Curiosity House Books is hosting authors Linden MacIntyre and Michael Winter at Avening Hall Monday.
MacIntyre is promoting his new book Punishment and Winter is promoting a non-fiction book called Into the Blizzard.
“They are really interesting books, very different for both of them,” said event organizer Jennifer Hubbs.
“For Linden MacIntyre, it’s the first book since he concluded his trilogy and he always writes fairly dark and this is no exception.”
Punishment is about a corrections officer who returns to his hometown when the penitentiary where he works closes.
He has an encounter with a young man who is arrested after the suspicious death of a teenage girl who is the granddaughter of the correction officer’s first love.
Winter writes a deeply emotional book from two perspectives, said Hubbs.
“He decided to retrace the steps of the Newfoundland Regiment and the boys who went to fight in the World War One. So it is the story of his own experience and the story of the soldiers he follows,” she said. “It’s really interesting because he expected the trip to go a certain way and it didn’t so he is continually surprised by what happens and how he feels.”
Hubbs said Winter expected to write a sentimental story about the regiment and the sacrifices they made but other things happen along the way.
She said there are common themes of loss, perspective and perception.
The authors will both be reading from their new works before a three-way conversation with local author and journalist Cecily Ross.
They will then take questions from the audience before signing books.
Tickets cost $20 and are available at Curiosity House Books.
Students and members of the Canadian Armed Forces are admitted for $10. The event begins at Avening Hall at 7 p.m.