Globe & Mail columnist David Macfarlane has signed a deal with Penguin Group Canada editor Susan Folkins for a new book about the “real” Toronto. Secret City: The Search for Toronto is billed as a ... Read More »

Goose Lane Editions editorial director Laurel Boone has purchased Canadian rights to a new book by Laura Marie Paquet on the history of travel. Restless Spirits: A Social History of Travel – a broad, light ... Read More »

Doubleday Canada publisher Maya Mavjee has secured Canadian rights to a new work by Ann Vanderhoof, author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes (and former Q&Q editor). The Spice Necklace is a blend of memoir, history, ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada publisher Iris Tupholme has just purchased rights to a new title about child rearing. Help! I Have Children, by parenting counsellor (and mother of six) Sarah Chana Radcliffe, offers parents advice on how ... Read More »

U.S.-based Canuck scientist David Orrell has signed a deal with HarperCollins Canada editor Jim Gifford for world rights to a book about predicting the future. Apollo’s Arrow: Can Scientists Predict Our Future Weather, Health, and ... Read More »

Foreign front:Jen Shepherd, director of rights and contracts at Random House Canada, has sold Finnish language rights to three titles by Carol Shields – Various Miracles, Orange Fish, and Dressing up for the Carnival – ... Read More »