B.C.-born novelist Emily St. John Mandel and Montreal author Heather O'Neill are among the 20 international writers longlisted for the U.K.'s Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction). St. ... Read More »
Douglas Coupland and others on remembering Marshall McLuhan in a digital age New Star Wars instalment to feature LGBT character for first time in series' history HarperCollins to expand Spanish-language offerings, starting with Harper Lee's ... Read More »
March 10, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Award-winning B.C.-born author Patrick deWitt is coming out with his third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, this fall. The novel follows a young man named Lucien Minor during his employment as "undermajordomo" at the disquieting Castle Von ... Read More »
March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Bestsellers, Book news
Miriam Toews' novel All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada) is one of six titles shortlisted for the U.K.'s Wellcome Book Prize. The £30,000 award highlights fiction and non-fiction titles that "engages with some aspect of medicine, ... Read More »
March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Jillian Tamaki named one of Huffington Post’s nine female graphic novelists to follow Anne of Green Gables one of 50 most translated titles What makes a book re-readable? U.K. author Joanna Bourke on how using ... Read More »
March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
The Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques has announced the 2015 finalists for both the Young Adult Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, sponsored by the Library Services Centre. The shortlist for ... Read More »
March 5, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
"No one cares about your problems if you're a shitty writer," according to controversial piece by former MFA instructor Ryan Boudinot Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei goes on tweeting spree about his favourite authors Colleges and universities ... Read More »
March 5, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
The finalists for the 27th annual Lambda Literary Awards, which recognize excellence in LGBT literature published the year prior, have been announced. Seventeen* Canadian authors were shortlisted in 12 of 27 categories. A record number ... Read More »
It would be safe to say 2014 was a good year for Julie Morstad. How To (Simply Read Books), the Vancouver artist’s 2013 authorial debut, won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Julia, Child ... Read More »
March 4, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, People
Flavia de Luce author Alan Bradley talks to the Toronto Star about home Paris's infamous Shakespeare & Company bookstore launches new international online presence Dates for Shakespeare First Folios tour confirmed (spoiler: the tour skips ... Read More »
March 4, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
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