Here are some pics from recent book events:

Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International, interviews Denise Chong about her book Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship (Random House Canada) at a This Is Not a Reading Series event at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel on Oct. 15 (photo courtesy of Chris Reed)

Hockey star Theo Fleury (right) was interviewed by Rod Black at Indigo’s Eaton Centre location in Toronto on Oct. 17 about his memoir, Playing With Fire (Fleury photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada)

Fleury fans at Indigo.

Kenneth J. Harvey (far right), majordomo for the ReLit Awards, stands with this year’s winners after they were presented with their award rings at the Ottawa International Writers Festival on Oct. 25th. The winners are, from left: Lisa Foad (short fiction), Maurice Mierau (poetry), and Michael Blouin (novel).