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As both a bookseller and a book buff, Ben McNally can hardly keep quiet about the books he loves. Don't miss Ben's reading recommendations, as he shares his new favourite read.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't forget that on November 16th, the movie
Love in the Time of Cholera, adapted for the screen by Academy Award winner Ronald Harwood and starring Academy-award nominated Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, and Benjamin Bratt, will be in theatres.
The 2007 Scotiabank Giller
Prize shortlist was
announced on Oct. 9 - congratulations to:
Divisadero by Michael
Ondaatje
The
Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
Effigy by Alissa
York
Late
Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
The
winner will be announced at a gala ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 6th.
The UK's Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced - congratulations to our finalists:
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The winner will be announced on Oct. 16 in London, England.
Lisa See tells us a Chinese ghost story and discusses her latest novel, Peony in Love.
Jeffrey Simpson, author of Hot Air, discusses the reasons we haven’t met our environmental commitments and whether or not it’s too late to start now.
What will happen when the Americans pull out of Iraq? Gwynne Dyer, author of The Mess They Made, Future: Tense, Ignorant Armies, and War shares his thoughts.
photo credit: Colin Faulkner
Don't miss this candid interview with Robert Hough, where he reveals where his ideas come from, and how he's trying to blow the reader's mind with his new novel The Culprits.
photo credit: Andrew Stern
Watch the short film, The Shock Doctrine: A film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein, directed by Jonás Cuarón, based on the book The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Announcing Insight, the newly launched digital search & browsing service for books from Random House of Canada…
Through Insight, Random House of Canada will make the text searchable for more than 6000 of its new and backlist books, from across each of the publishing divisions, including Doubleday Canada, Knopf Canada, Random House Canada. McClelland & Stewart and Tundra Books titles will also be available through Insight. An engine for online discovery of book content, the Insight service allows readers to view by either directly accessing the fixed amount of sample pages or entering a search term. In addition to these print titles, over 2,700 new and backlist audio titles are also now available through Insight and with the widget technology.