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2017 Books of the Year: editors’ picks

American War Omar El Akkad McClelland & Stewart When former Globe and Mail journalist Omar El Akkad completed work on the manuscript for American War, he had no way of knowing that the book’s publication ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Year in Review: The year’s biggest headlines

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Everything’s Atwood This was the year the world discovered long-struggling Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Her 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, was turned into a 10-part Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss that went on to ... Read More »

December 8, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: Covers of the year

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Graphic designers share their thoughts on four of this year’s exceptional book covers We All Love the Beautiful Girls Joanne Proulx Viking Canada “The moment I saw Jennifer Griffiths’s cover design I knew it was going ... Read More »

December 7, 2017

Sonnet L’Abbé wins 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award

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Poet Sonnet L'Abbé was awarded the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award on Nov. 18 during the annual Indie Literary Market in Toronto. L'Abbé, who resides on Vancouver Island, won the prize for Anima Canadensis, a collection of poems published earlier this ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Six women mystery writers to add to your reading list

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Ausma Zehanat Khan “These are very politicized times,” says Ausma Zehanat Khan, the British-born Canadian author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series, which follows a Toronto-based Muslim detective and his young partner who become ... Read More »

October 12, 2017

Innovative new services born from the bankruptcy of Douglas & McIntyre

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When Douglas & McIntyre – once one of Canada’s largest independent book publishers – filed for bankruptcy in fall 2012, the news sent reverberations throughout the industry. Although rumours swirled at the time that the ... Read More »

September 11, 2017

Q&A: Twitter comedian Jonny Sun on the voice of jomny, aliens, anxiety, and his new book

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The Twitterverse can often feel like an angry and abusive politically charged melee, but there are those out there trying to counteract the negativity. Since joining the social-media site in 2009, Calgary-born Jonathan Sun has ... Read More »

August 10, 2017

IFOA announces IV Programme attendees, including first-ever Canadian delegates and a focus on Frankfurt 2020

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Toronto's International Festival of Authors has revealed the 2017 participants of its IV Programme, the annual networking and cultural exchange between Canadian and foreign publishing professionals. For the first time in the event's history, a list ... Read More »

August 3, 2017

Quotables: Canadian booksellers on 20 years of Harry Potter

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June 26 marks the 20th anniversary of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Although its beginnings were modest – only 500 copies of the first hardcover edition were initially published by Bloomsbury – today, ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

Fall Preview 2017: International

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Fiction Salman Rushdie returns with The Golden House, a novel being described as The Godfather meets The Great Gatsby, and touching on everything from the birther movement to Gamergate. The new book is out in ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

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2017 Books of the Year: editors’ picks

2017 Year in Review: The year’s biggest headlines

2017 Books of the Year: Covers of the year

Sonnet L’Abbé wins 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award

Six women mystery writers to add to your reading list

Innovative new services born from the bankruptcy of Douglas & McIntyre

Q&A: Twitter comedian Jonny Sun on the voice of jomny, aliens, anxiety, and his new book

IFOA announces IV Programme attendees, including first-ever Canadian delegates and a focus on Frankfurt 2020

Quotables: Canadian booksellers on 20 years of Harry Potter

Fall Preview 2017: International

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