Evening marking the closing of Pages Books & Magazines, with tributes by Greg Gatenby, Mark Kingwell, Barbara Klunder and others plus comedy by Monkey Toast.

Book II in the Darkest Powers trilogy takes us deeper into a world where the supernatural intrudes on the everyday with riveting effect. More information can be found at www.chloesaunders.com.

Anne Michaels's first novel was the award-winning, internationally bestselling Fugitive Pieces. Its prizes include a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Molly Peacock is an internationally recognized poet whose work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. She is currently the poetry editor of the Literary Review of Canada and general series editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English.

They all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil supplies and steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as cheap oil. Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a recession, but it will never be cheap again.

Take away cheap oil, and the global economy is getting the shock of its life.

From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil

Join us for an extraordinary weekend of words and ideas in support of PEN Canada and Frontier College. The Globe and Mail Open House Festival will bring together the very best writers and thinkers from Canada and around the world for a unique program of readings and discussions that will provoke, entertain and enlighten.

Featuring:

Anne Michaels’s first work of fiction in more than a decade, The Winter Vault is a stunning, richly layered, and timeless novel that is everything we could hope for for Michaels’s second novel — and more. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks to England and Poland after the war, The Winter Vault is a spellbinding love story that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives.

Breathtaking, vivid in its exploration of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, The Winter Vault is a radiant work of fiction and contains all the elements for which Anne Michaels is celebrated.

This is a free event.

In this powerful and sometimes shocking account, a surgeon reveals her experience of hospital life with rare frankness.

In her mid-twenties, Gabriel Weston - an arts graduate with no scientific qualification beyond high school-level biology - decided to become a surgeon. She enrolled at night school, then went through many years of medical school and surgical training.

Now in her late thirties, she has achieved her ambition and is working as a surgeon in a British hospital. "But I have never quite managed to shake off the feeling that I am an imposter,"she says. "Even when operating, it sometimes seems like I am on the outside looking in."

Parry Sound Books Reading Series - 45 minute reading, 15 minute Q&A and book signing.

In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?