by Cassandra Drudi

2021 Toronto Book Awards shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles were chosen from a longlist of 10 that the jury chose from the record 93 books submitted for consideration. Each shortlisted ... Read More »

August 12, 2021

Bruce Walsh stepping down as publisher of House of Anansi

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi publisher Bruce Walsh is stepping down from the position to focus on his health. Anansi president Semarah Al-Hillal will continue to oversee the publishing program at Anansi until a new publisher is ... Read More »

August 11, 2021

2021 Best of Fall guide: Kids’ books

By Cassandra Drudi

PICTURE BOOKS Tales of love, resilience, and friendship New Year Mei Zihan and Yan Yan, trans.; Qin Leng, ill. Greystone Kids, November Set during the celebratory Lunar New Year, a father misses his daughter who ... Read More »

August 11, 2021

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Rachel Brown has been promoted to food & lifestyle editor at Penguin Random House Canada. She will continue to work across the lifestyle lists of Appetite by Random House and Penguin Canada, reporting to Marion Garner. ... Read More »

August 11, 2021

“People triumph:” Lillian Allen on joy and resistance

By Cassandra Drudi

Celebrated Jamaican-Canadian dub poet Lillian Allen has been finding joy in the spoken and written word since she was asked to recite a poem in church as a child. Make the World New: The ... Read More »

July 28, 2021

Rights Deals: Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber + 4 more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to Jennifer Robertson and Stephen Kimber’s Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal, and the Missing Millions. The memoir is described as exploring the the fairytale romance Robertson shared with ... Read More »

July 22, 2021

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Kaitlin Sooklal has been promoted from editorial assistant to assistant agent at The Rights Factory. Talya Pardo has been ... Read More »

July 20, 2021

Emily St. John Mandel to publish sixth novel in 2022

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel is back with a sixth novel that will be published by HarperCollins Canada next spring. Sea of Tranquility will be published in April 2022. Picador and Alfred A. Knopf ... Read More »

July 20, 2021

Rights Deals: Merilyn Simonds, Laurie Dalton + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Susan Renouf has acquired world rights to Merilyn Simonds’s Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay. The nonfiction book is described as the first major biography of the ... Read More »

July 19, 2021