Orenda Booksis delighted to celebrate publication of the ‘Queen of Quebec Suspense’ Roxanne Bouchard’s breathtakingly beautiful and dark thriller, The Coral Bride, translated by David Warriner, with an online launch.
Number One Bestselling Book in Quebec 2020!
Roxanne will be in conversation with Orenda Books editor and author, West Camel.
This event is free to attend, however we do encourage you to support the author in any way you can and Roxanne’s book is available to order online now. Signed copies are available EXCLUSIVELY from our partner bookshop, Berts Books: HERE
You will receive a confirmation email once you register, and on the day of the event itself will be sent details for attendance. Please ensure you have downloaded Zoom. We will be taking questions on the day of the event via the chat function.
Roxanne Bouchardis an award-winning French-Canadian playwright and author. Ten years or so ago, she decided it was time she found her sea legs. So she learned to sail, first on the St Lawrence River, before taking to the open waters off the Gaspé Peninsula. The local fishermen soon invited her aboard to reel in their lobster nets, and Roxanne saw for herself that the sunrise over Bonaventure never lies. Her fifth novel (her first to be translated into English) We Were the Salt of the Sea – first in the Detective Moralès series – was published in 2018 to resounding critical acclaim. Roxanne Bouchard lives in Quebec.
West Camel is born and bred in south London – and not the Somerset village with which he shares a name – West Camel worked as an editor in higher education and business before turning his attention to the arts and publishing. He has worked as a book and arts journalist, and was editor at Dalkey Archive Press, where he edited the Best European Fiction 2015anthology, before moving to new press Orenda Books just after its launch. He currently combines his work as editor at Orenda Books with writing and editing a wide range of material for various arts organisations, including ghost-writing a New-Adult novel and editing The Riveter magazine for the European Literature Network. He has also written several short scripts, which have been produced in London’s fringe theatres, and was longlisted for the Old Vic’s 12 playwrights project. Attend is his first novel.
The Coral Bride
In this beautiful, lyrical sequel to the critically acclaimed We Were the Salt of the Sea, Detective Moralès finds that a seemingly straightforward search for a missing fisherwoman off Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula is anything but … ‘A haunting murder mystery about how human nature is every bit as dangerous and inscrutable as the sea … draws out its suspense to the very last moment’ Foreword Reviews
In conjunction with the Canadian Embassy, London and Quebec Reads.
