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 are so excited to be celebrating the publication of The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel! Happy Book Birthday to The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel! Today we welcome the first release from our Winter/Spring 2024 season. Marking Karam’s English language debut, The Singularity is a formally inventive, […]
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We are excited to announce the release of Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Happy Book Birthday to Vixen by Sandra Ridley! This week, we are thrilled to welcome another incredible poetry book from our fall catalogue: Vixen by award-winning author Sandra Ridley. Her latest collection is the result of a haunting chance encounter with a fox […]
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Today, we’re so excited to be celebrating the release of The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! Happy Book Birthday to The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! We’re so thrilled to be welcoming this novel from Moez Surani, a beautiful fable that we can’t wait for readers to meet. Surani has four previously published collections of poetry, […]
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Today marks the final release of our Spring 2023 Season: a wonderful translation by Kari Dickson of Rune Christiansen’s The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life! We are overjoyed to be sharing this special novel with an English language audience. Happy Book Birthday to The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life! This is the second work by […]
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Today, we are so excited to celebrate the publication of Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel, Big Shadow! A ‘Most Anticipated’ Spring 2023 release from 49th Shelf, Big Shadow is an affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, starring Judy, a precocious teenager, throughout her summer-length encounter with an imprudent ex-musician. Bex Frankeberger of Books Are […]
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Today, we are delighted to celebrate the release of award-winning writer Lauren Carter’s moving short story collection, Places Like These! A 2023 Fiction Pick from CBC Books, 49th Shelf, and Winnipeg Free Press, Places Like These is a poignant exploration of the longings that sit just beneath the surface of daily routines and close relationships. […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of Laila Malik’s stunning debut poetry collection, archipelago! A ‘Most Anticipated’ Spring 2023 Poetry pick from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, archipelago meditates on girlhood, loss, and love as they play out across different continents and shifting emotional and political terrains. Quill and Quire writes, in archipelago “home is constantly in a state of flux. It exists in a […]
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April is National Poetry Month, and we are delighted to kick things off with the release of Lent by Kate Cayley! Read on to learn all about this wonderful collection, which explores domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in conversations, and […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of Eden Boudreau’s powerful debut memoir, Crying Wolf. Read on to learn all about this brave new work, and for information about the upcoming launch! Happy Book Birthday to Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau! A ‘Most Anticipated’ nonfiction pick from 49th Shelf and Lambda Literary, Crying Wolf is a […]
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