Welcome to the May edition of Book Notes! This month, the staff at BookThug HQ share our current fave reads. Let us know if you’ve read any of these books too, and if so, what you thought of them. If you haven’t read them yet then we highly recommend you add them all to your […]
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April Showers bring May Flowers…and Spring Reading Recommendations
Today is the first day of May, and, as we all know, April showers bring May flowers. The time has come again for us to marvel as the earth awakens from its winter slumber. Something you may not know is that along with May comes Spring book recommendations from BookThug! If catching up on your […]
Continue readingBookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, The Editors’ Edition
2016 has been a rough ride. In fact, for many of us it’s been downright awful. But we won’t revisit the reasons why (after all, we already know why….). In this latest edition of BookThugs Read our goal is to celebrate something good about the past year. In particular, we’re paying tribute to some of […]
Continue readingLong Weekend Reading: Five Books for the Long Weekend
The May long weekend is a highlight of the spring for many of us, and whether you’re relaxing at a cottage or unwinding in the city, a book that you just can’t put down is always a welcome addition to your plans. Whether you like funny books or thrilling books, novels or poetry, here are five books that […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Books for the Holiday Season
We asked some BookThug authors the following question: What book would you give as a gift this holiday season? Below are unique and intriguing picks from Mike Steeves, Steven Ross Smith, Jacob Wren, Julie Joosten and Alex Porco. Mike Steeves, author of Giving Up, recommends Debt: The First 5000 Years (Melville House Publishing) by David […]
Continue reading#ReadWomen: A Recommended Reading List
This year, thanks to the Twitter campaigns #ReadWomen and #ReadWomen2015, book lovers everywhere have been encouraged to read more books written by women. We fully support such a great and worthwhile endeavour and hope that readers everywhere will take up the challenge. Here is just a sampling of BookThug’s #ReadWomen recommended reading list of compelling […]
Continue readingThe Pride of BookThug: Read Proud!
Happy Pride Weekend to all! With Pride Week 2015 celebrations taking place coast-to-coast this weekend, we’re celebrating with a selection of LGBTQ authored books we are proud to have published. Live Proud. Love Proud. Read Proud.
Continue readingInternational Women’s Day 2015: 13 Women of BookThug You Need to Read
Meet the amazing women of BookThug. In honour of International Women’s Day 2015, we’ve put together a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers, both emerging and established, we think you need to read. These 13 brilliant and fierce women push at boundaries in unexpected ways, and take you, the reader, to places you never […]
Continue readingBookThug’s 2014 Year In Review
Like the two-headed god Janus, who sees what’s ahead and what’s behind at the same time, we’re taking a moment this early January to look back at our big exciting year of books, fairs, festivals, anniversaries, etc., and to and talk a bit about what’s next for the small press called BookThug. One brand new thing we can’t wait […]
Continue readingBookThug’s Best Reads 2014 (Authors’ Edition)
In deference to what has become a robust tradition on the internet, the gang at BookThug is proud to present a festive bundle of end-of-the-year book lists! In today’s episode, BookThug Allstars Marianne Apostolides, Kate Hargreaves, Erin Mouré, Sandra Ridley, Julie Joosten, and Jacob Wren share what they’ve been reading in 2014. Their lists are […]
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