Congratulations Lisa Moore whose novel February (House of Anansi Press) has made the Booker Prize longlist!!!!!!!!

Fantastic review for Adam Lewis Schroeder's new novel In the Fabled East (D&M) from the Toronto Star:

"In a tremendously satisfying dénouement, our principal players are united partly by war, partly by the dissolution of empire, but mainly by a mother-and-child reunion — the dimensions of which can only be imagined within the pages of this marvelous and compelling tale." --Toronto Star

Reviews are in for Camilla Gibb's, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and they are stellar!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER (Globe and Mail & Maclean's lists)

"Camilla Gibb's previous novel, the Scotiabank Giller Prize short-listed Sweetness in the Belly, with its examination of Lilly, a white Muslim woman in Ethiopia and London, flew off bookstore shelves, and it's likely that The Beauty of Humanity Movement will as well...Gibb has created her own 'Beauty of Humanity.'"
-The Globe and Mail

"Another winner from Gibb."
-NOW Magazine

"...[Gibb] isn't satisfied with merely creating convincing characters and a bold plot. She educates and enlightens the reader whose grasp of Vietnam's history and culture may be based on little more than the vague recall of old headlines."
-Montreal Gazette

"...a dynamite read."
-Post City Magazine

"Gibb writes with a disarming simplicity well-suited to her story... Gibb's largely unadorned writing is... delicious for its austerity and complexities."
-Telegraph Journal

Darbyshire: "It's always been, if it bleeds, it leads ... but now it's like, if it bleeds or it's American Idol, it leads...There's an interest in the spectacle, but it's always at the expense of somebody else. And I don't think we're engaging with issues any more."

Read more in The National Post
 

Congratulations to Sandra Birdsell, who has just been made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Congratulations also to Michael Crummey, who won the Canadian Authors's Association Award for Galore.