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When Levitin met Byrne

Daniel Levitin, the McGill University professor of neuroscience and music and author of the 2006 book This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton/Penguin), converses with former Talking Head and rock renaissance man David Byrne for ... Read More »

May 3, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Moore, Lansens have eyes on Orange prize

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two Canadian authors have made the longlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (the award formerly known as the Orange Prize). Among the 20 contenders are Lori Lansens' The Girls (published by Knopf Canada ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Penney keeps on winning

By Leigh Anne Williams

Scottish novelist Stef Penney has won the Costa book of the year prize for her Canada-set historical novel The Tenderness of Wolves (published here by Penguin Canada and reviewed by Q&Q here). Penney had already ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian books communicate real good

By Alison Jones

In an entry on his Macleans blog from earlier this month, Brian Bethune laments the lapses of grammar in a number of recent Canadian books, using the multiple mistakes found in the Giller-nominated DeNiro’s Game ... Read More »

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Costa likes the Canadian North

By Alison Jones

Scottish writer Stef Penney has won the first-novel prize in the Costa Book Awards for The Tenderness of Wolves. Set in the Canadian North during the late 19th century, the story centers on a murder ... Read More »

January 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Raging bull

By Leigh Anne Williams

The most talked-about book launch of the season has apparently left a rather sour taste in the mouth of Craig Davidson. The Penguin Canada author, you'll remember, stepped into the boxing ring early this month, ... Read More »

October 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Let's talk Fifth Business

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the U.S., Amazon.com has teamed up with Penguin to promote the Penguin Classics line via an online reading group. And the very first selection? None other than Robertson Davies' CanLit classic Fifth Business. Kathryn ... Read More »

September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Booker shortlist announced

By Leigh Anne Williams

Well, Mary Lawson's The Other Side of the Bridge didn't manage to make the jump from the Man Booker Prize longlist to the just-announced shortlist. But there is good news for a couple of Canadian ... Read More »

September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Awards

On the graphic memoir

By Scott MacDonald

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently posted an article on its website about the rise of graphic memoirs, or memoirs in comic book form. This news itself isn't so noteworthy: with numerous autobiographically inspired books like Art ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The more you sell, the less you make

By Leigh Anne Williams

Give them credit for gall if nothing else: the Australian division of Penguin is proposing to pay less in author royalties for its most successful titles. Typically, the standard author's royalty rate of 10% of ... Read More »

February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Penguin

When Levitin met Byrne

Moore, Lansens have eyes on Orange prize

Penney keeps on winning

Canadian books communicate real good

Costa likes the Canadian North

Raging bull

Let's talk Fifth Business

Booker shortlist announced

On the graphic memoir

The more you sell, the less you make

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