In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. NOVELS One of the most anticipated releases of the fall season is surely the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, ... Read More »
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Three Canadian authors have made the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, announced today. Alison Pick's Far to Go (House of Anansi Press, Q&Q's September 2010 cover profile), Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (forthcoming from ... Read More »
July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2011 was announced in Sydney, Australia, this morning. Rohinton Mistry, author of A Fine Balance and a three-time Booker nominee, is the only Canadian represented on the ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
There's no formula for choosing the books of the year. Some break ground, some tackle familiar themes with new energy. Some represent the best work from established authors, some introduce us to important new voices. ... Read More »
November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Books of the Year
Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »
November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
The surprise winner of this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is British author Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury), a comic novel exploring Jewish identity. Jacobson, a London-based journalist and author of Kalooki ... Read More »
October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Okay, so winning the Not the Booker Prize is not like, well, winning the Booker, but we're sure Victoria, B.C. author Mathew Hooton is pleased as punch anyway. His debut novel, Deloume Road, published by ... Read More »
October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Awards
Yann Martel is no doubt a busy man: not only is the Man Booker Prize“winning author of Life of Pi a new father, he's also promoting his latest novel, Beatrice & Virgil, and fending off ... Read More »
May 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
The six finalists for the Lost Man Booker Prize, which was created to retroactively honour books excluded from Booker contention in 1970, have been announced, and Canada's one potential nominee “ Margaret Laurence's longlisted The ... Read More »
March 25, 2010 | Filed under: Awards
Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »
November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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