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Montreal’s Babar en Ville kids’ bookstore to close at end of month

Downtown Montreal kids' bookstore Babar en Ville is shutting down at the end of September, a month before its 10th anniversary. According to a post on the shop's Facebook page, the Westmount location is closing ... Read More »

September 1, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling, Children's publishing

Book Links: Harper Lee’s third novel just a rumour; Penguin Random House’s strong first half is real; Ferrante on feminism

By Becky Robertson

Rare-books expert says passages rumoured to be third novel by Harper Lee are actually drafts of Mockingbird and Watchman (The Guardian). Penguin Random House announces sales up 16.2 per cent in first half of 2015 ... Read More »

September 1, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Q&A: Michel Chikwanine on his graphic-novel memoir, Child Soldier

By Q&Q Staff

When Michel Chikwanine was five years old, he snuck out against his father’s wishes to play with some other boys in his Congolese village. It was 1993, and despite the relative security in Chikwanine’s life, ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Author, neurologist Oliver Sacks dies

By Conan Tobias

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and much loved and respected author, has died at the age of 82. The author of 12 books, Sacks helped the general public better understand the nature of neurological disorders. His ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: Stephen King is still talking; Cormac McCarthy is still not tweeting; Oxford is still MacGyvering the English language

By Becky Robertson

Overly prolific author Stephen King says overly prolific authors are still good authors (The New York Times). Grégoire Delacourt’s unrequited “declaration of love” for Scarlett Johansson, The First Thing You See, to be published in ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Happy 50th, Coach House Books!

By Sue Carter

On Aug. 27, Coach House Books celebrated 50 years at its annual end-of-summer Wayzgoose shindig (made memorable by touching speeches and a surprise appearance by '80s icon and author Molly Ringwald.) Here's founder Stan Bevington ... Read More »

August 28, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Book Links: how to write toe-curling sex scenes; tracking misogyny; love-hating Franzen

By Sue Carter

Grandpa RL Stine goes goosebumps-free for The Little Shop of Monsters (Guardian). Misogyny is nothing new, but the use of the word is (The Economist). French journalists arrested for blackmailing Morocco's King Mohammed VI with ... Read More »

August 28, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Chinese hipsters buy three million colouring books; Christmas comes early for pre-school Mariah Carey fans; U.S. Christian publishers catch pope fever

By Becky Robertson

Colour the author wealthy: Secret Garden adult colouring book sells three million copies in China (The Guardian). David Lagercrantz on The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Book 4 in the late Stig Larsson’s now somewhat ... Read More »

August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Photos: Tom Mulcair book launch

By Becky Robertson

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair officially launched his memoir, Strength of Conviction (Dundurn Press), ... Read More »

August 26, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Word Vancouver partners with Pandora’s Collective Literary Awards

By Becky Robertson

Word Vancouver has partnered with Pandora’s Collective, a local arts charity, to co-produce a revival of the Pandora’s Collective Literary Awards. The awards, last presented in 2013, recognize authors whose work fosters and contributes to ... Read More »

August 26, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

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