2025 Spring Preview: Nonfiction; 2025 Spring Preview: Books for Young People – Young Adult & Nonfiction; Second Story Press’s Margie Wolfe reflects on a life in women’s publishing

Dec 11, 2024 · It is not easy for frontlist titles published by Canadian-owned publishers to break through to the bestseller lists. The top-selling Canadian authors at indie bookstores have remained surprisingly consistent over the course of 2024 – with multiple titles appearing year after year. Only three of the 25 top sellers of Canadian-authored titles published by Canadian-owned

Nov 11, 2024 · Maurice Vellekoop has won the 2024 Toronto Book Award for his graphic memoir I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together – the first graphic novel to win the prize.. Vellekoop’s book was one of five shortlisted for this year’s $10,000 award, which honours books across all genres that are inspired by the city.. In their citation, the …

Dec 12, 2024 · Five writers have been named recipients of the 2024 Canada Prizes for scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. The annual awards were relaunched in November with a new structure after a hiatus that was prompted by the controversial 2020 winner. Going forward, five books, including two by first-time authors …

A Jacob Wren novel is known for several things: narrators undergoing neurotic self-interrogation, a consideration of the gap between theory and practice, and a certain metafictional flair when it comes to signalling the work’s own existence as a radical text. All of these authorial trademarks are sent into overdrive in Dry Your Tears to Perfect

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Anne Michaels’s new novel opens on a battlefield in France in 1917, as John lies wounded in the snow. The dozens of short passages, some as concise as two words (“Memory seeping”), capture John’s experience, both past and present, with such painful beauty that his life is

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Brian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother …

On the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. In particular, he singles out the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as an inestimable source.