Escape Routes

Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson and Don Gillmor

7:30pm

Saturday, September 30, 2023

60 mins

Co-authors Will and Ian Ferguson, and award-winning writer Don Gillmor introduce their latest novels – two stories about midlife mundanity and unexpected escapes.

In the Ferguson brothers’ I Only Read Murder, a forgotten actress gets caught up in a real life murder mystery and must draw on her days as television’s beloved pastor-slash-crime-fighter to find the culprit. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Gillmor’s Breaking and Entering follows one woman’s entry into a life of petty crime when she stumbles on the world of amateur lock-picking to escape from suburban stagnation.

Both novels explore the comic consequences that can befall the amateur sleuth or would-be master criminal solving or committing crimes, while turning an acerbic satirical eye on the worlds in which they find themselves.

Moderated by Janet Smyth.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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Co-authors Will and Ian Ferguson, and award-winning writer Don Gillmor introduce their latest novels – two stories about midlife mundanity and unexpected escapes.

Moderated by Janet Smyth.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Ian Ferguson

Ian Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother, Will, of How to Be a Canadian, which was shortlisted for the Leacock Medal and won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction. A writer and creative director in the film and television industry, he lives in Victoria.