October
22. Author Frances Itani,
whose novel Deafening was nominated for the 2003
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, will read from her works
at Solstice Books in Wakefield. At 3.00 pm.
Admission free, but as space is limited tickets will be
issued on a first-come, first-served basis.
Solstice Books is located at 721 Riverside Drive in
Wakefield.
The
Wakefield Book Club
The Book Club meets at the Wakefield Public Library
at 10.00 am. on every third Friday from October to June. If
you are looking for a book club there is space available
here.
This season's reading list is as follows:
2006
October 20: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
November 17: Zarafa by Michael Allin
December 15: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2007
January 19: Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
February 16: Quick Sands by Sybille Bedford
March 16: Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
April 29: God's Secretaries by Adam
Nicholson
May 18: River Thieves by Michael Crummy
June 25: Selection of books for next season
For information call Ann Stone at 819-827-5704
Wakefield
resident Alex Mortimer has recently published his book
The Quitter,
a series of vignettes depicting the variety of occupations
in which the author has engaged in the course of his life.
Published by Ken Sproule's Bunkhouse Press, an Ottawa
enterprise which now has three titles to its credit, the
book is available at Solstice Press in Wakefield or online
at
www.bunkhousepress.com
Wakefield
writer Nathan Vanek is having a book published by a new
British publisher.
Bluemoose Books, located in Yorkshire, will shortly publish,
as one of its first two books, The Bridge Between,
a collection of articles written by Vanek and originally
published in The Low Down to Hull and Back newspaper
between 1999 and 2000.
The book may be ordered at the publisher's website
www.bluemoosebooks.com
October
22. Author Frances Itani
Wakefield
writer Nathan Vanek is having a book published by a new
British publisher
