When you’re richer than the Queen, you’re bound to attract some money-hunting crazies. J.K. Rowling and her publisher Bloomsbury are rejecting “unfounded, unsubstantiated, and untrue” plagiarism claims from the estate of...

In the past year or so, a handful of parental complaints have resulted in books such as Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird being banned in several Toronto-area schools. In an effort to avoid such controversies in...

Barack Obama’s half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, has broken his media silence to promote a semi-autobiographical novel about the U.S. president’s abusive father. Ndesandjo told the Associated Press in a recent interview that the novel, titled Nairobi to...

Earlier today, Toronto Public Library city librarian Jane Pyper sent a brief memo to staff announcing that the TPL board has come to a tentative agreement with the Toronto Public Library Workers’ Union Local 4948, which had been threatening to...

Montreal author (and recent Q&Q cover star) Dany Laferrière is on a roll lately. After winning the $10,000 Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix last week, he has now been named recipient of France’s illustrious Prix Medicis literary award, alongside...

We’re not sure how long the website readerspoils.com has been around, but we thought we should bring it to your attention. It’s a site from out of the U.S. that allows authors to pay cold, hard cash for reader reviews on Amazon. Yes, that’s right, for...