Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

For the week of Dec. 10, 2000

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Hardcover fiction1. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, $37.99 (McClelland & Stewart)2. The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, Stuart McLean, $32.99 (Viking Canada)3. Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, $34.99 (M&S)4. Uther, Jack Whyte, $33.99 (Viking Canada)5. Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards, $32.95 ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

For the week of Mar. 30, 2003

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Hardcover fiction1. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, $29.95 (Little, Brown/H.B. Fenn)2. Blue Horizon, Wilbur Smith, $38.95 (Macmillan/H.B. Fenn) 3. The King of Torts, John Grisham, $41.95 (Doubleday) 4. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan, $41.95 (Tor ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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WALKING WOUNDED: Robert Calder, a Governor General’s Award winner for non-fiction, will describe the toll of post-traumatic stress on veterans of the Second World War in A Richer Dust Concealed. Calder recounts the life and ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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A WINTERS TALE FROM SHIELDS: Carol Shields has completed a new novel, Unless, which has sold to Random House Canada for publication in spring 2002. The novel revives the character of Reta Winters, who first ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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WATCH YOUR MOUTH: In a six-figure deal, Vancouver writer Nancy Richler has sold her second novel, Your Mouth is Lovely, to Ecco Press, a subsidiary of HarperCollins U.S. The novel recounts a young Jewish woman’s ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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AGE OF AQUARIUS: Following her Commonwealth Prize-winning first novel, Burning Ground, Pearl Luke turns to the occult in Madame Zee. Her new novel follows the life of a whip-wielding cult leader who, with her enigmatic ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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A TASTE OF HISTORY: Author and CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy recreates six historic meals, such as the Last Supper and Thanksgiving in Plymouth, in The Great Meals. Penguin Books Canada (and Ballantine in the ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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WORKS OF LOVE: Winnipeg author David Bergen, whose first two novels have been published by HarperCollins Canada, has jumped to McClelland & Stewart after receiving a pre-emptive offer from Ellen Seligman for his third. Reading ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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RICHARDS’ RETURN: David Adams Richards takes a comic turn in his next novel, Janie, which tells of a single woman’s struggle to run the first movie theatre in the Miramichi region in the 1920s. Doubleday ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

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ROMANCE SO FINE: Barbara Gowdy’s latest novel, The Romantic, has been sold sight unseen to publisher Iris Tupholme at HarperCollins Canada for an undisclosed amount. The novel, which Tupholme describes only as “a love story ... Read More »

April 13, 2004