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B.C. ecologist Don Gayton wins Peace Corps Travel Book Award

British Columbian ecologist Don Gayton's Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys Through Terrain, Terroir and Culture (Rocky Mountain Books) has won the 2011 Peace Corps Travel Book Award. The prize is presented annually to an author with Peace ... Read More »

September 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

15 TIFF films for the literary-minded

By Sue Carter

You're not going to get close to Brad Pitt, in town this weekend for the premiere of Moneyball, the adaptation of Michael Lewis's baseball book of the same name, but if you're attending the Toronto ... Read More »

September 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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

Governor General’s Award winner Gloria Sawai dies at 78

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog was saddened to learn of the death of Gloria Sawai last Wednesday. The Alberta writer, whose single book, the short-story collection A Song for Nettie Johnson, beat out Carol Shields' Unless and Wayne Johnston's ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Ottawa bibliophile helps tourists book their travel

By Steven W. Beattie

Nigel Beale is an Ottawa resident, broadcaster, and inveterate book lover. He is also the owner and publisher of a new website, Literary Tourist, intended to assist bibliophilic travellers wishing to locate and explore interesting ... Read More »

July 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Book biz round-up: travelling literary journals, McSweeney’s cooks, and more

By Sue Carter

Travelling literary journals are hiding in Toronto coffee joints U.K. singer Kate Bush receives permission to use quotes from Joyce's Ulysses, and it only took 20 years Well before Williamsburg, Famous authors and their typewriters ... Read More »

April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! August three-fer UPDATED

By Nathan Whitlock

WtD! has been fairly quiet lately, but it is back in a big way with three displays we are proud to say Yes, way! to. Appropriate for August (and timed to cash in on a ... Read More »

August 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

$2 million reward for book-loving fugitive in B.C.

By Laura Godfrey

One of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives is a book-loving octogenarian believed to be hiding in Victoria, B.C. According to the FBI's website, James J. Whitey Bulger has a record of 19 counts of ... Read More »

April 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Ontario’s literary and physical landscapes collide in new project

By Laura Godfrey

This summer, Ontario's literary history will become a permanent part of the province's physical landscape with a new project called Ontario: Read It Here. A series of eight plaques will be installed across the province ... Read More »

February 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: New app from LibraryThing, voice acting by Stephen King, and more

By Laura Godfrey

A few bookish links from across the Web: Book-loving travellers, breathe a sigh of relief: Transport Canada explains that the whole airplane book ban was just a misunderstanding Hundreds of readers offer words of support ... Read More »

January 7, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Events

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Search Results by tag: travel

B.C. ecologist Don Gayton wins Peace Corps Travel Book Award

15 TIFF films for the literary-minded

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

Governor General’s Award winner Gloria Sawai dies at 78

Ottawa bibliophile helps tourists book their travel

Book biz round-up: travelling literary journals, McSweeney’s cooks, and more

Way to Display! August three-fer UPDATED

$2 million reward for book-loving fugitive in B.C.

Ontario’s literary and physical landscapes collide in new project

Bookmarks: New app from LibraryThing, voice acting by Stephen King, and more

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