IRAH UPDATE: FIRST-RATE PROGRAMMING COMING THIS FALL

The staff at International Readings at Harbourfront (IRAH) is working throughout the summer to bring you a jam-packed fall programme. Watch out for IRAH's exciting new schedule of weekly readings, which resumes for the '07–'08 season on September 19. Keep an eye on www.readings.org for full details as they are announced. Tickets to most weekly readings are free for members, so if you haven't already joined, read the sidebar to find out how you can!

Mark the dates for the 28th annual International Festival of Authors (IFOA), which will run this year from October 17–27. An impressive roster of more than sixty bestselling, award-winning and hot up-and-coming authors from Canada and around the world will participate in IFOA. Those authors include:

Nancy Huston (Canada/France), whose books have won numerous awards, including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, the Prix Elle and the Governor General's Literary Award. She presents Fault Lines, the story of four generations struggling with a family secret passed down from World War II.

Michael Ondaatje (Canada) has been hailed as "one of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time" (Geoff Dyer, Guardian). In Divisidero, Ondaatje tells the story of a father, his teenage daughters and the enigmatic young man who joins their makeshift family in 1970s California.

Helen Oyeyemi (U.K.) is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl, which she wrote while she was still at school. Oyeyemi's second novel, The Opposite House, praised by the Toronto Star as having echoes of Toni Morrison, is the story of a young woman exploring her heritage – black and British, Catholic and Cuban.

Authors confirmed for IFOA also include: Amy Bloom, Justin Cartwright, Tracy Chevalier, Mohsin Hamid, Janette Turner Hospital, A.J. Jacobs, Lloyd Jones, Nikita Lalwani, Will Self, M.G. Vassanji and Vendela Vida, to name but a few.
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