Today, we are thrilled to reveal our Winter/Spring 2024 lineup, which features twelve exciting new works of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translated literature. Read on for all the details, including pre-order information! But first, 2024 marks an important milestone for Book*hug Press as we celebrate our twentieth anniversary of adventures in literary publishing, which […]
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Today, we are excited to reveal Book*hug’s upcoming Fall 2022 season! Our lineup includes eleven fantastic titles we’re sure you’ll love. Read on for all the details, including on sale dates, pre-order information, and news about our Fall 2022 pre-order sale, which begins today! FALL 2022 FICTION Junie by Chelene Knight Literary Fiction | Historical […]
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Today, we are sharing the final instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series, highlighting Remnants, the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning novel by Céline Huyghebaert, soon to be published in translation by Aleshia Jensen. Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father’s life and sudden […]
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Today, our Spring 2022 Preview series features Anita Anand’s A Convergence of Solitudes, a story of identity, connection and forgiveness in the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec. Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their […]
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Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! This collection of twenty essays goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Good Mom on Paper discloses the often-invisible challenges of […]
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Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Mike Steeves’s Bystander, a bold new work of intense psychological realism, and a much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel Giving Up. “I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death.” Peter Simons doesn’t spend […]
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Today, we are featuring Daniel Sarah Karasik’s bold, witty, and desire-filled, sophomore poetry collection Plenitude by as part of our Spring 2022 Preview Series. Shaped by Karasik’s experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, the poems in Plenitude are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory […]
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The next instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series features Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Lunar Tides, an expansive and enveloping poetry collection which explores the primordial relationships between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and […]
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Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series comes internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo’s Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves […]
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To curb the mid-winter chill, we are kicking off our Spring 2022 Preview series! Over the coming weeks we will be introducing readers to the cast of authors and titles on our Spring 2022 list, and sharing exclusive excerpts to give a sense of what’s to come. First up is The Employees by Olga Ravn, […]
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