NEW WATERS: Doubleday Canada will publish David Adams Richards’ next novel in hardcover, after issuing the author’s Governor General’s Award-winning non-fiction book Lines on the Water last year. Richards’ agent, Anne McDermid, negotiated a two-book ... Read More »

COAST TO COAST: Penguin Canada has commissioned National Post columnist John Bentley Mays to add Arrivals: A History of Ontario to its series of provincial histories. Jan Whitford of Westwood Creative Artists negotiated the deal. ... Read More »

NO MORE SECRETS: M.G. Vassanji follows his Giller Prize-winning The Book of Secrets with a new novel, Amriika – a political coming-of-age story set mainly in Boston in the 1970s, and narrated by a young ... Read More »

VIRUS ALERT: Nicholas Regush’s forthcoming investigation of a viral infection that could be responsible for health problems ranging from autism and lupus to Creutzfeldt-Jakob (the human version of mad-cow disease) sounds likely to send readers ... Read More »

IN THE JAWS OF THE BLACK DOG: Cordelia Strube’s next novel will appear under Key Porter Books’ Patrick Crean Editions imprint. The Barking Dog will cover themes of urban life, cancer, murder, and madness with ... Read More »

THE DROWNING PEOPLE: Peter Unwin took inspiration for his upcoming novel from an actual historical shipwreck – in 1912 the Mayflower sank in Ontario’s Madawaska River, killing nine men. Nine Bells for a Man covers ... Read More »