Union Hotel x The Giller Prize Present: #BookTalk with the 2025 Giller Award Winner!
📅 Tuesday, November 18, 2025
📍 The Lobby @ Union Hotel, Toronto
🎟️ Ticket includes: A pastry item & hot beverage, a glass of wine, a copy of the 2025 Giller Award-winning book, audience Q&A, a mix & mingle with the author (and the opportunity to get your book signed!)
Join Union Hotel and the Giller Prize for a very special edition of #BookTalk, an intimate new literary series celebrating Canadian literature in a fresh, community-focused way.
Continuing the series will be the 2025 Giller Award Winner (to be announced) in conversation with Noah Richler. Set in the cozy, storytelling-rich lobby of the Union Hotel, this live interview invites book lovers into a relaxed evening of meaningful dialogue, exploring the author’s latest work and the power of CanLit today.
Whether you’re a lifelong reader or new to the scene, #BookTalk offers a modern take on the classic book club — it’s live, local, and literary. Tickets are limited for this exclusive & intimate event!
GILLER AWARD 2025 SHORTLIST:
This year’s jury is composed of three outstanding Canadian authors: Dionne Irving (jury chair), Loghan Paylor, and Deepa Rajagopalan. The jury narrowed down more than 100 works of fiction to curate a superb shortlist that features three national bestsellers, three former Giller prize finalists, two first-time nominees, and one former Giller Prize-winner.
The 2025 Giller Prize ceremony honouring the finalists and announcing the winner will be hosted by the incomparable Rick Mercer on Monday, November 17, at 9 p.m. (11:30 p.m. AT, 12 a.m. NT) on CBC TV, CBC Gem, and CBC’s YouTube channel. Listeners can tune into a broadcast special on CBC Radio and CBC Listen.
About the Moderator, Noah Richler:
NOAH RICHLER is a writer, former producer of BBC Radio documentaries, and was the founding books editor at the National Post. He is the winner of a Sony Radio Award and three gold National Magazine Awards. His first book, This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada (2006), won the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, was nominated for the Writers’ Trust Non- Fiction prize, and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by Maclean’s magazine. What We Talk About When We Talk About War (2012) was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, as too was his most recent, The Candidate (2016), an account of his NDP campaign for federal office. He divides his time between the Digby Neck, in Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Ontario.
Stay tuned for more upcoming #BookTalk sessions!
