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New Dashiell Hammett stories unearthed

"I wouldn't have a dog that was cat-shy," he wound up. "What good is a dog, or a man, that's afraid of things?" Metcalf, the engineer, agreed with his employer. I had never seen him ... Read More »

February 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Frances Hanna: 1944-2011

By Steven W. Beattie

It is with sadness that Q&Q learned this morning of the death of agent and editor Frances Hanna at the age of 67. Hanna was the managing director of Acacia House Publishing Services, which counted ... Read More »

February 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent to Canadian booksellers

By Q&Q Staff

Editors' note: This message ran as a paid advertisement ... Read More »

February 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

UPDATED: H.B. Fenn initiates bankruptcy proceedings

By Stuart Woods

[UPDATE: Read Q&Q's updated coverage of H.B. Fenn's restructuring here.] H.B. Fenn and Company, Canada's largest book distributor and owner of Key Porter Books, has initiated bankruptcy proceedings. According to a press release sent out ... Read More »

February 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Publishers left scrambling after Cairo book fair cancelled

By Natalie Samson

As tens of thousands of people converged on Tahrir Square in Cairo today in a peaceful demonstration that marked the eighth day of protests against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, news that the Cairo International Book ... Read More »

February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Chinese novel alleged to have stolen from Canada’s “literary elite”

By Stuart Woods

The "Great Chinese Canadian Literary Feud" is now underway, according to a Toronto Star story by Bill Schiller. The author at the centre of the supposed controversy is Toronto's Zhang Ling, whose previous novel, Aftershock, ... Read More »

February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz roundup: Yann Martel calls it quits; HarperCollins “friends” teen talent; playwrights get a hand from Harold Pinter; and more

By Natalie Samson

Yann Martel, "tired of using books as political bullets and grenades," quits his book club Jeff Lemire, Kate Beaton, and Conundrum Press among nominees for Joe Shuster Awards HarperCollins to publish crowdsourced novel by teen ... Read More »

February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

John Vaillant’s The Tiger takes $40,000 non-fiction prize

By Stuart Woods

John Vaillant's harrowing true-life tale of a series of tiger attacks in eastern Siberia has won the country's richest non-fiction prize. Vaillant was awarded the $40,000 B.C. National Award for Non-fiction this afternoon in Vancouver. ... Read More »

January 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Digital books at the tipping point?

By Steven W. Beattie

After almost a decade spent trying to find their sea legs, digital books and readers have finally taken off in the past two years. Thanks to dedicated devices such as Amazon's Kindle, Sony's reader, and ... Read More »

January 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

New Murakami novel to appear in October

By Steven W. Beattie

Last April, Quillblog pointed to the mass excitement in Japan surrounding the release of the third volume of 1Q84, the first full-length novel from Haruki Murakami since 2002's Kafka on the Shore. In his home ... Read More »

January 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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New Dashiell Hammett stories unearthed

Frances Hanna: 1944-2011

Open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent to Canadian booksellers

UPDATED: H.B. Fenn initiates bankruptcy proceedings

Publishers left scrambling after Cairo book fair cancelled

Chinese novel alleged to have stolen from Canada’s “literary elite”

Book biz roundup: Yann Martel calls it quits; HarperCollins “friends” teen talent; playwrights get a hand from Harold Pinter; and more

John Vaillant’s The Tiger takes $40,000 non-fiction prize

Digital books at the tipping point?

New Murakami novel to appear in October

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