FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link










“Robinson is prolific, but with each book he manages to ring the changes.”—The Guardian

“His novels track the changing nature of crime, taking on difficult subjects such as gangs of men who groom underage girls, and the new book tackles the contentious subject of widening inequality.”—Sunday Times

PETER ROBINSON grew up in the United Kingdom, and now divides his time between Toronto,  and Richmond, Yorkshire. Many Rivers to Cross is the 26th book in the DCI Banks series. He has also written two collections of short stories, and three stand-alone novels. Robinson's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada, and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

Peter Robinson a "master of the police procedural" (Mail on Sunday) returns with the twenty-sixth instalment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series.  THAT’s a lot of murders and mysteries to solve!

You won’t want to miss this iconic mystery writer as he shares his thoughts on Bob Dylan (yes….THE SINGER/SONGWRITER!) and how he continues to come up with exciting plot lines over and over again. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon in Fall? Sunday October 25 at 3pm!!

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link

Longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize









 

Plan to attend on October 27 at 7pm as award-winning author Annabel Lyon shares insights from Consent just as it hits the shelves!

A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes them forever. From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean.


ANNABEL LYON is the author of seven books for adults and kids, including the internationally bestselling The Golden Mean. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

 Annabel and acclaimed interviewer Bianca Marais will dive into Consent just as it hits the shelves! Noted as “this generation’s answer to Alice Munro” (Vancouver Sun) Annabel delivers a sly, sensual, haunting novel about two women whose lives collide when tragedy changes them forever.  It's a startling, moving, thought-provoking story of the complexities of familial duty and on how love can become entangled with guilt, resentment and regret.

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: TARA O'BRADY

DETAILS: $40 - includes: EITHER author's signed Book and ZOOM Link
 

Join the fun as Anna Olson, author of eight bestselling cookbooks and the beloved host of Food Network’s Bake with Anna Olson, Fresh with Anna Olson, and Sugar, talks all things baking with Jenna Hutchinson and Ashley Kosowan, the twin sisters behind Winnipeg’s world renowned and Martha Stewart-approved Jenna Rae Cakes! These fabulous author/chefs will be interviewed by Tara O’Brady, acclaimed Globe and Mail food writer and author of the cookbook Seven Spoons. Make sure you have some sugary treats on hand, because you will get hungry.

 

Your ticket will include your choice of Baking Day, Anna Olson’s essential guide to baking for and with those you love, or Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats, featuring over 100 recipes from the beloved family-owned bakery.”

 

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link








 

For fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love?

On October 29 at 7pm join us for an evening with KERRY CLARE. Her  debut novel, Mitzi Bytes, was called "entertaining, engaging and timely" by the Toronto Star" And this October, Clare returns with Waiting for a Star to Fall.  

"Waiting for a Star to Fall is the novel we need at this moment: a wonderfully sharp and humane examination of power and betrayal, love and limits. Kerry Clare has told one woman’s story, but many of us will recognize ourselves in this rich portrait." —Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe and Mail columnist and author of Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls.

Clare is an editor and blogger and lives in Toronto with her family.  She has entertained guests of Blue Heron Books in many capacities before -- as an author and an interviewer. You won’t be disappointed spending an evening with the gregarious Kerry Clare and interviewer Bianca Marais.

"A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars. . . . Timely and insightful." --Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife
 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book (your choice of #1 or #10 )and ZOOM Link

 

 

A delightfully dark English mystery series, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family. --"the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times)--

ALAN BRADLEY is a Canadian (living on the Isle of Man) and New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award.

Bradley has now penned nine other books in the series and if you haven’t ‘met’ Flavia yet, you really must!! Come and share a delightful afternoon of conversation and humour with ALAN BRADLEY on Sunday, November 1 at 3:00pm (since we change our clocks on this day, we get an extra hour and this is the perfect way to spend it!!)

 

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link











In this terrifying ghost story based on true events, the President’s late son haunts the White House, threatening all who live in it—and the divided America beyond its walls. From the bestselling author of The Homecoming.
 

What is November 5th? Why, it’s days after the American election, of course! And what better way to celebrate/commiserate than with ANDREW PYPER and his new novel. The Residence takes place in the White House in 1853, during the infancy of Franklin Pierce’s Presidency, and under a cloud of grief and ghosts.

Pyper is the internationally bestselling author of nine previous novels, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Hardcover Novel, and The Killing Circle, which was selected a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. He lives in Toronto and is no stranger to Uxbridge and previous Literary Festivals. This year, you can stay safe in your own home while sharing this ghost story (based on true events) with Andrew Pyper, along with the gifted interviewer, Bianca Marais. Let’s get haunted together - depending on the outcome of the election, this could be a very scary week! 

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link











Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM.
 

A Blue Heron Books veteran, EMMA DONOGHUE was born in Dublin in 1969. Emma is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge, England, before moving to Canada’s London, Ontario. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (The Wonder, Slammerkin, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes; her screen adaptation, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, was nominated for four Academy Awards.

DONOGHUE’s latest novel The Pull of the Stars has been described as very timely (it deals with a pandemic) and enthralling: “Searing… Donoghue’s evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers.”  — Publishers Weekly.

In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. Don’t miss your chance to spend the afternoon on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3pm with Emma and Bianca Marais as they talk about the parallels of 1918 and 2020!

