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Welcome to the Free Press Book Club!
To help ease some of the isolation-related boredom, we’ve started a monthly book club which will run completely online and is open to anyone and everyone to join.
Each month, we will choose a novel and share it on this page, as well as in an email to those who have registered to participate. We’ll send a couple of follow up notes to check in on your progress and suggest a few discussion topics and questions to think about as you go.
At the end of the month, we’ll all gather to participate in a livestream book club meeting, hosted by our books editor, Ben Sigurdson, or one of our pals from McNally Robinson Booksellers, as well as the author of the book.
You’ll be able to submit questions ahead of time, or drop them into one of the live chat boxes during the meeting. (And don’t worry, we’ll provide an easy-to-access link to the stream, so all you have to do is click.)
Right now, our focus is on local authors of varying genres and backgrounds, so we hope you’re excited to dive in.
And Then Is Heard No More
By: Raye Anderson
From Signature Editions:
Opening night of the season at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Centre is a glittering event on the city’s arts calendar, and this October, there is real drama happening offstage. Gerald Blaise, the company’s well-loved Artistic Director has failed to show up. Gerald’s car is found the following day, north of the city, when a couple of dogs take a keen interest in the bloody contents of the trunk. Since Gerald’s remains have been discovered outside the city limits, Sergeant Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP finds herself investigating the death.
PTC’s next play up is to be Shakespeare’s Macbeth, an unlucky play according to theatrical tradition. That rings true, for the staff, cast and crew as well as Roxanne. When a second body is found, this time in a city park, Roxanne finds herself having to work alongside the cynical Detective Sergeant Cooper Jenkins of the Winnipeg’s Police Services.
Theatre is a different world with its own jargon, where fact and fiction merge, lies are delivered as truth, and where people with active imaginations conjure up convincing stories. Who is Roxanne supposed to believe.
July book club pick reminder
And Then Is Heard No More, by Raye Anderson
Check-in
Expect an email from us to check in on your progress. We’ll offer up some discussion questions and other things to think about as you continue reading.
Livestream information email
This email will provide all the information you need for our livestream book club event, including the access link, some information about your viewing options and how you can submit your questions for the author ahead of time. This information will also be posted to our Free Press Book Club Facebook group.
Free Press Book Club meeting
Join our live chat starting at 7 p.m. CT with special guest, author Raye Anderson.
If you have any questions, please email us at bookclub@winnipegfreepress.com
The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
May 2020
Don’t Try This at Home
By: Rob Krause and Daria Salamon
June 2020
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: a memoir
By: Jenny Heijun Wills
July 2020
Here the Dark
By: David Bergen
August 2020
All Our Relations
By: Tanya Talaga
September 2020
This Has Nothing to Do With You
By: Lauren Carter
October 2020
Black Water: Family, Legacy and Blood Memory
By: David A. Robertson
November 2020
Five Wives
By: Joan Thomas
December 2020/January 2021
Songs for the End of the World
By: Saleema Nawaz
February 2021
We Are All Perfectly Fine
By: Dr. Jillian Horton
March 2021
Treed
By: Ariel Gordon
April 2021
Once Removed
By: Andrew Unger
May 2021
Paul is Dead
By: C.C. Benison
June 2021
The Paris Apartment
By: Kelly Bowen
July/August 2021
Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
September 2021
Hour of the Crab
By: Patricia Robertson
October 2021
Status Update
By: George Toles, Cliff Eyland
November 2021
Moon of the Crusted Snow
By: Waubgeshig Rice
December 2021/January 2022
The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
February 2022
Persephone’s Children
By: Rowan McCandless
March 2022
You Don’t Have to Die in the End
By: Anita Daher
April 2022
The Accidental Veterinarian
By: Dr. Philipp Schott
May 2022
Life in the City of Dirty Water
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
June 2022