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AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK “Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.” —Oprah Winfrey “One of 2026's literary triumphs.” —Boston Globe From the Booker-winning...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A Foyles Top Ten Read for February A 2026 Highlight in The Financial Times Evening Standard The Bookseller "This is a scintillatingly good book. . . . Thrillingly immersive. . . . I’ve rarely felt such a sense of the...

A major debut collection of globe-spanning stories set in the worlds of art, crime, and fantasy, by an exceptionally elegant and mischievous storyteller. “Terrific: witty, ironic, unnerving, stylish, and funny, very funny. . . . The best first collection of stories I’ve read in years.”...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times The Globe and Mail The Guardian Esquire Vogue TIME The Washington Post The Times (UK) Vulture The Economist NPR Bookriot and more...

From award-winning Brazilian author Eliana Alves Cruz comes a raw, propulsive novel-in-translation about a mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for the rich, and the tragedy they unwittingly bear witness to. Eunice works for a rich family in a building called The Golden Plate, in an...

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century...

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst. One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the...

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD A CBC BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 AN INDIGO TOP TEN BEST SELF-HELP BOOK OF 2022 "A vital and deeply compelling read.” —Adam McKay, award-winning writer, director and producer (Don’t Look Up) “Britt Wray shows that addressing...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Canada's most famous adman spills a career's worth of marketing secrets, so anyone can compete with the best in their business--whatever that business might be. Big companies spend a fortune marketing their wares and services. Can yours? Invariably people ask...

The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout. It's amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans...

Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York. During the nights between Christmas and New Year's, the witches of New York—Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest...

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood...

Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2025 The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025 “No writer in recent memory has more thoroughly rearranged my moral compass than Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and no...

From one of the great storytellers of our time, an exquisite spy novel—a disarming and memorable caper, in which not everything is quite as it seems At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief. London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter...

A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmith’s Prize (UK). “One of the most unique, most compelling voices in...

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2026 so Far by The New Yorker The Telegraph “An emblem of resilience for women everywhere.” ―Vogue “A rousing feminist manifesto.” —The New York Times Book Review “Gisèle has challenged the patriarchy everywhere...

BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 The Atlantic’s Top 10 The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers Named a Best...

WINNER OF THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR...

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared...