books

Chatelaine's book editor, Laurie Grassi, picks eight books for your bedside table this month

I'm an avid reader but he's not. Can this relationship ever work?

Eleven million adult Canadians struggle to understand basic items such as a medicine label or a school permission form. Low literacy skills affect our country's health, productivity and economy but rarely make the headlines. It's a national crisis - and here's all it takes to fix it

We asked our readers to tell us about the book they'll never forget, the one that takes them back to that summer every single time they think of it. Here are 10 of our favourite answers:

At the recent Kingston WritersFest, Ben McNally, owner of Ben McNally Books in Toronto, and official bookseller at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors, took to the stage to talk about his book picks for fall 2011.