Get a head start on the Festival!
Want to get to know the authors of the QuébeCrime Festival? Read their books! Many of the authors coming to Quebec city this year have new books that just came out or that will be released in the following months. For now, you can find in store these new releases: Laura LIPPMAN’s And When She [...]
QuebeCrime Writers Festival
QuebeCrime Writers Festival It’s now official: La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, in association with houseofcrimeandmystery.blogspot.com, will be hosting the first Crime and Mystery Festival in Quebec City on October 28th and 29th 2011. Although the schedule has not yet been finalized and we are still waiting for confirmation from many authors, we are happy to announce that we can [...]
Leisure books for Dad.
As father’s day nears, you may be wondering what to buy your father if he’s not into golfing, renovating, barbecuing, games and gadgets. No worries. Just like moms, dads like to unwind from all the hard work from time to time. My dad used to only read reports and files from work until he discovered [...]
LMA @ SILQ!
Hurray! I am going to the Salon Internationale du Livre de Québec (SILQ)! Last year I was working there for the first time and let me tell you, I was worried. I’m agoraphobic (fear of crowds or wide open spaces, in my case it’s crowds). I once suffered a panic attack at Place Laurier’s Halte-Bouffe [...]
Gerry Fostaty – As you Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
Summer 1974 Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud ammunition, and its pin was pulled during a lecture on explosives safety. One hundred and forty boys survived, each isolated in their [...]
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