A Sharp Intake of Breath Winner of The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction!

A big congratulations goes out to John Miller whose novel A Sharp Intake of Breath was the winner in The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction category of the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Awards! The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Awards celebrate excellence in Canadian writing that reflects Jewish themes and subjects.
A Sharp [...]

Hard Winter Rain is a Fine Little Mystery

Reviewer Bruce Grossman from Bookgasm has written a great review of Michael Blair’s mystery novel, A Hard Winter Rain. Here’s a little bit of what he has to say about the first Joe Shoe Mystery:
“What really made HARD WINTER for me is that it doesn’t rely on the people-getting-hit-over-the-head style of action like other [...]

Food and wine critic Hirayr Berberoglu reviews Canadians at Table

Food and wine critic Hirayr Berbergoglu’s review of Dorothy Duncan’s Canadians at Table is now posted on both Vinum.ca and Madamesommelier.com. Here is a bit of what he had to say about this award-winning book.

“Dorothy Duncan has been able to admirably capture in 19 chapters the evolution and diversity of food preparation in this immense country [...]

Sarah’s Legacy Nominated for Red Maple Award

Valerie Sherrard’s junior and teen fiction novel, Sarah’s Legacy, has been nominated for the 2008 Red Maple Award. The Red Maple Award is part of the Ontario Library Association’s (OLA) reading program that is focused on readers between grades 7 and 8. Readers who are involved in this program will then get to [...]

Canadians at Table wins Gold!

Dorothy Duncan, author of Canadians at Table, a unique and profound book on the history of food, beverages and well-known traditions that still exist this present day, has received the Gold 2007 Canadian Culinary Book Award in the category of English Canadian Food Culture. You can check out the complete list of winners [...]

Flamingnet Reviews The Ruby Kingdom

Flamingnet, a website dedicated to promoting reading has recently posted a review of The Ruby Kingdom by Patricia Bow. Flamingnet has students posting their reviews and here is a little of what 16 year-old reviewer (JPear) had to say!
“This is a pretty absorbing story, and it’s the first of a series. Being the first, [...]

Award Finalists

We’re proud to announce that two of our books are now finalists!

Dorothy Duncan’s Canadians at Table is a finalist for the 2007 Culinary Awards in the category of “Canadian food culture.” Winners will be announced November 2nd 2007.

Tom Henighan’s Viking Terror has also been listed as a finalist for the 2007 Ottawa Book Award [...]