Q&Q’s July/August extravaganza
Our July/August issue is hot off the presses, and will be available for a sneak peek at BookExpo Canada this weekend. It includes a cover profile of Rawi Hage, a survey of rising graphic-novel stars, and our regular Fall Previews, spotlighting the hottest books of the upcoming season. All this plus reviews of upcoming fall books by David Bergen, Andrew Pyper, Kenneth J. Harvey, Marthe Jocelyn, and many more. The full contents appear after the jump.In the July/August 2008 issue of Q&Q:
Fall Previews
Atwood, Gladwell, Toews, Oppel! The books of the season in fiction, non-fiction, kids’ books, and international titles
The next generation of Canadian graphic-novel stars
Five young creators who are making a mark
CanLit’s new million-dollar man
Will The Gargoyle’s performance justify Andrew Davidson’s massive payday?
FRONTMATTER
- Diaspora dialogues: TSAR’s unique CanLit niche
- Cover to Cover: ex-Cottagers in Love
- Snapshot: Peter Cocking
- Deals Corner: Jon Paul Fiorentino, Miriam Toews, Andrew Pyper, and more
- Local Buzz: Homage to a Rural Life
NEWS AND FEATURES
- ECW’s succession solution: Staffers step up as Toronto press prepares for big shift
- Falling prices ahead: List prices are finally down across the board. But that leaves the trade running to stand still
REVIEWS
Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth J. Harvey- The Retreat by David Bergen
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- Thing-Thing by Cary Fagan and Nicolas Debon
- Desperate Glory by John Wilson
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books
BESTSELLERSPresented by Q&Q and BookNet CanadaTHE LAST WORDStrength in numbers: Danielle Young-Ullman discovered that the best way to ward off first-book jitters was to find a group of writers in the same predicament
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