Thursday, May 14, 2026
7pm
Little Wren Books
502 Adelaide St N, London, ON
Please join Connie Gault and Elizabeth Philips as they celebrate the launch of their latest books! For more information, visit Little Wren Books.
In A Study in Red, two women tell the story of the shocking act of violence that transforms both of their lives. Carol and Amy haven’t seen each other for decades—not since they met one fateful summer in 1962—but the death of a very old woman named Hattie reignites long smouldering emotions. What exactly happened to turn a summer idyll into a nightmare? A literary mystery and an exploration of the nature of memory, this novel is also a study of the red emotions: lust, anger, jealousy, and not least, love.
Connie Gault is the recipient of the 2025 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. Her most recent novel, The Rasmussen Papers, was short-listed for the 2024 Toronto Book Award. Previous fiction has won several Saskatchewan awards and has been short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Novel of Canada and the Caribbean and long-listed for the Giller Prize. After living most of her life in Saskatchewan, Connie now resides in London, Ontario.
The Time of the Great Singing is a kinetic new collection of poetry that sings our astonishment and our fear at how life makes and unmakes us through every grief. Jan Zwicky says, “It’s a book that does not distinguish between elegy and celebration, an intelligence structured by long walks and what one can begin to know only by standing preternaturally still.”
Elizabeth Philips is the author of five collections of poetry. Her novel The Afterlife of Birds won the City of Saskatoon Book Award and was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. She was the director of the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writer Intensive for eight years and is a former editor of Grain magazine. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where she is Acquisitions Editor and Editorial Director at Thistledown Press.