Bryan Prince Bookseller welcomes Susan Swan, David Bergen and Steven Heighton

Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 7:00pm

Bryan Prince Bookseller
1060 King Street West
Hamilton, ON
L8S 1L7

Susan Swan, David Bergen and Steven Heighton will be reading from their new books. Susan Swan will be reading from her novel, The Western Light. David Bergen will be reading from his novel, The Age of Hope. Steven Heighton will be reading from his new book of short fiction, The Dead Are More Visible

About the Authors

SUSAN SWAN’s critically acclaimed fiction has been published in twenty countries. Her last novel What Casanova Saw, a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was made into a film. Susan has been an active and effective member of the Canadian literary and political scene. She resides in Toronto.

The Western Light is the long-awaited return to the life of the beloved narrator Mary ‘Mouse’ Bradford from The Wives of Bath, whose constrained life is about to dramatically change when former NHL Gentleman John Pilkie, a patient in a Midland mental hospital, enters into her life.

DAVID BERGEN is an award winning author of five previous novels and a short story collection. He has been the recipient of a Giller Prize for Time In Between in 2005 and The Matter with Morris was shortlisted in 2010. Bergen recently won a Writers Trust Award for a writer in mid-career. He lives in Winnipeg.

The Age of Hope is the story of Hope Koop whose conventional, small town life is challenged as the years roll by, charting a course from traditionalism to feminism and beyond. This is a perceptive, enjoyable and finely written novel.

STEVEN HEIGHTON’S short fiction is a three-time winner with the National Magazines’ Awards and his novel Every Lost Country was a national bestseller and optioned for a film as was Afterlands which was also a NY Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Steven lives in Kingston, Ontario

The Dead Are More Visible is a book of short fiction that brims with emotion, humour and suspense. The eleven profoundly moving stories resonate with insight and compassion, demonstrating the traditional merits of the genre while challenging its confines.

Admission is free, but RSVP is required.

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Bryan Prince Bookseller 905-528-4508 or staff@princebooks.net