THE BIG READFive Little Indians / Cree author Michelle Good talks about the award-winning, residential school story she was compelled to write, why it took nine years and what she's writing next>> Malibu Rising> Love, Lust and Leonard CohenTHE SCROLLDebut Novelist Michelle Good Wins 2020 GG Fiction AwardRare Emily Brontë Manuscript To Be Auctioned By Sotheby’sHungry Caterpillar Author Eric Carle Dies At 91Michelle Good and Francesca Ekwuyasi up for $60,000 First Novel AwardIndigenous Authors Dominate Fiction Category in 2020 Governor General’s Literary Prize NominationsMeghan Markle to Publish Children’s Book Based on Her Husband Prince Harry and Son ArchieOprah Hopes Her New Book Will Move You From Blame to EmpathyPublisher Halts New Philip Roth Biography as Its Author, Blake Bailey, Faces Allegations of Rape and Sexual Misconduct‘Lonesome Dove’ Author Larry McMurtry Dies at 84Beloved Children’s Author Beverly Cleary Dies at 104MP Jody Wilson-Raybould to Publish a Political Memoir in October6 Dr. Seuss Books Will No Longer Be Published Due to Racist ImagesHillary Clinton to Write Thriller with Louise PennyBlackberry Co-Founder Jim Balsillie Sponsors $60,000 Public Policy Book PrizeGiller Prize Launches Master Panels, a Webinar Series on Writing and Publishing in CanadaChris Hadfield’s Debut Thriller “The Apollo Murders” Will Launch in OctoberCicely Tyson’s ‘Just As I Am’ Tops Bestseller Lists as Family Sets Public Viewing in New YorkLiterary Superstar Amanda Gorman Gains International Fame With Super Bowl LV Performance and Time Magazine CoverBarack Obama Surprises Book Club to Talk About His Memoir, Michelle’s Inaugural Fashion and Career Advice for Younger GenerationsWriters’ Trust of Canada Renames Fiction Award After Margaret Atwood and Graeme GibsonAfter Stealing the Inauguration Show, Poet Amanda Gorman’s Books Are Top of the Amazon ChartsDuchess Camilla Launches Royal ‘Reading Room’ With Her First Book Club PicksSarah, Duchess of York, to Debut Historical Novel of Royal RomanceSimon & Schuster Cancels Senator Josh Hawley’s Book in Wake of U.S. Capitol AttackBestselling Author Eric Jerome Dickey Dead at 59Duchess Camilla Is Launching Her Own Book Club, the ‘Reading Room’Bridgerton TV Series, Based on the Julia Quinn Books, A Huge Hit for NetflixBarack Obama Shares His Favourite Books From 2020John le Carré, 89, Dies of PneumoniaBill Gates’ Holiday Book PicksA Viral Poem for Pandemic TimesAlberta Professor Wins Oddest Book TitleBarack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ Breaks First-Day Sales RecordGil Adamson and Jessica J. Lee Win Top Prizes from Writers’ Trust of CanadaSouvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2020 Scotiabank Giller PrizeCanadian Culinary Legend Anita Stewart DiesNigerian Nobel Laureate Writing First Novel in 47 YearsTrump Critic Is Anonymous No MoreEdugyan, Chariandy and Lubrin to Judge Journey Prize for Black Writers2020 Writers’ Trust Fiction Finalists2020 Scotiabank Giller Short ListObama’s Promised LandScotiabank Giller Prize Announces Long ListHilary Weston Award for Nonfiction FinalistsNOVEL ENCOUNTERSWarming Up to June / Zoomer's best June fiction includes a meditation on mortality, a feminist utopia, a reimagined Great Gatsby and a new thriller from Bill Clinton>FIRST PERSONThe Way of the Gardener / Lyndon Penner's Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain sows seeds of appreciation for the natural world >FACTS & NON-FICTIONLife Stories / Books about NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and Canadian director Norman Jewison are among our picks of new notable memoirs and biographies>ROYAL PAGES'Elizabeth & Margaret' / In a new Royal biography, Andrew Morton explores the dichotomy between the Queen and her younger sister, and draws parallels to other fractious relationships between “heir” and “spare” >SHELF LIFEEdward Burtynsky on “The Hidden Life of Trees” and how “Sapiens” changed his perspective / The award-winning photographer, filmmaker and author names "Last of the Curlews" as his favourite book of all time >> Style Guru Joe Mimran Loves to Read Ahead> Colette van den Thillart on the Royals, Bohemianism and Leslie BlanchWRITER'S ROOM>Maria Mutch, Interrupted: How the Pandemic Changed The Solitary Life of a Writer>Janet Skelsien Charles on the Canadian connection behind her historical novel 'The Paris Library'THE LISTICLESFather Figures/ In honour of Father's Day on June 20, we delve into the best recent non-fiction and fiction about the everyday heroes known as dad>Thrills and Chills/ New and Notable Novels of Crime, Misdemeanors and Suspense for Spring >Hollywood Confidential/ 10 New and Notable Recent Books Set in and Around LaLaLand >“Books are a form of political action. 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