Biographies of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Two veteran American fiction writers – Don DeLillo and Russell Banks – are competing for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Amanda Knox, the U.S. exchange student who was acquitted of murdering her roommate last year after four years in jail for the crime, has a book deal.

The queen of gothic fiction turns from vampires to werewolves with her new work. She talks to CBC about her new confidence, struggles with Christianity and modernizing classic monsters

There's an easy way to help lower Canadian book prices, representatives from the industry told a Senate committee: eliminate a rule that allows U.S. publishers to charge more for books sent to Canada.

Charlotte Gill's vivid memoir of her 17 years as a tree-planter, which weaves her experiences into an examination of logging and its environment impact, has won the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

The 573 love letters exchanged between Elizabeth Barrett and her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, are now viewable online.

Bestselling novel The Book of Negroes will be set to music in a special collaboration between writer Lawrence Hill and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale.

A new biography of the Queen offers insights into her relationship with Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, what she carries in her purse and her many visits to Canada.