Reading: Linwood Barclay, John Brady, Jennica Harper, Ian Rankin

Linwood Barclay, a former columnist for the Toronto Star, is the internationally bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home, and No Time for Goodbye, which has been optioned for film. Touted as “Canada’s current thriller king” by the National Post, Barclay presents his latest work, Never Look Away, about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together.

A native of Dublin, John Brady (Canada/Ireland) is the author of the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Inspector Matt Minogue series and the Dashiell Hammett Prize-shortlisted novel Islandbridge. He is currently working on a historical novel, The Burning Tower, which follows a family of exiles in Babylon, through the Inquisition to Ireland in 1938. Brady presents The Going Rate, the most recent installment in the Minogue series, a murder mystery surrounding a death linked to the escalating Polish gang violence on the streets of Dublin.

Jennica Harper grew up in Brampton, Ontario and now lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of The Octopus and Other Poems, and recently won a Silver Medal at the National Magazine Awards for her long poem “Liner Notes.” Jennica works in film and television as a screenwriter. She reads from her newest collection, What It Feels Like for a Girl, a series of poems following the intense friendship between two teenagers as they delve into the big, strange world of sex.

Andrew Pyper is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories. His debut novel, Lost Girls, was an international bestseller and a Notable Book in the New York Times, Evening Standard and Globe and Mail. His most recent novel is The Killing Circle.

Ian Rankin (Scotland/UK) is the internationally bestselling crime author of the Inspector Rebus Series, from which books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received multiple accolades including four Dagger Awards, the Chandler-Fulbright Award, the Edgar Award, multiple honorary degrees and the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. Rankin presents his major post-Rebus novel, The Complaints, an inquiry into personal morality, private vice, friendship, and the state of a nation – “A stroke of genius,” says the Globe and Mail.

Ian Rankin appears at IFOA as part of Writing Scotland.