Readers for 2010
Saturday, July 10, 7 P.M. Douglas Arthur Brown reads from Quintet.
Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books, including two novels (Quintet and A Deadly Harvest), a collection of short fiction (The Komodo Dragon and other Stories), and two children's books (The Magic Compass and Archibald's Boo-boo.) The Globe and Mail called his latest novel, Quintet, published by Key Porter in 2008, a masterfully written book. The book was the recipient of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award. The Magic Compass - a children's Christmas advent book - is part of The Atlantic Collection, a project by the Nova Scotia Department of Education that placed the book in every elementary school in Nova Scotia.
Saturday, July 31, 7 P.M. Stephen Kimber reads from Loyalists and Layabouts.
Stephen Kimber, the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of one novel -- Reparations (Harper Collins, 2006) -- and eight non-fiction books. Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs won a Dartmouth Book Award, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Nonfiction and a Torgi Award for its portrayal of Halifax at war. Reparations was shortlisted for both the Dartmouth Fiction Award and the Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada First Novel Award. Loyalists and Layabouts was shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson and Dartmouth Nonfiction Awards.Saturday, August 21, 7 P.M. Michael Crummey reads from Galore. THIS READING IS SOLD OUT.
Michael Crummey grew up in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. Crummey's debut novel, River Thieves (2001) became a Canadian bestseller, winning the Thomas Head Raddall Award, the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing, and the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the IMPAC Award. The Globe and Mail review for Galore (Doubleday 2009) stated “His two previous novels, River Thieves and The Wreckage, were critical successes and national bestsellers, and deservedly so. They were very good books and I enjoyed them immensely. Galore blows them out of the water.”
Readings take place in the Old Meeting House, Port Medway from 7-8pm followed by a reception and book signing at the Port Medway Fire hall.