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Jacques Poitras reveals all to Open Book: Toronto

This year marks the twelfth iteration of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. The prize rewards the year's finest book tackling a political subject of interest to Canadian readers.

Open Book:Toronto will be speaking to each ...

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April 18, 2012

Maclean’s is mad for Master and Madman

Maclean's magazine has presented Nicholas Tracy a fine review of his new release Master ...

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April 18, 2012
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Scott Fotheringham will not be silenced!

The Rest is Silence"If such a thing could be said to specifically exist, this is dystopian CanLit at its finest, intimate yet epic." So says The Globe and Mail about Scott Fotheringham's debut novel The Rest is Silence, and who are we to argue?
 
Already acclaimed by authors such as Dan Vyleta (The Quiet Twin) and Carla Gunn (Amphibian), The Rest is Silence is a quietly devastating portrait of love and loss, set in a period five seconds away from our own.
 
Read more about Scott's novel here.
Unlike The Sweet Fuels, her first...

Riel NasonRiel Nason's novel The Town That Drowned has been declared a finalist for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize.

Since its release in the Fall of 2011, The Town That Drowned has been a critical hit, with rave reviews and nominations for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and the CLA Young Adult Book Award.

Now, The Town That Drowned cements its reputation as one of the brightest Canadian debuts of 2011.

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The Huffington Post goes gaga over Deni Bechard's Cures for Hunger. http://t.co/SQqbnP4H
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GREAT review of Deni Bechard memoir Cures for Hunger: The Vulnerable Heart of Machismo http://t.co/eFQPARcR via @HuffPostBooks @denibechard
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