Our Charlottetown location has just been recently renovated and upgraded. We now have more space and a beautiful new look to our store, and we’re just a few doors up from our original location on Queen St.
In addition to books, we also offer Art Supplies, Hydrographic Charts/Tide Tables, and Stationery. Come on in and see us in downtown Charlottetown, or for our friends from away, send in a note or your special orders from the website.
Hope to see you there soon!
Newfoundland novelist and poet Michael Crummey will be UPEI writer in residence from January 22 to February 4. A reception and book signing will follow his reading, which is co-hosted by the UPEI English Department and the Gallery.
Michael grew up in Buchans, a mining town in the Newfoundland interior, and in Wabush, a Labrador mining town. After completing a B.A. in English at Memorial University, he moved to Kingston to pursue graduate work. He has taught ESL in China and worked at the International Day of Solidarity with the people of Guatemala, and lives in St. John’s.
In addition to his best-selling novels, he has published five books of poetry, one short story collection, and Newfoundland: Journey Into a Lost Nation (with photographer Greg Locke). His first novel, River Thieves, details the conflict between European settlers and the last of the Beothuk in the early 19th century. His next novel, The Wreckage, tells the story of a Newfoundland soldier and his beloved during and after World War II. Crummey’s new novel, Galore, is a family saga and love story spanning two centuries, mingling history and myth.
Time: Thursday, January 26th @ 7:30p
Location: Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Admission: Free
Newfoundland novelist and poet Michael Crummey will be UPEI writer in residence from January 22 to February 4. A reception and book signing will follow his reading, which is co-hosted by the UPEI English Department and the Gallery.
Michael grew up in Buchans, a mining town in the Newfoundland interior, and in Wabush, a Labrador mining town. After completing a B.A. in English at Memorial University, he moved to Kingston to pursue graduate work. He has taught ESL in China and worked at the International Day of Solidarity with the people of Guatemala, and lives in St. John’s.
In addition to his best-selling novels, he has published five books of poetry, one short story collection, and Newfoundland: Journey Into a Lost Nation (with photographer Greg Locke). His first novel, River Thieves, details the conflict between European settlers and the last of the Beothuk in the early 19th century. His next novel, The Wreckage, tells the story of a Newfoundland soldier and his beloved during and after World War II. Crummey’s new novel, Galore, is a family saga and love story spanning two centuries, mingling history and myth.
- From BUZZon.com
Time: Thursday, January 26th @ 7:30p
Location: Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Admission: Free
In Holly Luhning’s debut novel Quiver, Danica, a young Canadian forensic psychologist working in England, is ensnared in a terrifying web spun from the legend of a 16th-century Hungarian countess: Elizabeth Báthory, a female Dracula who tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls to bathe in their blood, believing this would preserve her youth and beauty. Danica finds herself in a dangerous zone where scholarly research and forensic psychology encounter the shifting borders between appealing and harmless fantasy, prurient reality, and treacherous sexuality and violence.
Luhning, also an accomplished poet who was raised on a Saskatchewan farm and earned an M.A. in Creative Writing and English from the University of New Brunswick, will read from her fiction and poetry with a reception and book signing to follow. Her poetry draws on her Prairie roots, east coast experience, and world travels, while Quiver benefits from her research in Gothic literature, madness, and theories of the body. She now lives in Toronto.
- From BUZZon.com
Time: Tuesday, January 17th @ 7:30p
Location: UPEI Faculty Lounge
Admission: Free
Chris Benjamin, author of Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, will be in Charlottetown for the PEI launch of his novel Drive-By Saviours, a 2011 Canada Reads choice that was long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards.
Joining Benjamin will be Hugh MacDonald, PEI’s Poet Laureate, David Helwig, whose latest book is called Killing McGee, Jeff Bursey, author of the satirical Verbatim: A Novel (The Review of Contemporary Fiction calls it “a tour de force”), and PEI poet Yvette Doucette.
Drive-By Saviours is set in Indonesia and Canada, and brings together two characters and two cultures. Bumi is fleeing persecution from Indonesia, ruled over, at the time of the novel, by the dictator Suharto. Mark is a social worker and grant-writer in Toronto who is slowly burning out, and wondering what to do to make his life worthwhile. Over the course of their growing friendship Mark helps Bumi understand the OCD that has helped drive him from his family, his friends, and his country, while Bumi’s condition re-awakens the desire in Mark to reach out to his estranged sister.
Time: Wednesday, January 11th @ 7p
Location: UPEI Faculty Lounge
Admission: Free
Deirdre Kessler teaches creative writing and children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. She is the author of five children’s novels, including the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Award-winning Brupp Rides Again, and six other picture books, including perennial favourites Lobster in My Pocket and Lena and the Whale.
Christina Patterson has won numerous awards and competitions for her artwork including receiving the People’s Choice Award for Open Air III in London, Ontario. From her home studio she illustrates, sculpts personalized clay portraits and designs for a living. Her art has been featured on the Regis and Kelly Live Show, Gizmodo, Le Journal du Geek, Blizzard Entertainment, CBC, CTV Live at 5 and several new articles in newspapers across Canada. Christina lives in Charlottetown with her husband.
Time: Saturday, December 17th @ 12p
Location: Bookmark, 172 Queen St. Charlottetown, PEI
Admission: Free
