The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards will be handed out at the Brave New Words gala in Winnipeg on April 29, 2006. Here are this year's nominees: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award• The ... Read More »
March 21, 2006
John Lamont George, founder and owner of the Montreal English-language bookstore Argo Books, died of cancer last Wednesday at the age of 82. An integral part of the downtown intellectual community for 40 years, George ... Read More »
March 20, 2006
The Toronto District School Board’s decision to limit access to Three Wishes, Deborah Ellis’s 2004 non-fiction book about children’s reactions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, may be brought before the board’s trustees in the weeks ahead,three-wishes-dispute/> ... Read More »
March 20, 2006
With over 30 readings planned in 12 communities across B.C., the third annual BC Book Prize tour hopes to cover thousands of kilometres of highway by minivan in just under two weeks. Featuring eight of ... Read More »
March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Awards
The literary executors of the estate of Margaret Gibson, the often-troubled Toronto author of Opium Dreams who died late last month, are planning to pull together a collection of previously published and unpublished stories in ... Read More »
March 16, 2006
The shortlist for the 2005 Dafoe Book Prize has been announced. The award, valued at $10,000, is given annually to the "best book on Canada or Canada's place in the world." The nominees are Loss ... Read More »
March 16, 2006
McArthur & Company president Kim McArthur has purchased rights to two novels by Toronto native Robert Maclean, who now makes his home in the U.S. The first, Foreign Matter, was published in the States by ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Penguin Canada president David Davidar has commissioned a new work of non-fiction from author Barbara Coloroso. Extraordinary Evil will be a survey of both major and minor genocides throughout world history, incorporating her own take ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide has purchased Canadian rights to a new work of non-fiction by John Lawrence Reynolds. Prognosis: The Other Side of Canada’s Health Care Crisis promises to take us into the ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
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