According to linguists, the origin of the word “thug” traces back to 1350s India – a Hindi word used to describe a ruffian or thief. The word’s earliest adoption in English dates back to the ... Read More »
October 30, 2017
Dundurn acquisitions editor Scott Fraser has acquired A.G. Pasquella's noir-crime novel Yard Dog. This is the first title in a Toronto-set trilogy featuring former criminal Jack Palace, who must fight to repay his debts. Publication ... Read More »
October 20, 2017
Rupi Kaur and Margaret Atwood have squeezed out the competition from this week's top-10 Canadian fiction bestsellers list, compiled by BookNet Canada. Instapoet Kaur shot to the top spot with her new illustrated collection, The ... Read More »
October 13, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling
Six women and two-spirit authors have pulled out of a forthcoming anthology from the University of Regina Press that includes work by Cree-Scottish poet and painter Neal McLeod, who, in 2014, pleaded guilty to domestic ... Read More »
October 12, 2017
Authors for Indies, the three-year-old event that brought writers into local bookshops to handsell titles for a day, is going to look a lot different next year. According to a press release from Janie Chang, ... Read More »
October 12, 2017
The Cooke Agency and the McDermid Agency kicked off their first night at the Frankfurt Book Fair with a party celebrating their amalgamation. The newly named CookeMcDermid is co-owned by four partners: Dean Cooke and Sally Harding ... Read More »
October 12, 2017
On the weekend of Oct. 11, downtown Toronto will be crawling with murder-minded visitors. But there’ll be no need to hide indoors: it’s simply time for Bouchercon, the annual world mystery convention – named after ... Read More »
October 12, 2017
Walking through Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, opening Sept. 30 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, one may be struck by the number of book illustrations and actual physical volumes that appear throughout ... Read More »
September 29, 2017
More than 100 authors and artists from across Canada have signed an open letter asking the federal government to ensure that the North American Free Trade Agreement will not lose its cultural exemption, which aims ... Read More »
September 28, 2017
Although Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly kicked off the launch of the federal government's new cultural strategy with praise for New York Times–bestselling authors Louise Penny and Rupi Kaur, there was little direct mention of books ... Read More »
September 28, 2017
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