Premier Canadian Literary Series features top Canadian authors everyone’s reading
The eh List, Toronto Public Library’s showcase of top Canadian books and authors, returns in its sixth season with a roster of award winning writers from across Canada, including Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Will Ferguson, Governor General’s Award winner Nino Ricci, Trillium Book Prize winner Camilla Gibb and RBC Taylor Prize winner Plum Johnson.
Investigative reporter Kevin Donovan’s Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation goes beyond the headlines on the scandal that sparked a national discussion around sexual assault and the cult of celebrity. Canadian curling champion Colleen Jones opens up about her extraordinary career and life in Throwing Rocks at Houses and award-winning Canadian science journalist Alanna Mitchell appears in conversation with John Geiger, CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society on Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus. Ken McGoogan presents Celtic Lightning, How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation.
The season launches September 3 with novelist Heather O’Neill and fiction takes centre stage throughout the fall with new novels from Terry Fallis (Poles Apart, No Relation, The Best Laid Plans), Dianne Warren (Liberty Street, Cool Water), Elizabeth Hay (His Whole Life, Alone in the Classroom, Late Nights on Air), Don Gillmor (Long Change, Mount Pleasant) and Greg Hollingshead (Act Normal, The Roaring Girl, The Healer).
Ferguson, also a three time winner of the Stephen Leacock medal, appears with Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the Heart of Africa; Gibb appears with a forthcoming memoir This is Happy; Johnson appears with her award-winning family memoir They Left Us Everything, and Ricci, with a new novel, Sleep.
Also appearing is 2015 Trillium Book Prize winner Kate Cayley, who edged out heavy hitters Margaret Atwood and Thomas King to claim Ontario’s $20,000 fiction prize, and Ian Brown, who also appears at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in conversation with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers on November 4.
Beloved Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston shares a new memoir and poetry enthusiasts get a laugh with Bill Richardson and The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps: Poems of the Late Middle Ages.
Also featured in branches across the city are Giles Blunt, Robert J. Wiersema, D.J. McIntosh, Richard Crouse, Rosemary Sullivan, Beth Powning, Helen Humphreys, André Alexis and Larry Tremblay.
All events are free. For a full listing and branch locations, visit tpl.ca/ehlist
Launched in 2009 with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the eh List is a showcase of Canada’s top authors and their new books, presented at 7 branches across the city. Media sponsor for the series is the Toronto Star and the official bookseller for eh List events is the U of T Bookstore. Over 300 authors have appeared in the series.
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Manager, Cultural and Special Event Programming
Toronto Public Library
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