It’s Mystery Month! We can only assume you’re celebrating by reading Scandinavian Crime Fiction all month long… right? RIGHT? If you’re looking for some great crime fiction — and are really into Scandinavian writing — we’ve got exactly what you’re looking for. All four books listed below are currently on sale until the end of the … Read More
Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days, on what she hopes her legacy to be. Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking … Read More
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler was recently shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize — and to celebrate, we’ve got a free preview of Robert Seethaler’s new novel, The Tobacconist (translated by Charlotte Collins), available to download! About The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at … Read More
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night to celebrate the launch of In-Between Days by Teva Harrison! We’ve rounded up some of our favourite Instagram photos and Tweets from the night and put them on display, below. To everyone who made last night so special: thank you! Celebrating this beauty and her book … Read More
Everyone is talking about In-Between Days and Teva Harrison. So it may come as no surprise that books are flying off the shelves at bookstores across Canada. Though we probably don’t need to convince you to go get your own copy, we’re going to, anyway. Here’s a round up of all the great things being … Read More
Enter for a chance to win a Mystery Month prize pack that includes: The Exclusives by Rebecca Thorton (forthcoming May 14) The Trap by Melanie Raabe (forthcoming May 28) The contest runs until May 8th. A winner will be randomly chosen. Fill out the form below to enter! About The Exclusives In 1996, Josephine Grey and … Read More
“Writing about music,” Martin Mull quipped, “is like dancing about architecture.” Part of the problem, of course, is that the reader wants to hear what the writer is going on about. And, inevitably, I refer to many, many songs in Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music. So … Read More
Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days, on the topics that people don’t want to talk about when talking about cancer. Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with … Read More
The Man Booker International Prize revealed its shortlist recently, and we’re trilled that A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler and translated by Charlotte Collins — published in Canada by House of Anansi — made the list! Like John Williams’ Stoner or Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, A Whole Life is a tender book about finding dignity … Read More
What Can Poetry Do by Matthew Zapruder In Africa people are angry. They are climbing embassy walls and burning whatever is there. Each time I click on some words and read what we call news I feel certain some people while I was reading have died. I know I am here merely reading. I just … Read More
This Is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper; then, as you scan it, you see in the left-hand corner a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree … Read More
Company by Kevin Connolly Bloom says it’s about erasing others, digesting them, spitting them out as you. Really it’s more about smothering yourself, your shaky lines, knowing in advance they’re unworthy of the next bloom, next fool in line — to think there really are people who think about this, All The Time. Think about … Read More
