Last week British novelist Matthew Kneale won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his novel English Passengers. The British prize may not be a huge attention-getter in Canada, but Kneale’s publisher will get ... Read More »

A memo being circulated to CBC employees across the country has raised doubts about the future of The Arts Today, the nightly radio program known for its literary coverage.The memo asks for suggestions on how ... Read More »

The Manitoba book community will celebrate itself next month with a huge array of awards. The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards, promoted under the rubric “Brave New Words,” has announced shortlists in no less than ... Read More »

Native affairs, international strife, and scientific ethics are among the subjects covered by the finalists for the inaugural Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner, to be announced in Ottawa on May 2, will ... Read More »

Naomi Klein’s No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Knopf Canada) may find itself in strange company at the National Business Book Award ceremony next month. Klein’s book about corporate branding and the growing ... Read More »

Edmonton-based cookbook publisher Company’s Coming is taking its brand of homespun recipes to newsstands across Canada with the launch next week of a new cooking magazine, Cooking at Home.The company has printed 100,000 copies of ... Read More »

After four years of publishing the literary magazine The Gaspereau Review, the Nova Scotia-based publisher and printer Gaspereau Press is folding the magazine after this summer’s issue. Co-publisher Andrew Steeves says the move will save ... Read More »

Arsenal Pulp Press will publish A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex and the Single Guy, a collection of humorous essays by Toronto author Ryan Bigge, in June. And following some informal opinion-gathering, the book will ... Read More »

Pearson Canada has signed financial author Sherry Cooper, and plans to bring her to an international audience. Cooper is the first Canadian author for the Financial Times/Prentice Hall imprint – a co-venture with the British ... Read More »