Biblioasis announces new topical non-fiction series Field Notes
The works of topical non-fiction will launch with four titles, each under 200 pages, to be published this fall and winter.

2020 Fall Preview: Fiction and poetry
Highlights of the fall fiction calendar.
Daily Deals: Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to Weidenfeld & Nicolson for U.K., Commonwealth English rights
Daily Deals: Ian Williams’s non-fiction collection on the Black experience to Random House Canada
Personnel change: Pajama Press
Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires The Age of Fentanyl author’s follow-up; thriller Blindshot optioned for TV
Daily Deals: Tomson Highway memoir to Doubleday; Carrianne Leung’s second novel to HarperCollins Canada
Distribution change: Common Deer Press
North America’s first PhD in publishing, Amanda Lastoria, on researching Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland
Amanda Lastoria’s research at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University used Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to explore how book design influences the way a reader constructs meaning.