Kay releasing new fantasy in fall

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Former Winnipegger Guy Gavriel Kay will be releasing a new fantasy in April 2010.

Under Heaven will be published by Viking in Canada, by Penguin in the U.S. and by HarperCollins in the U.K.

Kay, who lives in Toronto, has sold more than three million copies of his books in more than 25 languages.

His 1995 novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan, has been optioned by Warner Brothers. It is being developed by director Edward Zwick of Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai fame.

Kay’s last novel was Ysabel in 2007.

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Former Winnipegger Joe Martin will launch his new book, Relentless Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History, Sept. 21.

Martin is the director of the Canadian Business History Program and executive-in-residence with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

He is also a former president of the Manitoba Historical Society and a current board member of the University of Winnipeg Foundation.

The launch will take place at the Fort Garry Hotel. Admission is $40 (plus GST) but will include a signed copy of Relentless Change.

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A new book is being launched in September in time for the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Montreal’s McGill-Queen’s University Press is releasing Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges by British academic Stephen Manning.

The work deals with three separate sieges of Quebec and their roles in Canadian history. Manning deals with the 1759 siege that ended with the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, along with the 1760 siege by the French and the 1776 siege by the U.S.

Manning is a professor of history at the University of Exeter.

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Minneapolis author Neil Gaiman has won the 55th annual Hugo science-fiction award for his youth novel The Graveyard Book.

The award was given last weekend at the Worldcon convention in Montreal. This is the fourth time Gaiman has won a Hugo.

The story, about a boy raised by ghosts, has also won the Newbery medal and the Locus young adult award.

Gaiman himself said that he thought the award should have gone to Seattle’s Neal Stephenson for his novel Anathem.

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The Cartoons That Shook the World will not reprint the cartoons that shook the world.

An upcoming work about the notorious 2005 Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has opted against reprinting the cartoons themselves.

Yale University Press in Boston made the decision after consulting with authorities who feared violence.

The book’s author, political scientist Jytte Klausen from Brandeis University, reported in the Guardian newspaper that she "reluctantly accepted" the decision.

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten found itself at the centre of a worldwide controversy after it published 12 cartoons. Subsequent Muslim protests resulted in the deaths of at least 200 people around the world.

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A 1914 Sherlock Holmes novel will be re-released in a lurid 1940s-style pulp format to appeal to new readers.

The Valley of Fear will be released in December in paperback with a brand new cover from U.S. Hard Case Crime.

The cover features a screaming, scantily clad blond and a menacing tattooed male forearm.

The author will be listed as A.C. Doyle, the "bestselling author of The Lost World."

 

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