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Giller Prize longlist announced

Michael Helm portrays the thin-ice life of illegal aliens and those who strive to help them in his new book, Cities of Reuge.

The 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced Monday its longlist of books in the running for this year's award.

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New titles to rake up for this year's crop of fall books

The fall 2010 book season sees new offerings from Giller Prize winners David Adams Richards, Richard B. Wright and David Bergen and the celebrated Jane Urquhart and Camilla Gibb. As well, Doug Coupland gets some CanLit cred with his Massy Lecture novel.

Oprah chooses Franzen for final TV book club

Nine years after their feud over The Corrections, she is expected to name Jonathan Franzen's new Freedom as her final TV-book-club selection

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Obama to publish children's book

U.S. President Barack Obama, a publishing phenomenon even before he won the White House, has a new book about to hit the shelves — profiling inspirational historic Americans for children.

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Man Booker Prize

Writer Emma Donoghue is pleased by the positive response to Room, the dark tale of a five-year-old boy and his mother, who are kept prisoner in a modified garden shed.

Canadian Emma Donoghue shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

For the first time since 2003, a Canadian author has been named to the Man Booker Prize shortlist.

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Two Canadians in running for Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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Plagiarism? No, patchwork literature

France's leading contemporary author, Michel Houellebecq, has been accused of cutting and pasting passages from Wikipedia and other websites into his new book.

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Nobody does a snarky literary spat like the French

Author unloads on those who 'ruined' it for everyone else

Two of Canada's sacred cows are being turned into hamburger, thanks to a forthcoming book that calls out 101 people, places and things said to have "screwed things up for the rest of us."

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Blair cancels book-signing over protests

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday he had cancelled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.

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J.K. Rowling gives millions for MS research

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother.

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The four fish that might just get away

Paul Greenberg says there are four main sources of commercially available fish protein - salmon, cod, sea bass and tuna - and they are either being hunted to oblivion, aquafarmed or genetically modified, with unknown consequences. As he describes "the future of the last wild food" with an engaging mix of science, history and an aficionado's enthusiasm, Greenberg is solid, sensible and constructive in his analysis.

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