2011

Dundurn's new Spring 2012 catalogue is ready! Click on the links below to read our Adult and Teen catalogues and have a look at our upcoming titles. Adult: http://issuu.com/dundurngroup/docs/s12_adult_catalogue_high_res?mode=win... Teen: http://issuu.com/dundurngroup/docs/s12_teen_catalogue_high_res?mode=wind...

Congratulations to Bryan and Shannon Prince, the Underground Railroad Free Press recently announced that they are the 2011 winners of the Hortense Simmons Advancement of Knowledge Prize for career-long work revealing and promoting Canada's rich Underground Railroad history.

Mark Frutkin’s interview with CBC Ottawa’s All in a Day for Walking Backwards. You can download the interview here: http://www.dundurn.com/audio/mark_frutkin%E2%80%99s_interview_cbc_ottawa... And check out his entry at CBC here: http://www.cbc.ca/allinaday/2011/09/21/mark-frutkin-travels-back-in-time...

Listen to Don Easton's interview on CBC's All Points West from August 18, 2011, where he discusses the art of writing fiction based on fact. The latest Jack Taggart Mystery involves drive-by shootings and a gang turf war. Author and former undercover RCMP officer Don Easton explains what we can learn from a crime novel. You can download an MP3 of the interview here: http://www.dundurn.com/audio/don_easton_interview_all_points_west_cbc_ra...

You can help the Scotiabank Giller Prize select the titles for the longlist: http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.com/canlit2011.html Best of luck to Dundurn authors Lou Allin, Brenda Chapman, Farzana Doctor, Jill Downie, Don Easton, Barbra Fradkin, C.B. Forrest, d leonard freeston, Kenneth J. Harvey, John Moss, and Gregor Robinson, all of whom appear on the Scotiabank Giller prize website, the first step to making the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, shortlist, and ultimately winning the coveted Giller Prize.

(Toronto, May 30, 2011) — Kirk Howard, president and publisher of Dundurn, and J. Patrick Boyer, president of Blue Butterfly Books, will consolidate their book publishing operations as of June 1, 2011. Blue Butterfly Books, now in its fourth year as an independent Canadian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, was affiliated with Cormorant Books for sales and distribution until last month when Cormorant’s president Marc Côté announced pairing of his operations with Thomas Allen & Son.