A literary evening, part of the Atlantic Book Awards week, is scheduled for Sydney on Tuesday, April 14 at McConnell Library, and hosted by CBC journalist Wendy Martin.
An exciting lineup is headlined by award-winning, Newfoundland-born, Donna Morrisey. Her latest book What They Wanted (Penguin) is shortlisted for the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award.
Cape Breton's Douglas Arthur Brown, whose 2008 novel Quintet (Key Porter) is shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, will also appear alongside Robert Morgan, Susan M. Farrell and Dave Wilson.
Morgan's book Rise Again! (Breton Books) is shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction and the Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Dave Wilson's book about his years as host of Talkback is coming soon from Breton Books.
Susan Farrell's first novel Basement Suite (working title) will be published in the fall of 2009 by CBU Press.
The ABA Sydney event is co-sponsored by CBU Press, Breton Books, Cape Breton Regional Library and the Atlantic Book Awards Society.
Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m.
McConnell Memorial Library
50 Falmouth Street, Sydney
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