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: Haley Cullingham

DETAILS: $35 - includes: EITHER author's signed Book and ZOOM Link
 

A perfect literary pairing for the spookiest season of the year—Halloween, el Día de los Muertos, and the US election. Carmen Maria Machado followed up her incredible short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, with last year’s In The Dream House, a groundbreaking memoir about domestic abuse wherein each chapter is driven by a different narrative trope. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic, a brilliant reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, makes use of some of the same tropes—most notably the haunted house. Get lost in the labyrinth of these two extraordinary books with both authors, who will be in conversation with editor extraordinaire Haley Cullingham.
 

 

If you choose ticket option # 2 please indicate the book you would like in the special instructions field of your ticket order.  Thanks!

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link











A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller.
 

Both critically acclaimed and loved by readers, SUE MILLER is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her books have been widely translated and published in 22 countries around the world. The Good Mother (1986), the first of her ten novels, was an immediate bestseller (more than six months at the top of the New York Times charts). Subsequent novels include three Book-of- the-Month main selections: Family Pictures (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), While I Was Gone (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), and The Senator’s Wife. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her latest novel, Monogamy is the story of a golden couple, living an envied, loving 30 year marriage. When her husband dies, Annie needs to forge a new life for herself while dealing with the loss of her best friend and grappling with new and startling details of his life.

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT
INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS
DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link













“I was swept away by this mesmerizing book, and I savoured every moment of the journey. History, intrigue, suspense, romance, the evolution of two strong, engaging women, and a parrot—everything I longed for and more! The Sea Gate will stay in my heart for a long time.”
— GENEVIEVE GRAHAM, #1 bestselling author of The Forgotten Home Child

JANE JOHNSON is a novelist, historian, and publisher. She is the UK editor for George R.R. Martin, Dean Koontz, and others. She has written several novels for adults and children, including the bestselling novel The Tenth Gift.  Her latest novel, The Sea Gate, is a sweeping and utterly spellbinding tale of a young woman’s courage in the face of war, and the lengths to which she’ll go to protect those she loves against the most unexpected of enemies. 
You absolutely will lose yourself as JOHNSON converses with BIANCA MARAIS about her travels, her experiences and, of course, her latest historical fiction tale. Join them on SUNDAY, NOV. 15 AT 3PM!

Jane is married to a Berber chef she met while climbing in Morocco. Be sure to ask her about that story!
 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link












*Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction
*Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards
*Finalist, CBC Canada Reads
*Finalist, High Plains Book Awards
*A Globe and Mail Book of the Year
*An Indigo Book of the Year
*A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.
 

JESSE THISTLE  is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is an assistant professor in Métis Studies at York University in Toronto.  You won’t want to miss this virtual event on Thursday, November 17, during which THISTLE and  BIANCA MARAIS discuss this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir.  From the Ashes is an inspiring tale of resilience and perseverance, tethered by true love - past and present. 
 

“This memoir haunts, gnawing at the soul as we walk with Jesse through his many incarnations. . . . If you want a glimpse at why some of our brothers and sisters end up on the streets, read this book.”
— TANYA TALAGA, The Walrus

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: JARED BLAND

DETAILS: $35 - includes: EITHER author's signed Book and ZOOM Link

 

This is the event of the season—two giants of Canadian literature sharing one screen. Margaret Atwood and Lorna Crozier will discuss their latest books, Dearly and Through The Garden, with their publisher, McClelland & Stewart’s Jared Bland. Before Margaret Atwood became one of the most important writers of our time, she was a poet, and the masterful Dearly is her first collection of poems to be published in a decade. Lorna Crozier’s Through the Garden, a rare book of non-fiction by one of Canada’s most beloved and accomplished poets, is a deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry. We can’t even begin to imagine the conversation these longtime friends, both celebrating milestones in their long and storied careers, will have.

 

Your ticket will include your choice of Dearly or Through the Garden.

 

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link











It's always exciting to be in on the ground floor of new writers. We at Blue Heron Books read this early and fell in love.  Discover ALEX PUGSLEY's debut novel, Aubrey McKee.

Pugsley hails from Nova Scotia and has considerable experience and several accolades as a television screenwriter. This debut novel, is part coming-of-age story, part social chronicle and part study of the myths that define our growing.  From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. The setting, Halifax,  itself becomes a character, containing all the rich history and moody dynamics of the people who occupy it. (OpenBook). If we can’t travel to Halifax, we can (re)live its charm and history by visiting with ALEX PUGSLEY and BIANCA MARAIS at the Book Drunkard Festival on November 24 at 7pm. 

 

 

FORMAT: VIRTUAL ZOOM EVENT

INTERVIEWER: BIANCA MARAIS

DETAILS: $30 - includes: Signed Book and ZOOM Link











ALAN DOYLE is a Canadian musician, actor and writer. His albums as a solo artist and as front man for the Newfoundland Celtic-rock band Great Big Sea have sold over a million copies, and he has starred in such features as Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and CBC's Republic of Doyle. 

One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues in his short story collection, “All Together Now”  - even the title makes one think of a song that could be sung by DOYLE’s band, GREAT BIG SEA! Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need? 
All Together Now is a gathering in book form--a virtual Newfoundland pub.

You need to sign up for this virtual Pub Event on Monday, Nov. 30 at 7pm when DOYLE regales us and BIANCA MARAIS with hilarious tales that span the world to make us all feel that we are in these strange times together!