World rights to Alberta-born journalist Geoff Dembicki’s Are We Screwed? A Millennial's Guide to Climate Change ... Read More »
May 20, 2015
Kobo has announced the shortlists for its $10,000 Emerging Writer Prize, launched earlier this year, which recognizes excellent debut titles published the year prior and available on the digital platform. A team of Kobo booksellers ... Read More »
May 20, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2015 Man Booker International Prize USD $13,000 cookbook by Vikas Khanna becomes the first title to launch at Cannes Film Festival What the shuttering of City University's creative writing MFA ... Read More »
May 20, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Film and TV rights to Testament, Toronto author Nino Ricci’s 2002 fictional retelling of the life of Jesus, have been optioned by First Generation Films president and producer Christina Piovesan. Jerry Kalajian at Intellectual Property ... Read More »
May 20, 2015
Spanish rights to University of Waterloo associate professor of psychology and architectural and urban design Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life have been sold to Ariel/Planeta. The title is forthcoming ... Read More »
May 20, 2015
Chicago chosen to house Obama library and presidential centre Justin Marozzi wins Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize for Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood – A History in Thirteen Centuries Computer game channels ... Read More »
May 19, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Along with its fiction, business, and mystery categories, professional wrestling is one of the staples of ECW Press’s publishing program. In March, senior editor Michael Holmes – who oversees literary fiction, poetry, and wrestling titles ... Read More »
May 14, 2015
Last week, booksellers deemed the inaugural Canadian Authors for Indies Day on May 2 an overall success, and now BookNet Canada has revealed sales data to confirm that fact. The organization cites a substantial 18.5 ... Read More »
May 14, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling
Children's stories that inspired the careers of Margaret Atwood and other famous authors Buenos Aires found to have more bookstores per capita than any city in the world John Updike and Radiohead's Thom Yorke grace ... Read More »
May 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has acquired a copy of what it calls one of the most famous private press books in existence. The 1896 edition of The Works of Geoffrey ... Read More »
May 13, 2015
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