Finalists for the Lionel Gelber Prize announced

Finalists for the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize for the best books on international affairs were announced on Monday in Toronto by Judith A. Gelber, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize board. Selected from 120 international ... Read More »

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Indie booksellers to be included in publishers’ new pilot project

By Q&Q Staff

Independent booksellers got some satisfaction yesterday after meeting with a consortium of six Canadian-owned publishers about a new book marketing pilot project. As originally conceived, the project was a deal between the six publishers (McArthur ... Read More »

January 11, 2007

Ben McNally to open bookstore of his own

By Q&Q Staff

Veteran bookseller Ben McNally ended weeks of speculation Thursday by officially announcing plans to helm a new Toronto bookstore, to be called Ben McNally Books.Reached on Thursday evening, McNally was mum on operational details of ... Read More »

January 11, 2007

Nicholas Pashley retiring from U of T Bookstore

By Q&Q Staff

Nicholas Pashley, purchasing manager for trade publications at the University of Toronto Bookstore, is retiring this June after 30 years in the book trade. Pashley “blindly stumbled” into his career after his sister-in-law told him ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Penguin Canada scoops Storoschuk

By Q&Q Staff

Penguin Canada’s marketing and publicity department will soon include Melanie Storoschuk, who has been a publicist for HarperCollins Canada for the past two and a half years. On Jan. 22, Storoschuk is stepping into a ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

From fault lines to birth marks

By Q&Q Staff

McArthur & Company has finalized publication plans for Nancy Huston’s new novel. Birth Marks will be published in fall 2007; the original French edition, published last year under the title Lignes de Faille, won France’s ... Read More »

January 10, 2007

Goin’ down the road

By Q&Q Staff

Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn has bought North American rights to Peter Unwin’s Hard Surface: In Search of the Canadian Road, a popular history of, yes, roads in Canada, covering everything from the very ... Read More »

January 10, 2007

Double shot of Bismuth

By Q&Q Staff

McArthur & Company has signed English-language translations of two titles by Nadine Bismuth for publication in 2007 and 2008. First up is Scrapbook, a satirical novel about couples and affairs of the heart. It will ... Read More »

January 10, 2007

Reel Deals: January 10, 2007

By Q&Q Staff

Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris of Neal Street Productions in the U.K. have optioned film and television rights to Robert Hough’s novel The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. Deborah Wood of Westwood Creative Artists made ... Read More »

January 10, 2007

Foreign Front: January 10, 2007

By Q&Q Staff

Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold U.K. rights to Joanne Proulx’s debut novel, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, to Picador Macmillan. Penguin Canada will release the book here in spring 2007. Haywood has ... Read More »

January 10, 2007

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