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Canada Day reading: eligible Giller Prize titles announced

Perhaps there's a drinking game in here somewhere, to be played at your fantasy Canada Day barbecue with Margaret Atwood. The Scotiabank Giller Prize has posted a list of all books eligible for the 2011 ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

By Sue Carter

The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Preview

Review: D.J. McIntosh’s The Witch of Babylon

By Sue Carter

This review of D.J. McIntosh's new novel, The Witch of Babylon, appeared in the July/August issue of Q&Q. Reviewer Cori Dusmann writes: The debut novel from Toronto writer D.J. McIntosh “ the first book in ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

School’s out: summer reading for kids

By Sue Carter

School's out for summer, and if you're looking for ways to occupy the wee ones that don't involve a Wii, here are five kids' books reviewed in the June 2011 issue of Q&Q. The Qalupalik ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children's publishing

Book links round-up: Amazonian business strategies, grammatical zombies, and more

By Jason Spencer

If authors scratch Amazon's back, they will be rewarded To avoid sales tax, Amazon drops California sales partners A look into how the Internet changed publishing The death of the Oxford comma was a hoax (or ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Writers’ Trust calls on Canadians to vote for the best political book

By Stuart Woods

Just in time for Canada Day, the Writers' Trust of Canada has unveiled its list of the best Canadian political books of the past 25 years. The dozen finalists were chosen from nominations sent in ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Conrad Black memoir due this fall

By Stuart Woods

After several years of delays, the newly re-sentenced Conrad Black is ready to publish his memoir chronicling (among other things) his prison years. And if you take Lord Black at his hyperbolic word, readers should ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Was William Shakespeare a cocaine cowboy?

By Sue Carter

If William Shakespeare was alive today, would he be making late-night trips to White Castle? South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray thinks so. Thackeray, director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: Philip Roth a Man Booker no-show, Canadians dream of burgers with Margaret Atwood, and more

By Sue Carter

Philip Roth a no-show, but reads on camera at the Man Booker International Prize ceremony Margaret Atwood is top fantasy guest for Canada Day burgers and beers Users can shake the new Penguin Classics iPhone ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Cover to cover: Caitlin Sweet’s The Pattern Scars

By Sue Carter

From the July/August 2011 issue of Q&Q: Designer Erik Mohr explains how he drew on classic imagery and geometric motifs to achieve the proper vision for Caitlin Sweet's forthcoming novel The Pattern Scars (ChiZine Publications). ... Read More »

June 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Canada Day reading: eligible Giller Prize titles announced

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

Review: D.J. McIntosh’s The Witch of Babylon

School’s out: summer reading for kids

Book links round-up: Amazonian business strategies, grammatical zombies, and more

Writers’ Trust calls on Canadians to vote for the best political book

Conrad Black memoir due this fall

Was William Shakespeare a cocaine cowboy?

Book links round-up: Philip Roth a Man Booker no-show, Canadians dream of burgers with Margaret Atwood, and more

Cover to cover: Caitlin Sweet’s The Pattern Scars

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