Philipp Schott Hybrid Book Launch
Wednesday May 31 2023 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube
Join Philipp Schott for the hybrid launch of Six Ostriches: A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery (ECW Press) featuring a reading, conversation, and book signing. Hosted by Doug Speirs.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.
It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by a series of animal mutilations. This sets Peter, and his talented sniffer dog, Pippin, on the hunt for answers.
Come and hear more about the latest installment in this "charming mystery" series (Publishers Weekly).
Philipp Schott was born in Germany and grew up in Saskatoon. He now lives in Winnipeg, where he practices veterinary medicine, writes, and shares a creaky old house on the river with his wife, two teenagers, three cats, and a dog. His first book, The Accidental Veterinarian, was a bestseller and was translated into five languages.
Host Doug Speirs’ humour column, In the Doug House, appeared in the pages of the Winnipeg Free Press at least three times a week starting in 2006. No one is exactly sure why. In his irreverent columns, Doug strived to focus on the vital issues of the day, but generally ended up writing about himself and his family, especially his two dogs, because he isn’t overly fond of getting out of bed or leaving the house. He was a finalist at the 2008 National Newspaper Awards for column writing and in 2017 in the Project of the Year category for the Class of 2017, wherein he chronicled a single class of students from kindergarten to Grade 12 graduation. He and his wife, She Who Must Not Be Named, have two children, neither of whom thinks he is the least bit funny. Doug retired at the end of October -- though he continues to write a weekly column for Saturday's paper -- and is now focused on the most important phase of his life -- being a grandfather.
See:
Six Ostriches
- Philipp Schott 
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"Combines the soothing sleuthing of Murder, She Wrote with the humble charm of All Creatures Great and Small." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED review
For readers of The Thursday Murder Club comes a lighthearted mystery with an incredible sense of place
It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by a series of animal mutilations. This sets Peter, and his talented sniffer dog, Pippin, on the hunt for answers. Peter begins to suspect a link between the Viking artifact, the mutilations, and a shadowy group of white supremacists on the internet.
Before long Peter and Pippin are in over their heads, and the only way for them to get out alive will be to unmask the mastermind before they end up among their victims.
