The 2010 Man Booker Prizefor Fiction longlist was announced today: Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America Emma Donoghue, RoomHelen Dunmore, The Betrayal Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question Andrea Levy, The Long Song Tom McCarthy, CDavid Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Paul Murray, Skippy Dies Rose […]
Taking a long car trip? Trapped on the subway during the summer commutes to work? Working out, or just out for walk? Why not enjoy a good book while you are on the move? Audiobooks are a terrific opportunity to gain a new appreciation of books. A good narrator can make all the difference. Once […]
The North York Central Library Youth Advisory Group members will be hosting a Word Out Book Sale at North York Central Library on Sat. July 10 from 2-4 p.m. Buy great teen reads for cheap, cheap prices! Don't miss out on this awesome sale. Many thanks to Book Ends for the book donations. Youth can […]
Join authors Giles Blunt, Andrew Pyper and other celebrity Reading Men tonight at the Toronto Reference Library. A lively panel discussion led by Tina Srebotnjak will also include Peter Birkemoe (The Beguiling bookstore) and Brett Polegato (baritone and bibliophile). That's tonight!Toronto Reference Library789 Yonge St.7:00 pm – 8:30 pmAdmission is Free.
Join Tina Srebotnjak and her celebrity panel of Reading Men for a lively discussion at the Toronto Reference Library. Authors Andrew Pyper and Giles Blunt, bibliophile and opera singer Brett Polegato and Peter Birkemoe of the Beguiling bookstore share their thoughts about reading and men and the books they love at the Toronto Reference Library […]
Last week we heard that Toronto will be the first North American city to host the International Indian Film Academy Awards. The 2011 Indian Academy Awards will cap a four-day celebration of everything to do with Indian film, including a film festival and industry forum, in Toronto, June 16-19, 2011. Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchanis the […]
If you are like me, you are looking forward to the latest screen incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Guy Ritchie directs and Robert Downey Jr. stars in the new film, Holmes, which opens in Canada on Christmas Day. But if you are not able to wait quite so long for your Holmes fix, why not borrow […]
Meet the Canadian writers everyone's reading at The eh List Author Series. Meet Lisa Moore Award winning East Coast author, Lisa Moore, reads from her latest novel, February. Described as “a profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of our best writers”, the story is set in 1980s Newfoundland shortly after the sinking of the oil […]