Thursday, November 15 – 7pm

Lions Hall
103 Bonnet Avenue
Salt Spring Island, BC
Everyone Welcome

Book sales by Salt Spring Books.

The Judge and the Lady by Marlyn Horsdal

Eleanor Wentworth arrives in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. When she meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the first chief justice of BC, life in the colony suddenly becomes much more attractive.

Marlyn Horsdal is an editor and writer. In 1984, she co-founded Horsdal & Schubart Publishers with her husband, Michael Schubart, and ran the company until it was sold in 2002. She was educated at Queen’s University and the London School of Economics.
Her first novel Sweetness from Ashes was named one of the Best Fiction Titles of 2010 by January Magazine. The Judge and the Lady is her second novel.

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The Apple House by Gillian Campbell

Set in a small French village on the West Island of Montreal during the 1970s, this is a novel about language, family, and life in a divided community.

Gillian Campbell’s short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, Creekstones: Words & Images, The New Quarterly, and The Antigonish Review. She has a BA from the Université de Montréal and a master’s of library science from the University of
British Columbia, and for many years she worked as a children’s librarian. Gillian grew up on the West Island of Montreal and now makes her home on the West Coast on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. The Apple House is her first novel.