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Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu get graphic

Quillblog is living vicariously through the Toronto Life team, which recently got cozy in a Toronto neighbourhood watering hole to eavesdrop on a conversation between author-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu. Taxali just released two ... Read More »

November 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Erin Bow’s Plain Kate wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

By Sue Carter

Erin Bow has won this year's TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her historical fantasy YA novel Plain Kate, published by Scholastic Canada. Bow received her $25,000 prize at a gala event in Toronto last ... Read More »

October 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

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 »

August 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Ezra Levant wins Best Political Book contest

By Natalie Samson

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

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

By Natalie Samson

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

Book links round-up: Sarah Palin is not one of the Common people, Random House U.K. signs to agency model, and more

By Sue Carter

Sarah Palin creates outrage over the White House inviting rapper Common to its Evening of Poetry Random House U.K. signs to agency model, with over 6,000 titles to appear in the iBookstore E-bookseller iFlow shuts ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Publishing at the polls: Foreign-ownership regulations

By Natalie Samson

As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding and mass digitization. When it comes to foreign ... Read More »

April 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Random House Canada acquires new Linden MacIntyre novel

By Sue Carter

Random House Canada has acquired a new novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize“winner Linden MacIntyre. Why Men Lie is the third book in MacIntyre's Cape Breton trilogy, following the lives of the Gillis clan. Its main ... Read More »

March 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

Random House titles now available at U.S. iBookstore, not in Canada

By Sue Carter

At Wednesday's launch of the iPad 2 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that 17,000 titles from Random House U.S. will now be available in Apple's iBookstore. Titles began appearing on the iBooks ... Read More »

March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Unpublished Patrick White novel to not be unpublished

By Steven W. Beattie

First a cache of Dashiell Hammett stories is uncovered among the late author's papers in Texas. Then a novel by the late Chilean writer Roberto BolaÃ±o gets serialized in the pages of the Paris Review. ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Random House

Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu get graphic

Erin Bow’s Plain Kate wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

Ezra Levant wins Best Political Book contest

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

Book links round-up: Sarah Palin is not one of the Common people, Random House U.K. signs to agency model, and more

Publishing at the polls: Foreign-ownership regulations

Random House Canada acquires new Linden MacIntyre novel

Random House titles now available at U.S. iBookstore, not in Canada

Unpublished Patrick White novel to not be unpublished

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