August news from PG Canada

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From: Mark Akrigg <[email protected]>


Here's the news from PG Canada for August.


We published a total of 12 ebooks during the month: we have now
published a cumulative total of 164 ebooks.

The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always=20
gives
the details of new releases for the most recent three months.

LANGUAGES:
- 7 titles were in English
- 5 were in French

GENRES
- 6 of the books were novels
- 3 were children's books
- 2 were collections of short stories and novellas
- 1 was non-fiction: a collection of essays

One of PG Canada's objectives is to have a strong collection of=20
ebooks in French.  We were delighted that this month almost half of=20
the new titles we offered are in French!

Only one of our books this month was by a Canadian, but it is a=20
very special ebook.  Pamphile Le May's "Contes Vrais" included not=20
only Le May's celebrated short stories, but includes illustrations=20
by no fewer than twelve famous Quebec artists of his period!  It is=20
in effect a gallery of Quebec's artists of the time.

We published two new titles in our series of novels by
English novelist Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956), and three new=20
titles in our series of novels by Henry Gr=E9ville (1842-1902).

Authors and illustrators new to PGC this month included:

Lee, Vernon [Paget, Violet] (1856-1935) [English novelist,=20
essayist, and poet]
Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) [Romancier allemand]
Weir, Harrison William (1824-1906) [English author and illustrator]

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Thanks as ever for your support!

Mark




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