Royson James is the municipal affairs columnist of the Toronto Star. Before becoming a columnist, he worked at the Toronto Star covering municipal politics in Scarborough, North York and Metropolitan Toronto, and later served on the newspaper's editorial board. He is speaking on The Toronto Star Stage at 2:00 with Vanessa Lu and David Rider.

Since 1997, Maureen Jennings has written seven books in the award-winning Detective Murdoch series: Except the Dying, Under the Dragon’s Tale, Poor Tom Is Cold, Let Loose the Dogs, Night’s Child, Vices of My Blood and A Journeyman to Grief — these paperbacks have all been recently re-issued by McClelland & Stewart. Join her as she reads from her Good Reads title, Shipwreck in the Great Books Marquee at 2:15 and speaks in the Remarkable Reads Tent at 11:00.