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Atwood novel eyes end of civilization
The Year of the Flood will be launched by McClelland & Stewart publishing in time for the holiday season.
The novel is set in the future as a natural disaster threatens to end all civilization.
Atwood is the author of more than 40 works in almost all genres. Her last the effort, the non-fiction Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, is being adapted into a documentary.
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Key Porter Books is releasing an omnibus edition of Winnipegger Carol Matas's juvenile fiction.
Titled Tales of a Reluctant Psychic, the collection is a trilogy of novels set in Winnipeg.
The Freak, Visions and Far recount the adventures of a psychic teenager. They were originally published between 2002 and 2008.
The release celebrates Matas's 40 published books. Her latest book is The Curse of the Evening Eye written with Perry Nodelman.
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Former Winnipegger Steven Erikson has had his first fantasy novel re-released in a spiffy new paperback edition by H.B. Fenn Publishing.
Gardens of the Moon is the first novel in a 10-work series and was originally published in 1999. Erikson, whose real surname is Lundin, has completed eight books in the series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. The latest, Toll the Hounds, came out in June 2008.
Erikson received a deal worth £675,000 when the series began.
Erikson trained as an archeologist and anthropologist. He lived in England for many years but is now based in Victoria.
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HarperCollins has announced it will be re-releasing the novel Some Great Thing by Toronto's Lawrence Hill.
The release follows Hill's success of The Book of Negroes, which won a Commonwealth Writers prize. It was also chosen as the CBC's 2009 Canada Reads book.
Some Great Thing was Hill's debut novel. It was originally published by Winnipeg's Turnstone Press in 1992 and is partly set in the fictionalized newsroom of the Winnipeg Free Press, where Hill was a reporter in the 1980s.
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The Palestine Festival of Literature (Palfest) in Israel was shut down twice last week by police.
The week-long festival had invited such authors as Toronto's M.G. Vassanji, the U.K.'s Michael Palin (formerly of Monty Python) and Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell.
According to reports in the Guardian newspaper, the festival was closed because of its ties to the Palestinian Authority.
Following the second closure, the festival was moved to the offices of the British Council.
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Prolific U.S. fantasy author David Eddings died last week at the age of 77.
Eddings, the author of more than 20 epic novels, is best known for the Belgariad series from the 1980s.
Edding's last fantasy series was The Dreamers, which ended in 2006.
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A first edition of Irish writer James Joyce's novel Ulysses sold for almost $500,000 last week at auction in London.
The modernist classic was published in 1922. It was immediately banned in both the U.S. and the U.K. for obscenity and profanity.
According to reports, this is the highest price paid for a first edition published in the 20th century.
The edition sold was described as being unread except for the naughty bits at the end.
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