Ishmael Reed continues his forty-year prophetic book project, The Terribles, brilliantly laying bare a country where truth and fiction are always trading places. Terminte Control, the leading presidential candidate, is a necrophiliac and an Odin worshipper. He vows to both replace the English language with Old Norse, and tear down the Washington monument in favour… Read more »
1 Oct. 2026. PRE-ORDER NOW It’s 2003 and Colin and his best friend Eugénie are—like every other teenager in Sainte-Foy—waiting for the bus, hanging out at the mall, logging onto MSN, working weekend shifts, steering clear of their parents, and trying not to be rejects as they navigate their school’s social hierarchies. Colin has two… Read more »
1 Oct. 2026. PRE-ORDER NOW Stéphanie, a Montréal writer, is recruited by a left-wing provincial party to run in their upcoming elections. After a surprise victory she is, despite her inexperience, appointed Québec’s Minister of Culture. As she navigates her new role, a wave of #MeToo denunciations erupts in the literary world. Stéphanie begins to… Read more »
1 Nov. 2026. PRE-ORDER NOW Guy Bouthillier set out to understand why Trudeau, a fervent nationalist aspiring to freedom for Quebec until his late twenties, would impose the War Measures in 1970 under the false pretext of an “anticipated insurrection.” He also wanted to know how Trudeau could praise Europe’s right-wing extremists and anti-Semites in… Read more »
1 Oct. 2026. PRE-ORDER NOW One of CBC’s 50 exciting books for Fall 2026! Raw and unfiltered, Missy conjures her own magic in a world that treats her like a punchline. Along the way, she pieces together a self from fragments, nerve, and whatever’s left. In constant motion between New Brunswick and Cuba, Missy Whynaught… Read more »
JUNE 2026. We are exhausted. We are overwhelmed. Worse, we are numb. No matter what screen you’re getting your news and information from, the barrage is constant, horrific and always urgent: Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo, climate change, ecological devastation, economic collapse, AI, toxic social media…and of course Donald Trump and all he represents. Authoritarian leaders… Read more »
JUNE 2026. In 1965, George Grant wrote Lament for a Nation describing how the country was becoming a vassal state to the Americans. Sixty years later Canada is being threatened by the US president for complete absorption into American empire. Last Call for Canada traces the common threads that link the two eras and then… Read more »
APRIL 2026. One of CBC’s top fiction titles for Spring 2026! Moe Tremblay is struggling with domesticity. New to Montréal, his wife climbs the corporate law ladder while he stays home with the kids. It sounded like a good idea. Then Dean shows up. Enticing him with tales of grime and glory, he convinces Moe to join his… Read more »
APRIL 2026 One of CBC’s 50 top nonfiction titles for spring 2026! After being tracked by wolves and left behind in the forest as a child, after sleeping through a flame-spilling chimney fire, after regularly riding in vehicles driven by adults under the influence, and after physically fighting off one of her mother’s abusive partners,… Read more »
MARCH 2026 Thirty years ago, all parameters were in place for regime change in Congo: US military assistance to Paul Kagame’s troops in Rwanda, Western political cover for an invasion, US satellite data needed for Rwanda’s military sweep, and secure financing from multinationals, including Canadian companies, poised to profit from the most resource-rich nation in… Read more »
