The Village Bookshop
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Bayfield Reads 2010
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010
Time: 2 pm
Location: Bayfield Town Hall
Tickets: $5 each, available at The Village Bookshop or at the door.
Refreshments will be served.
Bayfield Reads is held just prior to CBC radio's week-long Canada
Reads competition, featured on "Q" with Jian Ghomeshi. Five
passionate readers from Huron and Perth Counties will each defend
one of the 2010 Canada Reads titles, in an attempt to convince the
audience that his or her choice is the book that every Canadian
should read this year. Following the presentations, the audience
will vote, refreshments will be served and a winner will be
announced. Our votes will be forwarded to CBC and added to the
nation-wide tally.
This year, the books will be defended by the following local
readers:
Nancy
Barrett: The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Darren Erb: Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Brett Kelly: Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald
Jane Rowat: Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
John McCarroll: Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
More information about Canada Reads is available at
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/
To reserve your tickets for
Bayfield Reads 2010, please email or call the Bookshop at
519-565-5600.
2010 Literary Events
Mark your calendars now for these spring/summer literary events.
Additional details will be published as they become available.
Sunday, May 2: Books and Brunch at the Little Inn.
Featuring Catherine Gildiner, author of Too Close to the Falls, After the
Falls and Seduction.
Sunday, May 30: Books and Brunch at the Little Inn. Featuring Drew Hayden
Taylor, playwright, humourist, author of The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic
Novel, editor of anthologies Me Sexy and Me Funny.
June 26-27: Bayfield Writer’s Festival.
Midsummer Night’s Reading Series
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Sunday, July 4: Ann Vanderhoof, author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes, and
The Spice Necklace
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Sunday, August 1: Alison Wearing, author of Honeymoon in Purdah, creator of
one-woman performance piece Giving Into Light -
Sunday, Sept. 5 (author to be announced)
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