Bite your nails down to the quick. Poetry from Patrick Lane heralds an evening of dark plots and sinister scenes. John Brady, Elena Forbes, Peter Robinson, and Tom Rob Smith read from their new novels. Catherine Belyea hosts.
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Catherine Belyea is a broadcaster whose career in private radio and at the CBC has centred on music and the arts. This is the 13th year she has hosted readings and interviews at the IFOA.
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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.
Elena Forbes is the author of Die With Me and Our Lady of Pain, the first two Mark Tartaglia mysteries, both published to critical acclaim in Canada, the US and the UK. Forbes presents Evil in Return, the highly anticipated third installment in the Tartaglia series, which takes us into the world of novelist Joe Logan whose body was found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt in London. When a second man turns up dead, the hunt is on to find the link between the two before the killer strikes again.
One of Canada’s most highly acclaimed poets, Patrick Lane is also the award-winning author of the memoir There Is a Season.
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Peter Robinson (Canada/UK) has received numerous awards for his Inspector Banks novels, including the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and several Arthur Ellis Best Novel Awards. In 2002, he was awarded the Dagger in the Library by the British Crime Writers Association. He is also a member of the exclusive Detection Club, founded in 1928 by a group of mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and G.K. Chesterton. Robinson – the 2010 recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize – presents Bad Boy, the latest installment in the Inspector Banks series.
Tom Rob Smith was born in London and educated at Cambridge, where he founded the literary magazine InPrint. He has worked on a number of long-running television shows as a writer and script editor. Inspired by a true story, Child 44 is a dark and atmospheric tale set in the 1950s Soviet Union, and a gripping evocation of a society where individuals struggle against a system that will not allow them to trust anyone – not even their loved ones.
