McGill-Queen's University Press Blog

What's cooking?

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:41:00 -0800

Nathalie Cooke's recently released book, What's to Eat?, has received an eloquent and favourable review by Anne Chudobiak from the Montreal Review of Books. Her review highlights the intriguing "everything old is new again" theme, and particularly recommends the book...

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:34:38 -0800

Yesterday evening L. Ian Macdonal launched his new book, Politics, People and Potpourri, to a large and enthusiastic crowd that included well-known political figures, who are among his many admirers and readers. Premier Charest glowingly endorsed the book and recommended...

A very Big Biblical Bargain

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:30:50 -0800

If you're as excited to get your hands on a copy of Canada's Big Biblical Bargain, as McGill was to get its hands on the Dead Sea Scrolls, check out this article in the Gazette. Co-authors of the McGill-Queen's forthcoming...

Remember Bennett on Parliament Hill

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:12:07 -0800

Arthur Milnes and Christopher McCreery have recently published a book called The Authentic Voice of Canada: R.B. Bennett's speeches in the House of Lords 1941-1947. An excerpt of their book appeared in the Telegraph-Journal on Saturday. Their book includes copies...

Corporatized universities devalue education

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:28:02 -0800

Did you know that "[t]he federal government would now have to invest an additional $4 billion a year in iversities just to return to the funding levels of the early 1980s?" Howard Woodhouse, author of Selling Out: Academic Freedom and...

Remembering a lesson in military heroism

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:49:49 -0800

In theme with Rememberance Day, The Chronicle Herald has reviewed Triquet's Cross, by John MacFarlane. In their review, they note that "very few biographies have been written of individual Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross" and assert that "MacFarlane......

Bringing Art to Life and news

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:18:44 -0800

The Ottawa Citizen calls Bringing Art to Life, by Andrew Horrall, "an important book, [about] a true Canadian tragedy that deserves telling." Their review of Horrall's book is available here. In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director...

Death, a happy ending?

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:41:28 -0800

Todd May, author of Death (part of The Art of Living Series), was recently published in the New York Times. His article, "Happy Ending," offers practical insight on the phenomeona of life and death.

Launch of L. Ian MacDonald's "Politics, People & Potpourri"

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:38:38 -0700

McGill-Queen’s University Press cordially invites you to join L. Ian Macdonald in celebrating the Official Launch of his book "Politics, People & Potpourri." Date: November 16th, 2009, Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Indigo Downtown, Place Montreal Trust, 1500 Avenue McGill...

Andrew Steinmetz wins Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:58:28 -0700

Congratulations to Andrew Steinmetz for winning the Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction! Steinmetz' won for his novel Eva's Threepenny Opera, which has also been nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He previously published a collection of poetry,...

Woodhouse nominated, Saskatchewan Book Award

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:52 -0700

Howard Woodhouse’s new book Selling Out has been nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award in the category of scholarly writing. McGill-Queen’s University Press would like to congratulate Woodhouse on his nomination. As a university publisher, we are pleased to see...

A "Who's Who" of Who is Reading the Library of Political Leadership Series

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:47:58 -0700

Former US President Bill Clinton will receive an honorary degree from McGill University tomorrow morning, not long after receiving a MQUP-related gift from Arthur Milnes (pictured here with his wife Alison Bogle), editor of In Roosevelt's Bright Shadow. A part...

Havi Carel nominated

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:56:47 -0700

Havi Carel’s book Illness: The Cry of the Flesh has just been nominated for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Writing from her combined experience as a philosopher and as a person who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Carel...

Andrew Steinmetz Nominated for Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:21:48 -0700

The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize has recently released the nominees for its 2009 awards. Among them is Andrew Steinmetz, who was nominated for his first novel, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, and finds himself in good company alongside his fellow-nominees Alice...

Hockey, Canada's game?

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:39:55 -0700

The current battle over who should have the rights to purchase the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes (Jim Basillie or the NHL) has dominated hockey news from the summer, to the preseason, and isn’t going away with the start of the regular...

Review and Launch of Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:45:42 -0700

This last weekend, The Winnipeg Free Press reviewed a new MQUP publication: Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader, which will be launched at 8pm on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at McNally Robinson, Grant Park. If you are in...

Praising David Thompson Travels

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:38:25 -0700

If you didn't have a chance to pick up this weekend's Globe and Mail, follow this link to John Allemang's piece on Canada's greatest inland explorer, David Thompson. Interviewed for the piece is William E. Moreau, editor of The Writings...

MQUP author curates photography exhibit in Paris

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:57:05 -0700

MQUP author Martha Langford and Sherry Farrell Racette have curated a photography exhibit called Unmasking: Arthur Renwick, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas. The show opens on September 22, 2009 and runs until January 29, 2010 at the Canadian Cultural Centre in...

LRC review of Stephen Manning's Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:28:47 -0700

In advance of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham the Literary Review of Canada has published an excellent review by Jack Mitchell that not only examines recent books dealing with the battle, but also brilliantly...

Enjoy Labour Day with Lars Svendsen's Work

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:29:09 -0700

Labour Day is on Monday, so why not spend the last day of your summer reading time with a book on work? From the Art of Living series, Svendsen's book considers why we dread it, why we need it, and...

Books for the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:47:02 -0700

September 13, 2009 marks the 250th anniversary of an event that continues to shape Canadian and Quebeçois national narratives: the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Few events in continue to cause such debate and controversy, as has recently been...

Globe and Mail review of Evan Potter's Branding Canada

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:56:31 -0700

Concerned about how the world looks at Canada? Could the country's governments be more media savvy? Does Canada need an image makeover after the Governor-General ate a raw seal heart? The Globe and Mail raises these issues in this review...

Speaking of Savoie...

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:36:14 -0700

A glowing review of Donald J Savoie's book, I'm From Bouctouche, Me, written by a fellow Acadian and Ottawa city councillor, appeared in the Monday edition of the Globe and Mail. To give you a taste, Clive Doucet writes "The...