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Edmonton Journal
15-05-2025
- Business
- Edmonton Journal
Mark Carney's second book may not be published this summer. Here's what to know
Article content Prime Minister Mark Carney is not only a Canadian leader, he's also an author. His second book, The Hinge, was expected to hit shelves this summer. But now it's unclear. The book is being published by Penguin Random House Canada. On the book publisher's website, the release date is listed as July 1, 2025. However, the publication of the book has reportedly been delayed, per the Toronto Star. Article content Here's what to know. When was Carney's second book announced? In October 2024, it was announced that Carney would be writing a second book, entitled The Hinge: Time to Build an Even Better Canada, The Canadian Press reported. This was prior to Carney running for political office. The book's date of publication was set for May 13, 2025 at the time. Carney himself posted on X about the book, which he said was available for pre-order. He tagged Canadian book publishing company McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada. Article content Excited that my new book, The Hinge, will be published by Signal in May 2025. It's all about how we can to build an even better Canada in an increasingly dangerous and divided world. Pre-order it here: 👇 @McClellandBooks — Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) October 3, 2024 The post also included a link to the Penguin Random House Canada website, which is supposed to show a preview of the book. However, almost all of the information about it has been removed. It is called 'untitled' and Carney is not listed as the author. There is no cover image, and the link to pre-order on book seller Indigo's website says 'this page cannot be found.' However, the book appears to be available for pre-order through Amazon Canada and other independent book stores, like Mabel's Fables and Queen Books. 'Information about this exciting publication from Penguin Random House Canada is coming soon,' it says on the Penguin Random House Canada webpage. What is The Hinge about? In his post on X, Carney said his book is about building an 'even better Canada in an increasingly dangerous and divided world.' description of the book is provided online by Quebec retailer Archambault, where The Hinge is set to be sold, although most of the other information, like title and author, has been removed. It says the book 'charts an ambitious and urgent path forward for Canada and the world as we collectively face a multitude of existential threats to our long-standing democratic traditions.' Article content Article content It continues: 'We are at a hinge moment in history — reminiscent of what the Allies faced at the end of 1941, when Winston Churchill was in Ottawa meeting with Mackenzie King — an age of uncertainty and rising perils that is reshaping global political, economic, technological, and social orders, and overturning our day-to-day lives. The good news is that, just as Churchill, King, and FDR would eventually swing what Churchill termed the 'Hinge of Fate' towards freedom and prosperity, we too have agency to build an even better Canada.' In the book, it says, Carney will show how Canadians can continue to solve problems and 'build things that last,' adding that it can be done 'not as a government, but as a people.' What is the reason for the reported delay? The release date for Carney's book was moved from May 15, 2025 to July 1, 2025 online; however, no reason was given by the publisher online. In April, after the initial release date was delayed, Juno News reported that the publishers would not explain why. Latest National Stories
Vancouver Sun
15-05-2025
- Business
- Vancouver Sun
Carney's second book may not be published this summer. Here's what to know
Prime Minister Mark Carney is not only a Canadian leader, he's also an author. His second book, The Hinge, was expected to hit shelves this summer. But now it's unclear. The book is being published by Penguin Random House Canada. On the book publisher's website , the release date is listed as July 1, 2025. However, the publication of the book has reportedly been delayed, per the Toronto Star . Here's what to know. In October 2024, it was announced that Carney would be writing a second book, entitled The Hinge: Time to Build an Even Better Canada, The Canadian Press reported . This was prior to Carney running for political office. The book's date of publication was set for May 13, 2025 at the time. Carney himself posted on X about the book, which he said was available for pre-order. He tagged Canadian book publishing company McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada. Excited that my new book, The Hinge, will be published by Signal in May 2025. It's all about how we can to build an even better Canada in an increasingly dangerous and divided world. Pre-order it here: 👇 @McClellandBooks The post also included a link to the Penguin Random House Canada website, which is supposed to show a preview of the book. However, almost all of the information about it has been removed. It is called 'untitled' and Carney is not listed as the author. There is no cover image, and the link to pre-order on book seller Indigo's website says 'this page cannot be found.' However, the book appears to be available for pre-order through Amazon Canada and other independent book stores, like Mabel's Fables and Queen Books . Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'Information about this exciting publication from Penguin Random House Canada is coming soon,' it says on the Penguin Random House Canada webpage. In his post on X, Carney said his book is about building an 'even better Canada in an increasingly dangerous and divided world.' A description of the book is provided online by Quebec retailer Archambault, where The Hinge is set to be sold, although most of the other information, like title and author, has been removed. It says the book 'charts an ambitious and urgent path forward for Canada and the world as we collectively face a multitude of existential threats to our long-standing democratic traditions.' It continues: 'We are at a hinge moment in history — reminiscent of what the Allies faced at the end of 1941, when Winston Churchill was in Ottawa meeting with Mackenzie King — an age of uncertainty and rising perils that is reshaping global political, economic, technological, and social orders, and overturning our day-to-day lives. The good news is that, just as Churchill, King, and FDR would eventually swing what Churchill termed the 'Hinge of Fate' towards freedom and prosperity, we too have agency to build an even better Canada.' In the book, it says, Carney will show how Canadians can continue to solve problems and 'build things that last,' adding that it can be done 'not as a government, but as a people.' The release date for Carney's book was moved from May 15, 2025 to July 1, 2025 online; however, no reason was given by the publisher online. In April, after the initial release date was delayed, Juno News reported that the publishers would not explain why. The Toronto Star reported that a source said the delay was due to Carney not being able to finish 'the editing process in the last several months as he campaigned.' The publication also reported that Carney had finished writing the book. Penguin Random House Canada has not responded to a request from National Post. Carney's first book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All , was published in Canada in 2021 by McClelland & Stewart. It was a national bestseller, according to Penguin Random House Canada. It was the winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award and it was shortlisted for the 2021 Donner Prize. The description of the book provided by the publisher explains that it 'offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there.' Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
Cision Canada
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cision Canada
Ontario Creates Announces 16 Trillium Book Award / Prix Trillium Finalists Français
Finalist titles showcase Ontario's abundant literary talent TORONTO, May 6, 2025 /CNW/ - Ontario Creates, an agency of the government of Ontario, is proud to announce the 16 finalists for the 2025 Trillium Book Awards / Prix Trillium, the province's prestigious literary prize for English and French-language Ontario authors. Now in its 38 th year, the Trillium Book Award / Prix Trillium has a long tradition of recognizing literary excellence. The 2025 finalists make up a diverse and exciting library of Ontario books, highlighting this year's best homegrown literature and creating a top-notch "Read Ontario" booklist to discover – from novels to poetry to non-fiction and more. English-language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award: Wild Houses, Colin Barrett (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada) My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us, Morgan Campbell (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada) Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin (Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Penguin Random House Canada) Who Will Bury You? And Other Stories, Chido Muchemwa (Astoria / House of Anansi Press) I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together, Maurice Vellekoop (Random House Canada / Penguin Random House Canada) English-language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry: The Seventh Town of Ghosts, Faith Arkorful (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada) DADDY, Jake Byrne (Brick Books) Terrarium, Matthew Walsh (icehouse poetry / Goose Lane Editions) French-language Finalists for the Prix Trillium: Céline au Congo, Aristote Kavungu (Les Éditions du Boréal) Toronto jamais bleue, Marie-Hélène Larochelle (Leméac Éditeur) Le prince africain, le traducteur et le nazi, Didier Leclair (Éditions David) Un lourd prix à payer, Claire Ménard-Roussy (Éditions David) Nickel City Fifs : Une épopée queer sudburoise sur fond de trous, Alex Tétreault (Prise de parole) French-language Finalists for the Prix du livre jeunesse Trillium: Rose du désert, Michèle Laframboise (Éditions David) Le roi Poubelle, Eudes La Roche-Francoeur (Prise de parole) Le bonnet magique, Mireille Messier (Comme des géants) The Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium