When Jane Moloughney, owner of Mostly Books in Squamish, B.C., decided to close her 31-year-old store this year, she didn’t expect she would sell it to anyone. “I just knew … it was time to ... Read More »
October 27, 2008
As Halloween looms, this week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 horror fiction titles for the two weeks ending Oct. 19, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData. The king of horror – Stephen King, ... Read More »
October 27, 2008
The 2008 Time to Read Award/B.C. Achievement Foundation Award for Early Literacy has gone to author Bill Richardson and illustrator Cynthia Nugent for The Aunts Come Marching (Raincoast Books), a singalong story about a procession ... Read More »
October 23, 2008
The 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award has gone to Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome's Hope in Shadows (Arsenal Pulp Press/Pivot Legal Society), a book of essays and photographs on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Mayor Sam ... Read More »
October 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Nimbus Publishing marketing co-ordinator Diane Faulkner can add the phrase “crossword puzzle creator” to her CV, with the release this month of Crosswords from Atlantic Canada. According to Faulkner, she had never had any ambitions ... Read More »
October 23, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events
With the Canadian dollar continuing its free-fall – as of yesterday, it had slipped to 80 cents U.S. – booksellers have been waiting to see how publishers will respond. Will they jack prices back up ... Read More »
October 23, 2008
Earlier this year, when the international publishing giant Hachette announced plans to open a Canadian office, one of the chief questions on everyone’s lips was how it would affect McArthur & Company, which currently handles ... Read More »
October 23, 2008
The jury for the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize was announced this week. The jury will include returning chair George Russell, executive editor of Fox News Network; former Washington Post foreign editor and president of the ... Read More »
October 22, 2008
James Lorimer & Company editor Faye Smailes has acquired world rights to Vancouver writer Trevor Kew’s debut Her Favourite Game, a YA novel set in Vancouver about girls’ soccer. Lorimer will publish in fall 2009. ... Read More »
October 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
It certainly wasn't a banner year for small presses at the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards shortlist announcement, which took place at Ben McNally Books in downtown Toronto on Tuesday. All five non-fiction slots went ... Read More »
October 21, 2008
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