Coup times two

As if securing one blockbuster author weren’t enough, booksellers Richard Bachmann and Bryan Prince have sent local bibliophiles into the sweet hereafter with the announcement of a June 20 double-header: Michael Ondaatje with Russell Banks. ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Important message for readers who’ve been out of the country

By Q&Q Staff

Maclean’s broke the news a week early, so we decided to balance out the Donner Prize karma and announce the winner a week late: David Gratzer won for Code Blue: Reviving Canada’s Health Care System. ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

New owners for M&S

By Q&Q Staff

Avie Bennett, chairman and president of McClelland & Stewart, has donated 75% of the shares of his company to the University of Toronto and sold the remaining 25% to Random House of Canada for an ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

CDG’s new hire an experienced hand

By Q&Q Staff

After two years away, Evaughn Moffat is returning to the book industry in August as national account manager, mass market, at CDG Books. Moffat worked at Bantam Doubleday Dell from 1985 to 1998 in a ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

More good news for Wynne-Jones – The Maestro goes to the movies

By Q&Q Staff

Toronto-based Shaftesbury Films has optioned film and TV rights for Tim Wynne-Jones’ Governor General’s Award-winning young adult book The Maestro, published in 1995 by Groundwood Books. Wynne-Jones will write the feature film adaptation of his ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

More good news for Wynne-J

By Q&Q Staff

Toronto-based Portfolio Entertainment has optioned a first-time thriller by Canadian author Rick Mofina. Published last February by Pinnacle in the U.S. (and distributed in Canada by Penguin), If Angels Fall is the first in a ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Badami lands U.S. deal for The Hero’s Walk

By Q&Q Staff

Anita Rau Badami’s second novel, The Hero’s Walk, is set to appear in a U.S. edition next spring. The literary press Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill – which has recently published such novels at Julia ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Mystery writer used B.C. settings

By Q&Q Staff

On Feb. 25, author L.R. Wright lost a long battle with breast cancer. But the well-known B.C. mystery novelist – known to friends and family as “Bunny” – left a legacy of books widely appreciated ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Indigo hopes to spur sales, help literacy with book exchange

By Q&Q Staff

Canadians will be able to exchange old books for new as part of a promotion later this month by Indigo, in partnership with Canada Post, to benefit libraries and literacy organizations.From Apr. 1-21, Indigo customers ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Public has until May 8 to comment on merger

By Q&Q Staff

Anyone interested in commenting on the conditions under which Trilogy will be permitted to merge Chapters and Indigo had better get writing.All submissions must be filed with the registrar of the Competition Tribunal by Tuesday, ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

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