With the help of our fantastic contributing bloggers, Dr. Stuart Clark will be making seven stops – with a new post uploaded each day from December 12-16th.

 THE SKY’S DARK LABYRINTH is the first of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles, personal and professional, and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the Universe.

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between Catholic and Protestant, these men prepared to die for that truth. This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with themselves, with the evidence and with the forces of reaction changed not simply themselves but our world.

Be sure not to miss any reviews or guest posts, including Q&As with Dr. Stuart Clark and signed copies for giveaway.

BLOG TOUR DATES:

Monday December 12

Book Gaga www.bookgaga.ca

Tuesday December 13

Book Discovery http://bookdiscovery-jeanne.blogspot.com/ 

Wednesday December 14

 A Winding Road nvalcius.tumblr.com 

Keeping the Passion for Writing Alive www.krissybrady.com  

Thursday December 15

404  blog404.org 

Book Discovery http://bookdiscovery-jeanne.blogspot.com/  

Friday December 16

 Space Couture www.space-couture.blogspot.com 

Misfits & Mascara misfitsandmascara.com

Infrared by Nancy Huston

Rena, a 45-year-old photographer in Paris, visits Florence with her elderly father and her stepmother, even though she can’t bear to be away from her lover and resents her stepmother. We come to see that her relationship with her father is problematic too. Huston shows her mastery of complicated structure, wide cultural knowledge and brilliant, assured portraiture.  – Michel Basilières, The Globe and Mail [read the full review]

Infrared is not for those who enjoy a simple narrative… It’s a more ruminative and sensual read, for those who prefer to move through a story on several different paths, exploring the plot from various angles and discovering meaning in the rhythms therein.” — National Post

Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy

Roddy Doyle calls Healy Ireland’s greatest writer. He’s is definitely in the pantheon; his prose is impressive. This novel covers several months in Ireland’s northwest and features an adolescent protagonist nicknamed Mister Psyche. There is little plot, but Healy makes up for this with strange dry humour, affectionate satire and a sharp eye for minutiae. – Mark Anthony Jarman

The novel Long Time, No See has made me into a huge Dermot Healy fan . . . I immediately became excited reading this book, excited to sense the nuance and weird wit and sheer power of his talent. – Mark Anthony Jarman, The Globe and Mail [read the full review]

Check out the full list of the Top 100 Books from The Globe and Mail.

The first novel in an eye-opening, new, historical fiction trilogy exploring the Great Age of Cosmic Discovery.

Join us on the blog tour of THE SKY’S DARK LABYRINTH, an exciting account of the turbulent lives of astronomers Galileo and Kepler, from world-renowned astronomy journalist Stuart Clark. It’s the perfect blend of gripping historical fiction and popular science!

For more info about the book, click here

When?

December 12-16, 2011

Why?

As a participating blogger , you will be given a copy of THE SKY’S DARK LABYRINTH to read and we’ll put you in touch with author Stuart Clark. On your scheduled posting date we ask that you post your review of the book for tour followers to read. However, if you would rather do an author interview, book trailer or have Stuart Clark write a guest post for your blog, that’s great too!

How do I get involved?

If you’d like to join us (and we hope you will), please send an email to devon@mcarthur-co.com with your name, your mailing address and the name of your blog. The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth is also available as a digital galley from Netgalley.com.

Click here to watch a video introduction with Stuart Clark. And here to read Stuart Clark’s discussion with Open Book Ontario about what conditions help produce his best writing.

Prue Leith is well known as a cook, restauranteur, food writer and businesswoman in London, England, where she’s been transforming Britain’s eating habits since the sixties. After publishing twelve cookbooks, she gave up writing about food to concentrate on fiction. Choral Society and A Serving of Scandal are now available in Canada.

Prue is in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors, in a roundtable discussion on fact vs. fiction on October 29 at 2pm and reading from A Serving of Scandal on October 30 at 2pm. If you can’t meet her in Toronto, please visit her online at prue-leith.com

Louise Patten is the author of Bad Money, a financial thriller, and Good as Gold, a novel which shares a long-kept family secret about the sinking of the Titanic. She is in Toronto for the International Festival of Authors.

Meet Brit-turned-Parisian Stephen Clarke, who casts his humorous eye over the long history of the French and English in Sunday Times bestseller 1000 Years of Annoying the French  (published Sept 2011 by McAthur & Co). In his forthcoming book, Paris Revealed, Stephen goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians don’t want you to know. Stephen Clarke is in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors. His next event is a reading tomorrow (October 25) at 8pm. If you can’t meet him in Toronto, visit Stephen Clarke online at stephenclarkewriter.com or follow @SClarkeWriter on Twitter.

Stuart Clark is in Canada touring with his novel The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth, the first in a trilogy of novels about famous astronomers, such as Galileo and Kepler. Stuart Clark has been in Toronto this week for a number of events and readings. He will be in Montreal this weekend: On Saturday, Oct. 22, at a talk at the Royal Astronomical Association at 8pm. On Sunday, Oct. 23, he’s reading from The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth at Paragraphe’s Books and Brunch at the Centre Sheridan. If you can’t meet him in Montreal, visit him online at www.stuartclark.com or follow him on Twitter @DrStuClark.

The setting is Glasgow in 1946, and the author’s delineation of the immediate post-war years has a bristling immediacy. Ferris’s protagonist Brodie is an ex-policeman, forced to save a childhood friend from hanging via a daunting odyssey through the dangerous backstreets of the Gorbals, obstructed by both bent coppers and murderous razor gangs.

The winner will be announced on November 30th. Visit the CWA website for further information about the award.

Today, Canada Reads released the Publishing Insiders’s Picks, including a recommendation from our very own Dewey Diva Ann Ledden. She recommends Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir by Heather Summerhayes Cariou with a foreword from Celine Dion.

A compelling and unflinchingly honest memoir of a family in crisis as it falls apart and puts itself together again. The story explores the relationship between two sisters — one devastatingly ill, the other healthy but burdened with guilt.

You can vote now for Ann’s pick, Sixtyfive Roses, on the CBC Canada Reads website.

We kick off October with the Nelson, B.C. book launch for Anne DeGrace‘s fourth novel, Flying With Amelia. On October 7th, join Anne DeGrace at the Nelson Public Library at 7:30 pm (more details).

Astronomer and author Dr. Stuart Clark will be in Toronto for the launch for his novel The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth, with a lecture at U of T on October 18 and a reading at TPL’s Runnymede Branch on October 19. Stuart Clark will also appear in Montreal at Paragraphe’s Books & Brunch on October 23rd.

CWA Gold Dagger Award shortlisted author Denise Mina (The End of the Wasp Season) will be appearing in Vancouver at the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors, in Ottawa at the Ottawa International Writers Festival and in Quebec City at the inaugural QuebeCrime Festival.

Bestselling author Nancy Huston (Infrared) will appear at Toronto‘s International Festival of Authors and in Montreal at Paragraphe’s Books & Brunch on October 23rd.

Two new names to McArthur’s list are Brits Louise Patten (Good As Gold) and Prue Leith (A Serving of Scandal). Louise Patten will read in Montreal at Paragraphe’s Books & Brunch on October 23rd. Prue Leith will be in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors.

And longtime McArthur author Dermot Healy is back with his new novel, Long Time, No See. He’ll be appearing in Vancouver at the Vancouver International Writers Festival and in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors.

Don’t miss the hilarious Stephen Clarke, author of the humorous history account of French-English relations 1000 Years of Annoying the French. He’ll appear in Toronto at the International Festival of Authors.

So check out our Events Calendar and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to get all the latest news! Hope to see you at one of our events this October.