I keep forgetting to post these here! If you like books, and like hearing authors read from their books, you should come check it out. If you also like watching me awkwardly try to host things, it's good for that too :P

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The Holy Oak Book Club is delighted to welcome Michael Winter as the featured reader for its 10th installment! He will be reading from his book, The Death of Donna Whalen. The book is on-sale now at the Holy Oak Cafe for the very amazing price of 25$, or available at your favourite independent retailer.

Read the book beforehand or just come to have drinks and hear the reading. Everyone is welcome!

About the book:
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In her home on Empire Avenue, Donna Whalen was stabbed 31 times. Her friends, family, and neighbours believed it was her abusive boyfriend, Sheldon Troke. But the evidence is all circumstantial, providing a daunting challenge for police and prosecutors—and the course of justice takes many unpredictable twists and turns before the truth is finally revealed.

In this mesmerizing work of documentary fiction, Michael Winter pieces together the transcripts and court testimonies of Sheldon's trial. He preserves the nuanced voice of each witness, and the result is a harsh account of the tragedy that befell Donna Whalen and the controversial aftermath that tore her town apart.

About the author:

Michael Winter is the author of The Death of Donna Whalen, which is shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was also shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; The Architects Are Here, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and The Big Why, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His first novel, This All Happened, won the Winterset Award. He is also the recipient of The Writers' Trust Notable Author Award. He divides his time between Toronto and St. John's.

About The Holy Oak Book Club:

The Holy Oak Book Club is a monthly (sort of) reading series that acts a bit like a book club. We pick a book, encourage people to check it out and then get together to hear the author read from it. Maybe we'll even talk about it. Drinks and casual conversation start around 7pm, a reading by the author around 7:30pm and discussion (and more drinks!) until we're done, around 8:30pm. Holy Oak Cafe serves delicious coffee and teas, and boasts a selection of fine beers, wines and liquors.

Special thanks to Penguin Canada and to Michael Winter for their participation in The Holy Oak Book Club