Books

Alice Munro, Canadian author who won Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 92

No, a best-selling American writing duo didn’t pen a Galen Weston romance novel

American author V. V. Ganeshananthan wins $150,000 Shields Prize

In The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes, Steve Lonergan and Jassim al-Asadi dive into the destruction of the Mesopotamian Marshes

Looking for something to get the kids off screens? Here are 12 books to get them reading

Animation veteran Clive Smith’s new graphic novel was 20 years in the making

How The Phoenix Crown became a bestselling collaboration between two historical novelists

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 11, 2024

Books about Indigenous life shortlisted for Amazon Canada First Novel Award

In Prairie Edge, author Conor Kerr’s land reclamation fantasy comes to life

Who Owns Outer Space? wins Donner Prize for best public policy book by a Canadian

Carley Fortune takes on the proverbial forbidden fruit in sizzling new romance novel

John Vaillant wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing for Fire Weather

Donner Prize shortlisters share the biggest surprises about writing their books

Six new mystery novels, from Victorian tales to reality-TV romps

Michael Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things glances back in time

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 4, 2024

Colm Toibin’s Long Island is a brilliant, compelling, utterly human story that begs to be read and reflected upon

An ode to independent Canadian bookstores

Literary critic Andy Lamey contemplates ‘The Canadian Mind’ and the future of CanLit

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 27, 2024

‘Trouble in the Lab’: The Ben Johnson doping case was anything but open and shut

Salman Rushdie on the attack that nearly killed him and the vulnerability of writing new memoir, Knife

PEN America calls off awards ceremony amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 20, 2024

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau embraces uncertainty in new memoir, Closer Together

In new memoir, RuPaul skips the camp for a clear-eyed look back at his pre-Drag Race life

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 13, 2024

Several writers decline recognition from PEN America in protest over its Israel-Hamas war stance

Books on artificial intelligence, space law shortlisted for Donner Prize

Biography on Manitoba’s first Indigenous premier John Norquay offers a history lesson

Russian opposition politician Navalny wrote memoir before death, says widow