September 2019

Live Ones

Sadie McCarney

Charlottetown poet Sadie McCarney’s forthcoming debut collection, Live Ones (University of Regina Press), will be launched at Bookmark in Charlottet...

The Bygone Days

Folklore, Traditions & Toenails

Reginald “Dutch” Thompson will launch The Bygone Days: Folklore, Traditions & Toenails (Acorn Press) at the Charlottetown Hotel’s Victorian ...

Listening for the Dead Bells

Marian Bruce

Marian Bruce will launch her new book Listening for the Dead Bells on September 22 from 2 to 4 pm at the Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead in Orwell. This...

Welcome Inn

Cindy Lapeña

Art ‘n’ Words Studio celebrated its 6th year in August 2019 with the release of two new books. Owner Cindy Lapeña, artist and award-winning aut...

Fiona and Alexa and the Time Machine

Fiona Ha

Fiona and Alexa and the Time Machine is a story by Fiona Ha, a 7-year-old student at Glen Steward Elementary School. Fiona met Cindy Lapeña through...

Ancient Fall

Jaime Lee Mann

Do you believe children have the power to change the world? Bestselling middle-grade fantasy author Jaime Lee Mann does. She is now preparing for the ...

Prince Edward Island: Images of the Night Sky

Stephen DesRoches

Stephen DesRoches will launch his new book Prince Edward Island: Images of the Night Sky (Acorn Press) at the PEI Preserve Company in New Glasgow Sept...

National award

Portrait of a Prospector by Bruce Craig

University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) history department professor Bruce Craig has been awarded the 2019 Mary Lee Spence Documentary Book Award pr...

Welcome to Camp

Fill-in-the-Blank

Hope Dalvay will launch her new book Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the Blank (Acorn Press) on August 3 at 1 pm at the Confederation Centre Public Library in...

Illustrated History of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island

Georges Arsenault

Island researcher and historian, Georges Arsenault is launching a new book, Illustrated History of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island. It will be pu...

Anne of Green Gables

The Original Manuscript

A new volume from Nimbus Publishing showing L.M. Montgomery’s creative process in crafting one of the world’s most famous novels will be officiall...

Historic PEI—Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island

Ed McKenna

Edward J (Ed) McKenna will launch his new book Historic PEI: Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island on August 7 at Beaconsfield House in Charlottet...

RED: The Island Story Book

Volume 20

RED magazine has assembled another collection of fine Island tales for your adirondack chair sitting, gentle hammock swaying, summer reading pleasure....

Return Engagement under the Linden Tree

Doris Ewart, Shannon Murray, Richard Furlong

The book launch for the Return Engagement under the Linden Tree is scheduled for July 7, from 2 to 4 pm at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House in Charlott...

From War to Peace; 1919

PEI Soldiers Return from the Great War

If you have an interest in the First World War or are a collector of PEI history books, you don’t want to miss acquiring a free copy of the Culture ...

Imagining Anne

The Island Scrapbooks Of L.M. Montgomery

Nimbus Publishing’s new edition of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery will be launched on July 25, from 2:30–3:30 pm , in th...

Lady and the Plant(s)

Kathy Birt

When Island author Kathy Birt launched her book of fiction, Lady and the Plant(s) in 2017, she had no idea that, then Liberal MLA Allen Roach would le...

Lackadaisy

A look at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery exhibition: Who’s Your Mother?

A local ‘zine that focuses on the voices of young Island female artists is featuring the Confederation Centre Art Gallery’s Who’s Your Mother? e...

The Red Fox / Le Renard Roux

Leona Arsenault

The Red Fox / Le Renard Roux, by Leona Arsenault, is full images and facts about the red fox. The book is well-timed, following the naming of the red ...

The Confederation Bridge/ Pont de la Conféderation

Leona Arsenault

The Confederation Bridge connects Prince Edward Island with the rest of the Maritime provinces. The bridge became a much-debated item throughout the 1...

The Devil May Lie

Mima

Mima (aka Michelle M. Arsenault) has recently published her 11th book. The Devil May Lie is be the sixth book in the criminal-suspense Hernandez serie...

Delivering the News

Thomas O'Grady

Join Thomas O’Grady at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown May 15 at 7 pm for the launch of his new book of poetry, Delivering the...

Prayer to Morning

Spoken word poetry by Bob Jensen

Spoken word poet Bob Jensen has published his second audio book, Prayer to Morning, a collection of 20 spoken word poems featuring the guitar work of ...

RED number 19 is out

RED number 19 is now available with pieces by many of the magazine’s regular contributors. George Arsenault is onboard with another in his “Shut...

Casebook One: A Knock in the Dark

Five Crow Road, a new publishing company based in eastern PEI, is introducing the world to the Terra Obscura Chronicles, a globe-trotting adventure se...

My Letters to the Editor Book Two

Island author Kathy Birt is about to launch My Letters to the Editor Book Two with more of her letters to The Guardian editorial pages. This is the au...

The Amulet of Fire

Filipina-Canadian author Cindy Lapeña is releasing The Amulet of Fire, the sequel to her first novel, The Lost Amulets, publicly at the first Island ...

Like A Song

Susan Rodgers has released her latest book, Like A Song, the second book in the Dallas White series. Like A Song is, in some ways, the sixteenth book ...

The Philosopher

Malcolm Murray

The PEI wing of PARC (Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre) and Island Studies Press invite you to readings by Island playwrights and the launch of Th...

Return of the Wild Goose

Jane Ledwell will launch her new book Return of the Wild Goose on April 4 at 7 pm in the Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown. Jane will be jo...

Flotsy

PEI author, Peggy Hogan, would like you to meet Flotsy, the protagonist of her third novel titled Flotsy. Hogan began the story on July 25, 2011, a...

Fighting For Forgiveness

Local author Angel Jendrick is set to publish Fighting For Forgiveness, the second novel in her Claiming Kristopher series. Fighting For Forgiveness...

Sandstone Comics

First edition graphic novel to be released March 30

In the autumn of 2018, Sandy Carruthers, Robert Doan and Greg Webster joined forces to create Sandstone Comics—Prince Edward Island’s first small ...

Somewhere North of Where I Was—A Memoir

Nicole Spence

Somewhere North of Where I Was—A Memoir, written by Nicole Spence, is the story of a young girl whose childhood innocence is stolen. Told with the r...

Strength

C.J. Rey

Strength is a science-fiction novel recently self-published by PEI author C.J. Rey. The book is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Corey Davis who lo...

Exploring Glenaladale

Sterling Stratton

Glenaladale Heritage Trust, a community organization conserving and restoring the magnificent Glenaladale House on Tracadie Bay, has announced the lau...