If you’re still in need for some gifts for the holidays you should come down to the store for our Author Afternoon, where you’ll be able to get a book signed and personalised by one of the fabulous authors who will be joining us.

(Of course, you’re also allowed to pick up a copy for yourself!)

When:

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Where:

Ben McNally Books

366 Bay Street

Signing Schedule

Laura Calder

author of The Inviting Life

12:30 – 1:15 p.m.

Laura Calder was born and raised in Eastern Canada. She is the author of four cookbooks—French Food at Home; Dinner Chez Moi; Paris Express; and French Taste—and a contributor to The Globe and Mail. She wrote and hosted the internationally-aired series French Food at Home, which won a James Beard award. Her newest book is The Inviting Life. After a decade spent in France, Laura now lives and hosts in Toronto.

Far more than a guide to homemaking and being a fine host—although it is definitely all that too—The Inviting Life is about how to live each day with a desire and determination to turn the ordinary into something lovely. Read more about the book here.

Michelle Winters

author of I Am a Truck

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Michelle Winters is a writer, painter, and translator from Saint John, N.B., living in Toronto. Her written and visual work stretches the limits of the probable, explores the lushness of the industrial, and anthropomorphizes with gay abandon. Her stories have been published in THIS Magazine, Taddle Creek, Dragnet, and Matrix, and she was nominated for the 2011 Journey Prize.

I Am a Truck is her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

Set against the landscape of rural Acadia, I Am a Truck is a funny and moving tale about the possibilities and impossibilities of love and loyalty. Read more about it here.

Tanya Talaga 

author of Seven Fallen Feathers

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Tanya Talaga focuses on indigenous issues and investigative reporting. She has been part of two teams that won project of the year National Newspaper Awards. One on murdered and missing indigenous women and girls and the other on the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh. She has been nominated for four Michener Awards for public service journalism.

Her new book, Seven Fallen Feathers was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for both the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and the Speaker’s Book Award.

Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, Seven Fallen Feathers delves into the history of this small northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities. Read more about the book here.