570 NEWS Adult Author's Tent
Hosted/Presented by: Sharon Smith

  • 11:30 - 12:00 :: Chris Pannell

     In sure and tender poetry Chris Pannell looks into the rearview mirror of his bus - and his life - to celebrate the humanity of his passengers, and himself.  Based on reflections from his time as a bus driver, Drive is a beautiful mix of sadness and humour, poems about kidney dialysis give way to poems about technical writing.  This book has a very strong regional identity, Hamilton and area clearly comes through in the poems.
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  • 12:00 - 12:30 :: Scott Chantler

     Most westerns have traditionally dealt with the rough and tumble life on the high plains and deserts of America. Yet an even greater territory with an even more inhospitable climate rests to the North in what is now Canada. Rupert''s Land was a vast expanse held by the Hudson Bay Company under a charter issued by the British Crown. It is amongst these beautiful and harsh lands surrounding the Hudson Bay that this great epic unfolds. After Fort Newcastle is brutally captured by invading French mercenaries, Charles Lord and a band of his surviving soldiers, trackers, and explorers embark on one last great adventure to unite the people of Rupert''s Land to reclaim their home. This rollicking historical adventure fights its way on land and sea, all in search of and control of the mythic Northwest Passage.
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  • 12:30 - 1:00 :: Mary Swan

     In beautifully crafted prose, Mary Swan examines the volatile collisions between our best intentions--how a passing stranger can leave an indelible mark on our lives even as the people we know most intimately become alienated by tides of self-preservation and regret. In her nuanced, evocative descriptions a locket contains immeasurable sorrow, trees provide sanctuary and refuge to lost souls, and grief clicks into place when a man cocks the cold steel barrel of a revolver. A supreme literary achievement, The Boys in the Trees offers a chilling story that swells with acutely observed emotion and humanity.
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  • 1:00 - 1:30 :: Lorne Rubenstein

     In this book, readers will revel in the wide range of subjects, including course design; swing techniques (such as the stack and tilt); famous people, such as Moe Norman, Jack Nicklaus, Marlene Streit, Payne Stewart, and Ben Hogan; writers, such as Stephen Leacock; and reflections on the beauty and joy of the game. Two separate chapters are devoted to our most important golf heroes: the Canadian champion Mike Weir and the indomitable Tiger Woods. Within these pages, golf enthusiasts of every age and skill level will find something new to delight them. This is as much a celebration of the sport as it is a celebration of one of our most esteemed and beloved golf writers.
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  • 1:30 - 2:00 :: Sandra Sabatini

     In this tender, dramatic novel, Sandra Sabatini explores the cost of war on the ordinary people who fought on different fronts: in the vast wasteland of North Africa, and in the green hills of Nazi-occupied Italy. Dante and Angelina, two young lovers who meet on the eve of Dante’s deployment to North Africa, fight to survive the Second World War. While Dante becomes an accomplished mechanic, working on German fighter planes, Angelina contends with the presence of German soldiers in her own small town, and the evil that they introduce into her world. Apart, they must both find the strength to endure, and to stay alive in order to find each other again.
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  • 2:00 - 2:30 :: Jose Latour

     Crime of Fashion’s serpentine story and its mix of mystery, international espionage, and deceit make it a nail-biter. Latour is a master of suspense and surprises, and he’s writing at the top of his considerable powers in Crime of Fashion.
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  • 2:30 - 3:00 :: Shani Mootoo

     In Valmiki's Daughter, Giller Prize finalist and bestselling novelist Shani Mootoo returns to some of the themes she first explored in her breakout book, Cereus Blooms at Night. The story circles around a well-to-do Trinidadian family, in particular, Valmiki, a renowned doctor and loving if confused father, and his youngest daughter, Viveka, lively, intelligent, and intent on escaping the gilded cage that protects but also smothers her. Father and daughter conceal painful secrets about their sexual identities, and it is Viveka's struggle to discover the truth about herself that threatens to unmask her father and shake the foundations of her family and her delicately calibrated society. 
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  • 3:00 - 3:30 :: Jane Christmas

     In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. “Show me a mother who says she has a good or great relationship with her daughter,” Jane Christmas writes, “and I’ll show you a daughter who is in therapy trying to understand how it all went so horribly wrong.”
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  • 4:00 - 4:30 :: Doris Etienne

     Fifteen-year-old Garnet Walcott is lonely and having a hard time making new friends when she moves to Kitchener. Her mother, already preoccupied with work, has begun a search for a father she never knew. By chance, Garnet meets and befriends Elizabeth Tate, an elderly widow, who tells her that a priceless set of heirloom jewels dating back to the Russian nobility may be hidden in her Victorian home. Garnet is introduced to Dan Peters, one of the most popular boys at school, and when Elizabeth suffers a heart attack, Garnet persuades him to help her find the jewels for Elizabeth. As they follow the clues left by Elizabeth’s late eccentric and religious father-in-law, Garnet discovers much more than she bargained for.
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