A history of Canadian mountain climbing could be a big winner at the Alberta Book Awards, to be presented May 5 at a gala ceremony in Edmonton. Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering, ... Read More »

L.R. Wright died earlier this year, but her 2000 novel, Kidnap, is carrying on her legacy. The book has been nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best novel, alongside titles by Canadian crime fiction ... Read More »

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced the winners of its biennial Provincial Book Awards for non-fiction and poetry. For the first time in the award’s five-year history, there is a tie: Mary ... Read More »

The National Library in Ottawa marked Canada Book Day yesterday by announcing winners for three children’s book prizes: the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and two Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.Sharon ... Read More »

Chapters CEO Heather Reisman says she expects to close between four and 12 superstores over the next year, depending on the outcome of the merger process, but will strive to keep returns to publishers to ... Read More »

Stuart McLean has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and the accompanying Laurentian Bank of Canada-sponsored $6,000 award, for the second time in three years.Yesterday in Toronto McLean’s Vinyl Café Unplugged (Penguin Canada) ... Read More »

The plan was to hold the annual Salon du livre de Quebec this coming weekend, leading nicely into the celebrations surrounding World Book Day next Monday. Instead, Quebec City is swarming with government officials and ... Read More »

Booksellers, libraries, and schools across the country are gearing up for the seventh annual Canada Book Day celebrations on Monday. Started in 1995 by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, World Book Day ... Read More »

In preparation for its coming merger with Indigo Online, Chapters Online has aggressively trimmed its product lines. Software, electronics, and other areas have been dropped, as have a selection of e-books and the gardening-product subsidiary, ... Read More »

Buyers of the new trade paper edition of Anil’s Ghost will have a decision to make, as Vintage Canada has released the title with two different covers. Each cover features half of the original hardcover ... Read More »