The Scotiabank Giller Prize has always provided its winner with a major sales boost – but Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures appears to be a special case.Lam’s book took the #1 overall spot on ... Read More »
December 11, 2006
Canada’s soldiers in Afghanistan will be able to spend their off-hours over the holidays and in the new year reading some of Canada’s best non-fiction books. The Charles Taylor Foundation is sending copies of more ... Read More »
December 11, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Representatives from the Canadian publishing industry conducted a trade mission to Russia at the end of November, doing panel discussions about Canadian literature and attending book fairs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Canadian panel ... Read More »
December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Events
The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 2006 Canada-Japan Literary Awards. The English-language winning work is Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930, a biography by John F. Howes of Vancouver. The ... Read More »
December 7, 2006
There will be no more Franklin the turtle. After 20 years of successful storybooks featuring Franklin and his friends, author Paulette Bourgeois and illustrator Brenda Clark made their last appearances as a duo with the ... Read More »
December 7, 2006
Following the bankruptcy of Hushion House Publishing last summer, two self-publishers previously represented by Hushion have teamed up to launch their own distributor.Michael Rosenberg (co-author of The Flexible Thinker) and John Martin (who has published ... Read More »
December 7, 2006
One of the surprises that rippled out from Stéphane Dion’s dark-horse win of the Liberal leadership is that Straight Talk: Speeches and Writings on Canadian Unity, published in 1999 and his only trade book in ... Read More »
December 7, 2006
Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn has taken on a new true crime work by Toronto Star reporter Bob Mitchell. The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother is about two Toronto-area sisters, aged 15 ... Read More »
December 6, 2006
Penguin Canada editor Helen Reeves has acquired a new non-fiction work by Montreal journalist Craig Silverman. Regret the Error, based on Silverman’s popular website of the same name, is a look at the worst slip-ups ... Read More »
December 6, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
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