THE BIG READHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster / In his new book, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates provides a prescription for our carbon crisis that rests on renewable energy like hydro, solar, wind and, yes, even nuclear power>> Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey talks about his new book, Greenlights, and navigating lockdown with his family> Whether finding lost wills or hidden staircases, teen sleuth Nancy Drew rides a wave of nostalgiaTHE SCROLLHillary 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 Finalists> PRESENTED BYNOVEL ENCOUNTERSFebruary's Finest / From the latest novel by Crow Lake author Mary Lawson to a new Easy Rawlins mystery by Walter Mosley, we round up this month's best fiction.>FIRST PERSONLiberal MP Marci Ien Finds Her Voice / Off Script, the former broadcaster's new memoir, chronicles lessons the newly minted Parliamentarian has learned from friends, family and ordinary Canadians with extraordinary stories>FACTS & NON-FICTIONLives Lived / From an authorized biography of Tom Stoppard to actor Gabriel Byrne's elegiac memoir, our list also includes Mark Kurlansky's meditation on fly fishing.>ROYAL PAGESBorn to Be Queen / Fleet Street veteran Clive Irving weaves reportage into his biography of Queen Elizabeth II, arguing she was made for the job but Charles is not>SHELF LIFEMarilyn Lightstone on Anne of Green Gables, a forbidden book and author Daniel Silva / An avid reader, the Canadian actress and podcaster describes her long association with Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale>> Style Guru Joe Mimran Loves to Read Ahead> Colette van den Thillart on the Royals, Bohemianism and Leslie BlanchWRITER'S ROOM>Why the Canadian Shield is the Bedrock of Mary Lawson’s Books>Jane Boon Gives Capitalism and the Patriarchy a Spanking in Her Debut Novel 'Edge Play'THE LISTICLESIntimate Reads/ From Sandra Brown's new suspenseful love story to Garth Greenwell's exploration of love in its many forms, we pull our favourite reads from the romance section.>Historical Fiction/ From Victorian England and the Second World War to antebellum Virginia, take your mind to a time long before COVID with these recent and soon-to-be published novels.>Books for Allies/ Hear the critical narratives emerging from the voices that were left out of the history books with these illuminating reads>“A book is a gift you can open again and again”- Garrison KeillorREAD & RECOMMENDEDZed Favourites / To take the guesswork out of your next selection, here are the books Zoomer editors and writers loved and heartily endorse>> “I wrote an overture that was using some facts of my life but that was also twisting some things to make points.”> “Overall I wanted to tell about things that are intangible, invisibly present, more fragile than we realize.”> “The See-Through House was constructed not of bricks, nor of mortar, nor of wood, nor even of glass. It was built entirely out of who my father was.”TAKE ME TOEVERYTHINGZOOMER.COM
