Deep House: Thomas King with Shelagh Rogers

Thomas King and Shelagh Rogers

7:30pm

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Multi-award-winning author Thomas King presents the return of Thumps DreadfulWater in Deep House, a followup to Obsidian. As Thumps looks forward to the return of normal life since the pandemic, his expectations are shattered when the unintentional discovery of a dead body entangles him once again in mystery. In conversation with CBC Radio One’s Shelagh Rogers, learn how King puzzles together such gripping police procedurals, and glean insight into his masterful use of wit and wry humour in his stories.

Interviewer: Shelagh Rogers

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass

Supported by HarperCollins Canada.

Conversation

Interviewer: Shelagh Rogers

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass

Supported by HarperCollins Canada.

Conversation

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Thomas King

Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; the DreadfulWater mystery series; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Member of the Order of Canada and recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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Shelagh Rogers

Shelagh Rogers is a veteran broadcast-journalist at CBC Radio, currently the host and a producer of The Next Chapter, the award-winning program devoted to writing in Canada. In 2011, she was inducted as an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Also that year, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Shelagh is Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Victoria. She is honoured to be at TIFA’s MOTIVE Crime and Mystery Festival talking with Thomas King about his novel Deep House. This occasion marks the 20^th time Shelagh has interviewed Thomas King.

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