One of Orca Book Publishers’ more successful 2006 titles – the picture book Alphabetter, by Dan Bar-el and Graham Ross – has been given a new lease on life this season, at least in British ... Read More »
October 25, 2007
One of New Brunswick’s premiere literary festivals, the Frye Festival – held every April in Moncton – has always had a hard time attracting big-name authors. “Quite frankly, the book world thinks that Canada stopslife-of-pi-readers/> ... Read More »
October 25, 2007
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty did not endear himself to Canadian booksellers or publishers this week when he waved a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows around, complaining that he paid 20% more at ... Read More »
October 25, 2007
Christine Cushing launched her new cookbook, Pure Food (Whitecap Books), at The Cheese Boutique in Toronto on Sept. 28. (Photos courtesy of DDG Publicity and Marketing) Christine Cushing has a laugh. (As does publicist Debby ... Read More »
October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
McClelland & Stewart launched Peter Robinson's latest mystery, Friend of the Devil, at the Dora Keogh pub in Toronto. A band kept the evening lively and played the Grateful Dead song that inspired the title ... Read More »
October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
For the Toronto launch of Michael Winter's new novel, The Architects Are Here (Penguin Canada), This Is Not A Reading Series arranged an event in which 32 CanLit notables told stories about the author. The ... Read More »
October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
It was a hot time at the Toronto nightclub Stone's Place on Oct. 24, as Coach House Books held its fall launch. Six authors did brief readings, including.... Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge), Greg MacArthur ... Read More »
October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide has signed deals for two more titles in the Extraordinary Canadians biography series. The first will be a look at Tommy Douglas by Vincent Lam, and the second will ... Read More »
October 24, 2007
This year’s winners of the Ottawa Book Awards are:English fiction A Rebel’s Daughter by Janet Lunn (Scholastic Books)English non-fictionReluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell by Charlotte Gray (HarperCollins Canada)French ... Read More »
October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Awards
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards, also known as the Auroras, were presented on Oct. 21 at this year's Canadian National Science Fiction Convention in Vancouver. The 2007 winners are:Best Long-Form Work in EnglishChildren ... Read More »
October 22, 2007
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