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October 2016
Ayesha Curry at Luma
When: October 18, 6 p.m. Where: Luma Restaurant, 350 King St. W., TIFF Bell LightBox, 2nd Floor Dinner With Ayesha Curry Join self-taught chef and author Ayesha Curry at Luma on Tuesday, October 18 for a cocktail reception and three-course dinner, featuring recipes from her new cookbook The Seasoned Life. For tickets and more information: http://www.lumarestaurant.com/ayesha-curry-dinner/
Find out more »November 2016
Robert Harris Dinner at Grano
When: November 1, 2016 6 pm Where: grano 2035 Yonge St. Please join Ben McNally and Random House Canada as they celebrate the publication of Robert Harris' latest book. Drinks at 6, Dinner at 6.30. Tickets are $110.00, for an all-inclusive dinner and a copy of the book. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Call us (416.361.0032) to reserve your place. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the…
Find out more »Ben McNally/Globe & Mail Books and Brunch
When: Sunday November 6, 10.00 am Where: King Edward Hotel, 37 King St E. Brunch is served in the Vanity Fair Ballroom on the second floor of the King Edward Hotel. Tickets are $55.00 each (taxes included) and must be purchased in advance. Tickets are non-refundable. Please call us at 416.361.0032 with your credit card information to reserve tickets The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Noah Richler Doubleday Canada During the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200…
Find out more »Saima S. Hussain at Ben McNally Books
When: November 16 6pm Where: Ben McNally Books 366 Bay Street The Canadian Council of Muslim Women and The Tessellate Institute invite you to the book launch party for The Muslimah Who Fell From to Earth. This is a free event, all welcome. These twenty-one personal stories are told by women from practically all backgrounds and persuasions—devout and not-so devout, professionals and housewives, westernized and traditional, wearing jeans, hijab, or niqab, straight and gay, and originally from Africa, North America,…
Find out more »December 2016
Historias de Toronto (Toronto Series)
Toronto is the vital backdrop against which these stories are set. It is along Toronto’s streets and in its alleys and corners that the characters endure their silent dramas, their intimate tragedies, their insolent joy, and their manifest insecurities. The reader will find fiction and reality, self-analysis and reflection, the reinterpretation of dreams, of images and sequences that sometimes stem from real life and at other times have been born from their authors’ imaginations. The twelve authors who collaborated on…
Find out more »45 Books in 45 Minutes
The days are getting shorter and shorter, and it's time to start thinking about holiday reading, for loved ones or for yourself. For a comprehensive (and quick!) list of the best books of the season, join Ben McNally and Lynn Thomson as they present two nights of the renowned 45 Books in 45 Minutes. The action starts at 6:30 pm on both nights, and refreshments will be served. Space is limited, so please do call us at (416) 361-0032 to…
Find out more »45 Books in 45 Minutes
The days are getting shorter and shorter, and it's time to start thinking about holiday reading, for loved ones or for yourself. For a comprehensive (and quick!) list of the best books of the season, join Ben McNally and Lynn Thomson as they present two nights of the renowned 45 Books in 45 Minutes. The action starts at 6:30 pm on both nights, and refreshments will be served. Space is limited, so please do call us at (416) 361-0032 to…
Find out more »Ben McNally/Globe & Mail Books and Brunch
When: Sunday December 11, 10.00 am Where: King Edward Hotel, 37 King St E. Brunch is served in the Vanity Fair Ballroom on the second floor of the King Edward Hotel. Tickets are $55.00 each (taxes included) and must be purchased in advance. Tickets are non-refundable. Please call us at 416.361.0032 with your credit card information to reserve tickets The Promise of Canada: 150 Years - People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country by Charlotte Gray Simon & Schuster…
Find out more »January 2017
Ben McNally/Globe & Mail Books and Brunch
When: Sunday January 29, 10.00 am Where: King Edward Hotel, 37 King St E. Brunch is served in the Vanity Fair Ballroom on the second floor of the King Edward Hotel. Tickets are $55.00 each (taxes included) and must be purchased in advance. Tickets are non-refundable. Please call us at 416.361.0032 with your credit card information to reserve tickets Birds, Art, Life by Kyo Maclear Doubleday Canada For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath,…
Find out more »February 2017
Easy Prey Investors Book Launch
Please Join Ben McNally Books and McGill Queen's University Press for the Launch of Al and Mark Rosen's New Book Easy Prey Investors Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada’s lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk. Bodies such as provincial securities commissions have abandoned their obligations to safeguard investors and allowed published and audited financial statements in Canada to become…
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