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August 06, 2026Kevin Jagernauth on Reimagining Noir in THE LONGEST DEATH
A small-town bank job is just the beginning of the story in The Longest Death (House of Anansi Press), a new work of noir full with longing, ambition, and the dangerous hope that one perfect score can ...
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June 30, 2026Read an Excerpt from KOH-I-NOOR, the Adventurous Debut Novel by Michael Eddy
Trying to build a better world is one thing. Figuring out how to live in it is another. Koh-i-Noor (Book*hug Press) follows a young man whose search for purpose becomes increasingly complicated as his ...
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June 26, 2026Read an Excerpt from THE BODY RIDDLE, the Spellbinding Debut Novel by Sam K MacKinnon
Change doesn't follow a straight line in The Body Riddle (House of Anansi Press), the impressive debut novel by Sam K MacKinnon. Instead, it creates new questions, reshapes old relationships, and challenges ...
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May 01, 2026Read an Excerpt from DOUBLES, the New Novella by Nora Gold
In the new novella, Doubles (Guernica Editions), prize-winning author Nora Gold centres the voice of a twelve-year-old girl navigating life inside a 1968 institution for troubled youth, where intelligence ...
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April 08, 2026A Short-Lived Community Lingers Long After it is Gone in TEMPORARY PALACES
A short-lived community leaves a long afterlife in Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi Press), a debut novel from Jeff Miller that circles back to one summer and ponders what, exactly, remains from that ...
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April 07, 2026Open Book Interviews Liz Johnston About Her Exciting Debut Novel, THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT
A single act of protest ripples outward through a family in The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug Press), a debut that explores how public actions affect private lives. Set against a backdrop of environmental ...
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March 27, 2026A Long-Buried Secret Reshapes a Family’s Understanding of Itself in THE BREAKWATER by Leslie Shimotakahara
A long-buried secret reshapes a family’s understanding of itself in The Breakwater (Cormorant Books), a multigenerational story that moves between past and present to trace the impact of silence, displacement, ...
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March 04, 2026Read an Excerpt from THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale)
Exile and reinvention take centre-stage in The Disappearing Act (Book*hug Press), a spare and searching novel by Maria Stepanova, the acclaimed author of In Memory of Memory. The story follows a writer ...
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February 03, 2026Read an Excerpt from SYNCOPATION, the Extraordinary New Novel-in-Verse from Whitney French
In the wildly creative novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn), the future feels both strange and close at hand. After a devastating Memory War, the world has split into unfamiliar cultures and ...
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January 22, 2026Read an Excerpt from NIGHT TERMINUS, the Debut Novel From Ellis Scott
Acclaimed short story writer Ellis Scott has arrived with a haunting debut novel that traces queer survival, memory, and love across borders and decades in the shadow of the AIDS crisis.Night Terminus (Dundurn ...
