NOVEMBER 2025. With a Foreword by Dr Gabor Maté. Almost two years in and we continue to watch in horror as 2 million people living on 140 square miles of land bear an unprecedented and unfathomable pummelling by the Israeli Army. More bombs have been dropped on Gaza than in World War II; more children… Read more »
OCTOBER 2025. With a Foreword by Oliver Stone. In December 2024, Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad departed for Russia after militia forces took Damascus. An Al-Qaeda affiliated group led by Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani (aka Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa) took power. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hooted that it was the “biggest…most game-changing event in the… Read more »
OCTOBER 2025 The history of the Montreal Canadiens is about more than just hockey. It’s also the story of how hockey’s most winning team has always skated hand-in-hand with its home province of Quebec. Brendan Kelly takes a fresh look at the ups and downs of the Habs since the heyday of the “Flying Frenchmen”… Read more »
SEPTEMBER 2025. FINALIST for the FOREWORD INDIES PRIZE FOR HUMOR Louis, a young queer man, lives in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in Montreal’s east end, with his rap-obsessed, schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles… Read more »
SEPTEMBER 2025 2024 is not 1914. Yet, while much has changed since the first world war, the global state of imperialism has not significantly altered. Unlike a hundred years ago, this is no longer a situation of relatively equal adversaries facing off against each other. Rather, we live in a world where one hegemonic power––the… Read more »
JUNE 15, 2025. It is 1944 and Red Army soldiers have liberated the Polish town of Dobryd from Nazi occupation. After three years of hiding, a family are helped down from a hayloft and given bread. One of the soldiers picks up a four-year-old child and carries her outside. She looks around in wonder and… Read more »
MAY 1, 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. Every year, nearly 2 million babies are stillborn around the world; in Canada, one in every 125 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth. It is September 1991 and Lydia has just given birth to a stillborn child in Montreal. As she and her husband grapple with the after effects, their relationship… Read more »
APRIL 2025. FINALIST : 2026 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION FINALIST : 2025 QWF PARAGRAPH HUGH MACLENNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of Montreal city work and the deceptive perils of the Quebec countryside, these brilliant short stories lay bare the… Read more »
MARCH 2025 EDITOR’S CHOICE: MARITIME EDIT MAGAZINE Malory Fleet’s son was killed by bikers and now she’s worried about his missing girlfriend, Amanda. But that case was closed shut by the police a year ago and Frank Cain, the private investigator she’s hired, is reluctant to take it on. On the sometimes seedy streets of… Read more »
SILVER winner 2025 FOREWORD INDIES for AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR SHORTLISTED for the 2025 QWF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE Eyes Have Seen, From Mississippi to Montreal is a vivid and searing memoir about growing up black in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In the difficult and often dangerous years of ubiquitous racism, Anderson recounts how family, good neighbours… Read more »
