Recent Q&Q cover model Shane Peacock visited McNally Robinson’s Toronto location on Nov. 26 to read from and sign copies of his most recent Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Vanishing Girl. Above: Peacock signs books for young reader who appear to have lined up in order of height. (Photo courtesy of Tundra Books, via the Q&Q Flickr Pool)

Historical novelist Edward Rutherfurd (London, Russka, Rebels of Ireland, etc.) dropped in at A Different Drummer Books in Burlington, Ontario, on Dec. 5. to sign copies of New York, his latest literary saga. (Photo by Richard Bachmann, courtesy of Doubleday Canada)