Some years ago I was mall crawling with my then-preteen god-daughter and we came across a shop called For Girls Only. We rolled our eyes at each other and discussed what a dumb name that ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes first appeared on Q&Q’s Bestseller Survey in April, nailing down a number-two spot that month. In this issue, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir sits near the top of all three of our ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
I don’t remember anyone ever saying when I joined the book business three years ago that it would be a cakewalk. But nor do I remember anyone warning me that I’d be putting in plenty ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
Unhealthy relationsTo the editor:As one of the HarperHundred victims, I was choked up by Ed Carson’s flatulent and sweaty-palmed statement in your May issue (“A returns-free world”). My HarperCollins account was closed because, two years ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
CANADA’S MOST WANTED: True-crime stories don’t get much better than this: Albert Walker, an Ontario financial adviser who dropped out of sight in 1990 amid accusations that he’d stolen $3.5-million from investors in his Woodstock, ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
• While in pursuit of a ruthless terrorist a CIA agent chances upon his quarry’s mirror image. The Assignment, based on Dan Gordon’s novel of the same name, is slated for a June release and ... Read More »
BACK TO THE FUTURE • A Vancouver painter and printmaker has become the first artist to contribute to The Fund for Future Generations – the new fundraising initiative announced by the Canada Council for the ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
A few years ago, a U.S. business academic put out a study showing that the way to compete against Wal-Mart was to sell what the big box doesn’t sell. This past fall, independent booksellers and ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Twenty-one Canadian publishers exhibited at this year’s London International Book Fair, and who made the biggest splash? A one-year-old daschund who didn’t even attend the show. Seems that Joan – a coy little canine owned ... Read More »
October 30, 2003
If you’re a bookseller awaiting the release of a mass-market edition of Shelley Peterson’s popular YA novel Dancer, Kim McArthur has a message for you: It ain’t going to happen. Tim Inkster, who published the ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Events
Contact us via email
