Literary fiction and non-fiction from four versatile and accomplished authors: Katherine Ashenburg, James FitzGerald, Wayne Grady, and Merilyn Simonds.

Literary fiction from four versatile and accomplished Canadian authors. Shandi Mitchell is a Nova Scotia-based award-winning author and filmmaker.  She attended Dalhousie University and holds a degree in English and Theatre.  Mitchell's stories have been "noted for their unflinching visceral experience, poetic imagery, and memorable characters." Her most recent novel, The Waiting Hours, follows three ordinary... Read more »

The Stockey Centre and Parry Sound Books present a Book Reading with Lawrence Hill and his new book Beatrice and Croc Harry! Adult tickets are $35 + HST each and each adult ticket includes 1 copy of the new book and provides 1 complimentary ticket to a child. Additional child tickets can be purchased at... Read more »

In Why I'm Here, Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale reluctantly walks into her office with her stepmother. It’s 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the... Read more »

The Stockey Centre with Parry Sound Books and Trestle Brewing Company present An Evening with Waubgeshig Rice with special guests The Friendship Centre of Parry Sound. Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He’s written four books, most notably the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, published in 2018. He... Read more »

“Rod Carley has written a captivating and bewitching novel set in England 400 years ago, yet it runs rife with contemporary relevance and resonance. Sophisticated, funny, insightful, timeless yet timely… beautifully written…RUFF is a story to be savoured.” Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour Rod Carley’s back with another theatrical odyssey... Read more »