{"id":16938,"date":"2017-09-05T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=16938"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:13","slug":"mark-bourrie-reaches-deal-biblioasis-two-new-biographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/mark-bourrie-reaches-deal-biblioasis-two-new-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Bourrie reaches deal with Biblioasis for two new biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Mark Bourrie reaches deal with Biblioasis for two new biographies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Sessional lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/mark-bourrie\/\">Mark Bourrie<\/a> has reached a deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/biblioasis.com\/\">Biblioasis<\/a>, a Windsor-based&nbsp; publishing company better known for its Giller Prize and Governor-General Award-winning fiction for two biographies as part of its new national and international non-fiction program.. The first book, a study of the life of 17th century French explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson, will be published in the fall of 2018. The second, on Globe and Mail founder George McCullagh, is slated for the fall of 2019. Bourrie&#8217;s last two books were published by HarperCollins Canada. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/9781443431064\/kill-the-messengers\">Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper&#8217;s Assault on Your Right to Know<\/a>, was published in 2015. It was a Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestseller and was listed as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/kill-the-messengers-stephen-harpers-assault-on-your-right-to-know-by-history-instructor-mark-bourrie-on-the-globe-and-mail-list-of-best-100-books\/\">Globe and Mail&#8217;s Top 100 Books of 2015<\/a>. His 2016 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/9781443447010\/the-killing-game\">The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS<\/a>, made the Canadian Independent Stores bestseller lists and has been republished in India, Pakistan and Romania. Mark, who holds a PhD in History from the University of Ottawa, finished law school last spring and is now articling with a local firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sessional lecturer Mark Bourrie has reached a deal with Biblioasis, a Windsor-based&nbsp; publishing company better known for its Giller Prize and Governor-General Award-winning fiction for two biographies as part of its new national and international non-fiction program.. The first book, a study of the life of 17th century French explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson, will be published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}