Cobourg, Ontario, about 115 km east of Toronto, has a new downtown bookstore. In the shadow of Victoria Hall, the downtown’s imposing former town hall, Page & Turners opened in early June, and already it ... Read More »

It seems that in every bit of press about Jaclyn Moriarty “the chicken issue” is raised. Moriarty, who has just released her first novel for adults, exhales audibly when asked about the 12 chickens that ... Read More »

The 1997 murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk in Victoria made headlines across the country. Brutally assaulted by a group of her peers – most of them teenage girls – near a footbridge, Virk was missing ... Read More »

During BookExpo Canada in June, BookNet Canada president Michael Tamblyn unveiled the first, bitter fruits of the agency’s impending sales data analysis system: the inaugural national bestseller list. It was a simple document, composed of ... Read More »

Random House Canada, the publisher of Peter C. Newman’s headline-making new book, The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister, managed to keep the book a secret for a year and a half ... Read More »

Ever since Raincoast Books scaled back its publishing program last summer, there has been speculation as to what might happen to its stable of authors. Anosh Irani, one of the house’s most prestigious fiction writers, ... Read More »