This Spring, we return with our Official Book Playlist series, which invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. […]
Continue readingIn the Mood For Poetry: Joy
Joy, nostalgia, grief, wonder—good poetry effortlessly evokes mood and atmosphere, taking us elsewhere while guiding us inward. This National Poetry Month, we bring you our In the Mood for Poetry […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik 🎉
Today, we have the honour of celebrating our second poetry release of National Poetry Month 2022: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Plenitude pieces together the political and the playful, the […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell 🌕
Today, we are celebrating the release of Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell! This much-anticipated follow up to I Am a Body of Land explores the primordial connections between love, grief, […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
Today, our Spring 2022 Preview series features Anita Anand’s A Convergence of Solitudes, a story of identity, connection and forgiveness in the lives of two families across Partition of India, […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, Edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! This collection of twenty essays […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo 🎊 🎊
Today, we celebrate the release of Cane | Fire by internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo. This collection of poems navigates a complex communion of past and present, […]
Continue readingCelebrating International Women’s Day: Writers on the Women Who Shaped Them
Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of the occasion, we asked a group of Book*hug authors to speak about the female writers who have had an indelible influence on their […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken 🎉
The Spring 2022 season has officially arrived! Today, we’re kicking off the new season with the release of The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: Bystander by Mike Steeves
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Mike Steeves’s Bystander, a bold new work of intense psychological realism, and a much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed […]
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