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Did you catch Madeleine Thien's lecture last week? If not - or if you did, and like us you can't stop thinking about it - then be sure to pick up a copy of The E.J. Pratt Lectures, 1968-2025!
Available online and in stores now!
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Available online and in stores now!
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#CanadianBook
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Did you catch Madeleine Thien's lecture last week? If not - or if you did, and like us you can't stop thinking about it - then be sure to pick up a copy of The E.J. Pratt Lectures, 1968-2025!
Available online and in stores now!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#CanadianBook
Available online and in stores now!
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#CanadianBook
SHIP MOMS officially sets sail TODAY! Representing nearly forty countries and ten cruise lines, hear TRUE STORIES of love and lust at sea!
Available from Breakwater Books or through your favourite bookseller.
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Available from Breakwater Books or through your favourite bookseller.
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#canadianbooks #cruiseship #belowdeck
September 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
SHIP MOMS officially sets sail TODAY! Representing nearly forty countries and ten cruise lines, hear TRUE STORIES of love and lust at sea!
Available from Breakwater Books or through your favourite bookseller.
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#canadianbooks #cruiseship #belowdeck
Available from Breakwater Books or through your favourite bookseller.
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#canadianbooks #cruiseship #belowdeck
Caw! Caw! The newest book from folk artist and children's author Cara Kansala is landing at Breakwater Books this September!
Available now for pre-order on our website!
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#nlbooks #canlit #childrensbook #childrensfiction #newfoundland
Available now for pre-order on our website!
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#nlbooks #canlit #childrensbook #childrensfiction #newfoundland
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Caw! Caw! The newest book from folk artist and children's author Cara Kansala is landing at Breakwater Books this September!
Available now for pre-order on our website!
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#nlbooks #canlit #childrensbook #childrensfiction #newfoundland
Available now for pre-order on our website!
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#nlbooks #canlit #childrensbook #childrensfiction #newfoundland
FLY ON THE WALL: THE BEST OF KEVIN TOBIN is available on our website TODAY!
40 years of cartoons from one of the province's most iconic artists, plus a foreword from Mark Critch. Purchase online now!
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Video Production: Paddy Moore
40 years of cartoons from one of the province's most iconic artists, plus a foreword from Mark Critch. Purchase online now!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fly...
Video Production: Paddy Moore
July 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
FLY ON THE WALL: THE BEST OF KEVIN TOBIN is available on our website TODAY!
40 years of cartoons from one of the province's most iconic artists, plus a foreword from Mark Critch. Purchase online now!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fly...
Video Production: Paddy Moore
40 years of cartoons from one of the province's most iconic artists, plus a foreword from Mark Critch. Purchase online now!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fly...
Video Production: Paddy Moore
Today's the day! Angela Antle's new novel, THE SALTBOX OLIVE, is officially available now!
Be among the first to read this evocative tale of past, present, and the search for truth.
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#historicalfiction #nlbooks
Be among the first to read this evocative tale of past, present, and the search for truth.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#historicalfiction #nlbooks
June 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today's the day! Angela Antle's new novel, THE SALTBOX OLIVE, is officially available now!
Be among the first to read this evocative tale of past, present, and the search for truth.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#historicalfiction #nlbooks
Be among the first to read this evocative tale of past, present, and the search for truth.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#historicalfiction #nlbooks
THE BELTANE MASSACRE by Ray Critch is OUT NOW!
Grab this new thriller-mystery from our storefront or website (50% off until May 31!) or from your local bookseller!
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#newrelease #nlbooks #canlit #spynovel #thriller #mystery #crimewriterscanada
Grab this new thriller-mystery from our storefront or website (50% off until May 31!) or from your local bookseller!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#newrelease #nlbooks #canlit #spynovel #thriller #mystery #crimewriterscanada
May 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
THE BELTANE MASSACRE by Ray Critch is OUT NOW!
Grab this new thriller-mystery from our storefront or website (50% off until May 31!) or from your local bookseller!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#newrelease #nlbooks #canlit #spynovel #thriller #mystery #crimewriterscanada
Grab this new thriller-mystery from our storefront or website (50% off until May 31!) or from your local bookseller!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
#newrelease #nlbooks #canlit #spynovel #thriller #mystery #crimewriterscanada
WE'RE MOVING! 🛻📚📦
To send us off from Stamps Lane we're having a HUGE moving sale for the last TWO WEEKS of May! Starting tomorrow, you can get ALL OUR TITLES for 50% OFF in store and online!
May 16th to 31st
Store open regular hours: 8:30AM-4:00PM, excluding holidays and weekends.
To send us off from Stamps Lane we're having a HUGE moving sale for the last TWO WEEKS of May! Starting tomorrow, you can get ALL OUR TITLES for 50% OFF in store and online!
