Happy Halloween! This year we’re sharing a list of books that offer up nontraditional chills and thrills! We’re skipping the ghosts and ghouls and heading straight for the too-real scares of late capitalism, the horror of petty neighbourly disputes, and media spectacle. The following seven books play with the freaky and the foreboding. They explore […]
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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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With Father’s Day just around the corner, we’ve put together a list of books that the Dad in your life will love. This eclectic selection of literary and poetic titles—vast in both meaning and mileage—take us to outer-space and back, and through questions of how to live, love, and connect. Many of these books feature […]
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For the next instalment of our Book Playlist series, we welcome Mike Steeves to the blog with a collection of songs to accompany his novel Bystander. Narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero, Bystander excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality and, at a time of growing isolation, asks us to examine what it means […]
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Today, we are in conversation with Mike Steeves, author of Bystander, a novel which goes deep into the psychology of its bewildered protagonist, Peter Simons, as he faces a moral crisis. Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment, thanks to his job at a multinational company. So when he returns after […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of Bystander by Mike Steeves! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated sophomore novel, which goes deep into the psychology of its bewildered protagonist as he faces a moral crisis. Happy Book Birthday to Bystander by Mike Steeves! We’re excited for readers to meet this much anticipated follow […]
Continue readingNext 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’re excited to reveal our Spring 2022 season, featuring eight titles we’re know you’ll adore. Fiction The Employees by Olga Ravn, Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken Literature in Translation Series | Literary Fiction | Science Fiction $20.00 | On Sale March 8, 2022 | Available Now for Pre-order Shortlisted for the 2021 […]
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