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 Set in New Brunswick and Cuba, Missy Whynaught is a coming-of-age story that uses dark humour and magical realism to explore complex issues of sexuality, childhood neglect, poverty and the racist legacies of colonialism. With raw and candid wit, it explores how one girl survives the relationships she was born… 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 »
MARCH 2026. What is Zionism, where did it come from, and why does it continue to shape Israeli policy, politics and propaganda? With Zionism Decoded in 101 Quotes, Yakov Rabkin dispels common misconceptions about Zionism beginning with its origins in 17th century Protestant England. When the political ideology finally attracted Jews over two centuries later,… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2025. FINALIST for the FOREWORD INDIES PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION In the tumult of the pandemic, a writer hopes the quarantine might provide the space to finally complete a decades-old project on her travels throughout Latin America. But an unexpected disease suddenly clouds her eyes. Poetic, inventive, introspective, Between the Island and the Turtle follows… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2025. The Before Columbus Foundation, founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed and others, remains “dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature.” It operates on the premise that storytelling traditions existed thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, which counters the myth that storytelling begins with the Puritan settlement. The… Read more »
