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80 years of Q&Q: five musicians (and a few dabblers) with split identities

Dave Bidini The Rheostatics guitarist’s 1998 touring memoir, On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock (McClelland & Stewart), was short on the coked-out sex romps of Keith Richards or the Crüe, but ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture

Q&A: Lesley Crewe on adapting Relative Happiness for screen

By Sarah Kester

The adaptation of Lesley Crewe’s first novel, Relative Happiness (Nimbus Publishing), about a plus-sized 30-year-old woman looking for love in Cape Breton, is hitting the big screen at Toronto's Carlton Cinema on Friday. Crewe hopes that ... Read More »

April 8, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Poetry Month Q&A: Emily Pohl-Weary on poetry of witness and her new collection, Ghost Sick

By Sue Carter

Memories of a Christmas Eve shooting in Emily Pohl-Weary's neighbourhood are the starting point for her second poetry collection, Ghost Sick (Tightrope Books). The Toronto author – who has a passionate affinity for the Parkdale community ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Courtney Summers’ All the Rage latest Tumblr Reblog book club pick

By Dory Cerny

If you don’t know the name Courtney Summers, be prepared to get used to hearing it. The Ontario-based author of YA novels including her 2009 debut Cracked Up to Be (a Cybil Award winner) and ... Read More »

April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Title and cover revealed for new book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series

By Becky Robertson

Penguin Random House Canada has revealed the North American title and book jacket for the fourth instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz. The novel will appear Aug. 27 in ... Read More »

March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, Book news

Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style

By Q&Q Staff

The impetus for a new novel sequence arose not out of exile or grief or post-traumatic stress, but out of the pure art of storytelling, writes André Alexis Some 30 years ago, I was watching ... Read More »

March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease at 66

By Steven W. Beattie

In a lecture delivered in February 2010, a little more than two years after Terry Pratchett announced he had been diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, the fantasy author described ... Read More »

March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Emily St. John Mandel and Heather O’Neill nominated for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

By Becky Robertson

B.C.-born novelist Emily St. John Mandel and Montreal author Heather O'Neill are among the 20 international writers longlisted for the U.K.'s Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction). St. ... Read More »

March 10, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

New Patrick deWitt novel slated for simultaneous international publication

By Becky Robertson

Award-winning B.C.-born author Patrick deWitt is coming out with his third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, this fall. The novel follows a young man named Lucien Minor during his employment as "undermajordomo" at the disquieting Castle Von ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Bestsellers, Book news

Previously unpublished Dr. Seuss picture book due from Random House in July

By Becky Robertson

An original manuscript and sketches uncovered in the La Jolla, California, home of Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) will be published posthumously as a new picture book by Random House Children's Books on July 28. The ... Read More »

February 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Deals

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80 years of Q&Q: five musicians (and a few dabblers) with split identities

Q&A: Lesley Crewe on adapting Relative Happiness for screen

Poetry Month Q&A: Emily Pohl-Weary on poetry of witness and her new collection, Ghost Sick

Courtney Summers’ All the Rage latest Tumblr Reblog book club pick

Title and cover revealed for new book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series

Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style

Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease at 66

Emily St. John Mandel and Heather O’Neill nominated for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

New Patrick deWitt novel slated for simultaneous international publication

Previously unpublished Dr. Seuss picture book due from Random House in July

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