If you walk into an Indigo bookstore during the first week of May, chances are you’ll be blockaded within 10 feet of the entrance by a maze of strategically placed tables, adorned with an assortment ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Every year the fashion world dictates a “new black” – one hot, staple shade that will supposedly fill closets from Manhattan to Manitoba. In the slightly less trendy realm of Canadian publishing, narrative non-fiction may ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
It’s just after Easter, and the editorial team in Oxford University Press Canada’s dictionary department is embarking on a two-week reading blitz. They’ve just sent the printer the first edition of The Oxford Canadian Dictionary ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Next fall, Douglas & McIntyre is publishing a book called Dead Man in Paradise. Set in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s, it’s about the killing of a Canadian priest. The author, James MacKinnon, says ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
In the April Q&Q, staff writer Scott MacDonald spotlighted several unjustly overlooked Canadian novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this essay, Allan Hepburn makes a case for revisiting five Canadian novels of ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Last year around this time we reported that Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey had sold two new novels – Inside and Blackstrap Hawco – to Random House U.K. as a package deal. There was no ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Agent Denise Bukowski has sold world French-language rights to Alissa York’s Mercy to Gallimard.Marilyn Biderman, director of subsidiary rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart, has sold U.S. rights to Elaine Kalman Naves’s Shoshanna’s Story: ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Andrew Wooldridge has been named associate publisher effective May 1, 2005, reflecting the increased role he has taken in ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Three small-press titles will battle it out with HarperCollins Canada and Penguin Canada for this year’s Danuta Gleed Literary Award.The complete shortlist appears below; the winner will be named on May 28 at The Writers’ ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
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