Nearly 60 years after it was founded, Fitzhenry & Whiteside has a new owner. President and CEO Holly Doll is retiring, and Sutherland House Books will be taking over the backlists of Fitzhenry & Whiteside ... Read More »
March 28, 2025
Amanda Betts will be joining Simon & Schuster Canada as executive editor on April 8. Betts previously worked at Knopf Canada for almost 15 years, most recently as senior editor. At Knopf, Betts developed a ... Read More »
March 28, 2025
Sutherland House’s Ken Whyte has acquired world rights to James King’s biography of the renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The nonfiction book is described as telling readers not only of Burtynsky’s adventures around the globe, ... Read More »
March 27, 2025
Login Canada has joined the growing chorus of book industry voices calling for books and other educational materials to be exempt from the upcoming Canadian counter-tariffs. The Canadian government intends to impose a 25 per ... Read More »
March 26, 2025
Julia McDowell has joined Doubleday Canada as senior editor. Julia was previously editor at HarperCollins where her publishing list focused on practical nonfiction, including Unconditional by Dr. Samra Zafar, Jessica Moorhouse’s Everything but Money, Duncan McKenzie’s The World’s ... Read More »
March 25, 2025
Michael Crummey is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. This year marks the 30th for the €100,000 prize, which is worth about $147,000. The shortlisted titles were chosen from a 71-title ... Read More »
March 25, 2025
McClelland & Stewart’s Haley Cullingham has acquired Canadian rights and The New Press’s Ben Woodward has acquired U.S. rights to award-winning journalist Michaela Cavanagh’s Present Tense: How We Reckon With the End of the World. ... Read More »
March 24, 2025
Four books have been named to the 2024 BMO Winterset Award shortlist. The annual award, now in its 25th year, celebrates Newfoundland and Labrador writers across all genres, granting a $12,500 prize to the winner. ... Read More »
March 24, 2025
Canadian booksellers have united to ask the prime minister to exempt books from the 25 per cent counter-tariffs that are due to take effect on a further $125 billion worth of goods imported into Canada ... Read More »
March 21, 2025
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