The spring edition of the Ottawa Writers Festival is just a few weeks away (April 22-27th) and looks to have a host of great speakers such as Jane Goodall, Jeff Rubin, Adrienne Clarkson, Douglas Coupland, just to name a few, as well as a slew of excellent Canadian poets and writers from across the country to create [...]
The Ottawa Chapter of the CBBAG has a great line-up of three new workshops this coming April for both members and general public. If any of the workshops catch your fancy, I would highly recommend attending as these are an excellent hands-on way of learning various facets of the book binding and books arts trade. The [...]
Von Allan will be launching his graphic novel “the road to god knows…” at Perfect Books (258A Elgin Street) this Sunday, March 14th, starting around 4:00pm.
I found out about a month ago that Ottawa’s best stop for mysteries and crime fiction would we closing its doors Friday March 13th, but remained hopeful (hence no post at the time) that current owner Linda Wiken would be able to find a buyer. Unfortunately it looks as though there have been no takers [...]
Lawrence Hill will be reading from his The Book of Negroes at the Museum of Civilization this coming Wednesday (Feb 10th) as part of Black History Month at the museum. Details below and on the Museum of Civilization website.
There seemed to have been a groundswell of poetry wandering into the shop over the past week. We recieved late last week the fourth volume in the Porcupine’s Quill Essential Poets Series which provides an excellent selection of James Reaney’s work (review to come shortly). Then the weekend saw two great poetry events take place in town, the first being a [...]
Our friend Larry Thompson at the Greyweathers Press did a wonderful interview with Nigel Beale a couple months ago and is now available on Nigel’s site here. I did an interview with Nigel as well about a month ago discussing the history of private presses and those who collect their works. This interview should be [...]
Good news for all you book hunters, one of Ottawa biggest book sales kicks off tomorrow at Carleton University and will run until Monday with over 50,000 books to dig through……. Good Luck!!! The Book Sale takes place in the Galleria of the Unicentre (University Centre) on Carleton University campus. Maps are posted at the [...]
Just a quick reminder that the Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair is coming up this Sunday and we’ve been busy packing boxes in preparation. Should hopefully be a good show! Detail below:
The 29th Ottawa Antiquarian Bookfair is on again this year with a few changes. It will now just be held on one day, Sunday October 4th, and at a new location – Tudor Hall (Riverside & Uplands). We’ll be there again this year with a booth full of fresh stock and interesting acquisitions from the [...]