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Farley Mowat and more in the November Q&Q

Farley Mowat is the cover star of the November Q&Q, which is making its way to subscribers and bookstores now. In a profile by Marq de Villiers, the 87-year-old Mowat discusses some of the passions and preoccupations that have defined his career. Also in November, a closeup on two e-reading devices, the Sony Reader and Amazon’s Kindle, a look at hustler-turned-author Daniel Allen Cox, and a Special Report on College and Scholarly Publishing, covering the newly reduced Broadview Press, a new online textbook initiative, and the quirky Toronto imprint Alphabet City. All this plus reviews of new books by M.G. Vassanji, Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, and more. The full table of contents appears after the jump.

Farley Mowat at 87
Has he written his last book? Well, maybe. Canada’s storyteller on the fate of the planet, the seductions of killing, his own regrets, and how writing is getting harder

The future of reading?
A closer look at the Sony Reader and Amazon’s Kindle

E-books go to college
A group of U.S. textbook publishers has put together a big digital push – and they’re eyeing Canada
Plus More in the College and Scholarly Publishing Special Report

FRONTMATTER

• Daniel Allen Cox: from hustler to novelist
• Watch Your Language: Why is literary sex writing so bad?
• Cover to Cover: The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia
• A fledgling publisher’s youth movement
• Snapshot: Emily Leeson of Gaspereau Press
• Monique Lepine: a mother’s nightmare
• Local Buzz: The Tent Dwellers

FEATURES

• How the changing media landscape is turning publicists into marketers

COLLEGE AND SCHOLARLY SPECIAL REPORT

• Broadview Press scales back, and loses a president
• The ABCs of Alphabet City

REVIEWS

• The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
• Payback by Margaret Atwood
• A Place Within by M.G. Vassanji
• Dragonflies by Grant Buday
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

• The Princess Who Had Almost Everything by Mireille Levert and Josée Masse
• The One and Only Zoë Lama by Tish Cohen
• Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka and David Craig
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books

THE Q&Q/BOOKNET CANADA BESTSELLERS

THE LAST WORD
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