While imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp, Ethel Mulvany encouraged the other women she was imprisoned with to sew hidden messages about their lives into fabric blocks, which were then pieced together into quilts.
Personnel changes: CookeMcDermid
Personnel changes: P.S. Literary Agency
Personnel changes: Annick Press
Daily Deals: Linden MacIntyre to Knopf in two-book deal; Cadence Weapon memoir to M&S
A new English translation of Réjean Ducharme’s first novel addresses a significant cultural omission
L’Avalée des avalés, newly translated as Swallowed, appeared so strange and uncomfortable when first published in the ’60s that publishers in Quebec wouldn’t touch it.
Daily Deals: Krista Foss novel to McClelland & Stewart
Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency
Julie Flett, Tom Ryan, and Sydney Smith lead the CCBC Award nominees
In total, eight awards and $175,000 will be given out for the best in Canadian children’s literature.
Rupi Kaur’s third collection, home body, out with S&S Canada in November
home body “guides readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self.”