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New on The Bibliophile: The introduction to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS), a collection offering a dozen portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and fascinating musicians.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉

Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie

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November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Happy pub day to our BEST CANADIAN 2026 anthologies!

We have an exciting lineup of upcoming events, starting with tonight's launch of BEST CANADIAN STORIES in Vancouver at Upstart & Crow!
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
New on The Bibliophile: We're featuring a peek at the introductions to this year's Best Canadian anthologies, as each editor explores how they selected their chosen essays, poems, and stories. Find them on bookstore shelves next Tuesday, Nov 18!

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November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Happy pub day to Graeme Macrae Burnet's BENBECULA—Drawing on a host of archival material, Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of HIS BLOODY PROJECT to construct a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy pub day to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS)!

In DUST, Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential, and fascinating musicians.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New on The Bibliophile: We're back! This week we're sharing an interview with Graeme Macrae Burnet on his new novel BENBECULA, which publishes in North America next Tuesday.

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November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Join us in Toronto on Nov. 17th for the launch of VOICES OF RESISTANCE and Baraka Books' RAZING PALESTINE, two essential books about Palestine and the war in Gaza. This is a free event. More info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-raz...
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy pub day to our 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories: LADY FERRY by Sarah Orne Jewett, LUCKY'S GROVE by H. Russell Wakefield, and THE MISTRESS IN BLACK by Rosemary Timperley! A haunted school, demonic Christmas tree, and eerie houseguest—all three stories will send chills up the spine.
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy pub day to The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton! Book #2 in his Trilogy About the Boy, an epic saga and a timeless story that portrays the human struggle for hope within the ferocious majesty of Iceland.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Cleverly illustrated . . . [Lady Ferry] is more thoughtful than creepy, but still tells a ghostly tale. The other two books in the 2025 series are about a school haunted by a former teacher (The Mistress in Black) and demon forces at work when a sacred tree is chopped down (Lucky’s Grove)."
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories were included on The Longest Chapter's new releases list, with some extra love for the eerie Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett!

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October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Marcello Di Cintio will be in Toronto next Wednesday, November 5, to launch PRECARIOUS: THE LIVES OF MIGRANT WORKERS. We hope you can make it!

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October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If you're looking for some literary treats this Halloween, check out the Hamilton Review of Books' Grimoire book round-up, which includes our three 2025 Christmas Ghost Stories! 👻

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#spookyseason #halloween #ghoststories
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Join us in New York on Thursday Oct. 30th for the launch of Elaine Feeney's LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House
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October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Join us at Sacred Heart University next week to hear Elaine Feeney read from and discuss her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY
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October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thrilled to share that BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction!

Cheers to Mélikah, and her translator Catherine, and best of luck for the shortlist announcement on Nov 18.

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#ALA_Carnegie
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Huge congrats to Elaine Feeney and her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY for making the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year shortlist!
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October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
TONIGHT in Toronto: Robyn Sarah will be launching her new poetry collection, WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW, at Ben McNally Books, at 5PM!

And tomorrow, Robyn Sarah will be in Kingston at Novel Idea, at 7PM!

Books will be available for purchase and signing. We hope you can make it!
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Russell Smith's SELF CARE is out now in the US! An electric examination of sex, love and twenty-first century loneliness, SELF CARE is a "bleak, horny comedy" (Globe and Mail) about women and men—and what they say they want and what they really want.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Check out the full list of finalists on the GG Books website: ggbooks.ca
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Fantastic to see two Biblioasis books on the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation shortlist!

Congratulations to translators Catherine Khordoc for BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME, and to Donald Winkler for MAY OUR JOY ENDURE.

#GGBooks2025 #GGBooks
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New on The Bibliophile: The introduction for VOICES OF RESISTANCE: DIARIES OF GENOCIDE, a collection of diaries by Batool Abu Akleen, Nahil Mohana, Ala’a Obaid, and Sondos Sabra, which published in North America with Biblioasis this week.

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October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Two Biblioasis authors are finalists for the Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards! Lazer Lederhendler for his translation of Christophe Bernard's THE HOLLOW BEAST, and stephanie roberts for her collection UNMET.

Cheers to both, and fingers crossed for the winners announcement Nov 10 🎉
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is the official pub day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE, a collection of diaries from four Gazans, offering a rare, deeply personal window into daily life under genocide. It's an essential record of lives lived amidst terror—and their resilience in the face of it.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM