Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city's literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry. Last Wednesday evening Gil Adamson beat out great writers such as David Chariandy and Andrew Wedderburn to be awarded the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award at the Drake Hotel. While her win is little surprise to anyone (her novel The Outlander has been collecting awards across the country and......

Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city's literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry. It would be an understatement to say that Toronto author Gil Adamson has had a pretty good year. Last Friday Adamson's first novel, The Outlander, was announced as the winner of The Relit Award, a prize that recognizes books by Canadian authors published by independent Canadian presses. Outlander has been......