May 16th to 31st
Store open regular hours: 8:30AM-4:00PM, excluding holidays and weekends.
May 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
WE'RE MOVING! 🛻📚📦
To send us off from Stamps Lane we're having a HUGE moving sale for the last TWO WEEKS of May! Starting tomorrow, you can get ALL OUR TITLES for 50% OFF in store and online!
May 16th to 31st
Store open regular hours: 8:30AM-4:00PM, excluding holidays and weekends.
To send us off from Stamps Lane we're having a HUGE moving sale for the last TWO WEEKS of May! Starting tomorrow, you can get ALL OUR TITLES for 50% OFF in store and online!
May 16th to 31st
Store open regular hours: 8:30AM-4:00PM, excluding holidays and weekends.
HERE is here! The highly anticipated short fiction collection from Heidi Wicks is available now online and in stores!
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#nlbooks #shortfiction #canlit #newrelease #bookrelease
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#nlbooks #shortfiction #canlit #newrelease #bookrelease
May 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
HERE is here! The highly anticipated short fiction collection from Heidi Wicks is available now online and in stores!
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#nlbooks #shortfiction #canlit #newrelease #bookrelease
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#nlbooks #shortfiction #canlit #newrelease #bookrelease
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"I wanted [the house] to absorb the energiese—the loves, the fights, the tensions [...]"
Heidi Wicks talks to us about HERE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), her forthcoming collection of interconnected stories that explores the haunting beauty of change over time.
alllitup.ca/an-interview...
Heidi Wicks talks to us about HERE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), her forthcoming collection of interconnected stories that explores the haunting beauty of change over time.
alllitup.ca/an-interview...
May 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"I wanted [the house] to absorb the energiese—the loves, the fights, the tensions [...]"
Heidi Wicks talks to us about HERE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), her forthcoming collection of interconnected stories that explores the haunting beauty of change over time.
alllitup.ca/an-interview...
Heidi Wicks talks to us about HERE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), her forthcoming collection of interconnected stories that explores the haunting beauty of change over time.
alllitup.ca/an-interview...
COMING SOON from Breakwater Books! A new hero for a new age, and a debut thriller mystery from RAY CRITCH!
Unravel the conspiracies of the BELTANE MASSACRE - coming May 2025!
Pre-order now: breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
Unravel the conspiracies of the BELTANE MASSACRE - coming May 2025!
Pre-order now: breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
COMING SOON from Breakwater Books! A new hero for a new age, and a debut thriller mystery from RAY CRITCH!
Unravel the conspiracies of the BELTANE MASSACRE - coming May 2025!
Pre-order now: breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
Unravel the conspiracies of the BELTANE MASSACRE - coming May 2025!
Pre-order now: breakwaterbooks.com/products/the...
OUT NOW: Openly Karl is available for purchase on our website or at your local bookstore!
Tune in to the story of Karl Wells, told in his own words, from his childhood and early life through his thirty-year-long career in Newfoundland media.
#nlbooks #canlit #newfoundland #memoir #ShopLocalNL
Tune in to the story of Karl Wells, told in his own words, from his childhood and early life through his thirty-year-long career in Newfoundland media.
#nlbooks #canlit #newfoundland #memoir #ShopLocalNL
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
OUT NOW: Openly Karl is available for purchase on our website or at your local bookstore!
Tune in to the story of Karl Wells, told in his own words, from his childhood and early life through his thirty-year-long career in Newfoundland media.
#nlbooks #canlit #newfoundland #memoir #ShopLocalNL
Tune in to the story of Karl Wells, told in his own words, from his childhood and early life through his thirty-year-long career in Newfoundland media.
#nlbooks #canlit #newfoundland #memoir #ShopLocalNL
Susie Taylor is the winner of the 2024 BMO Winterset Award!
Congratulations to all the longlisted and shortlisted authors and to the other finalists. And a very special congratulations to Susie and her short story collection Vigil!
Congratulations to all the longlisted and shortlisted authors and to the other finalists. And a very special congratulations to Susie and her short story collection Vigil!
April 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Susie Taylor is the winner of the 2024 BMO Winterset Award!
Congratulations to all the longlisted and shortlisted authors and to the other finalists. And a very special congratulations to Susie and her short story collection Vigil!
Congratulations to all the longlisted and shortlisted authors and to the other finalists. And a very special congratulations to Susie and her short story collection Vigil!
You might have already seen it out and about around town, but Green is officially released today!
Get your copy of Paul Moorehead's debut collection of poetry now from our website or your local bookstore!
#poetrymonth #canlit #nlbooks #BuyLocalNL
Get your copy of Paul Moorehead's debut collection of poetry now from our website or your local bookstore!
