Andrew Nikiforuk’s non-fiction work Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent is being released in the U.S. on March 21, and publisher Greystone Books is hoping to drum up sales of the ... Read More »
March 9, 2009
L.A. Dodgers manager Joe Torre and Canada’s Survivorman, Les Stroud, hold the top two spots in this month’s list, which covers the top-selling sports and recreation titles for the two weeks ending March 1. The ... Read More »
March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada) got another big boost today: the 2007 novel has won this year’s Canada Reads. Hill’s book, the saga of a slave in the 1700s, was named the ... Read More »
March 6, 2009
Markets Initiative, the NGO that lobbies Canadian industry to adopt ancient forest-friendly paper, has made some staff cuts to cope with the economic downturn, and one of the two full-time employees being let go is ... Read More »
March 5, 2009
It wasn’t exactly a free-for-all, but the first day of an unprecedented two-day spending spree for Toronto’s elementary school librarians has kept participating vendors happily busy. The selling fair, which is taking place at Toronto’s ... Read More »
March 5, 2009
Georgetown Publications has hired Pat O’Neill, formerly of Scholastic Canada and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, in the role of key account manager. O’Neill will be handling sales to a range of accounts including Costco, mass merchant ... Read More »
March 5, 2009 | Filed under: Awards
It was like a scene from It’s a Wonderful Life in Halifax’s Frog Hollow Books last weekend, with members of the local community arriving in droves to buy books in the hopes of saving the ... Read More »
March 5, 2009
James Orbinski has won The Writers’ Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century, published by Doubleday Canada. The prize, worth $25,000, ... Read More »
March 5, 2009
Editors Ellen Seligman and Lara Hinchberger of McClelland & Stewart have acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled English Civil War novel by Claire Letemandia. (M&S is already releasing Letemandia’s debut, The Best of Men, this ... Read More »
March 4, 2009
Finalists have been announced for the 2009 Atlantic Book Awards, which will be given out in nine categories. There is one new category this year: the Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. No shortlists were ... Read More »
March 3, 2009
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