We’re thrilled to be sharing the next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Play by Jess Taylor! Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the publication of Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated from Danish by Caroline Waight! Happy Book Birthday to Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated by Caroline Waight! Join us in welcoming this captivating page-turner about prolonged grief disorder and the world of Big Pharma, with exciting twists and turns all along the […]
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Today we’re sharing the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo! Shani Mootoo’s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took […]
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We’re back with the second title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure! From poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life, comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love. you demonstrates with exceptional […]
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As much as love has been studied, questioned, and written about, there will always be unheard stories of love to share! These ten books honour love in its many forms, from familial and romantic love to the love of animals, nature, beauty, bicycles, and more. The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life by Rune Christiansen, translated […]
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Today we’re excited to share the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley’s award-winning collection includes three new stories, a Foreword by Alayna Munce, and Preface by the author. A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking […]
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Today we’re sharing the first title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium shares the lives and perspectives of women who—in their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediums—have helped to shape the course of history. Helen of Troy, Anne Boleyn, Shakuntala Devi, Hypatia of Alexandria, Marie […]
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