Alan Twigg, author of Full-Time: A Soccer Story (McCLelland & Stewart), presents the jersey that was featured on the book’s cover to Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame representative and Canada Soccer Centre co-founder William Hoyle in Vaughan, Ontario. (Photo courtesy of M&S.)

Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp, co-authors of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins Canada), answer audience questions during a This Is Not a Reading Series event at the University of Toronto’s MacMillan Theatre on May 27. (Photo by Chris Reed.)

Author Pasha Malla (left) and Globe and Mail columnist Carl Wilson attempt to out-casual each other at a This Is Not a Reading Series event for Malla’s first book, The Withdrawal Method, on May 28. (House of Anansi Press). (Photo by Chris Reed.)

Roy Innes signs his book The West End Murders (NeWest Press) in front of a full house at a special event held on Gabriola Island, B.C., in May. (Photo courtesy of NeWest Press.)

On hand for an event to launch Road Grill (McArthur & Company) at Toronto’s Union Station on May 28 are, from left, Sheldon Speers of Knight TV, publisher Kim McArthur, co-author and CFL Hall of Famer Matt Dunigan, and Erin Rooney from S.C. Johnson, makers of, um, Ziploc bags. (Photo by William C. Smith of the Toronto Irish News/Courtesy of McArthur & Company.)