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Byline: MARGARET CANNON BY MARGARET CANNON NO doubt about it, 1993 was one of the best years ever in crime writing. What's surprising is that 1994 looks to be as [...]

INSIDERS at McClelland & Stewart say publisher Douglas Gibson and chairman Avie Bennett are reeling from the news that certain of their books are for sale. The problem is not [...]

The bestseller list is compiled by the Globe and Mail using sales figures from 500 bookstores across Canada, including both chain and independent retailers. The figures are processed to represent [...]

Byline: LIAM LACEY BY LIAM LACEY The Globe and Mail 'SO should I wear black?' I ask the McClelland & Stewart publicist. 'No, he might think you're mocking him,' she [...]

Byline: JOHN DOYLE McClelland & Stewart, 186 Pages, $27.99 Review by JOHN DOYLE ALL of the world's great hotels have books written about them, but the Beverly Hills Hotel is [...]

Byline: GILES GHERSON LONDON, Ont. -- GILES GHERSON LONDON, Ont. TWENTY-SIX years ago, Preston Manning and his father Ernest, then Alberta's Social Credit premier, published a provocative political tract called [...]

The bestseller list is compiled by the Globe and Mail using sales figures from 500 bookstores across Canada, including both chain and independent retailers. The figures are processed to represent [...]

A critical guide to today's best home entertainment RECORDINGS Glenn Gould plays Brahms, Sony SM2K 52 651 Gould's association with Bach has tended to obscure his flair with the music [...]

Alan Eagleson's memoirs 'Power Play,' (McClelland & Stewart, 1991) includes nine pictures of Bobby Orr. Eagleson often has said that his relationship with Orr helped Eagleson become hockey's top power […]

A critical guide to today's best home entertainment Television 20/20, ABC, 10 p.m. You don't have to like Barbara 'lockjaw' Walters or her smarmy, Ted Baxterish co-host, Hugh Downs, but [...]

The bestseller list is compiled by the Globe and Mail using sales figures from 500 bookstores across Canada, including both chain and independent retailers. The figures are processed to represent [...]

Byline: VAL ROSS BY VAL ROSS The Globe and Mail ARCHIE Crail is the anomaly on this year's shortlist for the Governor- General's fiction award. His book The Bonus Deal [...]

Byline: VAL ROSS Toronto ONT -- BY VAL ROSS The Globe and Mail Toronto FOUR of the five books shortlisted for the 1992 Governor-General's fiction award were edited by the [...]

PUBLISHERS are supposed to send out literary Dear-John letters, not get them. But yesterday McClelland & Stewart got an over-the-transom rejection slip from the National Library in Ottawa. To be [...]

Byline: VAL ROSS Toronto ONT -- BY VAL ROSS Publishing Reporter TORONTO Some could say McClelland & Stewart has a death wish. The Toronto-based publishing firm, no stranger to libel [...]

The bestseller list is compiled by the Globe and Mail using sales figures from 500 bookstores across Canada, including both chain and independent retailers. The figures are processed to represent [...]

As the shortlists for the 1992 Governor-General's Literary Awards were announced in Montreal and Toronto yesterday, it was clear that one group could never win - the judges. Complaints about [...]

Byline: MARGARET CANNON UNKINDEST CUT BY DOUG CLARK McClelland & Stewart, 334 pages, $7.99 SHELL LAKE MASSACRE BY PETER TADMAN Gorman & Gorman, 322 pages, $16.95 TERROR'S END BY RICK [...]

Byline: LASZLO BUHASZ By Jack Hodgins Douglas Gibson Books, McClelland & Stewart, 197 pages, $16.99, paperback. BY LASZLO BUHASZ Travel Editor VANCOUVER-Island native Jack Hodgins had won The Canada-Australia Prize [...]

Yesterday McClelland & Stewart announced that it had won the rights to bring out Pierre Trudeau's memoirs in English, based on his forthcoming television series. The Toronto-based firm beat out [...]

Byline: JOYCE CARTER BY JOYCE CARTER Smocking, the needlework skill that has helped many a cash-scant mommy make her children look like the family's rich, is an ancient craft in [...]

Byline: VAL ROSS M BY VAL ROSS Publishing Reporter It's rare for publishers to quarrel openly with booksellers; the two are too mutually dependent and the world they inhabit traditionally [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH MacCALLUM PROCRASTINATION. Months of procrastination. Certainly the publication of Adventures in Canadian History (McClelland & Stewart, each $5.99), a new series of books intended for school children written [...]

Byline: FREDA GARMAISE McClelland & Stewart, $24.99 Review by FREDA GARMAISE IT is easy to understand why 99 per cent of misanthropists fail to live up to the dictionary definition [...]

Byline: LASZLO BUHASZ By Nigel Pavitt with a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger McClelland & Stewart, 223 pages, $55, hardcover BY LASZLO BUHASZ Travel Editor JUST north of the Equator, where [...]

