NEWS RELEASE
COLLINGWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Winter 2021 is looking up with the authors set to virtually visit the Collingwood Public Library for their Winter Author Talk Series.
“We are very excited to virtually welcome these best-selling authors to the library,” says adult and seniors programs coordinator, Lori Crossan. “2020 has shown the library can still welcome authors to our community, just in a different way.”
The 2021 winter line up includes:
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021: Ian Hamilton author of the Ava Lee Series
Join us as the library virtually welcomes national bestselling author, Ian Hamilton. Hamilton is the author of the 14 novels in the Ava Lee series and three in the Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung series. His books have been shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Arthur Ellis Award, the Barry Award, and the Lambda Literary Prize.
The BBC Culture named Hamilton one of the 10 mystery/crime writers from the last thirty years who should be on your bookshelf. Notably, The Ava Lee series is currently being adapted for television.
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021: Karma Brown author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife
The library is very excited to welcome Karma Brown this winter! Brown is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of five novels: the #1 Globe and Mail national bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, and the international bestsellers Come Away with Me (a Globe and Mail Top 150 books of 2015), The Choices We Make, In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew.
In addition to her novels, Brown's writing has appeared in publications such as Self, Redbook, Canadian Living, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine.
Her first non-fiction project, The 4% Fix: How one hour can change your life, has recently been published.
Thursday, April 22, 2021: Catherine Gildiner author of Good Morning, Monster
Catherine Gildiner will be at the Collingwood Public Library to discuss her latest book, Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journey’s to Recovery, a nonfiction book about patients she has had in her psychology practice who, despite their desolate childhoods, have overcome their traumas and managed to thrive. The book looks at their resilience and what traits they used to persevere.
Good Morning, Monster, was on the Canadian best sellers’ list and was chosen in the U.S as one of the three top Amazon Choices for the fall. It was positively reviewed in Psychology Today and Entertainment Weekly. Although just published in late 2020 in the U.S., it has already been translated into four languages.
Gildiner has written the best-selling childhood memoir titled, Too Close to the Falls. It was on the Toronto Globe and Mail’s best sellers’ list for an amazing 157 weeks and the New York Times list as well. A decade later, she published a sequel, a teenage memoir of life in the 60s called, After the Falls. Gildiner then wrote her third and final memoir called, Coming Ashore, which covers her life as a student at Oxford in England, teaching in the burning ghetto in Cleveland, and finally her graduate school years in Toronto. She has also written Seduction, a novel about Darwin and Freud, which has been an international bestseller and was listed by Der Spiegel in Germany as one of the year’s ten best mysteries.
For more details about each visit and to register, please visit here.
The Collingwood Public Library is committed to guiding our community in the pursuit of information, the wonder of lifelong learning, and the enrichment of social and cultural experiences. At the heart of the community, the Collingwood Public Library is an inclusive environment seeking universal accessibility.
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