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The Longest Death

The Longest Death

Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Murder in Paris '68

Murder in Paris '68

A captivating true crime story about an unsolved murder in 1960s Paris that scandalized a nation.

Cover: The Body Riddle: A Novel by Sam K MacKinnon, featuring two crossed arms embracing large green leaves and pink ferns against a deep brown background, with the title text overlaid in bold white letters.

The Body Riddle

What if the body you fought for no longer fits the life you built before it?

Layaway Child

Layaway Child

Magnificent stories about Caribbean immigrants navigating the emotional terrain of girlhood, displacement, longing, and identity across continents.

The Book of Birds

The Book of Birds

From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

The Two Roberts

An intoxicating, brave, and compassionate novel reimagining one of the most passionate love stories of modern British art.

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

Interregnum

A riveting chronicle of the battle for chess supremacy and the brilliant, eccentric, extremely online grandmasters changing an ancient game.

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

Temporary Palaces

For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

The Wren

In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with

Ultra Blue

Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with

Pitiful

Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

Inheritance

A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

Definitely Thriving

The heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.

Together by the Sea

Together by the Sea

In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

Seven Heavens Away

A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

A Love Affair with the Unknown

A refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty to help make the hard parts of life more manageable.

A collection of various House of Anansi Press books by Indigenous authors arranged on a concrete background.

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Chyana Marie Sage, katherena vermette, Tanya Talaga, and more.

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Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

Go

From Deborah Ellis, the bestselling author of Sit and Step, comes a new short story collection about realizing when it’s time to pick up … and Go.

The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

It’s spring in Grasslands National Park and burrowing owls are returning from a winter away to lay their eggs in this rare and protected habitat.

Boozhoo! Hello! By Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A wolf is drawn in a Woodland art style, made out of simple organic shapes with smoothed, rounded lines. The wolf walks across the page while looking up at the title. It has a black head, and its body is made up of several different shapes with varying designs in blue, orange, red and green. The background is orange.

Boozhoo! / Hello!

This cheerful board book introduces the youngest of readers to woodland and water animals in English and Anishinaabemowin.

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

Monster Mender

A monster mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.

Stella and Sam ABC

Stella and Sam ABC

Join Stella and Sam in this new board book as they journey through the alphabet and into the hearts of a new generation.

Me enoja

Me enoja

The Spanish-language edition of bestselling Angry Me, in which a child tells us what makes her angry and how she tries to let the anger come and go.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

My Mom Is Like a Kite

A child touchingly narrates the ups and downs of living with a parent who experiences mental illness.

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

Fly Away Home

Driven from her nest, Little Bird crosses paths with other migrating animals, including humans, looking for a safe place to call home.

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

A celebration of the Nahuat language and culture, presented as a collection of poems in Nahuat, Spanish and English, about growing up in the Salvadoran village of Witzapan.

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