Byline: SANDRA MARTIN BY SANDRA MARTIN Special to The Globe and Mail THE first time I ever saw Sam Llewellyn was in an editorial office at McClelland & Stewart; I [...]

Three weeks after Anna Porter resigned as president of Seal Books, Doubleday Canada (Publishing) has named her replacement. John Neale, 43, is the new president of both Seal Books and [...]

Byline: MARGARET CANNON A GOOD HANGING AND OTHER STORIES BY IAN RANKIN Little, Brown, 218 pages, $28.95 WINTER'S CRIMES 23 EDITED BY MARIA REJT McClelland & Stewart, 184 pages, $26.99 [...]

Byline: CARY FAGAN CHINA BLUES BY DAVID DONNELL McClelland & Stewart, 142 pages, $14.99 INVENTING THE HAWK BY LORNA CROZIER McClelland & Stewart, 140 pages, $14.99 Review by CARY FAGAN [...]

Our recommendations for reading and viewing this week: Books Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond, By Peter F. Drucker, McClelland & Stewart, 353 pages, $31.99 AS George Bush [...]

MYSTERY novelist and former baseball reporter Alison Gordon swears it wasn't a set-up, but it sure was a long shot that she'd be honoured as the 15-millionth fan to enter [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI by Daniel Richler (McClelland & Stewart, $6.99). A faintly repulsive example of adolescence reaching critical mass, Robbie Bookbinder fully inhabits the seventies. Sprung from the soil of [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (McClelland & Stewart, $12.99). A fellow bemused Briton abroad, Douglas Adams' previous explorations had been mostly extraterrestrial (The Hitchhiker's Guide to [...]

Toronto ONT -- The Globe and Mail TORONTO Grants totalling $1,529,288, aid designed to help Ontario's publishers hitch their wagons to the latest in technology and business services, were announced [...]

Byline: DAVID LASKER BY DAVID LASKER ARCHITECTURAL historian Vincent Scully's retirement from the Yale faculty last spring was front-page news in The New York Times. He was generally reckoned to [...]

Ballerina Karen Kain has signed a contract with McClelland & Stewart to publish her autobiography, it was announced yesterday. The book, to be co- written with Globe and Mail senior [...]

The finalists for the Trillium Book Award, the Ontario government- sponsored literary prize for books in either French or English by Ontario authors, were announced yesterday in Toronto by Culture [...]

The five finalists have been named for the 16th annual Smithbooks'Books in Canada First Novel Award. They are: Douglas Coupland for Generation X (published by McClelland & Stewart); Ekbert Faas [...]

Byline: LASZLO BUHASZ By Robert Kimber McClelland & Stewart 166 pages, $25.95, hardcover USSR: Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit By John Noble and John King Raincoast Books of Vancouver, 824 [...]

Our recommendations for reading and viewing this week: Books The Last Mogul, The Unauthorized Biography of Jack Kent Cooke, by Adrian Havill, McClelland & Stewart, 300 pages, $29.99 RARELY intriguing [...]

Byline: John Doyle Straight Man or Joker By Alan Clayson McClelland & Stewart, 292 pages, $39.95 John Doyle At first glance, Ringo Starr is a likely subject for an interesting [...]

Byline: MARGARET CANNON THE BODY IN THE BOUILLON BY KATHERINE HALL PAGE McClelland & Stewart, 210 pages, $24.95 BAD BLOOD BY P. M. CARLSON Doubleday, 306 pages, $19.00 MARGARET CANNON [...]

Byline: Sarah Harvey By Peter Mayle McClelland & Stewart, 191 pages, $22.95 Sarah Harvey Dear Pete: Congrats on the new book, the one with the cigars (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti Elizabeth Renzetti Elizabeth, by Alexander Walker (McClelland & Stewart, $7.99). To paraphrase a fine Canadian biography, 'She haunts us still. . . .' Countless peignors, nice men, [...]

Byline: MARGARET CANNON CUTTING ROOM FLOOR BY STAN CUTLER McClelland & Stewart, 320 pages, $26.95 PERFECT HUSBAND BY GARY PROVOST Distican, 248 pages, $25.00 MORE FIVE- MINUTE MYSTERIES BY KEN [...]

A critical guide to today's best home entertainment Radio Morningside, CBC Radio, 9:05 a.m. Morningside Drama presents the first of five Robert Munsch stories, dramatized for radio by Kim McCaw. [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti Elizabeth Renzetti The Tales of an Athletic Supporter, by Trent Frayne (McClelland & Stewart, $6.99). As one of the elder statesmen of Canadian sports writers, Trent Frayne [...]

Byline: MARGARET CANNON SHADOW OF A DOUBT BY WILLIAM J. COUGHLIN McClelland & Stewart, 390 pages, $26.95 AMERICAN crime fiction likes to remain au courant. Let the British hang on [...]

Byline: VAL ROSS BY VAL ROSS Publishing Reporter The Globe and Mail WHO is Robertson Davies? It's a fair question. After all, Davies begins most of his novels with a [...]