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On Thursday, November 4th, the Robson Reading Series will present award-winning novelist Annabel Lyon at the colourful, autumnal UBC Point Grey Campus. Please join us for a special afternoon reading and conversation from 1-2pm at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 155 (Parliamentary Room).
Annabel Lyon’s most recent novel, The Golden Mean (Random House Canada, 2009), animates the relationship between the young Alexander the Great and his tutor Aristotle. It won the 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Annabel’s previous work includes the short fiction collection Oxygen (McClelland & Stewart, 2003), a suite of three novellas, The Best Thing for You (2004), and the juvenile novel, All-Season Edie (Orca Books, 2008). She lives in New Westminster, BC.
Admission is free and refreshments are served. Books will be available for purchase and signing.