Forever, the final instalment in Virginia author Maggie Stiefvater's girl-meets-lycanthrope YA series, hits the streets this week. To ... Read More »
July 13, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling
The Writers' Union of Canada is sponsoring a drive to replace books for the Slave Lake Library, which was destroyed during the devastating northern Alberta forest fires. The library still needs new titles, published within ... Read More »
Alexander MacLeod has been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his Scotiabank Giller Prize“nominated collection, Light Lifting (Biblioasis). The Frank O'Connor Award is "presented each year to an original collection of ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Google eBooks launches e-reading device, available only at U.S. Target stores Amazon asks for California voter referendum, hoping to overturn ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Although Toronto's mosquitoes were feasting, the weather cooperated for The Last Scream in High Park, which wrapped up Monday night under a moonlit sky. Fifteen authors, including former host Misha Glouberman and Griffin Prize“winner Christian ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Events
On July 5, approximately 80 people donned leis and Hawaiian shirts for the London Book Fair Luau to celebrate the ... Read More »
July 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
On July 5, Doubleday Canada hosted a launch party for Martha Schabas and her debut novel, Various Positions, at the Toronto ... Read More »
Nigel Beale is an Ottawa resident, broadcaster, and inveterate book lover. He is also the owner and publisher of a new website, Literary Tourist, intended to assist bibliophilic travellers wishing to locate and explore interesting ... Read More »
In an effort to help children affected by last March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on July 15, representatives from the Canadian embassy will read from The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear (Kids Can Press) ... Read More »
July 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Here are just a few of the literary events happening in the coming week: Evie Christie, Malcolm Sutton, and Jacob Wren read as part of the Scream Literary unFestival, Parkdale Library, Toronto (July 8, 6 ... Read More »
July 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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