As it has for three decades now, Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge will host its annual Books and Authors night at the town’s Music Hall, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. This year, proprietor Shelley Macbeth and the best little bookstore in the world, in cooperation with the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts, will feature readings and interviews with four authors and their new books: Linden MacIntyre (The Only Cafe), Linda Spalding (A Reckoning), Alison Pick (Strangers with the Same Dream), and Terry Fallis (One Brother Shy). As he has for most of the thirty Books and Authors nights, Ted Barris will return to MC the evening and to interview the four sought-after authors.

Ted Barris is an author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting appearances on CBC Radio and regular contributions to the National Post and Legion, Air Force and Zoomer magazine. He has authored 18 published, non-fiction books.

In 2011 he received the Canadian Minister of Veterans’ Affairs Commendation and in 2012 the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. His book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story received the 2014 Libris Best Non-Fiction Award.