Simcoe Author Talk Series
an author in your living room!
New Tecumseth Public Library has joined literary forces with other libraries (Clearview, Collingwood, Barrie, Essa, Innisfil, Midland, Ramara, Penetanguishene, and Wasaga Beach) to offer a 2023 virtual author talk series.
#SimcoeAuthorTalkSeries #SimcoeAuthorTalks
Roberta Rich
Thursday, December 14
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
Jazz Club Spy
From the gritty tenements to the glittering jazz clubs of 1930s New York, The Jazz Club Spy is a thrilling historical novel about a brash young woman who must use all her wits to save the ones she loves.
Patti Callahan Henry
Thursday, December 7 *postponed please watch for new date*
6:30 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Barrie Public Library
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
A heartrending, captivating tale of family, first love and fate. A woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book that holds secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II.
Jennifer Robson
Thursday, November 16 ** Rescheduled date!**
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: New Tecumseth Public Library
Coronation Year
NTPL celebrates all things Coronation this year! The international bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel, as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation.
Marissa Stapley
Wednesday, November 1
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Midland Public Library
Lucky
A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts.
Tracy L. Ward
Monday, October 2
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Essa Public Library
Have Mercy
Tracy L. Ward is a former journalist and graduate from Humber College’s School for Writers and the author behind the bestselling Marshall House Mysteries and the Mercy Me Mysteries.
Maggie Giles
Thursday, September 21
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Collingwood Public Library
Twisted
Detective Ryan Boone thought the simple jewelry heist was an open and shut case. That is until he discovers an unknown drug, and this minor crime he was investigating may be tied to a string of seemingly unconnected murders.
Nicole Baart
Tuesday, August 15
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
The Long Way Home
When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller! Ramara Public Library hosts.
Margaret DeRosia
Thursday, June 15
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
Eight Strings
In celebration of Pride Month. An enthralling coming-of-age debut novel about a young woman in late 19th-century Venice who becomes a man to join the male-dominated world of the theater as a puppeteer. Rich in historic detail and imbued with sharp social commentary, Eight Strings is a gorgeous, spellbinding debut that celebrates love, life, and art in all its forms.
Catherine Hernandez
Tuesday, May 16
6 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Innisfil IdeaLab and Library
The Story of Us
Catherine Hernandez is the award-winning author of Scarborough. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino. Spanish. Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her newest novel. The Story of Us. is a story about love. and the power of family.
Mike Madill
Thursday, April 27
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Collingwood Public Library
In his debut poetry collection, The Better Part of Some Time, Mike Madill traces his journey to maturity and greater self-awareness through poignant memories of his childhood, his struggle with his father’s death and how, combined with his clinical depression, he was left feeling overwhelmed how to face the world anew.
Julia Kelly
Tuesday, April 11
2 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
The Lost English Gitl
Telling the harrowing story of England’s many evacuated children, bestselling author Julia Kelly’s The Lost English Girl explores how one simple choice can change the course of a life, and what we are willing to forgive to find a way back to the ones we love and thought lost.
Armando Lucas Correa
Thursday, February 23
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
The Night Travelers
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the The German Girl.
JB MacKinnon
Thursday, March 9
7 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Wasaga Beach Public Library
The Day the World Stops Shopping
Drawing on experts ranging from economists to climate scientists to corporate CEOs, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain. Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping will empower you to imagine another way..
Caroline Bishop
Thursday, February 2
1 pm
Zoom
Hosted by: Ramara Public Library
The Other Daughter
A timely novel about an ambitious London journalist who reports on the fight for women’s rights in 1970s Switzerland, and the daughter who uncovers the long-buried truth about the assignment years later – for fans of Genevieve Graham and Heather Marshall.
