Described as stoic, surprising and provocative, Jacob Wren’s latest book Rich and Poor was named a Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection by 49th Shelf. It was also been chosen as part of Quill and Quire’s Spring 2016 Preview Selection and as part of Big Other’s Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016. Who hasn’t, at one time […]
Continue readingNews Check out The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree author Josh Massey’s recommended reading list, “Locally Sourced” for 49th Shelf. Congratulations Carellin Brooks! One Hundred Days of Rain is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. The winners will be announced in NYC on April 21. Adèle Barclay reviews Double Teenage by […]
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Bookthug’s Spring Fiction Preview continues with Malcolm Sutton, a Toronto-based artist, writer and Bookthug’s very own fiction editor, and his debut novel Job Shadowing. A 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection, Job Shadowing invites readers on an original and fantastical journey through the perils of modern employment, across the self-consciousness of the echo […]
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BookThug is very pleased to announce that Aisha Sasha John’s acclaimed 2014 collection THOU is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Ontario’s leading award for literature! Established in 1987 to recognize the excellence of Ontario writers and writing, the Trillium Book Award is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children’s […]
Continue readingSelected 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 […]
Continue readingCarellin 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 […]
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