winners will be announced during an award ceremony on June 18, 2025. We invite you to visit our website and join us on our social channels to celebrate these authors and their literary works. QUOTES "The Trillium Book Awards showcase Ontario's artistic and cultural vibrancy. Amplifying their creative contributions, Ontario authors and publishers drive local economic growth, generating $980M and supporting over 6,000 jobs. Discover and champion this year's finalists by visiting local bookstores and libraries, and 'Read Ontario' to make an investment in both our cultural sovereignty and economic vitality." ~ Aaron Campbell, Chair, Ontario Creates QUICK FACTS The Trillium Book Award / Prix Trillium encourages excellence in literature by investing in Ontario-based writers. Award recipients receive $20,000 and their respective publishers receive support to promote the winning titles. Three titles are short-listed for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in the English language, which recognizes literary achievement for a first, second or third published work of poetry. Award recipients will receive $10,000 and their respective publishers receive support to promote the winning titles. Le Prix du livre jeunesse Trillium (en langue française) was introduced in the 20th Trillium year, and is awarded in alternating years with le Prix de poésie Trillium. Titles published over a two-year period are eligible, encouraging a greater number of submissions for these specific genre awards in the French language. Both awards provide a $10,000 prize. Previous winners include internationally acclaimed authors as Stuart Ross, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Dionne Brand, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, Gilles Lacombe, Marguerite Andersen, Andrée Lacelle, Diya Lim, Lisa L'Heureux and François Paré to name a few. Ontario is home to the country's largest book publishing industry, contributing $980M to our economy and supporting over 6,000 jobs each year. The publishing industry is both culturally significant and an economic driving force for the province. LEARN MORE Ontario Creates is proud to deliver the Trillium Book Awards each year. The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Award in 1987 to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and their works. Ontario Creates is an agency of the Government of Ontario that facilitates economic development, investment and collaboration in Ontario's creative industries including the music, book, magazine, film, television and interactive digital media sectors.
USA Today
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Exclusive cover reveal: Imani Erriu's 'Fallen Stars' is Book 2 in 'Heavenly Bodies' series
Exclusive cover reveal: Imani Erriu's 'Fallen Stars' is Book 2 in 'Heavenly Bodies' series Show Caption Hide Caption Imani Erriu reveals exclusive cover for 'Fallen Stars,' sequel to debut hit Fallen Stars: Imani Erriu reveals exclusive cover for highly anticipated sequel. BookTok Cinderella stories are becoming more frequent, and Imani Erriu's 'Heavenly Bodies' series is the latest to go from self-publish to publishing house. The U.K. author's celestial romantasy series set in a world ruled by merciless gods known as Stars was republished in the U.S. and Canada in January. Since then, publishers have had to near quadruple the number of reprints because bookstores keep selling out, Penguin Random House Canada told USA TODAY. Now, we're giving an exclusive cover reveal for the sequel 'Fallen Stars,' which will be released with new content, characters and a reimagined design in November. Imani Erriu reveals 'Heavenly Bodies' sequel 'Fallen Stars' cover Speaking from inside the crystal shop she owns in the U.K. – fitting for an author whose novels deals so heavily in astrology – Erriu says the cover is both an homage to her self-published covers and a taste of something new. In the first book, protagonist Elara is cursed with a prophecy that says she will fall for a Star and it will kill them both. When her kingdom is ravaged, she flees and finds herself in murky territory, forced to train as a weapon with an enemy prince to uncover her powers. 'Fallen Stars' opens that world wider with more points of view, higher stakes and a quest at sea. In this book, Elara must embark on a vengeful journey far beyond the Kingdom of Helios to wake her soulmate, who is trapped between life and death. The cover of 'Fallen Stars' keeps the green scheme of the book's original cover design, now with crested waves and a mermaid, who will be a central part of the romance plot, Erriu says. The compass is also symbolic, as the characters begin to feel 'lost within themselves' on their quest. Expect new mythical creatures, a 'dastardly and handsome pirate' and more world-building. 'For me, this is the book where all the pieces begin to shift, other characters are revealed, and the grander plot, which I'd always planned from the very beginning of Book One, really starts to be laid down,' Erriu says. Book Two has 'plot focus and excitement and adventure – I'm really excited for people to see where the world goes,' she adds. Darker and more gothic, Erriu says she was inspired by her favorite poem, Edgar Allan Poe's seafaring 'Annabel Lee' with fair maidens and kingdoms by the sea. To get into her character's heads, she listened primarily to 'Sunlight' by Hozier and 'Pirate Song' by Mehro. 