Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

BookNet bestsellers: poetry

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To mark the start of poetry month, this week’s list covers the top 20 poetry titles for the two weeks ending March 25, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. The Canadian content on ... Read More »

March 29, 2007

UTP warehouse workers end strike

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After nearly 12 hours of renewed negotiations, the University of Toronto Press and its striking part-time warehouse workers came to a settlement early Tuesday morning. According to Ron Hoinkes, president of the Canadian Union of ... Read More »

March 29, 2007

Coutts Information Services

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Kara Gourley, most recently a regional sales manager for EBSCO, has been hired for the newly created position of area manager, Canada Centre. Gourley will work from her home office in Toronto. She can be ... Read More »

March 29, 2007

Four hunchbacks

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Penguin Canada editor Barbara Berson has acquired Canadian rights to a new four-book YA series by Arthur Slade. The Hunchback Chronicles will consist of Hyde’s Children (book one), The Dark Deeps (book two), Empire of ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Taking on Anne

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Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn has acquired Irene Gammel’s non-fiction work Looking for Anne: The Life and Times of Anne of Green Gables. Gammel will show how the international classic came to be written, ... Read More »

March 28, 2007

Eat yourself healthy

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Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Magyar has acquired world rights to Leslie Beck’s Diet Solution to Fight Disease by Canadian nutritionist Leslie Beck. Beck will provide a healthy eating plan that incorporates the latest nutritional ... Read More »

March 28, 2007