“I think it is quite a relief to read books in which you’re secure and comfortable that the [characters] are kind, ethical people. It’s an old-fashioned decency,” Whishaw says.
TIFA announces summer crime festival, moves to Word on the Street weekend for 2022
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award
Souvankham Thammavongsa was awarded the Trillium Book Award for How to Pronounce Knife. Jody Chan won the $10,000 award for poetry for her collection, Sick.
Rights Deals: Michael Wilson, Jen Gerson + two more
A Press from Scratch: How Hush Harbour makes caring for ourselves and our associates our top priority
Hush Harbour runs on the core values of audacity and grace.
Distribution change: Baker & Taylor
Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada
Rights Deals: Thomas King, Eric Walters + nine more
Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation
Michelle Good’s award-winning debut novel Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) has been optioned for the screen by Prospero Pictures and screenwriter and producer Shannon Masters.
Anakana Schofield wins €15,000 Irish Novel of the Year
Schofield won the award for Bina: A Novel in Warnings.