IFOA Ontario, with Laura Lippman and Jane Johnson

Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 11:00am

Wooden Sticks
40 Elgin Park Drive
Uxbridge, ON
L9P 1N2

IFOA Ontario began as an offshoot of the IFOA, a registered Canadian non-profit charitable organization that presents an 11-day literary festival in Toronto each year. Now in its fifth year, IFOA Ontario partners with libraries, bookstores, universities and communities to present the best writers of contemporary literature in venues across the province. Events include readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions and public book signings, as well as focus on bringing authors into the classroom for students of all ages through our Young Readers programme.

IFOA Uxbridge is excited to present American bestselling mystery writer Laura Lippman and British author Jane Johnson.

Johhson has a most interesting connection to the J.R.R.Tolkien Lord of the Rings (LOTR) books and movies. Follow this link to her bio to learn more about her time publishing LOTR in the UK and her time on the set of LOTR and The Hobbit in New Zealand.

Johnson’s newest book The Sultan’s Wife is a page-turning mystery, a grandly seductive romance and a full historical immersion into Moroccan court history. This exquisitely depicted and intensely absorbing novel follows in the bestselling tradition of her previous novels The Tenth Gift and The Salt Road.

Laura Lippman was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association.

Tickets $30

For more information, please go to the Blue Heron Books website.