Current Events
January
Adelle Purdham Book Launch
Perfect Books
We are excited to welcome Adelle Purdham to the store to launch her debut collection of essays, I Don't Do Disability And Other Lies I've Told Myself, joined by Caroline Topperman (author of the recently released Your Roots Cast a Shadow), and hosted by Nancy Huggett (winner of the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award). This is a raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through the eyes of a mother to a daughter with Down syndrome. Join us for what is sure to be a moving evening of conservation on a wide range of topics—motherhood, female friendship, disability, injustice, marriage, desire, and more.
Asian Community Arts Market
National Arts Centre
We are delighted to have been invited to support the Asian Community Arts Market! We will be there selling books by Asian Canadian diaspora authors throughout the day.
About the event:
Experience a vibrant and exciting celebration of Asian arts and culture in Ottawa! This unique multicultural event with an Asian flair brings together local artists, artisans, performers, and vendors from a diversity of communities and across the Asian diaspora to share their work, talents and traditions with the wider Ottawa community.
Shop for a wide variety of arts and crafts created by talented local artisans and businesses, participate in hands-on arts workshops and activities, and enjoy some live performances.
Emma Theriault Book Launch
Perfect Books
Ottawa's own Emma Theriault is in store to launch her highly anticipated romance, A Lady Would Know Better, hosted by Ruby Barrett! Get ready to swoon for this dreamy, forget-me-not romance that's filled with the delightful tartness of Jane Austen and the sweeping, unputdownable drama of Bridgerton. Publisher's weekly, in a starred review, calls it "[A] glittering, Austenesque historical.” Don't miss this one!