http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/?ref=rss FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-ca Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:55:50 EST Copyright: (C) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/termsofuse.html#Rss http://www.cbc.ca/rss/ http://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/?ref=rss http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/24/writers-trust-award-winners.html?ref=rss 2000335761 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:53:36 EST British Columbian writers stole the spotlight in Toronto Tuesday night at the annual Writers' Trust Awards gala. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/24/costa-books.html?ref=rss 2000335738 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:52:38 EST British author Hilary Mantel, who won the 2009 Booker Prize, also has been nominated for the Costa Book Award for her novel Wolf Hall, a fictional telling of the life of Thomas Cromwell. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/24/darwin-origin-species-auction.html?ref=rss 2000335675 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:35 EST A rare, first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species fetched a hefty price at a London auction Tuesday, after having been kept in a British family's guest washroom for years. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/22/darwin-book-rare-washroom.html?ref=rss 2000335304 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:53:34 EST A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species will go on the auction block 150 years after its publication http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/20/childrens-book-awards.html?ref=rss 2000335014 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:17 EST Shin-chi's Canoe, a picture book about a little boy leaving home for a residential school, has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/19/ottawa-national-gallery-bookstore-layoffs.html?ref=rss 2000334843 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:15:41 EST The National Gallery of Canada is looking for an outside company to operate its bookstore. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/19/bad-sex-writing.html?ref=rss 2000334802 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:32:51 EST Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth has earned a nomination for the Bad Sex in Fiction award for a scene in The Humbling involving the seduction of a lesbian by an aging stage actor. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/19/national-book-award-winners.html?ref=rss 2000334776 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:36:37 EST Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin, a portait of interconnected relationships on one summer day in 1970s New York, has won the prestigious fiction prize at the 60th annual U.S. National Book Awards gala. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/18/karl-rove-memoir.html?ref=rss 2000334514 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:20:36 EST A memoir by Karl Rove, the White House aide who was architect of former president George W. Bush's war on terror, now has a title and a release date. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/18/quebec-qwf.html?ref=rss 2000334463 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:31:26 EST The same day he was passed over for a Governor General's award, Eric Siblin won two Quebec Writers' Federation prizes for his non-fiction Bach book, The Cello Suites. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/17/gg-lit-09-winners.html?ref=rss 2000334293 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:46:56 EST M.G. Vassanji, already celebrated for his fiction, is now a Governor General's Literary Award winner for his evocative memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/17/consumer-harlequin-self-publishing.html?ref=rss 2000334364 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:08:08 EST Harlequin Enterprises Inc. has teamed up with a leading self-publisher that allows aspiring authors to put their own romance novels in print.