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London Book Fair

Canadians wave the flag with Canada's High Commissioner to the U.K. at the Canadian booth at the London Book Fair. (Photos by Liz Thomson.) Gathered at the Canada booth at the London Book Fair (from ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Amazon recommends and offends

By Alison Jones

Margaret Atwood finds items that are "quite offensive" when she browses online, at least on Amazon.com. According to an article from The Times, Atwood spoke out against online book browsing at the London Book Fair ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Shakespeare's trash a literary treasure

By Alison Jones

As reported by the CBC, William Shakespeare is making a posthumous contribution to his poetry collection. Thirty years after its discovery, To the Queen by the Players, an 18-line poem, will be published for the ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Noah Richler won the $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction for his book This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada (McClelland & Stewart). (Photos by Dave Roels.) B.C. Premier ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Watch this space for the word on Divisadero

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Ondaatje's new novel, Divisadero, is in stores this week. The Q&Q review of the book, written by our new feature ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the occasion of a new Penguin Classics edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, novelist Ali Smith looks back at the life and career of the New Zealand-born fiction writer, who died in ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Suppressing Hanif Kureishi

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sensitivity or political squeamishness? BBC Radio has decided not to air a reading of a Hanif Kureishi short story . The story is in the running for the National Short Story prize, and the BBC ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

New event photos: Mallick, Sharp, and more

By Leigh Anne Williams

It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four Seasons ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Battle of the bestselling wizards

By Nathan Whitlock

Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic. According to The Guardian: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The Dickens theme park: Please sirs, can we have less?

By Nathan Whitlock

The Guardian reports that a theme park based on the works of Charles Dickens is scheduled to open in Kent, England at the end of May. The £62-million project is located in a huge hangar ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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London Book Fair

Amazon recommends and offends

Shakespeare's trash a literary treasure

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

Watch this space for the word on Divisadero

Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

Suppressing Hanif Kureishi

New event photos: Mallick, Sharp, and more

Battle of the bestselling wizards

The Dickens theme park: Please sirs, can we have less?

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