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Booker shortlist announced

Well, Mary Lawson's The Other Side of the Bridge didn't manage to make the jump from the Man Booker Prize longlist to the just-announced shortlist. But there is good news for a couple of Canadian ... Read More »

September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Awards

Rowling's weapon of mass something or other

By Leigh Anne Williams

You can never get enough wacky Harry Potter items, so here's one from Associated Press via the Toronto Star. It seems J.K. Rowling had the manuscript for the next and final Potter novel with her ... Read More »

September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto Book Awards

By Q&Q Staff

The Toronto Book Awards for 2006 were presented on Wednesday, Sept. 6. at the City of Toronto Archives, with Dionne Brand taking the grand prize for her novel What We All Long For. (Photos by ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Events

The butler did it… again

By Nathan Whitlock

William Morrow announced this week that a book that it had been keeping under wraps is The Way We Were, the second book about Diana, Princess of Wales, by her former butler Paul Burrell. His ... Read More »

September 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Frey's money-back guarantee

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times confirms a story that appeared on Radaronline.com earlier this week that "James Frey, the author who admitted making up portions of his best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, and his publisher, ... Read More »

September 8, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

The childman cometh

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a piece on The Tyee's books page, author Kevin Chong ponders the "adultescent," which he defines as "an adult -- typically, a man -- who hasn't quite traded his childlike appetites for age-appropriate attitudes ... Read More »

September 7, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toews takes New York (Times)

By Leigh Anne Williams

After bringing Miriam Toews' novel A Complicated Kindness to American readers, her U.S. publisher, Counterpoint, has now reissued her first two novels, The Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding, and ... Read More »

September 7, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

International Festival of Authors' star line-up

By Nathan Whitlock

It's not easy to compete with the buzz around the Toronto International Film Festival in the week before its opening, so in a press release headlined: "Not to be outdone by a certain 'other' festival, ... Read More »

September 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The 3-Day Novel Contest on BookTelevision

By Nathan Whitlock

It's reality TV, but it's fiction. Many would argue that all reality television is fiction, but in this case, the digital channel BookTelevision plans to film and broadcast the writing of fiction. The typical writer ... Read More »

September 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

In memory of Mahfouz

By Leigh Anne Williams

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, a Nobel laureate whose books include Palace Walk, among many others, has died at the age of 94. Probably the best one-stop resource for information and reaction is at the litblog ... Read More »

August 31, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Booker shortlist announced

Rowling's weapon of mass something or other

Toronto Book Awards

The butler did it… again

Frey's money-back guarantee

The childman cometh

Toews takes New York (Times)

International Festival of Authors' star line-up

The 3-Day Novel Contest on BookTelevision

In memory of Mahfouz

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