This page highlights FEATURES & REVIEWS about Diana and her books, and recent/upcoming EVENTS.
In 2010 . . .
JULY 2010, No Place Strange is reviewed in Canadian Literature. Read the review here.
JUNE 15th, U.K. Writers Invade Toronto! Diana will be at the Toronto Writer’s Centre, introducing a group of U.K. writers and independent publishers to Toronto and its writing community. For more information about the event, and the writers and publishers themselves, go here.
MAY is Book Club month – three presentations to the Great Women’s Book Club at hospitals in Oakville, Milton and Georgetown, and Diana will be a guest at other book clubs.
APRIL 27th, a READING at the presentation of the AMAZON.ca First Novel Award, along with the five other nominees: Jessica Grant, Annabel Lyon, Damien Tarnopolsky, Dragan Todorovic and Iain Weir, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, Toronto.
APRIL, an INTERVIEW with Diana by Rob McLennan, as part of his 12 or 20 QUESTIONS series. Read the interview here.
MARCH 11th, a READING at The Eh! List Author Series for the Toronto Public Library, with Karen Connelly, details to follow.
- No Place Strange is named a FINALIST for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award! Read more here.
FEBRUARY, an APPEARANCE at The Book Lovers’ Ball, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
JANUARY, a review of No Place Strange in NOW Magazine.
In 2009 . . .
NOVEMBER
- A note: The Globe and Mail‘s Jim Bartley gives No Place Strange an Honourable Mention on his list of top first fiction of the year.
- A reading at IFOA Ontario in Parry Sound with Miriam Toews, John Brady, and Alan Bissett.
OCTOBER
- A reading at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors.
- A reading at the Fine Print series, Dora Keogh pub, Toronto, with Cathy Marie Buchanan.
- A reading at McNally Robinson in Toronto as part of the ‘Fictionista’ reading series, with Connie Gault, Rhea Tregebov, and Alice Zorn.
- An excerpt from the novel in the Vancouver Province.
SEPTEMBER
- A reading at Words Alive, in Sharon, Ontario.
- The official launch of No Place Strange in Toronto at Mitzi’s Sister.
- A review in The Globe and Mail.
- A review in Quill and Quire.
AUGUST
- A review in the Vancouver Sun. Read “Intelligence, politics, globalism on display in poet’s first novel” by Rebecca Wigod.
- A review of No Place Strange in the Winnipeg Free Press.
- A review of No Place Strange and profile of Diana, by Donna Bailey Nurse, in the Ottawa Citizen.
- A profile of Diana in the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
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