Two new non-fiction books focusing on Canadian pop-culture stars were announced this week. Toronto's ECW Press has acquired The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip, a biography of the band and frontman ... Read More »
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The bestselling debut essay collection from Buzzfeed culture writer Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter (Doubleday Canada), is being adapted into a comedy series by the recently launched TV ... Read More »
July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Deals
A TV adaptation of Ontario-born writer Emily Schultz's 2012 novel The Blondes (Doubleday Canada) will be among six new projects being developed by Shudder, a new streaming service being launched by the U.S.-based AMC network. Shudder will focus ... Read More »
June 5, 2017 | Filed under: Authors
Simon & Schuster has announced two new titles forthcoming this fall by 2016 U.S. Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The first is a collection of personal essays about Clinton's ... Read More »
February 1, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Deals
Douglas & McIntyre has acquired English-language Canadian rights to a memoir by Lucia Jang, co-written by Susan McClelland. The Stars in Between the Sun and the Moon is Jang's account of her defection from North ... Read More »
January 17, 2014 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This morning, HarperCollins Canada announced the forthcoming publication of a collection of short stories by iconic Canadian author Jane Urquhart commemorating Canada's 150th anniversary. The book will be a series of narratives about 100 artifacts ... Read More »
January 15, 2014 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Twitter Canada managing director Kirstine Stewart is set to publish her first book with Random House Canada in spring 2015. According to a press release, Our Turn is about women in leadership roles "in a ... Read More »
December 6, 2013 | Filed under: Uncategorized
When Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman collaborated to create the YouTube video-poem How to Be Alone, the Haligonian duo never imagined it would go viral, let alone lead to a book adaptation. Released in July ... Read More »
December 2, 2013 | Filed under: Book culture
HarperCollins Canada has signed U.K. chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver to a four-book deal. Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less and Jamie's 15-Minute Meals (published last year in the U.K.) will ... Read More »
June 6, 2013 | Filed under: Deals
Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow announced Wednesday morning that she is set to pen a memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins Canada. The book will chronicle her life as a young Hong Kong transplant in ... Read More »
May 1, 2013 | Filed under: Deals, Industry news