Cormorant Books

Help us get on Canada Reads!

2010-10-18T15:26:00.001-04:00

Every year CBC’s Canada Reads hosts a “battle of the books,” where five celebrity panelists defend their favourite work of Canadian fiction. Over the course of three months, books will be eliminated...

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We are digital!

2010-07-05T16:44:00.000-04:00

Our quest here at Cormorant Books is, first and foremost, to deliver great literature. Part of that means providing readers with the option of enjoying their literature in as many ways as possible....

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Preview: Jeanne's Road

2010-04-13T15:59:00.000-04:00

It is 1933. A journalist travels to the small mining town of Rouyn in northern Quebec — a community that has become a refuge for Russians, Finns, Ukrainians, Chinese, and Jews. While there, he ...

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Hooked on Canadian Books is a Globe and Mail bestseller!

2010-04-12T09:34:00.000-04:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/bestsellers/ #4 in Literature. Hurrah!

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Still Life with June is Salty Ink's Book of the Month for April

2010-04-01T10:09:00.001-04:00

The fine folks at Salty Ink, a website that shines a spotlight on Atlantic fiction, has chosen Darren Greer's hilarious, profound, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel Still Life With June...

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Announcing Dancing Cat Books, our new Children's/YA imprint!

2010-03-25T13:03:00.000-04:00

Noticed the new banner? That's to celebrate the launch of our new imprint, Dancing Cat Books, dedicated to publishing author-driven literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for the young adult and...

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Preview: Hooked on Canadian Books - The Good, the Better, and the Best Canadian Novels Since 1984

2010-02-25T10:16:00.000-05:00

Having been a contributing reviewer for The Globe and Mail for more than twenty years, T.F. Rigelhof knows good literature. This conversational survey of the novels published since 1984 presents his...

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Three Novels Shortlisted for the OLA Evergreen Award!

2010-02-24T14:27:00.000-05:00

You heard it here first. Cormorant Books is proud to announce that three of its novels - The Heart Specialist (Claire Holden Rothman), Underground (June Hutton), and Oonagh (Mary Tilberg) - have been...

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Preview: The Queen of Unforgetting

2010-02-19T09:20:00.000-05:00

For a postgrad study, Mel takes a job at the newly reconstructed historical site at Sainte-Marie-among-the-Hurons, where Jean de Brébeuf and seven other missionaries met their tragic ends. But when...

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'Because I Have Loved and Hidden It' reviewed in Xtra

2010-02-01T12:14:00.000-05:00

"The sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of Julia’s Plateau neighbourhood are articulated in glorious Technicolor. The reader is led on a journey around Montreal — and Moser’s obvious passion for...

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Preview: Such a Good Education

2010-01-26T11:58:00.000-05:00

Tracing the formative years of a teenaged girl in 1950s Montréal,Such a Good Education is a scathing critique of traditional values, exposing the ignorance and poverty that troubled many...

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Sally Clark

2010-01-22T13:06:00.000-05:00

Waiting for the Revolution author Sally Clark is, in addition to being a talented writer, also a painter and a filmmaker. Check out her work at her website, sallyclark.ca.

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Ten Questions with Jeffrey Round

2010-01-14T15:25:00.001-05:00

Hop on over to Open Book Toronto, which is running a Ten Questions interview with Jeffrey Round, author of The Honey Locust. Read the interview here!

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Review of 'The Honey Locust' at Quill and Quire

2010-01-06T15:14:00.000-05:00

And here's a review from the folks at Quill and Quire: "Round’s prose style, though not flashy, is seamless and accomplished. The Honey Locust is a well-written exploration of conflict in all its...

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June Hutton takes 'Underground' by storm

2010-01-06T14:55:00.001-05:00

See Mom? I can too write good headlines. But on to June: she and her novel Underground are absolutely everywhere! Here's a review at The Historical Novel Review, which calls Underground "a...

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'The Heart Specialist' named best book by a Montreal author

2009-12-17T16:05:00.000-05:00

The accolades just keep rolling in for Claire Holden Rothman's novel The Heart Specialist, which was listed in this article at Hour.ca as the best book by a Montreal author. It's about time you...

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More words on City of Words

2009-12-15T11:09:00.000-05:00

Got some last minute Christmas shopping that needs to be done? Don't know what to get the people left on your list? Well, I've put together a handy-dandy guide to help you choose the perfect...

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City of Words and The Heart Specialist top Ben McNally's best

2009-12-10T09:17:00.000-05:00

On Thursday, December 4, Ben McNally and his partner Lynn Thompson presented their top 45 books of the season. We are proud to see both The Heart Specialist and City of Words in the fiction...

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Win a free copy of City of Words!

2009-12-10T09:10:00.002-05:00

Open Book Toronto is offering up a free copy of City of Words. To enter, head over to the contest page and make a comment telling them about one of your favourite things about Toronto. You can also...

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Trailer for The Wolf's Head by Peter Unwin

2009-12-09T11:13:00.000-05:00

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Review of The Honey Locust

2009-12-03T12:27:00.000-05:00

Check out this rave review of Jeffrey Round's The Honey Locust at stageand page.com: "The fiction is charged with wisdom as it probes what lies under surfaces of reality and discovers that...

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A Perfect launch for Perfect Red

2009-11-30T14:52:00.001-05:00

A little cheesy, maybe, but Thursday's Toronto launch for Perfect Red: The Life of Paraskeva Clark by Jane Lind really was a great success. We took over Libby’s Fine Art Gallery, filling every floor...

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Review of Valentine's Fall

2009-11-24T10:24:00.000-05:00

A shout out to David Kidney over at the Green Man Review for his great take on Cary Fagan's Valentine's Fall. According to David, "Fagan's writing is crisp, vivid, always enjoyable." Read the rest...

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Canada Counts reviewed by The Globe & Mail Online

2009-11-23T11:35:00.003-05:00

Something to write home about. Peter Scowen of Globe Books has selected Canada Counts as their illustrated book of the week. According to Mr. Scowen, "Children will be learning to count with the...

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Remember, that's The Wolf's Head by Peter Unwin ...

2009-11-18T14:18:00.001-05:00

Peter Unwin (The Wolf's Head) is my hero.

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