Since we're a big group of book lovers here at Cityline, we're inviting our viewers to read along with us! For our last book club pick, we read Stacey May Fowles' Infidelity (ECW Press) - did you read it, too? Be sure to watch the video of our book club meeting to see what we thought of the book, and to enter for your chance to win a book prize pack courtesy of ECW Press! For our latest book pick, we're reading one of the biggest books of the season, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press). Once again, we hope you'll read along with us! Here's a little about the book:

With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can’t seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.

We're so excited to start reading this award-winning short story collection, and we hope you'll read along with us! Want a copy? We have 5 copies to give away to some lucky readers, courtesy House of Anansi Press! To enter for your chance to win, tell us about your last great read in the comments below! Over the next six weeks, we'll be sharing tons of great features about Hellgoing and Lynn Coady, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at our office discussion of the book! So go out and grab your copy, and get reading! We can't wait to discuss with you!

Have you been reading along with the Cityline Book Club? The gang here at the studio really enjoyed our latest book pick, Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles, and we even had a special guest come join us for our book club meeting! Cityline guest expert Mairlyn Smith read along with us and she even brought snacks to our meeting -- we think we'll have to make her a permanent member! Check out all the fun we had discussing the book in the video below: [embed]bcid:2832508164001[/embed] If you read Infidelity along with us, we want to know what you thought of the novel! Post a comment below with your thoughts on the book, and you’ll be entered to win a book prize pack courtesy of ECW Press! For our next book club pick, we'll be reading the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning short story collection Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press), and once again, we want you to read along with us! For more information on our latest pick, and for your chance to win a copy, click here.

If there's one thing we've learned from Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles, our current Cityline Book Club pick, it's that affairs are very rarely as sexy in reality as they might seem in fantasy. Sneaking around and keeping secrets is incredibly difficult, and for Ronnie and Charlie, it made their lives extremely messy. If reading Infidelity has made you curious to check out more books about forbidden love, dive into these great reads: Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal: This debut novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist takes place in the aftermath of a local scandal involving Victoria, a young female student, and her affair with her music teacher. Using a non-linear plot structure, Catton reveals how this affair affected other students and Victoria's sister Isolde. D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover: Banned books frequently detail illicit affairs, including this 1928 classic novel about the aristocratic Lady Chatterley and her forbidden relationship with her working-class lover. Their affair is the result of Lady Chatterley's frustration with her lack of a physical relationship with her own husband, who was paralyzed from the waist down during the war. Throughout the novel she realizes that she can't be in love with the mind alone, but that she also needs to have a physical love. Ian McEwan, Atonement: A cross-class love affair kicks off the drama in this British family saga which spans more than 60 years. But when young Briony mistakes her older sister's consensual love affair for rape, she ends up ruining the lives of her sister and her sister's lover. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: In 17th century Puritan Massachusetts, adultery is one of the worst crimes you can commit. The novel centres around Hester Prynne, a young woman who is found guilty of this sin after she gives birth to an illegitimate child. As punishment, Hester is forced to wear a scarlet 'A' to signify her wrongdoing. Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl: Extra-marital affairs are just a small part of the deceit layered throughout this best-selling thriller. Nick and Amy have done just about every bad thing in the book towards each other, but their illicit relationships add an extra level of drama. Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal: In this 2003 novel (which later became a movie starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in 2006), Sheba, a lonely, unmarried female teacher enters into a sexual relationship with an underaged student who is from a underprivileged background and has literacy problems. When a fellow teacher finds out and threatens her to end the relationship, Sheba struggles with making the right decision. Do you have a favourite book that deals with forbidden love? Whether it's a cross-class relationship or an illicit affair, we want to know about your favourite reads. Share them in the comments below!

It's the year of the short story here in Canada! Less than a month after Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, Edmonton's Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short story collection, Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). The $50,000 prize recognizes the year's best book in Canadian fiction, and marks Coady's first win. Her last novel, The Antagonist, made the Giller shortlist in 2011. Hellgoing is Coady's sixth book. In her emotional victory speech, Coady  said that she's “proud not just to be a Canadian writer, but to be a Canadian – to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.” This year's jury members -- author Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan (winner of the 2011 Giller Prize) and Jonathan Lethem -- praised the collection for having a "keen and sympathetic wit". Indie Canadian publisher House of Anansi is also celebrating their first win. After having 13 books reach the shortlist during the 20 year history of the award, Hellgoing is their first time snagging top prize. Have you read Hellgoing or any of Lynn Coady's previous books? Will you be checking it out now that it won the Giller Prize? Let us know in the comments below!

Have you been reading Stacey May Fowles' Infidelity along with the Cityline Book Club? Recently we chatted with Fowles at our studio, and she graciously answered all of our questions about her engaging novel. Watch the video below and find out all about Fowles' inspirations for the novel, her obsession with the idea of "being good", and who's her favourite character. [embed]bcid:2790329240001[/embed] Are you enjoying so far? Share your thoughts in the comments - we can’t wait to discuss it with you. Stay tuned for a list of other great literary love affair novels, coming up right here in the Cityline Book Club next week!