February 2015 – Book*hug Press

Spring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons

Selected by BookThug’s poetry editor Phil Hall, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poems Endangered Hydrocarbons developed out of the author’s experience as an employee of Shell Canada, a subsidiary of the multinational Shell Oil Ltd. and one of Canada’s largest integrated oil companies. It was while working at Shell that Battler found herself utterly bombarded by

Spring poetry PREVIEW: guest blogger Pearl Pirie on her new book the pet radish, shrunken + two poems

This week, the BookThug blog welcomes guest blogger Pearl Pirie, poet and author of the forthcoming the pet radish, shrunken (available March 5th from BookThug). the pet radish, shrunken is the third full-length collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie. Sly and virtuosic, Pirie’s new collection speaks in a range of styles and voices: From a military

Goodreads Book Giveaway For One Hundred Days of Rain

Goodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 5 Advanced Reading Copies of Carellin Brooks’ stunning debut novel One Hundred Days of Rain. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book that Publishers’ Weekly calls “a delectable, mesmerizing, and poetic debut novel.” Contest opens at midnight on February 16, and closes on

Spring fiction PREVIEW: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks

Carellin Brooks’s luminous new novel One Hundred Days of Rain opens with its narrator in the throes of a catastrophic break up. The book chronicles the year that follows, as she weathers the aftermath and moves on. Set in the profoundly rainy city of Vancouver, each chapter of the book is a rainy day, or a

Spring fiction PREVIEW: Steve McCaffery’s Adventures in Plunderland

It’s February, you guys. Here at BookThug HQ in Toronto, Canadian identity has been asserting itself (predictably) in the form of The Weather. All over North America, rodent-based fortune telling rituals have been performed and the inevitable has been announced: that winter will end and spring will come. Which means that an entire spring season of

Monthly Archives: "February 2015"

Spring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons

Spring poetry PREVIEW: guest blogger Pearl Pirie on her new book the pet radish, shrunken + two poems

Goodreads Book Giveaway For One Hundred Days of Rain

Spring fiction PREVIEW: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks

Spring fiction PREVIEW: Steve McCaffery’s Adventures in Plunderland

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