Bookmark II

Celebrate Anne Emery's new Collins-Burke mystery, 'Counted Among the Dead', this Sunday, Sep. 22, 7-8pm, at Bookmark Halifax, 5686 Spring Garden Road. All are welcome!

Anne will be discussing the new novel with a Q&A to follow. She'll be happy to chat & sign copies of this and her other award-winning titles.

About the author:
Anne Emery is a lawyer and internationally acclaimed author. She has won Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence for Best Novel and Best First Novel. She has also won the Dartmouth Book award for Fiction and an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal. "One of Canada's finest novelists" (Ottawa Review of Books), She lives in Halifax, NS.

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Join B.R. Myers on Tuesday, September 10 (7pm), at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax) for the launch of The Third Wife of Faraday House.

Bookmark Halifax will be in attendance with books available for purchase. We hope to see you there!

Bookmark Halifax will be CLOSED Monday September 2nd so the busy bees at our store can take a rest. We'll be back regular hours Tuesday for all your book browsing needs! 🐝

Some frights are better told at night… Ghostly, Ghastly Tales by Anastasia Garcia is perfect for the young scary story enthusiast in your life. 👻

We are so happy to be a part of the upcoming celebration of Amanda Peters' new work, 'Waiting for the Long Night Moon'. Thank you to Halifax Central Library for the invitation and to Amanda for the outstanding contribution you've already made to the our community's literature and for the new voices you've so generously brought to readers everywhere. Mark the date: Thursday, Aug. 22nd. 7-8:30, Halifax Central Library, Back Plaza (Paul O'Regan Hall, if raining). For more details, click poster image.

Rachel Harrison's newest novel, BLACK SHEEP, is now out in paperback!! We 🖤 Rachel's books here and this one has some particularly gnarly moments—in a super fun way, of course. Looking forward to SO THIRSTY which comes out September 10th!

Soooo wonderful to have former Bookmartian Siobhan Gallagher drop by the store today!! 💜🩷 Signed copies of FULL OF MYSELF are available now!

A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds… 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia.

We are pleased to share that Halifax Central Libraries is hosting the launch of Donna Jones Alward’s newest novel, “When the World Fell Silent”, on Tuesday August 6th. The event takes place at Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road, Room 301, from 7:00-8:30. Admission is free and Bookmark will be in attendance with books available for purchase. We hope to see you there!

Hope everyone enjoys a lovely weekend. Although with shorter store hours, we'll be here for book conversations on Natal Day Monday. See you then.

It's the summer of Arthurian legend! 👑 Two retellings of the story of King Arthur have arrived in our humble bookstore: 🗡️THE BRIGHT SWORD🗡️ by Lev Grossman and 🌕MOONBOUND🌕 by Robin Sloan. Were they bequeathed to us by a lady in a lake? Maybe not (thankfully no water damage here) but we sure are excited about both of these books. We almost always have the 1958 classic THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING by T. H. White in stock, too, if you want something closer to the OG 15th century text.

This coming Saturday, Halifax Central Library will be hosting celebrated Newfoundland author, Gerard Collins. He will be discussing his novels and writing in general with Carol Bruneau. More details are available at the link below. We'll be there with a great selection of both Gerard and Carol's works. All are welcome!

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Author Event: Gerard Collins in Conversation with Carol Bruneau Please join us for a reading from award-winning Newfoundland writer, Gerard Collins. Gerard will read selections from his books The Hush Sisters, Moonlight Sketches, and Finton Moon, and will be joined in conversation by Nova Scotia author Carol Bruneau. A Q&A with the audience will follow. Books wi...

▫️♦️▪️ New display day has resulted in another experiment in colour from our staff here at Bookmark II… only this time, in the lack thereof. ▪️♦️▫️

**UPDATE!! The signed copies have been spoken for! We still have a few unsigned copies. **

THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE, by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, is now in stock! AND we have a limited number of copies signed by both authors.

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An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books

Thank you to Chimwemwe Undi for dropping by to sign copies of SCIENTIFIC MARVEL! 🥚

Zooming in to see the small things 🔍⏬🤏👀 our small window is currently filled with the littlest things we have in store! Including some tiny books made and titled by our staff 😌

A heartfelt thank you to Lesley Crewe, John, everyone at Nimbus, and the wonderful audience for a great event last night! We had a full house for the launch of "Death and Other Inconveniences." Signed copies of Lesley's newest title are in store now for anyone who missed the launch.

Celebrated author Elaine McCluskey took time out of a gorgeous July sunny day to sign her award-nominated novel, The Gift Child. Thank you, Elaine, for your continued brilliance and contributions to our region's rich literary heritage.