#poetrymonth #canlit #nlbooks #BuyLocalNL
April 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You might have already seen it out and about around town, but Green is officially released today!
Get your copy of Paul Moorehead's debut collection of poetry now from our website or your local bookstore!
#poetrymonth #canlit #nlbooks #BuyLocalNL
Get your copy of Paul Moorehead's debut collection of poetry now from our website or your local bookstore!
#poetrymonth #canlit #nlbooks #BuyLocalNL
COMING SOON FROM BREAKWATER BOOKS AND HEIDI WICKS!
A collection of short stories that bend time with a complex and varied cast of characters passing through a single mansion in Newfoundland, confronting the ghosts of family, perseverance, redemption, and survival.
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A collection of short stories that bend time with a complex and varied cast of characters passing through a single mansion in Newfoundland, confronting the ghosts of family, perseverance, redemption, and survival.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/here
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
COMING SOON FROM BREAKWATER BOOKS AND HEIDI WICKS!
A collection of short stories that bend time with a complex and varied cast of characters passing through a single mansion in Newfoundland, confronting the ghosts of family, perseverance, redemption, and survival.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/here
A collection of short stories that bend time with a complex and varied cast of characters passing through a single mansion in Newfoundland, confronting the ghosts of family, perseverance, redemption, and survival.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/here
Happy #WorldTheatreDay from Breakwater Books!
Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant literary culture is bolstered, in no small part, by the long standing tradition of hilarious, thoughtful, and ground-breaking theatre created by some of our province's most talented artists.
Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant literary culture is bolstered, in no small part, by the long standing tradition of hilarious, thoughtful, and ground-breaking theatre created by some of our province's most talented artists.
March 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy #WorldTheatreDay from Breakwater Books!
Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant literary culture is bolstered, in no small part, by the long standing tradition of hilarious, thoughtful, and ground-breaking theatre created by some of our province's most talented artists.
Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant literary culture is bolstered, in no small part, by the long standing tradition of hilarious, thoughtful, and ground-breaking theatre created by some of our province's most talented artists.
Great titles! Love the shoutout for The Beltane Massacre, a new thriller-mystery from Ray Critch and Breakwater Books, out this summer!
#canlit #nlbooks #mysterynovel #thriller
#canlit #nlbooks #mysterynovel #thriller
Check out our favourite new and recent mystery books and thrillers by memorable sleuths with titles from @touchwooded.bsky.social @cormorantbooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
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Great Canadian Crime Fiction · Lists · 49th Shelf
Our favourite new and recent mystery books and thrillers by memorable sleuths.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Great titles! Love the shoutout for The Beltane Massacre, a new thriller-mystery from Ray Critch and Breakwater Books, out this summer!
#canlit #nlbooks #mysterynovel #thriller
#canlit #nlbooks #mysterynovel #thriller
STOLEN SISTERS: AVAILABLE NOW - ONLINE AND AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORES
Stolen Sisters is an award-winning, first-of-its-kind play that gives voice to the lives and legacies of three Beothuk women and girls whose names have survived in historical record.
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Stolen Sisters is an award-winning, first-of-its-kind play that gives voice to the lives and legacies of three Beothuk women and girls whose names have survived in historical record.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/sto...
March 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
STOLEN SISTERS: AVAILABLE NOW - ONLINE AND AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORES
Stolen Sisters is an award-winning, first-of-its-kind play that gives voice to the lives and legacies of three Beothuk women and girls whose names have survived in historical record.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/sto...
Stolen Sisters is an award-winning, first-of-its-kind play that gives voice to the lives and legacies of three Beothuk women and girls whose names have survived in historical record.
breakwaterbooks.com/products/sto...
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If you connected with Jennie's Boy, a memoir of healing that was by-turns hilarious and heartbreaking, you might like Ashleigh Matthews's OTHERWISE GROSSLY UNREMARKABLE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), a memoir about her struggle with breast cancer.
March 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If you connected with Jennie's Boy, a memoir of healing that was by-turns hilarious and heartbreaking, you might like Ashleigh Matthews's OTHERWISE GROSSLY UNREMARKABLE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social), a memoir about her struggle with breast cancer.
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Thanks to everyone who made last night’s launch for The Crane a success. Pages Books, Plaza Theatre, Kennedy Brothers, Rod Moody-Corbett I’m looking at you! @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thanks to everyone who made last night’s launch for The Crane a success. Pages Books, Plaza Theatre, Kennedy Brothers, Rod Moody-Corbett I’m looking at you! @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
🎉THIS SATURDAY! Catch the multi-talented ANDY JONES signing copies of his new books, Actor Needs Restraint! at Timemasters Inc!
