In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »
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Just as a pair of novels came to dominate the past fall's literary awards season, so too has a pair of non-fiction titles, about tree-planting in the Pacific Northwest and a group of chimps living ... Read More »
The B.C. Achievement Foundation has announced the shortlist for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. Chosen from a longlist of 10 titles, the finalists are: Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism by ... Read More »
Canadian film director Clément Virgo (Poor Boy's Game, Lie With Me) is developing an adaptation of Lawrence Hill's bestseller, The Book of Negroes, to begin shooting next year. Hill's publisher, HarperCollins Canada, sold the film ... Read More »
September 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The City of Vancouver's Cultural Services department released the shortlist for the 2011 City of Vancouver Book Award today. The award recognizes the year's books that best "demonstrate excellence and enhance readers' understanding of Vancouver's ... Read More »
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. NOVELS One of the most anticipated releases of the fall season is surely the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, ... Read More »
HarperCollins Canada announced Thursday that they will be publishing iconic American writer Richard Ford's new novel, Canada, next May. The novel follows young Dell Parsons as devastating circumstances force him to leave Montana and seek refuge ... Read More »
August 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Writers' Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) the Best Canadian Political Book ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Three Canadian authors have made the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, announced today. Alison Pick's Far to Go (House of Anansi Press, Q&Q's September 2010 cover profile), Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (forthcoming from ... Read More »
July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Andrew Westoll, former primatologist and author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (HarperCollins Canada), is currently in the Republic of Congo, visiting the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre, the largest sanctuary of its kind ... Read More »
July 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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