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Spring Preview
29 Canadian kids books & YA to look for in spring 2019
Here's a guide to Canadian picture books, middle-grade books and YA books that are coming out in the first half of 2019.
Bestsellers
The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Jan. 20 to 26, 2019
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.
Enter the CBC Nonfiction Prize
You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books.
Britain's Man Booker fiction prize losing main sponsor
Spring Book Preview
19 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out in spring 2019
Writing Tip
Struggling to build up your writing momentum? Write from the heart
Randy Boyagoda chairs 5-person Scotiabank Giller Prize jury
Tidying guru Marie Kondo talks big messes, Shintoism and viral fame
Tanya Tagaq melds memoir and fiction with emotional first book, Split Tooth
Meg Medina wins 2019 Newbery Medal for children's literature for YA novel Merci Suarez Changes Gears
How Emma Hooper balanced grit & whimsy while writing a novel set on Canada's East Coast
Giles Blunt takes us on a North Bay Block Party
Booking for love with speed dating for bookworms at St. John's library
DOG-EARED READS
Why Janie Chang can't get over Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
How Jean Genet & Marguerite Duras inspired playwright Jordan Tannahill's love for autofiction
What it's like to be poor in rural America
Preserving Indigenous languages, one story at a time
Poems on the range: the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering wrangles writers from all over, including Canada
Proust Questionnaire
Barry Callaghan on fears, love and the merits of drinking a glass of wine every day
Remembering Diana Athill, a 'fierce' editor who broke boundaries with her own writing
Spring Book Preview
28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019
Esther Kinsky on the ebb and flow of memory in River
Waubgeshig Rice balances historical accuracy with dystopian future in new novel
Spring Book Preview
20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019
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