When Bob Tyrrell founded Orca Book Publishers in 1984, it was not with the plan to become a children’s book publisher. Orca’s first title was a guide to Vancouver Island’s pubs co-authored by Tyrrell ...

Three writers have been named the winners of the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, established in 1994, grants $10,000 annually to a writer of fiction and poetry. It is ...

It’s hard not to be appalled and disgusted at the bad guys – actually a gal and a guy – in Reynolds’ tale of sex, drugs, and murder in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. But to Reynolds’ credit ...

In 2016, Ian Thornton was walking through his downtown Toronto neighbourhood with his two small children. He wasn’t thinking ...

Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to the page in her five-book Manawaka cycle, would have turned 100 years old ...

When Indigo Books and Music announced earlier this year that it had received an offer to go private, it was the latest in a long string of headlines for the bookstore chain. First, there was a ...

In his second novel, Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese, a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist before his turn to fiction, creates a metaphor for Canada’s treatment of its aboriginal inhabitants.

When Confederation Life went belly-up in 1994, it was the fourth largest insurance company in Canada, with a history stretching back to the late 1800s. The news rocked the financial-services sector ...

A pirate ship, a treasure map, and a crew of orphans: how could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a premise? In her first novel, author Rachelle Delaney, a graduate of the MFA program ...

Finalists have been named for the 2026 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. The annual awards, now in their 42nd year, are administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society and celebrate the achievements of ...

Eight writers have been named recipients of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards for their unpublished work and eight more have been named finalists of the IVAs. The prizes, now in their ninth year, ...

The finalists for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards have been announced. Handed out by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, the seven awards celebrate exceptional books for young people.