Andrew Davidson reads from his highly anticipated and widely reviewed debut novel,
The Gargoyle; Terry Fallis presents his debut novel,
The Best Laid Plans, the 2008 winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour; and award-winning author Fred Stenson reads from his eighth book of fiction,
The Great Karoo.
Alison Pick (Canada) hosts.
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Andrew Davidson has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites.
Terry Fallis received a university degree in Engineering, but went straight into politics working as an assistant to Cabinet Minsiters at Queen's Park and in Ottawa.
Alison Pick is the author of the novel The Sweet Edge, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, optioned for film by Four Seasons Productions, and of two poetry collections, Question & Answer, and The Dream World.
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Fred Stenson is the author of The Trade, which was nominated for the 2000 Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writers’ Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award.
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A satire on Canadian politics, especially the modern Ottawa version, The Best Laid Plans follows a burnt-out political aide who quits just before an election – but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out.
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On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery.
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In 1899, a cowboy from Alberta’s Chief Mountains country joins the Canadian Mounted Rifles and sets out to defend the British Empire in South Africa.
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