Events

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

Wednesday, August 5th- 6:30pm-7:30pm Monthly Book Swap- 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.
Sunday, August 16th– Bookstore Romance Day 3pm-5pm. We will be having a Big Dill Early Release Party. Cathryn Fox’s brand-new Pickleball Rom-Com set in Churchill Falls, Newfoundland, which will be officially released to the public in September, will be available here first! Brody Murray—physiotherapist, Ironman, and sworn enemy of messy feelings—is back home to open a pickleball hotspot with his best friend. His game plan is to work hard. Stay focused. Avoid complications. Then his best friend’s sister walks in. Jami Grant is starting over after losing everything—her studio, her designs, and her confidence—thanks to one spectacularly bad ex. What she doesn’t plan on, however, is running into Brody… AKA the lumber-snack, the one-night stand she never forgot. She had no idea the lumber-snack was her brother’s best friend, business and pickleball partner. Yeah. It’s a problem. When they’re thrown into close quarters, the tension ramps up fast—but Jami’s not staying, and Brody’s not getting left behind again. No matter how good they are together. In a town where everyone’s in your business and there’s nowhere to hide, resisting each other might be the hardest game they’ve ever played.
Wednesday, August 19th- 6:30pm to 7:30pm- Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our book club.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Monthly Book Swap- 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.
September 8th- 14th- Online Spotlight Carolyn Nicholson and her new release, Isabel: The Quest for Freedom
Wednesday, September 16th- 6:30pm to 7:30pm– Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our Book Club.
Friday, October 2nd- 6:30pm-7:30pm– In conversation with Kristin Kraus and her novel, They Didn’t See The Flowers and Robert de la Chevotiére We Were Not Kings.
Wednesday, October 7th, 6:30- 7:30pm. Monthly Book Swap- 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.
Thursday, October 8th- 6:30-7:30pm- Blind Date With a Book Speed Dating Night with special guest Michelle Hébert. For our Speed Dating event, Blind Date books use their first line(s) as their “pick-up” lines, so Michelle will be here to tell us all about first lines: how she came up with her first line and their importance. She’ll also discuss her novel, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. There will be games and lots of laughter. Everyone gets one of these, never seen before, specially made, high-demand Blind Dates. Dress to impress. This is an adult event, and it is “Witchie Season”. A $12.60 fee- pre-registration is required for this event to monitor numbers. You can register at the store, by phone with a credit card at 902-435-1207, or by e-transfer to dbex1187@gmail.com.
Thursday, October 15th- 6pm-8pm– Nancy Drew Cozy Mystery Tea with Special Guests Jane Doucet, Blood Typed, Tom Ryan, Treasure Hunter’s/ We had a Hunch, and Barbara Emodi, Gasper’s Cove Series +. We will be serving The Secret of the Old Clock tea by NovelTea in Truro, Peach Lemon Green Tea.
Wednesday, October 21st- 6:30pm to 7:30pm- Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our Book Club.
Wednesday, November 4th, 6:30pm-7:30pm Monthly Book Swap- 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
Thursday, November, 5th, 6pm-7:30pm- Celebrating 100 years of The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. “November—with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes—days full of a fine, pale sunshine that sifted through the late, leafless gold of the juniper-trees and glimmered among the grey beeches, lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines. Days with a high-sprung sky of flawless turquoise. Days when an exquisite melancholy seemed to hang over the landscape and dream about the lake. But days, too, of the wild blackness of great autumn storms, followed by dank, wet, streaming nights when there was witch-laughter in the pines and fitful moans among the mainland trees.”- The Blue Castle
Wednesday, November 18th, 6:30pm to 7:30pm– Locally Authored Book Club. See below for information about our Book Club.
Wednesday December 2nd, Monthly Book Swap- 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
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.

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 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 waiv