October 24, 2026, 2 - 4 p.m.

Author Stephen Gobby

Queen of Brome County

Stephen Gobby will be at Brome Lake Books on Saturday October 24, 2026, from 2 - 4 p.m. to talk about his latest book: Queen of Brome County.


Stephen Gobby was born, raised and educated in Montreal, Quebec. He has also lived in Alberta and in Arizona. He has worked as a teacher, police officer, insurance investigator, martial arts instructor, musician, and editor. 


He now lives in Knowlton, where he just completed his 3rd book, Queen of Brome County.

Le 10 October, 2026, 12 h - 14 h

Daniel Gingras et Odette Bisson

L'Arbre, pilier du vivant


Daniel Gingras et Odette Bisson seront présents à la librairie Brome Lake Books le samedi 10 octobre 2026, de 12 h à 14 h, pour parler de son nouveau livre : L'Arbre, pilier du vivant.


Les arbres sont partout autour de nous. Ils rafraîchissent nos villes, abritent la biodiversité, filtrent l’air, soutiennent discrètement l’équilibre du vivant. Mais les connaît-on vraiment ?


Cet ouvrage accessible et richement illustré nous invite à découvrir les arbres autre-ment. Comment grandissent-ils ? Comment communiquent-ils ? Pourquoi sont-ils si essentiels à la santé de notre environnement, à la nôtre, et à notre avenir ?


À travers des explications claires, des faits étonnants et des conseils concrets pour mieux choisir, planter et préserver les arbres, ce livre nous propose de porter un regard nouveau sur ces grands piliers du vivant.


Porté par deux voix complémentaires, celle du scientifique et celle de l’artiste, cet ouvrage nous rappelle aussi l’importance de ralentir, d’observer et de renouer avec la nature qui nous entoure.


Un livre pour apprendre, comprendre, et ne plus jamais regarder un arbre tout à fait de la même façon.


Daniel Gingras and Odette Bisson will be at Brome Lake Books on Saturday October 10, 2026, from 12h - 14h to talk about their new book: Trees, the pillars of life.


Trees are all around us. They cool our cities, provide a habitat for biodiversity, filter the air, and quietly sustain the balance of life. But do we really know them?


This accessible and richly illustrated book invites us to discover trees in a new light. How do they grow? How do they communicate? Why are they so essential to the health of our environment, to our own health, and to our future?


Through clear explanations, surprising facts, and practical advice on how to better choose, plant, and preserve trees, this book invites us to take a fresh look at these great pillars of life.


Told through two complementary voices—that of the scientist and that of the artist—this book also reminds us of the importance of slowing down, observing, and reconnecting with the nature around us.


A book to learn from, to understand, and to ensure you never look at a tree quite the same way again.

November 8, 2026, at 1p.m.

Dick the Delightful Duck

Read by Sheila Quinn

Part of the Family Festival Court-Curcuit

November 14, 2026, 1 - 3 p.m.

Author Chantal Patenaude

It Is What It Is

Chantal Patenaude will be at Brome Lake Books on Saturday November 14, 2026, from 1 - 3 p.m. to talk about her new book: It Is What It Is.


After decades of living abroad, Chantal Patenaude returns to Canada and persuades her seventy-nine-year-old mother, Pierrette, to move from California to Ottawa. With her mother nearby, Chantal expects to worry less.

Instead, she witnesses troubling changes in her mother’s language and behavior. What first seem like “senior moments” eventually lead to a devastating diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).


It Is What It Is is an intimate memoir about the realities so many families face when dementia enters their lives: the gradual role reversal between parent and child, the difficult decisions, the heartbreak of progressive loss, and the small moments that suddenly mean everything.

Honest, moving and unexpectedly uplifting, this is a story not only about what dementia takes away, but about what remains: love, dignity, joy and connection.

Le choix de livre de Poppy

Poppy's Pick

août 2026 September

  • END TIMES FASCISM And the Fight for the Living World: End Times Fascism is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unliveable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout—whether by repairing to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many internal conflicts and contradictions and their nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leaves them vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics—rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.


  • OUR NOBLE SELVES: When foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn returns to Britain in 1949 from Singapore, held for years as a POW, he takes a quiet office job with The Festival of Britain, a nostalgic government-funded endeavor to celebrate British creativity, grit, and ingenuity. There, he joins an oddball team of misfits, ne'er-do-wells, and downright chancers helping to ready the Festival of Britain for launch.

    But when one of Flynn’s dates, a surly Frenchwoman, goes missing, everything is upended. The last person to see her prior to her disappearance, Flynn is thrust into the center of the investigation. At first, he finds the suspicions preposterous. But it’s true he has no memory of the hours following the Frenchwoman’s departure, and there’s the fact of the nasty black eye he had upon waking. As evidence mounts, Flynn begins to wonder, could he have killed her? And, importantly, are any of his new friends actually foes?


  • REDWOOD: In 1981, KGB Major Vladimir Kuzichkin, codenamed “Redwood,” was the best Soviet officer in Iran, running spies in the wake of the Islamic revolution and working with a hidden network of Iranian communists to undermine the new regime. But Kuzichkin had a problem, a sexual secret that, if revealed, would humiliate him with his colleagues, cost him his job, and send him into exile. Desperate for a solution, he reached out to the only place he believed could help: Britain’s MI6.

    This is the gripping tale of one man’s courage, and its extraordinary unintended consequences that still shape our world today. It’s about a moving friendship between spies on opposite sides of the global conflict; about marriage, loyalty, and betrayal. Drawing on never-before-seen archival material and revealing interviews with the participants, Redwoodplunges readers back into the world of The Spy and the Traitor, where the fate of millions turns on the split-second decisions of spies under pressure.