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James Gordon: Double Book Launch!

Article By Stephanie Minett
Published 22 Mar 2023

Guelph author/songwriter/activist James Gordon has TWO books to launch at once! Join us in the Bookshelf Cinema on Wednesday, March 29th for this special double launch. James will be reading from both books and sharing some of the songs as well - a delightful way to spend an evening!

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REVIEW: THE STRANGE

Article By Andrew Hood
Published 20 Mar 2023

Ballingrud takes a stalwart, earnest voice indebted to one of the finest narratives of the 20th century and uses it to bolster some of the most glorious, eldritch, far-out, vivid sci-fi/horror/western that is likely to establish itself as a classic among any or all of those genres.

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REVIEW: JUST A MOTHER

Article By Andrew Hood
Published 13 Mar 2023

Over three years and four installments, Roy Jacobsen's Barrøy Chronicles have proved, beyond being an intimate consideration of one woman's remarkable life, a masterful depiction of time's strange, unreliable, and incessant passage.

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REVIEW: THE HERO OF THIS BOOK

Review By Andrew Hood
Published 28 Feb 2023

McCracken writes with such honed acuity that there will be places to stop and lose oneself on every page. Roses of prose to stop and sniff, so to tritely speak.

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EMWF Book Club: Kinauvit?

Article By Staff
Published 27 Feb 2023

Join Eden Mills Writers' Fest for one of our March Book Club events featuring Dr. Norma Dunning, a Governor General’s Award-winning author in conversation with host Mary Ito.

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REVIEW: ON WRITING AND FAILURE

Article By Andrew Hood
Published 8 Feb 2023

On Writing and Failure is one of the few writer's companions I would ever call essential.

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