Spooky Reads: A Halloween Reading List

Happy Halloween! This year we are sharing this group of unsettling, spooky reads to add to your fright-filled reading lists. The works range in how they dismay or frighten, but there’s no doubt you’ll find something that guides a chill up your spine when you crack one of theirs. The following five books cause discomfort […]

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Short Story Month Celebration: Jess Taylor

Pauls by Jess Taylor

Our Short Story Month Celebration begins with Jess Taylor, author of the critically acclaimed story collections, Pauls and Just Pervs. Today, we’re sharing an excerpt from Pauls, which in 2015 was named a National Post Best Book of the Year, a Kobo Best Canadian Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of the […]

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In Conversation: Jess Taylor and Malcolm Sutton

Jess Taylor’s critically acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls, was named an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of 2015, a National Post “NP99” Best Book of 2015, a Kobo Best Canadian Book of 2015, a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection and was a Quill and Quire “Best of 2015” Cover Design Selection. Additionally, “Breakfast Curry,” […]

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Love at First Sight: BookThug First Lines

In honour of Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating a special kind of love: book love, AKA bibliophilia. You know, that special kind of love you feel for the perfect book. Books, how do we love thee? Let’s count the ways. Some remain our long-time partner, accumulating through the years the affection of our handwritten notes, dog-ears, […]

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BookThug’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. While 2015 will soon be over, it won’t soon be forgotten, for what a year it has been. BOOKTHUG’S YEAR IN REVIEW New Website and […]

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#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 […]

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The BookThug Holiday Gift Guide

Looking for the perfect book for your loved ones this holiday season? The BookThug Team is here to help! For Your Best Friend Pauls by Jess Taylor features ten poignant stories about different men and women named Paul as they love, lose and yearn. There is something for everyone in this critically-acclaimed debut which Heather […]

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