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Author Talks & Lectures

Icon of the event Kamal Al-Solaylee: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Thu Jun 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Parliament Street

Author and journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee talks about his family's movements from Yemen to Egypt and back amid the tumultuous political events of the 1960s and his own struggle to find a way to live as a gay man. Prid...

Icon of the event Damian Barr: Maggie & Me
Tue Jun 11, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Lillian H. Smith

Author Damian Barr shares his latest book, a memoir about growing up in Thatcher's Britain....

Icon of the event Author Talk: Marguerite Pigeon
Mon May 27, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Parliament Street

Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of poetry and fiction....

Icon of the event Author Talk: Joy Fielding
Tue May 21, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Parliament Street

Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers...

Icon of the event Tea & Books
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm on recurring dates listed below
Agincourt

Join us for an entertaining and relaxing afternoon and listen to librarians review and discuss recent publications, upcoming titles, their favourite authors, and recommend some good titles for you to read. Light refreshments ...


Upcoming Dates:
Tue May 28
Tue Jun 25
Icon of the event Author Reading. Don Gillmor discusses his novel  Mount  Pleasant
Thu May 30, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Deer Park

In this tragicomic social novel,Gillmor examines the anxieties of the once confident baby boomers caught in the recent global recession - the downsizing of lifestyles,ambitions and rosy dreams of easy retirement.