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Read Your Lunch: Atlantic Canadian Special
Heidi Hallett: Frog Hollow Books
Kristina Parlee: Halifax Public Libraries
What is Read Your Lunch?
Read Your Lunch is a monthly program offered by the Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library and Frog Hollow Books.
Presenters and attendees chat about recent reads and hear from other readers about their current favourite books.
Who we aren’t talking about:
Hugh MacLennan Alistair MacLeod Lucy Maud
Montgomery
Donna Morrissey Thomas H. Raddall David Adams
Richards
We want to help you discover some new authors – don’t be surprised if you don’t hear some of the big
names in Atlantic Fiction!
Mark Blagrave
Sackville, NB based author who is also a playwright and professor at Mt. Allison University
Novel is set in Saint John, NB
George Elliott Clarke
Poet, playwright & novelist originally from Windsor, NS area
Published by Goose Lane Other works have been
published by Pottersfield and Gaspereau presses
Devon Code
Author hails from Dartmouth, NS
Short story collection published by Invisible Publishing
Positive reviews in The Coast and The Globe and Mail
Lesley Crewe
Cape Breton author of three popular contemporary novels
Fourth novel Hit or Mrs. to be released in September
All of her novels have been published by Vagrant (Nimbus)
John DeMont
Halifax resident and former Maclean’s Magazine Atlantic Bureau Chief
Author of three books of nonfiction
Anne Emery
Halifax based author of popular mystery series now in its fourth installment
Legal mystery series set in Halifax.
Carla Gunn
Author grew up in rural Miramichi area and lives in Fredericton
First novel The author has previously
written for newspapers and contributed to CBC Radio
Michelle Butler Hallett
St. John’s based novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Three novels published by Killick Press
Beatrice MacNeil
Born in Glace Bay and still resides in Cape Breton
Three time winner of the Dartmouth Book Award
Books set in Cape Breton: historical and modern
Steven Mayoff
Debut collection from an author now living in PEI
Also a poet and songwriter Is working on a novel which
has already won two awards in manuscript format
Elaine McCluskey
Hails from Dartmouth, NS Book published by Goose
Lane Previous book of short
stories, The Watermelon Social, was published by Gaspereau Press
Louisa McCormack
Charlottetown based author of two chick lit novels.
The Catch is set in a fictional PEI fishing village.
Elizabeth Murphy
First novel, set in a St. John’s university library
Author is a professor at MUN and has written academic papers and articles for newspapers
Published by Breakwater Books
Anne Simpson
Poet and novelist who lives in Antigonish, NS who has also written two novels.
Falling won the Dartmouth Book Award this year
Sara Tilley
First novel from a young author from St. John’s.
Recently short listed for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize
Russell Wangersky
Author currently resides in St. John’s but has also lived in NS
Nonfiction offering from an author with a previously published short story collection
HPL maintains a blog for leisure readers that is updated daily
Features tags for “local reads” and a recent feature called “Read Your Way Around Nova Scotia”
www.thereader.ca
Who Do You Want to Mention???
Joan Baxter Elizabeth Brewster Carol Bruneau Susan Cameron Lesley Choyce Joan Clark Lynn Coady Ian
Colford Christy Ann Conlin Deborah Joy Corey Charles Crosby Michael Crummey Richard Cumyn Sheldon Currie
Herb Curtis Wayne Curtis Myrtis T. Dohaney Allan Donaldson Stephanie Domet Dale Estey Raymond Fraser
Bruce Graham Darren Greer Deborah Hale Linda Hall Don Hannah Kenneth J. Harvey Michael Hennessey Joel
Thomas Hynes Wayne Johnston Ed Kavanagh Brad Kelln Stephen Kimber A.E. King Carole Little Linda Little Jim Lotz
Gerald Leblanc Alistair MacLeod Mary Jane Maffini Antonine Maillet Kevin Major Carmelita McGrath Janet
McNaughton Jean McNeil Linda McNutt Lisa Moore Bernice Morgan Vernon Oickle Beth Powning Heidi Priestnitz Alfred Silver Bill Smallwood J.J. Steinfeld Lynn M. Turner Darryl
Whetter Budge Wilson ………