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.

Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce that our month-long, city-wide Keep Toronto Reading literary festival is back for its fourth year. The 2009 program takes place April 1 to 30 – moved from February.

Popular events such as the Diaspora Dialogues, Lit Lunches, books and wine series, and KTR for Kids events will be back. Look for exciting new additions too.

Featured authors include Joy Fielding, Nino Ricci, Bonnie Stern and many others.

The Keep Toronto Reading One Book community read program will also return. Look for an official announcement on this year’s title in early February.