Steeple Green Books

05/12/2026

Unfortunately Lynn's touring schedule has changed and we have to postpone this show until the Fall. A rescheduled date will be announced soon, stay tuned!

If you've already purchased tickets, you'll receive an email shortly confirming your refund.

UPDATE: Unfortunately Lynn's touring schedule has changed and we have to postpone this show until the Fall. A rescheduled date will be announced soon, stay tuned! If you've already purchased tickets, you'll receive an email shortly confirming your refund.

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Lynn Miles is one of Canada’s most respected and influential songwriters, with a body of work that has quietly but profoundly shaped the country’s contemporary folk and roots landscape. Based in Ottawa, she has spent decades crafting songs of remarkable emotional precision—writing that is literate without pretension, intimate without fragility, and grounded in a deep understanding of human experience.

With a JUNO Award in 2003 for Roots Traditional Album of the Year, Lynn subsequently received JUNO nominations in 2006 and 2011. She has also taken home six Canadian Folk Music Awards, including three for Songwriter of the Year and one for Contemporary Singer of the Year.

Show at 7:30pm
Doors at 7:00pm
$15 in advance
$20 at the door

Steeple Green Books
26 East Petpeswick Rd.
Musquodoboit Harbour, NS

05/10/2026

Monday (tomorrow!) at 7pm! We're hosting Dave Greene's speaker series Night of Adventure with friends of the shop Ashleigh Myles and Jamie Simpson.

Jamie will share stories from his cycling adventure in Baja, and Ashleigh Myles will give a talk about her incredible 116 day 23,000 kilometre solo bike trip from Alaska to Argentina, along the length of the Pan American Highway,

We're usually closed Mondays, but we'll open up at 6pm for the event. Tickets are $15 and available at the door, or in advance at nightofadventure.com.

05/10/2026

Mat Hughes, May 9th 2026

05/10/2026

Graham Nicholas with Sarah McInnis, May 9th 2026

05/10/2026

It was a damn delight to have Graham Nicholas, Sarah McInnis, and Mat Hughes play here last night. And it was an extra special treat to have someone play the old Yamaha, my childhood piano. Local piano legend Bill Stevenson brought that piano back to life a couple years ago and it's never sounded better.

05/09/2026

We're clearing out some of our favourite new releases from the last 6 months.
$25 each.
Low risk, high reward.
😎💚📚

05/09/2026

Today!

05/09/2026

Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they’re thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean’s surface burst with colour and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their own fluorescent sunblock. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, damage by humans, and a devastating pandemic.

Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. Alarmed by their peril, she traveled the world to discover how to prevent their loss. She met scientists and activists operating in emergency mode, doing everything they can think of to prevent coral reefs from disappearing forever. She was so amazed by the ingenuity of these last-ditch efforts that she joined in rescue missions, unexpected partnerships, and risky experiments, and helped rebuild reefs with rebar and zip ties.

Life on the Rocks is an inspiring, lucid, meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. As she also attempts to help her daughter in her struggle with mental illness, Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle whose outcome is uncertain. She contemplates the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories.

$15

05/08/2026

“I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.”
- Robert Graves, I, Claudius

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves's brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome.

$10

05/08/2026

Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arctic peoples with its expression in the present day.

The book's first section includes traditional legends, myths, folk history told by native story-tellers, and poetry sung by Inuit composers. The second presents statements and observations by some of the first Inuit to come into contact with European newcomers, including official reports, interviews, letters, and diaries. Next are early poetry and prose in translation, much of it autobiographical. The final section includes contemporary Inuit writing, from essays and speeches to fiction, poetry, and other genres of imaginative literature. The editor has provided an introduction for each item and arranged the material chronologically to give historical perspective and continuity to the whole.

$20

05/07/2026

When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. A Giacometti Portrait is a picture of one of the century's greatest artists at work.

James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giacometti did his portrait in oil. The artist painted, and the model recorded the sittings and took photographs of the work in its various stages. What emerged was an illumination of what it is to be an artist and what it was to be Giacometti--a portrait in prose of the man and his art. A work of great literary distinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle and important evocation of a great artist.

$10