The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery turns 100 years old this year!
Nimbus has republished L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle with a brand-new cover illustrated by Dartmouth author Briana Corr Scott. We will be joining author Sarah Emsley in reading it this summer. We will also be celebrating 100 years here at the store on Thursday, November 5th!
- Online Facebook Spotlights and In-store Events for 2026
- Thursday, November, 5th, 6pm-7:30pm- Celebrating 100 years of The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery.
- Sunday, November 8th, 2-3pm- Colouring Adventures Across Canada with Joyce Baxter. Join us for our book launch of Our Home And Native Land: A Colouring Book of Animals and Stories from Travels in Canada.
- Sunday, November 8th, 3-4pm- Meet Ada & Friends: Pet Project Kids’ Reading and Activity Session with Heidi Tattrie Rushton. Heidi will be here to do a reading from her new release, Pet Project, the long-anticipated sequel to Pet Tales, published by Nevermore Press, and will do some activities with the kids.
- Thursday, November 12th, 6:30pm-7:30pm- Uncovering Traitor’s Game: An Evening with Stephen Kimber and his Halifax Wartime Mystery. Traitor’s Game- A Mick Blackwell Mystery is the first in a series of character-driven World War II noir detective mysteries set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from an award-winning journalist.
- Wednesday, November 18th, 6:30pm to 7:30pm– Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our Book Club.
- Thursday, November 19th, 6:30pm-8pm- Behind The Pages: Book Talk and Signing with Carol Bruneau (The Little Way) and Stephens Gerard Malone (The Unnameable)
- Wednesday, December 2nd, Monthly Book Swap. See below for more information about this fun event.
- Wednesday, December 9th, 6:30pm to 7:30pm- Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our Book Club. Please note that our December meetings are a week earlier than the rest of the year.
- Thursday, December 10th, 6:30pm-7:30 pm- An Eastcoast Christmas: Celebrate the season with authors Denise Flint and Heidi Tattrie Rushton for an evening of sweet Atlantic holiday romance. Denise Flint’s Home for Christmas, a collection of holiday romances set in Newfoundland & Labrador. Heidi Tattrie Rushton’s Good for Goodness’ Sake, a sweet holiday romance set in Nova Scotia.
- Thursday, December 17th, 6:30-7:30pm- Donna Morrissey Tea and Talk: Tell It to the Water.
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- Thursday, February 11th-6:30pm-7:30pm- Blind Date With A Book Speed Dating Night with special guest Gina N. Brown, author of Pickled in Love
Monthly Book Swaps- Come by, meet and mingle, and then share and swap your favourite used books! Bring in a wrapped, gently used book that you are willing to part with and that you know someone else will enjoy! Write a few things that you liked about the book on the front. We will draw numbers and take turns discussing our books without revealing the titles. Then each person will choose a book in the order they were presented. A book can be stolen only once.
We are currently limiting all our in-store author or book-themed events to:
- Already well-known, established authors that we know will draw a crowd and be of interest to our local customers.
- Or to group, and themed events, where we host several authors at once.
- Or to community groups that are interested in us hosting a particular author or themed event for their group to attend.
- We are open to written proposals for events. Please include the names of the authors, the theme of the event, a rough outline or format, a possible event description, and links to the books.
We do offer week-long online spotlights and book giveaways for local authors
What a Spotlight entails:
What a spotlight entails is for a week (Monday- Sunday) we do posts on our Facebook page promoting the author and book. At the end of the week, we give away a copy of the book spotlighted, provided by either the author or the publisher. The authors, in advance, provide us with any interviews, reviews, or special posts about their book or of them, that we can share. The more the author/publisher provides the more that we can post.
Dartmouth Book Exchange Events Group
Authors, bloggers, aspiring authors, reviewers, publishers, editors, professional storytellers, and other supporters of local authors are more than welcome to join our Book Events group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/899347560587433
***If you are a Local Author/ Publisher interested in having an online spotlight done on our social media pages, please contact us on our contact page. Thank-you
Our Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
We generally meet on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
• Each participant will bring a locally authored novel that they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting, for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally, and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.
Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors
Meeting space
***If you are looking for a meeting place for your small group of 12 people or less, such as your book club group, we have a space. We charge a small $25 set-up and take-down fee for a 2-hour meeting, but should your group spend that or more in our store, the fee is waived.Ev
