📅 Thursday, September 25, 2025
📍 The Lobby @ Union Hotel, Toronto
🎟️ Ticket includes: A pastry item & hot beverage, a glass of wine, a copy of The Trial of Katterfelto, 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 the fourth session of #BookTalk, an intimate new literary series celebrating Canadian literature in a fresh, community-focused way.
Continuing the series is Michael Redhill, a Giller Award-winning author, in conversation with André Alexis. 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 Michael’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!
MICHAEL REDHILL is the author of the novels Martin Sloane, shortlisted for the Giller Award and winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and most recently, Bellevue Square, winner of the 2017 Giller Prize. He has written a novel for young adults, six collections of poetry, and four plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness. He has also written a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling, was made into a movie with Susan Sarandon and Donald Sutherland. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
ANDRÉ ALEXIS is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. Alexis lives in Toronto.
Stay tuned for more upcoming #BookTalk sessions!
