by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Guy Gavriel Kay and audio rights for Karen Cleveland and Michelle Bilodeau

Penguin Canada's Nicole Winstanley and Lara Hinchberger have acquired Canadian English rights to Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World. The historical fantasy novel is described as being set in the world of Kay's 2019 ... Read More »

June 3, 2021

Toronto indie A Different Booklist offering preview of new home

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto bookseller A Different Booklist is set to unveil its new location. The downtown indie bookstore and African- and Caribbean-Canadian cultural centre will be moving across the street in 2022 to a four-storey heritage building ... Read More »

June 3, 2021

Distribution change: Sleeping Bear Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Thomas Allen & Son is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Sleeping Bear Press, effective immediately. The Michigan-based publisher of illustrated books for children is best known in Canada for bestselling titles such as Z is ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

Margaret Atwood to publish new book of essays

By Cassandra Drudi

Margaret Atwood has a new book coming out next year. McClelland & Stewart announced that they expect to publish Atwood's next book, Burning Questions: Essays 2004‒2021, in March 2022. The collection of essays is described ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)

By Cassandra Drudi

Days after winning the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Michelle Good has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins), follows the lives of five residential ... Read More »

June 1, 2021

Rights Deals: Minelle Mahtani, Matthew R. Morris, and Hal Niedzviecki

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s Melanie Tutino has acquired in a pre-empt Canadian English rights to Minelle Mahtani’s Biting Our Tongues. The memoir is described as a meditation on the death of Mahtani’s Iranian Muslim mother Farideh to ... Read More »

May 31, 2021

Rights Deals: Susan Juby, Derrick Chow + 11 more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada's Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to Stephen Leacock Medal-winner Susan Juby's Mindful of Murder. The novel is described as a comedic murder mystery that features high-end domestic service, unusual spiritual pursuits, the ... Read More »

May 27, 2021

Will Ferguson, Katrina Onstad among Crime Writers of Canada award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, ... Read More »

May 27, 2021

New indie cookbook press Good Egg Books launches to international acclaim

By Cassandra Drudi

A new Toronto-based small press is bringing small, inexpensive, and functional cookbooks to home chefs. Good Egg Books is the brainchild of bookseller cum publisher Mika Bareket, who ran a food and kitchen store called ... Read More »

May 27, 2021

HarperCollins Canada to publish new Emma Donoghue novel

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning author Emma Donoghue has a new book coming out next summer. HarperCollins Canada's senior vice president and executive publisher Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to Haven. Little, Brown and Picador have acquired U.S. ... Read More »

May 26, 2021

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Rights Deals: Guy Gavriel Kay and audio rights for Karen Cleveland and Michelle Bilodeau

Toronto indie A Different Booklist offering preview of new home

Distribution change: Sleeping Bear Press

Margaret Atwood to publish new book of essays

GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)

Rights Deals: Minelle Mahtani, Matthew R. Morris, and Hal Niedzviecki

Rights Deals: Susan Juby, Derrick Chow + 11 more

Will Ferguson, Katrina Onstad among Crime Writers of Canada award winners

New indie cookbook press Good Egg Books launches to international acclaim

HarperCollins Canada to publish new Emma Donoghue novel

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