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Coronavirus Updates: The typically arresting literature-debate show 'Canada Reads' now has new pandemic-era dates, and a strong lineup of five books. The post CBC’s ‘Canada Reads’ Sets New Dates: A Shortlist Narrowed by Passion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Coronavirus Updates: The typically arresting literature-debate show 'Canada Reads' now has new pandemic-era dates, and a strong lineup of five books. The post CBC’s ‘Canada Reads’ Sets New Dates: A Shortlist Narrowed by Passion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

W&N has acquired Jillian, a "savage, hilarious" novel about two employees at a gastroenterologist's office by Halle Butler.

HQ has acquired a memoir by the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party Catherine Mayer and her mother Anne Mayer Bird, written after they were both widowed within weeks of each other just before the Covid-19 lockdown.

Dame Hermione Lee has been named the new chair of the David Cohen Prize for Literature.

Orion Publishing Group has bought the first official book of award-winning comedy podcast "Dear Joan and Jericha", written by Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine, in a "hotly contested" auction.  

The best authors, publishers and retailers will be crowned at the British Book Awards in a virtual ceremony today.

S&S is to publish an illustrated gift book by nature writer and conservationist Simon Barnes next year. 

Comedian Njambi McGrath’s memoir Through the Leopard’s Gaze (Jacaranda) has been optioned by production company Expectation.

Throughout my life I’ve been a fan of Mind Body Spirit (MBS) books; in fact, I’m curently at book proposal stage for my own. In recent times, however, I have been less inclined to get excited about the launches I get invited to. Despite the camaraderie of fellow writers, the very visible lack of diversity has made…