This month, we asked our 2022 authors that most prized question: what were your favourite reads of the year? We are now pleased to present Book*hugs Wrapped, The Authors’ Edition! Read on for a list of books that moved, excited, changed, engaged, amused, bemused, and ultimately dazzled Book*hug authors this year: Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar […]
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Today we’re pleased to share the latest edition of Book*hugs Recommend, featuring a round-up of our staff’s favourite summer reads. These are the books that we have been reading and enjoying this summer. Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà Either/Or by Elif Batuman Pure Colour by Shelia […]
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Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for […]
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Back again with the next instalment of Book*hugs Recommend, celebrating the year gone by and the season of book-giving. This round, Billeh Nickerson, Erín Moure, and Aimee Wall share their thoughts on how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the highlights of their reading year, and which books they will […]
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To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2021 authors to reflect on the year gone by. This round, Therese Estacion, Hasan Namir, Aaron Tucker, and Meghan Bell speak about how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the […]
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