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Wayne Arthurson Book Launch, Edmonton

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Mysteries and Thrillers / April 13, 2012

Canadian journalist, author and musician Wayne Arthurson will be launching his new novel A Killing Winterat The Artery in Edmonton on Wednesday April 18th. The event starts at 7:00pm.

Wayne's previous crime thriller, the critically acclaimed Fall From Grace, is a finalist for the 2012 Alberta Reader's Choice Award. 

A Killing Winter Launch Party Featuring Wayne Arthurson
April 18th 2012
7:00pm
The Artery
9535 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5H 3V2
Phone: 780-441-6966 

See you there! 

My Favourite Books of 2011: Nadia (Operations)

by Nadia
Fiction / December 22, 2011

This is my first year at Raincoast and already it’s hard to choose a favourite. There have been plenty of non-fiction recommendations from everyone, so I’m going to recommend some good fiction from this year.

For the mystery lovers, A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny is a pretty sure bet. Written by a Canadian author and set in Québec, this is the seventh and latest in the mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. This mystery features two worlds:  the world of art and the world of a small town. It makes for an interesting and engaging cast of characters and the central mystery itself is not an easy one to solve. Having grown-up in small town Québec myself, the setting of Three Pines was an added incentive to me to pick up this book. 

I enjoyed it enough to pick up a copy of the previous novel in the series, Bury Your Dead, that I plan to read over Christmas. 

This next one isn’t a new pub, but I haven’t managed to read much (read: none) of the new science fiction that was published in 2011. But if you like science fiction and you haven’t read Ender’s Game, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel, it’s a classic and the first in the series about Andrew “Ender” Wiggin. It’s in the process of being adapted into a movie by Odd Lot and Summi that will feature Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley.  It was first published in 1985 and is still available from TOR.

And since Jamie’s already gone and recommended both an older book and one we don’t have here at Raincoast, I’m going to add my favourite science fiction book of them all: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. This is part science fiction (time travel is central to the plot) and part comedy of manners (most of the novel takes place in Victorian England). It’s a very funny book, with plenty of literary references slipped in alongside the laws and physics of time travel.

Louise Penny: Westward Ho!

by Dan
Events + Fiction / September 22, 2011

A Trick of the Light, the latest Chief Inspector Gamache novel by Canadian author Louise Penny, is currently sitting pretty on the national bestseller lists and is garnering glowing reviews from the likes of the Globe and Mail and the New York Times.

Louise is currently on tour in Canada and has spent the last week in the Waterloo Region of Ontario as part of One Book, One Community.

This weekend, however, she will be heading west!

On Saturday evening you can catch her at Bolen Books in Victoria and then on Sunday afternoon she will be in conversation with Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit founder of yoyomama and reading from A Trick of the Light at the Chapters bookstore at Granville and Broadway in Vancouver. 

Next week, Louise will be in Winnipeg at the Grant Park McNally Robinson on Tuesday September 27th at 8pm. 

Then, to round off tour, Louise will be heading home to Quebec where she will be appearing at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore on October 6th as part of their 'After Dark' reading series.  

Here are all the details:

Victoria: Saturday September 24th, 7:00 pm
Bolen Books in Hillside Centre
Telephone 250-595-4232

Vancouver: Sunday September 25th, 2:00 pm 
Chapters, 2505 Granville Street
Telephone: 604-731-7822

Winnipeg: Tuesday September 27th, 8:00pm
McNally Robinson, Grant Park in Prairie Ink Restaurant
Telephone: 204-475-0483

Montreal: Thursday October 6th
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
Telephone: 514-845-5811

Louise Penny A Trick of the Light Tour Dates

by Dan
Events + Fiction / August 22, 2011

The latest Chief Inspector Gamache mystery A Trick of the Light is released next week, and author Louise Penny will be reading from the novel at bookstores across Canada in August and September. 

Here are the dates for your agenda:

Saturday August 27th 2011 / Knowlton 
Brome Lake Books at 2:00pm (ticketed)

Monday August 29th 2011 / Toronto  
Sleuth of Baker Street at 6:00pm

Sept 13th—14th / One Book, One Island / PEI 
Tues: Charlottetown PE Confederation Centre Public Library at 2:00pm 
Weds: Summerside PE Bibliothèque publique J-Henri-Blanchard at 2:00pm
Weds: Montague PE Montague Rotary Library at 7:00pm

Sunday September 18th, 2011 / Montreal, Quebec
Chapters Centre-ville at 2:00pm  

Sept 20th—22nd / One Book, One Community / Kitchener-Waterloo 
Tues:  Kitchener, Victoria Park Pavilion (time TBC)
Weds: New Hamburg, Waterloo Oxford District Secondary School (time TBC)
Weds: Waterloo, First United Church (time TBC)
Thurs: Cambridge, (details TBC)

Saturday September 24th, 2011 / Victoria 
Bolen Books at 7:00pm

Sunday September 25th, 2011 / Vancouver 
Chapters on Granville at 2:00pm 

Tuesday September 27th, 2011 / Winnipeg 
McNally Robinson Grant Park at 8:00pm

Thursday October 6th / Montreal
Paragraphe Books (Details TBC)

You can follow Louise on her blog and on Facebook for news and updates about her books and the tour.