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Welcome to Quill & Quire’s 2018 survey of the publishing workplace. It has been five years since our last survey, and our goal is to provide a useful, up-to-date statistical snapshot of working life in ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Book news

Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”

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About a year ago, while I was passionately immersed in getting the manuscript of my latest book, The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It, to my publisher, I ... Read More »

February 12, 2018

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming March titles

By Q&Q Staff

Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. The Wolves of Winter, Tyrell Johnson (Simon & Schuster Canada) The ... Read More »

January 30, 2018

Spring Preview 2018: Books for Young People

By Q&Q Staff

Picture books The Funeral Matt James (Groundwood Books, April) Matt James has been illustrating picture books for 10 years. He’s always wanted to write one, but felt his ideas were more notions than fully realized ... Read More »

January 26, 2018

2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks

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Librarians, book bloggers, and booksellers weigh in with their favourite children's books of the year. Grandfather and the Moon Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, ill.; Shelley Tanaka, trans. Groundwood Books The graphic novel Grandfather and the ... Read More »

December 12, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: editors’ kidlit and YA picks

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Quill & Quire’s Books for Young People editors share their favourite children's titles of 2017. Town Is by the Sea Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, ill. Groundwood Books “And deep down under that sea, my ... Read More »

December 12, 2017

2017 Year in Review: New booksellers share experiences from their first year behind the counter

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Queen Books, Toronto We’re getting to know some regulars already, and it’s been fun and interesting to see different reading tastes and get to know what works and what doesn’t. What’s been really nice is ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: award nominees share their picks

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Some of this year's Canadian award nominees share their favourite books of the year. The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Lorimer Reconciliation is becoming a buzzword with ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: bookseller picks

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Canadian booksellers weigh in on their favourite books of 2017. Shot-Blue Jesse Ruddock Coach House Books A quiet, lovely, careful novel. Evokes a sense of “nowhere” rather than a sense of place, which acts as ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: reviewers’ picks

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Next Year, for Sure Zoey Leigh Peterson Doubleday Canada The narrative style of Next Year, for Sure – told in the present tense with short sentences – is perfect for directly confronting the fraught and ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

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Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming March titles

Spring Preview 2018: Books for Young People

2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks

2017 Books of the Year: editors’ kidlit and YA picks

2017 Year in Review: New booksellers share experiences from their first year behind the counter

2017 Books of the Year: award nominees share their picks

2017 Books of the Year: bookseller picks

2017 Books of the Year: reviewers’ picks

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