Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Trailer park girl

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Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox has just purchased a debut novel from Tanya Chapman, a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program. Originally announced under the title Spirographing, but now ... Read More »

May 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book links

Street fight

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HarperCollins Canada senior non-fiction editor Jim Gifford has acquired a new tome by Michael Chettleburgh, entitled Young Thugz: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs. Chettleburgh has been a government consultant on the issue ... Read More »

May 10, 2006

Foreign front: May 10, 2006

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Catherine MacGregor, director of subsidiary rights at HarperCollins Canada, has sold David Orrell’s Apollo’s Arrow: The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything to Hayakawa in Japan; Don Aker’s The First Stone to Editions ... Read More »

May 10, 2006 | Filed under: Awards

CAA award winners announced

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The winners of the 2006 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards, which will be officially presented at the group's conference in Peterborough, Ontario, in July, have been announced. Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road (Penguin Canada) has ... Read More »

May 9, 2006