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 ………