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MELT WITH YOU: Newfoundland author Joan Clark, who has written for both the children’s and adult markets, will further explore the world of adult fiction in her next project. Latitudes of Melt, to be published ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling

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PENT UP: Doubleday Canada’s Maya Mavjee has acquired Russell Smith’s next novel for spring 2002 publication. The satirical Muriella Pent is the story of a young Caribbean poet who visits Toronto on a grant, sponsored ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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THE KILLING MOON: Biographer and novelist James King will follow up his 1999 novel Faking with another: Blue Moon, based on the real-life case of Canadian Evelyn Dick. In the 1940s, Dick was convicted of ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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NEVERENDING STORY: Thomas Wharton, whose first novel Icefields won him international attention in 1996, has signed on with McClelland & Stewart for his second. Editorial director Ellen Seligman acquired world English-language rights to Salamander after ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

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ROUGHING IT ON THE SHIELD: Journalist Jake MacDonald’s upcoming non-fiction book, The Shield, combines reportage, natural history, and personal anecdotes about life in Ontario’s Canadian Shield country. Nicole Winstanley of Westwood Creative Artists sold the ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

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BEHIND THE COUNTER: Biographer Patricia Phenix, author of Olga Romanov: Russia’s Last Grand Duchess (Penguin), will publish an account of the Eaton’s department store chain drawing on archival material and interviews with former employees and ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

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UNNATURAL SELECTION: Allan Levine will follow up his account of survival during the Second World War, Fugitives of the Forest (Stoddart), with a broader treatment of Jewish perseverance. Diaspora: A Jewish Journey Through History – ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

Coach House shuts doors

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Increased support for Canadian publishers may be on the way from the federal government in the wake of the mid-July closing of Coach House Press. Association of Canadian Publishers president Jack Stoddart and Canada Publishing ... Read More »

April 16, 2004