HarperCollins Canada senior editor Brad Wilson has acquired The Taxman Is Watching, a tax guide by Canada’s pre-eminent authorities on tax ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
Key Porter Books editor Janie Yoon has purchased Canadian rights to the third volume in Rachel Manley’s series of personal memoirs. Horses in Her Hair is about Manley’s grandmother, the artist Edna Manley, who raised ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
John Wiley & Sons Canada editor Don Loney has acquired a new memoir by Richard Heinzl, the founder of Doctors Without Borders in Canada. Cambodia Calling recounts Heinzl’s time as a young doctor operating a ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
Key Porter foreign rights manager Sandra Homer has sold U.K. rights to John Lawrence Reynolds’ Shadow People to Summersdale Publishers. The book will be published under the title Secret Societies. Shaun Bradley of the Transatlantic ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
It’s something of a banner season for international fiction, with big names from Ian McEwan to Alexander McCall Smith to Haruki Murakami set to release new titles. High-profile authors are scattered across all other categories, ... Read More »
February 13, 2007
Some highlights of the forthcoming season are CBC radio host Bill Richardson’s new picture book, inspired by an old camp song; fresh Deborah Ellis fiction about kids whose mother is in jail; and Diane Swanson ... Read More »
February 13, 2007
War, terrorism, racism, gangs, disease, ecological degradation, natural disasters – Canadian non-fiction has a decidedly dark tone this season. A number of well-known journalists and columnists weigh in on some heavy topics, with new titles ... Read More »
February 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Globe and Mail reporter and columnist Christie Blatchford has been one of the most well-known and prolific journalists in the country for more than two decades now, so it’s a surprise to learn that her ... Read More »
February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Hoping to emulate the success of House of Anansi Press’s successful Massey Lectures series, the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival is launching a lecture tie-in series of its own this week. The first Antonine Maillet-Northrop ... Read More »
February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Schoolbooks are going under the microscope. Penney Clark, an assistant professor of curriculum studies at the University of British Columbia, has launched a three-year study of history textbooks produced in Ontario and B.C. during the ... Read More »
February 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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