Biblioasis
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Comrade Papa
$18.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in Translation
International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ’ returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.
Mourning the rec
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #49
- Author: Gauz’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966459
- Language: English
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The Pages of the Sea
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2025 RSL Christopher Bland Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction – A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 – A Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2024 – A CBC Best Fiction B
- Author: Hawk, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 177196653X
- Language: English
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Old Romantics
$18.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award – Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Like Dubliners, if Dubliners were “Cat Person” as a feminist mock-epic about a wri
- