Halifax author hits the road this week
A.J.B. Johnston, author of the Thomas Pichon novels will be reading at a number of Maritime venues in the coming weeks, visiting Liverpool, Fredericton and Sackville, NB.
On October 15, at 7 p.m., Johnston will be hosted by the Liverpool Literary Society and the Read & Share Corner of the Vogler’s Cove Community Hall. The hall is located at 8544 Highway 331, Vogler’s Cove, Lunenburg County, NS.
October 22, 3 p.m., in the Windsor room in Tilley House, the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre at University of New Brunswick, will host a reading and a talk about the background to the Thomas Pichon project and how I transitioned from a historian to a novelist. At 7 p.m., Johnston will be at Westminster Books in Downtown Fredericton.
A presentation on October 23, 4 p.m. in Hart Hall, at Mount Allison University will be followed by a reception at the Centre for Canadian Studies.
These are all open to the public. Some funding was provided by a Canada Council for the Arts Author Promotion Tour Grant.
A.J.B. Johnston is a well-known historian and writer who has published, to wide acclaim, two works of fiction based on the life of Thomas Pichon (1700-1781): Thomas, A Secret Life (2012) and The Maze, A Thomas Pichon Novel (2014), both by CBU Press.