Every year on November 1st, it is Author’s Day and who better to ask about their favourite book and author, Kathryn, owner of Lighthouse Books in downtown Brighton.
As a lover of all books it is hard for Kathryn to choose just one author, but a book that she has recently enjoyed as a page turner is “Winter Wives”.
This book is a psychological drama from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntrye, weaving threads of crime, disability and dementia together into a tale of unrequited love and delusion.
A distinguished broadcast journalist, MacIntyre, who was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and grew up in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, spent twenty-four years as the co-host of the fifth estate. He has won ten Gemini awards for his work. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.
Copies are available at Lighthouse Books located on Main Street in Brighton or you can order on their website – www.lighthousebooksbrighton.ca.
How did Author’s Day come into existence?
After her author, grandmother’s death in 1968, Sue Cole promoted the observance of Author’s Day. She urged people to write a note to their favorite author on November 1, to “brighten up the sometimes lonely business of being a writer.”
As anyone who has attempted to put pen to paper, or make clicks on a keyboard can tell you, books take time to develop, research, draft, edit, revise, and rewrite. The tales and stories that we read and indulge in as we drift off to sleep or to travel with, may take years of work by an author before they ever reach a publisher.
Even if you have only one favorite author or collected works from all kinds of authors, many of us cannot part with the published stores from our favourite authors and November 1st is a great time to appreciate their work.
