Bestselling authors
An Evening with Kate Quinn and Janie Chang—Mar 10
Bookmark and Cavendish Literary Festival will welcome bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang on March 10 at 7 pm for the launch of their new books at St Paul’s in Charlottetown. Kate and Janie will discuss their novels, The Astral Library and The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai, with Halifax author Donna Jones Alward. The event is free and all are welcome.
From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to The Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.
Bestselling author Janie Chang’s new book The Fourth Princess is a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present.
Quinn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Briar Club. The Astral Library is her first foray into magic realism.
Chang is a Globe and Mail bestselling author of historical fiction. Her novels often draw from family history and ancestral stories. She is the author of Three Souls, Dragon Springs Road, The Library of Legends, and The Porcelain Moon, and co-author of the USA Today bestseller The Phoenix Crown, with Kate Quinn.
Donna Jones Alward is a New York Times bestseller who has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen languages. Donna launched her latest book, Ship of Dreams at The Cavendish Literary Festival.