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Mother’s Day 2016: Top 5 Recommended Reading List
Mother’s day is coming up soon, and although moms (and dads) only get one official day a year, we all know they deserve so much more. In honour of the mothers […]
Continue readingIntroducing BookThug’s New Interns: Kelly and Stacey
BookThug is welcoming some new interns this month: Kelly Duval and Stacey Seymour! We (Kelly and Stacey) are MA students at Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity (MA) program, and we’ll be […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Shannon Maguire Discusses Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina
Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina is Shannon Maguire’s second book of poetry in her planned medievalist trilogy. Myrmurs uses the twelfth-century poetic form of the sestina as a starting point for the […]
Continue readingMeet Our Spring 2016 Season
All of us at BookThug HQ are excited to share our superb Spring 2016 season with you. Between February and May, 10 new books will be coming your way, featuring […]
Continue readingBookThug’s 2015 Year in Review
Here at BookThug HQ, we can’t believe it’s already December 30! Today, we’re looking back at our year in review and sneaking a peek at what lies ahead in 2016. […]
Continue readingBookThug’s Best Reads of 2015: The Editors’ Edition
In this edition of BookThug’s Best Reads, we turn things over to our editors and staff to reflect on their year in reading. Here are our favourite books we read […]
Continue readingDesigner Spotlight: Kate Hargreaves
The multi-talented Kate Hargreaves (aka, Pain Eyre), author of Leak (BookThug, Fall 2014), is also an extremely talented book designer (not to mention a skilled roller derby player-now do you get the […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Jean Marc Ah-Sen discusses Grand Menteur
From debut author Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Grand Menteur is a unique and ambitious first novel that glimpses into the inner workings of a Mauritian street gang. Recently selected by The Globe […]
Continue readingBookThug’s Best Reads 2014 (Editors’ Edition)
Even as end-of-the-year booklists become absurdly thick on the ground (on the internet), BookThug elects, unapologetically, to add water to the sea. This time we move into the general’s tent, […]
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