Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

In the Works

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RICCI RETURNS: Following a five-publisher auction, novelist Nino Ricci has signed a two-book deal with Doubleday Canada worth in the mid-six figures. The first book, Testament, is being described only as a controversial story set ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Events

In the Works

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RWANDAN CHRONICLE: Roméo Dallaire, the retired lieutenant general whose U.N. force was caught up in the Rwandan massacre, has sold his account of the tragedy to Random House Canada. Publication is scheduled for 2002. Bruce ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

In the Works

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JOURNAL’S END: In Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, Globe and Mail theatre critic Kate Taylor weaves together the lives of three women: Marcel Proust’s mother, the translator of her journal, and a Parisian refugee ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

In the Works

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NEWMAN’S OWN: Peter C. Newman, Canada’s titan of business journalism, has sold his untitled and as-yet-unwritten autobiography to Macfarlane Walter & Ross for a six-figure sum. No publication date has been specified yet, but the ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Where we began

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For all the flap and excitement over the announcement in early April that Indigo and Chapters would be allowed to merge (did anyone ever really think they wouldn’t be?), you’d think the federal Competition Bureau ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Award file: Libris nominees

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Firefly Books, Raincoast Books, Knopf Canada, and Montreal graphic-novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly are among the publishers in the running for two new Libris Awards added to this year’s roster. D&Q’s Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip ... Read More »

April 13, 2004

Two bosses for Indigo?

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Indigo Books & Music has named a new president and chief operating officer. But it remains to be seen how David Margolis – the founder of Winners Merchants, the highly successful national chain featuring discount-price ... Read More »

April 13, 2004