Events

Join Lunenburg area author N.L. Blandford for the launch of her fifth novel, Escaping Victoria.

Enjoy a short reading, Q&A, book signing, cake and merriment!

Set in the wilds of Nova Scotia, Escaping Victoria takes us on a hair-raising journey through the underworld of this idyllic province, exposing us to the intrigues, infighting and ever-changing loyalties of the organized crime syndicate known as The Family.

Escaping Victoria, and all of N.L. Blandford’s novels, will be available for purchase on site.

Shorebound Books in Shelburne is hosting a writing workshop — The Art, Craft, and Business of Writing — and book reading with donalee Moulton on Saturday, May 24 from 10 a.m. to noon. Interested readers and writers are invited to attend.

Debbie Marshall will present Too Many to Mourn: One Family’s Tragedy in the Halifax Explosion by James Mahar and Rowena Mahar. Rowena is Debbie’s Aunt, her mother’s youngest sister. The book tells the tragic story of a family that lost the most members during the explosion. This is in addition to the rest of our members presenting their books.

Our book club is unique, please read the following:

• Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting, for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.

Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors

Come to Dartmouth’s oldest bar to hear two Dartmouth authors read from their novels nominated for 2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards: Charlene Carr (We Rip the World Apart, HarperCollins) and Susan LeBlanc (The Nowhere Places, Nimbus Publishing). The readings will be followed by a conversation moderated by bestselling author Donna Jones Alward (When the World Fell Silent, HarperCollins).

Doors open at 6:00, readings at 7:00.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 (cash only) at the door. Seating is limited.

Dartmouth Book Exchange will be on hand with books for sale by the three featured authors.

Join us for a night of murder and mayhem with donalee Moulton, author of Hung Out to Die, and Vernon Oickle, who will launch his ninth book in his Crow Series, Nine Crows for a Kiss. And to add some realism, retired RCMP officer Gary Grant, author of Walking Life’s Yellow Line My Way, will be joining us. There will even be a fun quiz about psychopaths. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is maybe one of the most well-known psychopaths, so we will be serving NovelTea’s Vlad’s First Bite: Berry Bliss Herbal Tea at 5:45 pm, with the event to follow. Advanced registration will be required by purchase of a $10 gift certificate to monitor our numbers