Agent Deborah Wood of Westwood Creative Artists has sold film rights to John Bemrose’s The Island Walkers to ... Read More »
April 6, 2006
Lisa Rundle, rights and contracts manager at Penguin Canada, has sold U.S. rights to Marq de Villiers’s A Brief History of Natural Calamities to St. Martin’s Press.Suzanne Brandreth of The Cooke Agency has sold Italian ... Read More »
April 6, 2006
From a record number of submissions, the jury for the Griffin Poetry Prize has narrowed this year’s competition for the Canadian prize to three books by mid-career poets. On the international side, the four-title shortlist ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Thomas Wharton's The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books, published by Kentville, Nova Scotia's Gaspereau Press, is one of 10 titles on this year's shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's most lucrative ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
The finalists for the 19th Trillium Book Awards, honouring books written by Ontario-based writers, have been announced. The winners of the main awards in French and English will each earn $20,000, while the books' publishers ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Q&Q asked Derek Murr, manager of Pages Books & Magazines in Toronto, to compile a list of essential science titles for the general-interest bookstore. That list includes classics, modern-day blockbusters, and a few quirky choices, ... Read More »
April 4, 2006
The first clue is the video trailer, which appeared online in mid-December. With its rapid-fire images of violent tornadoes, cracking ice floes, wild lightning storms, and flooded subdivisions, it looks like an ad for a ... Read More »
April 4, 2006
When ECW Press co-owner Robert Lecker left the company to form his own agency in 2003, his first clients included a number of the press’s authors. Among them was chemist, broadcaster, and writer Dr. Joe ... Read More »
April 4, 2006
In mid-January, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction unveiled its latest shortlist. Recently the prize has been looking to raise its own profile, and in so doing to instill in Canadian readers a wider ... Read More »
April 4, 2006
It’s hard to go back to the poet John Thompson. When I do, I’m reminded of a job I had when I was 24. I was hired through a government grant to conduct an oral ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Contact us via email
