Reading: Quintin Jardine, Linden MacIntyre, Eric-Emmanual Schmitt, Mark Sinnett

Quintin Jardine (Scotland/UK) is the author of two much-acclaimed and bestselling detective series – the Edinburgh-set Bob Skinner Series and the Oz Blackstone Series – 29 novels in all. Prior to his career as a writer, he worked as a journalist, government information officer, political spin-doctor and media relations consultant. Jardine’s lastest installment in the Bob Skinner Series, Fatal Last Words, finds Skinner on the edge of a career-defining moment; his fiancée, Scotland's First Minister Aileen de Marco, facing a political crisis; and a famous figure from another field dead.

Quintin Jardine appears at IFOA as part of Writing Scotland.

Linden MacIntyre is one of Canada’s most distinguished broadcast journalists. The winner of nine Gemini Awards, he is the co-host of CBC Television’s the fifth estate and has been involved in the production of documentaries and stories from all over the world. He presents his new novel, The Bishop’s Man, in which a priest with a reputation for disciplining wayward priests and the containment of political scandal in the church, is forced to confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. The novel is shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

One of Europe’s most popular writers, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is the author of several books and screenplays, and was the recipient of the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Théâtre in 2001. The Most Beautiful Book in the World, Schmitt’s first book to be translated into English, is a collection a eight enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday from the fantastical, populated by a cast of extravagant and affecting characters. The book is translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

Mark Sinnett is the author of the poetry collections The Landing, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Some Late Adventure of the Feelings; the story collection Bull; and the novel The Border Guards, shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis award. He presents The Carnivore, a novel of disaster and betrayal set in the Toronto of both 1954 and 2004. In the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, a young cop emerges as a hero, but gradually his wife suspects the tales of heroism on the front pages may not be the real story.

Nathan Whitlock is the author of A Week of This: A Novel in Seven Days and is the Books for Young People Editor for Quill & Quire magazine. His writing and reviews have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Maisonneuve, Fashion, and elsewhere.