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Anne Michaels and more in the April Q&Q

Thirteen years after the blockbuster success of Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels is about to publish her second novel, and she’s Q&Q‘s cover subject in the April 2009 issue, which is available now. Also in April, we look at the some of the ideas for industry networking and sales-generating that have sprung up in the wake of BookExpo Canada’s collapse, and at the Literary Press Group‘s future plans now that new executive director Jack Illingworth is on board. Plus reviews of new books by David Suzuki, Kim Echlin, Trevor Herriot, Robert J. Sawyer, Vlasta van Kampen, Tim Wynne-Jones, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.

Hiding in plain sight
Anne Michaels has published her long-awaited second novel – and she prefers to let her fiction speak for her

Life after BookExpo Canada
Ideas are flying, but what does the industry really need?

The LPG’s got Jack
A new director plots a new course for the Literary Press Group

Kids’ announcements
The complete listing of spring children’s titles

FRONTMATTER

• Book acquisitions 101
• BPAC packs it in
• Snapshot: Robyn Read and Sarah Ivany of Freehand Books
• Coach House goes YA
• Cover to Cover: Lisa Moore’s February
• Lonely booksellers of the North
• Mining history
• Watch Your Language: What’s in a new name?
• Local Buzz: Tales of a Maritime veterinarian

REVIEWS

• Not Yet by Wayson Choy
• Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic
• The Johns by Victor Malarek
• Kahn & Englemann by Hans Eichner
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

• When I Visit the Farm by Crystal Beshara
• Blue Mountain Trouble by Martin Mordecai
• The Insecto-files by Helaine Becker and Claudia Dávila
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books

THE Q&Q/BOOKNET CANADA BESTSELLERS

THE LAST WORD
Lee Gowan on Canada’s unique take on tragedy