⏰This book has been flying off the shelves - if you've been looking to grab a copy, now's your chance!
70 Hamlyn Road
March 22, 1:00PM
#nlbooks #nltheatre #BuyLocalNL
⏰This book has been flying off the shelves - if you've been looking to grab a copy, now's your chance!
70 Hamlyn Road
March 22, 1:00PM
#nlbooks #nltheatre #BuyLocalNL
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🎉THIS SATURDAY! Catch the multi-talented ANDY JONES signing copies of his new books, Actor Needs Restraint! at Timemasters Inc!
⏰This book has been flying off the shelves - if you've been looking to grab a copy, now's your chance!
70 Hamlyn Road
March 22, 1:00PM
#nlbooks #nltheatre #BuyLocalNL
⏰This book has been flying off the shelves - if you've been looking to grab a copy, now's your chance!
70 Hamlyn Road
March 22, 1:00PM
#nlbooks #nltheatre #BuyLocalNL
Actor Needs Restraint! is one of the top five local bestsellers in Newfoundland and Labrador!
If you've been trying to get your hands on a copy, don't worry - more quantities will be available shortly!
Read the full list from Atlantic Books!
#nlbooks #canlit #nltheatre #atlanticbooks
If you've been trying to get your hands on a copy, don't worry - more quantities will be available shortly!
Read the full list from Atlantic Books!
#nlbooks #canlit #nltheatre #atlanticbooks
March 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Actor Needs Restraint! is one of the top five local bestsellers in Newfoundland and Labrador!
If you've been trying to get your hands on a copy, don't worry - more quantities will be available shortly!
Read the full list from Atlantic Books!
#nlbooks #canlit #nltheatre #atlanticbooks
If you've been trying to get your hands on a copy, don't worry - more quantities will be available shortly!
Read the full list from Atlantic Books!
#nlbooks #canlit #nltheatre #atlanticbooks
JUST AROUND THE CORNER is the story of Member of Parliament for Labrador Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones, a woman from a northern community who broke free of geographic and political isolation to embrace opportunity.
Read Yvonne's story this March!
#nlbooks #canlit #memoir #labrador #labradorstrong
Read Yvonne's story this March!
#nlbooks #canlit #memoir #labrador #labradorstrong
February 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
JUST AROUND THE CORNER is the story of Member of Parliament for Labrador Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones, a woman from a northern community who broke free of geographic and political isolation to embrace opportunity.
Read Yvonne's story this March!
#nlbooks #canlit #memoir #labrador #labradorstrong
Read Yvonne's story this March!
#nlbooks #canlit #memoir #labrador #labradorstrong
From the archive...and also your nan's kitchen!
Fat Back & Molasses is a beloved Newfoundland cookbook, originally published in 1974, over fifty years ago. It's still one of our bestselling cookbooks to this day - you just can't beat the classics!
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#BuyLocalNL
Fat Back & Molasses is a beloved Newfoundland cookbook, originally published in 1974, over fifty years ago. It's still one of our bestselling cookbooks to this day - you just can't beat the classics!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fat...
#BuyLocalNL
February 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From the archive...and also your nan's kitchen!
Fat Back & Molasses is a beloved Newfoundland cookbook, originally published in 1974, over fifty years ago. It's still one of our bestselling cookbooks to this day - you just can't beat the classics!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fat...
#BuyLocalNL
Fat Back & Molasses is a beloved Newfoundland cookbook, originally published in 1974, over fifty years ago. It's still one of our bestselling cookbooks to this day - you just can't beat the classics!
breakwaterbooks.com/products/fat...
#BuyLocalNL
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Oh, the exciting box opening moment! Stay tuned for details about readings and public events around Canada, beginning in March. #thecrane @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Oh, the exciting box opening moment! Stay tuned for details about readings and public events around Canada, beginning in March. #thecrane @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
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"Every single project reminds me that our job as writers is to listen for what the words want."
@monicakidd.bsky.social shares lessons learned while writing her historical novel THE CRANE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social)
alllitup.ca/under-the-cover-three-big-lessons-from-writing-the-crane/
@monicakidd.bsky.social shares lessons learned while writing her historical novel THE CRANE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social)
alllitup.ca/under-the-cover-three-big-lessons-from-writing-the-crane/
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Every single project reminds me that our job as writers is to listen for what the words want."
@monicakidd.bsky.social shares lessons learned while writing her historical novel THE CRANE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social)
alllitup.ca/under-the-cover-three-big-lessons-from-writing-the-crane/
@monicakidd.bsky.social shares lessons learned while writing her historical novel THE CRANE (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social)
alllitup.ca/under-the-cover-three-big-lessons-from-writing-the-crane/