Celebration of the Arts Books & Authors Night
Thomas King, Emma Donoghue and Giles Blunt with interviewer Ted Barris.
For more than 30 years Blue Heron Books has been hosting the Celebration of the Arts Books and Authors Night and bringing top-notch literary talent to Uxbridge!
This year’s program features three fabulous authors in an interesting and diverse program to satisfy every reader.
Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Thomas King is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario, before studying English Literature at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels, including the award-winning John Cardinal Mystery series, Blunt has more recently turned to literary fiction with Bad Juliet. He lives in Toronto.
Ted Barris: For as long as there’ve been Books & Authors nights in Uxbridge, Ted Barris has served as MC. In part, that’s because he makes his living writing and interviewing. As a journalist/broadcaster for 50 years, he’s been published by most major news outlets in Canada and appeared regularly on CBC and TVO. He’s the author of 22 bestselling books. His histories have received numerous awards: The Great Escape – 2014 Libris Nonfiction Book of the Year; Dam Busters – 2018 NORAD Trophy; Rush to Danger – longlisted for 2020 Charles Taylor Prize for Nonfiction. Last fall, his latest book Battle of Britain was both a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail bestseller; also in 2024 Ted was appointed to the Order of Canada.
All tickets are: $45.20 (includes a $20.00 book voucher) and includes all taxes, ticket fees and Music Hall Improvement Fund.
No refunds/exchanges once tickets have been purchased.
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Doors open 30 minutes prior to start time.
Run time: approx. 2 hours.
Age range: Anyone over the age of 14.
Venue: Uxbridge Music Hall