by Sue Carter

Daily Deals: Iain Reid’s latest to S&S

From the internationally bestselling author of Foe, and NY Times bestseller I'm Thinking of Ending Things, recently adapted as a feature film by Charlie Kaufman for Netflix, comes Iain Reid's new novel, We Spread. A mind-bending, ... Read More »

September 30, 2020

TIFA launches full online slate with performances, virtual IV programme, and award changes

By Sue Carter

The 2020 edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors marks a lot of firsts for one of the country's largest literary events, now in its 41st year. It is the first year with new ... Read More »

September 23, 2020

Daily Deals: M&S acquires two novels by Amy Jones

By Sue Carter

McClelland & Stewart senior editor Anita Chong has acquired Canadian rights to two novels by Stephen Leacock Award finalist Amy Jones. The first, Pebble and Dove, is a novel of mothers and daughters and family dysfunction ... Read More »

September 22, 2020

How academic Suzanne Evans uncovered the forgotten story behind a prisoner’s cookbook

By Sue Carter

While working as a research fellow at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa academic Suzanne Evans learned of Ethel Mulvany, a Canadian who grew up on Manitoulin Island and was taken into a Japanese POW camp ... Read More »

September 21, 2020

Q&A: UFCW Canada’s Kevin Shimmin on the Indigo union vote

By Sue Carter

On Sept. 18, workers at the Indigo Books & Music location in Mississauga, Ontario, announced that they had filed an application to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Voting for the store workers to ... Read More »

September 21, 2020

Indigo Square One workers vote for unionization

By Sue Carter

In a groundbreaking moment for the retail chain, Indigo Books & Music workers at the Square One location in Mississauga, Ontario, have filed an application to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. The ... Read More »

September 18, 2020

Daily Deals: Krista Foss novel to McClelland & Stewart

By Sue Carter

Canadian English rights to Krista Foss's Half-Life, for readers of Miriam Toews, a riveting portrait of sisters and daughters navigating the murky tensions of physics and belief, memory and family bonds, sold to Kelly Joseph at ... Read More »

September 16, 2020

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Sue Carter

Transatlantic Agency president Samantha Haywood has hired Devon Halliday as a literary agent. Halliday is actively building a client list of primarily American fiction and non-fiction authors. Halliday, who is based out of Ohio, has prior ... Read More »

September 16, 2020

Rupi Kaur’s third collection, home body, out with S&S Canada in November

By Sue Carter

Rupi Kaur fans will be happy with the news that her third collection of poems and illustrations, home body, is coming out Nov. 17. According to Kaur's publisher, Simon & Schuster Canada, home body "guides readers ... Read More »

September 16, 2020

Margaret Atwood to receive 2020 U.S. Literary Peace Prize

By Sue Carter

Margaret Atwood has been named recipient of the 2020 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced today. The award, which recognizes authors for their complete body of ... Read More »

September 14, 2020

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