Join TIFA for this exclusive event with the multi-million best-selling author, Louise Penny, and writer and journalist, Mellissa Fung, as they launch their new novel, The Last Mandarin. This fast-paced, all-too-real thriller features an estranged mother and daughter caught in a global reckoning where family, loyalty, and power collide. It is an electrifying study of […]
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Come pay your respects to entrepreneur (and definitely not a Mob Boss) Eddie “The Shark” Delivista, who may or may not have been murdered, at a memorial bash for the books! Grab your friends and sleuthing caps for an evening of fun and mystery as guests are asked to help the police solve the murder […]
Step aboard a journey through memory, regret, and second chances with internationally bestselling author Matt Haig, the beloved writer behind The Midnight Library. In this captivating conversation, Haig returns with a spellbinding new novel that asks: if you could revisit the moments that shaped your life, would you dare to change them? The Midnight Train […]
What if the life you never planned turns out to be the one where you discover your voice? Join us for a conversation inspired by The First Lady Next Door, the candid and uplifting memoir by Canadian-born former First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid. Reid reflects on the surprising path that took her from the […]
Presale begins March 3 | Public onsale begins March 5 A CBC IDEAS live recording featuring Randy Boyagoda, Davide Panagia & Malinda S. Smith Introduced by Marc Spooner, co-editor of Knowledge Under Siege: Charting A Future for Universities. Defining the value of universities has never been so urgent. Academic institutions now face existential threats, from […]
TIFA Presents a special event with the award-winning and much-loved author and poet, Michael Ondaatje in conversation with writer, journalist and academic, Amitava Kumar, marking the publication of Ondaatje’s new Selected Poems, The Distance of a Shout. Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems to create a singular poetic memoir that invokes the […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Join us for a remarkable evening with internationally acclaimed author, John Irving, as he presents his sixteenth novel, Queen Esther – a powerful return to the world of his beloved classic The Cider House Rules. Spanning from Vienna in 1905 to Jerusalem in 1981, Queen Esther traces Esther Nacht’s extraordinary […]
PUBLIC ON SALE: October 16 Celebrate the best in contemporary Canadian literature at an evening showcasing the 2025 Giller Prize shortlisted authors. Join these exceptional authors as they read from their nominated works, share insights into their craft, and discuss the stories that earned them a place among Canada’s literary elite. Don’t miss this chance […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT With a personal introduction from Margaret Atwood The seismic political changes in the United States of America have presented the world, including Canada, with existential issues that threaten our shared understanding of what a good, free and just society should be—and have left many struggling to know how to respond. […]
Join us for an unforgettable evening of true stories told live as The Moth Mainstage returns to Toronto as part of the TIFA Presents 2025 season. This signature event brings together storytellers from Canada and around the world to share bold, funny, and heartfelt tales that celebrate the art and craft of storytelling. The Mainstage […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Join us for the literary event of the year as Margaret Atwood launches her long-awaited memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts. Written with her signature wit and candour, Atwood recounts a life shaped by wild northern landscapes, literary invention, and political upheaval that inspired her most iconic works. […]
Join us for an afternoon with Ian McEwan, the Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement and Saturday as he presents his genre-bending new novel of love, legacy, and literary intrigue. In What We Can Know, Ian McEwan invites us into a world of shifting truths, moving from a candlelit dinner in 2014 where a mysterious poem […]
Join us for an unforgettable evening with R.F. Kuang, the New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Poppy War, Babel and Yellowface. Kuang returns with her highly anticipated novel, Katabasis, a dark academia fantasy where two rival graduate students must journey to Hell to rescue their professor’s soul— perhaps at the cost of their […]
Join Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis, as he presents his dazzling new story collection, Other Worlds. Alexis masterfully connects worlds — real, invented, and uncanny — in these captivating tales that span from 19th century Trinidad to contemporary Toronto. Blending philosophical inquiry with wry humour and drawing on multiple literary genres, these […]
Join internationally acclaimed historian, co-host of the Empire podcast and bestselling author William Dalrymple in Toronto as he presents The Golden Road, a sweeping history of South Asia’s profound influence on the world. From astronomy to architecture, mathematics to mythology, Dalrymple reveals how India’s civilization shaped ancient Eurasia — its ideas traveling from Angkor Wat […]
Join us for one of the biggest publishing events of 2025 and the Canadian launch of Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, marking her return to full-length fiction after more than a decade. The internationally celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah – an Oprah Book Club […]
