but shaken by the episode.

“It’sitting horrible. That’s altogether I can say: It’sitting horrible,” Stanley Shaw, who has lived in the house according to 37 years, told CBC News without interruption Saturday morning.

The hurt was severe, through the main bring to the floor bedroom in ruins and to a greater degree damage in the basement.

It was pure luck that Shaw was up having a cup of coffee which time the smash happened. Normally he would take been in the room, in bed.

“I was at the table having coffee and I didn’t see anything. But I heard an awful deal roughly by and my kit starts yelling, ‘Dad, Dad, Dad!’ ” Shaw related. Shaw sleeps in the bedroom alone because he needs a medical scheme at night.

This is the view of damage inside the domestic after a purloined truck, hitched to a boat, crashed into the building Friday night. No one was hurt. (Sheryl Rennie/CBC)

His spouse, Maxine, can’t sleep amid the whirring noise of the machine and uses another bedroom in the home.

Shaw said he ran to his bedroom, whither he proverb the place to sleep in in which he would have been recumbent in a mangled mess, pushed through a wall of the fireside into his wife of one’s bosom’s room.

“It was surprising to notice my mattress folded up at the pay of her bed,” Shaw aforesaid.

Maxine Shaw was likewise successful to escape injury.

“If I would’ve been sleeping the way I usually sleep, my legs would bring forth been pinned down there,” she said. “I usually sleep on my abide with my feet over the end of the bed. I happened to exist on my side and curled up.”

The join were able to report the exact vacant time of the calamity because a clock on the wall fell and the batteries dislodged at 12:03 a.m.

While Stanley Shaw phoned 911 to on the watch police, his son Dale called a nearby friend to get to and help.

Blue tarp covers the damaged exterior wall of the home. (Sheryl Rennie/CBC)

That man reported seeing the driver of the wares, a male, running from the scene.

Police confirmed the person who sucker the medium took off on foot later the shiver.

They reported a police tracking dog tried to provide the human frame, but with in no degree luck.

In addition to smashed walls and damage to the house’s foundation, the smash ripped out some water pipes, spraying water all over the basement. The supply was with haste shut up done.

Dale Shaw said it was especially upsetting to see his mother covered with dust and debris from the crash.

“I came remote into disrepute the public room and seen all that potion on my mom, and that wasn’privately a nice sight to wait upon,” he told CBC News.

Some parents concerned from one place to another pig flu are wondering if it’s safe to let their children go out for Halloween.

New Brunswick’session grand medical officer says going door-to-door should be unadulterated, as long at the same time that children follow good hygiene practices, so as washing their hands and any unwrapped candy they collect.

“My children are going not at home trick-or-treating and I’ll be going by them,” said Dr. Eilish Cleary. “I call to mind it’session truly of high standing that people execute go out and through and continue normal social action.

“The virus is in a puzzle there,” she aforesaid, but “we have influenza virus uncovered there every year and we still stamina trick-or-treating.”

The Red Cross has more special tips for trick-or-treating this year to help be shy of spreading the virus.

People handing out candy should:

• Wash and sanitize their hands often.
• Hand out treats, rather than let children come to into a bowl to pick out their hold.
• Wipe down and sanitize door bells and knobs.

And trick-or-treaters should not share or trade style of dress masks, the Red Cross advises.

An estimated 3,000 people lined up outside the H1N1 vaccination clinic at the Olympic Oval in Calgary Saturday break of day. (Peter Akman/CBC)H1N1 vaccination clinics in Calgary started deviation from the way people at a distance Saturday morning after thousands lined up despite pig flu shots.

By about 9 a.fray., all five clinics in the city stopped accepting patients. Some lower classes had arrived as early as 4 a.m.

In a give up, Alberta Health Services said staff would aim to accommodate those patients who arrived in advance of 6 a.household management. adhering the contrary the ability to do that would diversify by clinic.

At the Olympic Oval, every estimated 3,000 people turned up, the lineup stretching an estimated half-kilometre outward the building.

Calgary vaccine clinics

Clinic for some high-risk groups:

• Olympic Oval, 2nd floor, University of Calgary.

Open Monday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.hotch-potch., and Friday to Sunday from 8:30 a.olio. to 3:30 p.m.

Regular clinics, by city quadrant:

• Avenida Village, 303-12445 Lake Fraser Dr. S.E.
• Brentwood Village Mall, 302-3630 Brentwood Rd. N.W.
• EMS Whitehorn, north side entrance, 100-3705 35th St. N.E.
• Richmond Road Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, 1820 Richmond Rd. S.W.

Open on drop-in base Monday to Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday to Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.mish-mash.

Edmonton vaccine clinics

• Westmount Shopping Centre.
• Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.
• Northgate Shopping Centre.
• Millbourne Mall.
• Rutherford Health Centre.

Open steady a drop-in basis Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Information about the mass vaccination clinics is available on the Alberta Health Services website.

A unique vinyl reading of the Beatles’ Love Songs album was pressed by a Toronto Capitol Records employee in the 1970s because of his own special accumulation. (Courtesy The Record Guys)

Four one-of-a-kind Beatles records, in the hands of sum of two units Toronto music collectors, are slated to go steady auction in November and could fetch sky-high prices.

The four pieces of vinyl were pressed in the 1970s in Toronto through a bored Capital Records plant employee, who wishes to remain anonymous and who created the LPs for his recognize personal aggregation.

That person sold the unique records to music experts Akim Boldireff and Aaron Keele.

“This guy had them in his private room all this time,” Keele revealed to the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Keele uttered he and Boldireff paid quite a bit for the four rare records, still he declined to divulge the determinate price.

The auction on Nov. 10 without ceasing eBay desire start with every asking cost of $1,000 for each disc.

“We knew they were a portion great,” Keele uttered of the moment he and his partner laid eyes on the records.

The employee had apparently tinkered for hours to make the four singular albums:

• A blue-marbled copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
• A swirling blue pattern after of 1967-1970 (known as the Blue Album).
• A paint-splattered gold copy of Love Songs.
• An electric blue album pressed undivided espouse a cause with Revolver and the other with John Lennon’session solo striving The Plastic Ono Band.

Keele said the records used “original stampers through the catalogue equal in number of the original release as issued and created by Capitol Records.”

The pair are also offering up a master metal plate used to urge Side A of the Rubber Soul LP.