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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is m...

David Starkey's A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel is a far ranging and fearless collection, of great humour and intelligence and sympat...

[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth [offers] chillsand charm.New York Times Bo...

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasiona...

A CBC Books' Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024  A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring TitleWere in love, but were still Millennials. /...

The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. This booklike most that have found t...

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from a...

Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2022.Fe...

A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener. What is a best p...

Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021.My goal, writ...

Selected by editor Bardia Sinaee, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2022.Featuring:D...

Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to s...

The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider goin...

Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letter...

Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022.Featuring:Ma...

In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. Wit...

Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Drawing together the best of his short ficti...

New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compend...

Lyric poetry that is light without being frivolous, for people who are more punk than prog. This is poetry that doesn't try too hard to be importan...

Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award  Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction  Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Duns...

Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeAn outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-lif...

From the bestselling author of Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre Esprit-RadissonThis is the story of the collision of two worlds. In the early ...

If you really want to journey into the heart of darkness, you'd be advised to travel with Vancouver writer Keath Fraser, a man of extraordinary tal...

Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize  A Globe and Mail Book of the Year  A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021In conversations with d...

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its m...