BOOK LAUNCH

Join us for the launch of Natalie Southworth’s short story collection, There’s Always More to Say, published by Linda Leith Publishing.

In conversation with Paige Cooper, author of Zolitude.

PLEASE RSVP (tickets are free) at:  https://www.ticketsource.com/argo-bookshop/t-yzzarao

WHEN: April 9, 2026 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Eastern

WHERE: Argo Bookshop, 1841-A Rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montréal, QC

The collection has received strong early praise: 

“This is a beautiful work. A lifetime is gathered in these elegant and deeply moving stories.” Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“They are beautiful and shimmering stories, with so much subtlety and nuance—the tension and unease are palpable yet mostly under the surface. I picture them as Chagall paintings—beautiful constellations of images and ideas. There’s a great deal of wisdom here about the lives of women and a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality.” Alix Ohlin, two-time Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Dual Citizens

“Natalie Southworth’s stories – crisp, sometimes funny, lovely in their detail – always drive to their emotional heart. These are adventures among baffled parents, a tumult of teens, and the aged clinging to shreds of meaning. All of them brilliantly performed, all memorable.” John Metcalf, writer and distinguished editor

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The stories in There’s Always More to Say are about female ambition, family fragility and dislocation.

In these stories characters strive for what they think they should want despite the demands and loneliness of modern life. A puppeteer attempts to reinvent himself as a realtor. Preteen girls seek to become like their absentee fathers. A high-achieving working mother is imprisoned by her antidepressants. In the title story, sisters sneak out of their unstable mother’s apartment to find “reality,” an experience with lasting repercussions. Infused with humour and verve, yet full of warmth, these stories grapple with the pressures of our age, losing yourself, losing your way and finding a measure of hope in human connection.