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Take the Cover Shuffle Challenge
Think you know Canadian books? Take the Canadian Bookshelf Cover Shuffle Challenge!
The Cover Shuffle Challenge asks you to supply the correct titles …
"I’ll take the long road and a ballpoint any day": Guest Post by Anne Perdue
Going on a book tour is very different to writing fiction. It takes place in real time and you can’t rewrite what happens. You need to know exactly …
In Conversation With: Tony Burgess
A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a patio when a gentleman, back lit by an early-summer sun, approached my table to boast that he recognized me from the …
The Personal Book Shopper Contest #mybookshopper
What if you could submit a few "choice words" to a personal book shopper—#mybookshopper—someone who wanders off into the bookish wild armed with only …
What is a Canadian Bookshelf?
Canadian Bookshelf: introducing a platform for discovering Canadian books in all their amazing diversity.
Books to discover: The 2011 Atlantic Book Awards
Atlantic Canada recognized its recent literary successes on May 19 at the 2011 Atlantic Book Awards.
Does the great Canadian cottage novel have yet to be written?
On this Victoria Day long weekend, Canadians will travel to cottage country to mark the unofficial start of summer, although many of us will only make …
Interview with a video wrangler: Jen Knoch, on keeping her city reading
Jen Knoch runs the Keeping it Real Book Club, and Keeps Toronto Reading (in conjunction with the Toronto Public Library’s April campaigns) by curating …
Power and Politics (List by Jonathan Bennett)
It's not all crooked cops and murder in Jonathan Bennett's novel Entitlement, which is also a gripping examination of power and politics in Canada. On …
Verve: Check. Smarts: Check—Julie Wilson Joins as Host and Producer
If you work in Canadian publishing, you’ve more than likely enjoyed the wit and original productions of Julie Wilson, aka Book Madam; if you’re an …