'Counted my lucky stars': Reader support feels rewarding, Erriu says Erriu is a more mature writer now than she was when she self-published 'Heavenly Bodies' and the republished version feels like 'nearly an entire new book,' she says. Character arcs are richer with more well-rounded backstories. She says she's excited for readers to see how much her writing has improved. 'When I published indie, there were certain places I wanted the book to go and I just couldn't quite get there myself,' Erriu says. 'Having other people experienced in the industry who are almost like my guides through it ... and shaping the book into the best it could be has honestly been a dream.' Besides finally seeing her book shelved at Waterstones, a large British book retailer, the most rewarding part of the republish process is the reader interaction, Erriu says. 'Seeing them still here for the 'Heavenly Bodies' publication and buying that version and wanting all the special editions, that was truly a moment where I just counted my lucky stars – no pun intended,' Erriu says. New to romantasy?: Recommendations from the internet's favorite genre Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY's Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you're reading at cmulroy@
CBC
28-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
How counter-tariffs could make it harder to support Canadian books
The Canadian government is proposing additional counter-tariffs on U.S. goods. On the list of items that could be affected are U.S. books coming into Canada. The thing is, Canada's publishing industry is more entwined with the States than many readers may realize. Today on Commotion, The Globe and Mail's business & culture reporter Josh O'Kane joins host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to explain why this proposed policy has Canadian book stakeholders concerned. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Elamin: I think the obvious question is, how does a counter-tariff on books coming from the United States into Canada end up impacting the book economy here? And it just so happens that Liberal leader Mark Carney's book is maybe the perfect way to illustrate how that works. Do you want to tell people how it works? Josh: Yeah. So last week, indie bookstores across the country started rapidly talking to each other about what's going to happen with the counter-tariffs. And Paul MacKay, the manager of King's Co-op Bookstore in Halifax, basically just put out a little tweet thread and then at the end of it he's like, "You want a really good example? Mark Carney." His 2021 book Value(s), the latest edition that Paul had at King's Co-op Bookstore, he opened it up and it said, "Printed in the United States." So what does that mean? It means that the sitting prime minister at that moment had a book printed in the United States — which if the federal government were to put counter-tariffs on books, as is currently on the proposed list, [then] even the prime minister's book would be subject to tariffs coming into the country. Elamin: I have to imagine somebody listening to this going, "Wait, what do you mean it's printed in the United States?" Because I do think that is part of things that people maybe don't understand. I should say, we both have books out…. Mine was printed here in Canada, because I'm a patriot, and yours was printed in the United States, presumably because you're not. Do you want to maybe talk a little bit about how that works? Because we are both Canadian. We are both with Canadian publishers. And yet part of the supply chain of how large publishers work is some printers are in the U.S. Josh: Yeah, and I know everyone tunes into Commotion because they want to hear about supply chains. Elamin: They do today, baby. Let's go. Josh: A lot of this has to do with the fact that, I think it's just under 95 per cent of English-language books sold in Canada are through the larger multinational companies, so Penguin Random House Canada, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins in particular. The big three here in this country, they have integrated supply chains around the world. They also, because they have so much of the market, have a lot of Canadian authors, including both of us. And as a result, with these — again, I'm so hesitant to use this phrase — integrated supply chains around the world, of course they're going to print where it makes the most sense for those organizations. This is the result of globalization. Which is, again, I'm sure exactly why people want to tune in to this show. Elamin: But this stuff really informs how you get the entertainment that you get and the books that you get. Josh: Exactly. The same thing about record labels, radio stations across North America over the last 30 odd years; it isn't just books. So as a result, because so many different books are printed in the United States, including by Canadian authors, you are going to have books by Canadian authors who could be subject to this tariff.
