From pantless guinea pigs and spicy romantic fantasy, and from a tragically needless death in Ancaster to wartime memories hashed out in a Hamilton bar, these are local reads to heat up your summer! Summer is the perfect time to conquer your to-be-read pile, whether you’re soaking in…

Host and author Jamie Tennant reflects on the beginning, and the ending, of a local program that talked to Hamilton, provincial, national, and even international authors over 500 episodes spanning a decade. After almost 10 years and 500 episodes, the GET LIT program has signed off. The what…

Local author Joyce Grant, who is an expert in misinformation, algorithms, and journalism for young people, helps kids – and adults – broaden their sources of online information in Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You’re Missing.   You don’t need us to tell you it…

Whether you love to read and talk about books, are a successful author, or are aspiring to publish your first work, Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival has something for you. gritLIT is an opportunity to not only celebrate great books and national and local authors, it’s a chance…

Hamilton’s winter book fair returns for its third season to Bridgeworks on Feb. 15, featuring local publishers, writers, bookstores and creators. Book publishing is a marketplace dominated by multinational corporations, most of them based in the United States. A quick visit to the nearest Chapters or Indigo (or…