Goose Lane Editions – the oldest independent press in Canada – celebrates its 70th birthday this year. The press, founded in 1954 by poet, critic, translator, and professor Fred Cogswell and his ...

Dionne Brand opens her latest novel with a wide shot of Toronto. A city at once mythic and ordinary, virtual yet earthily corporeal, it hovers above the 43rd parallel. Flight paths and Internet ...

For the second year in a row, the Q&Q team reached out to our reviewers and to booksellers across the country to find out which titles from 2022 they are still thinking about as the year draws to a ...

The title of John Ralston Saul’s newest book, A Fair Country, sounds like a rejected Liberal Party campaign slogan, but its contents are much more combative, provocative, and stimulating than anything ...

Tim Bowling is the one Canadian among the 15 poets shortlisted for this year’s Walcott Prize. He was named as a finalist for his 2024 collection In the Capital City of Autumn, published by Wolsak and ...

Every morning, Louise Penny counts her blessings. There was a time when she felt she had none to count, but now, it’s a morning routine – and most mornings, it takes a while. Penny has her eye on the ...

In Guy Vanderhaeghe’s latest novel, The Englishman’s Boy, two seemingly disparate narratives intersect to form an impressive whole. Related in alternating chapters, the first tale centres on the ...

The enduring mystique of Harry Houdini continues to fascinate Canadian writers. Steven Galloway’s new novel, The Confabulist, is, at least in part, a fictionalized account of the Montreal student some ...

With nearly half a million Syrians dead and an estimated 10 million internally and globally displaced since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011, it’s no wonder that Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s The ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ...

The 2024 lists are drawn from sales data gathered by Bookmanager from 258 independent Canadian booksellers.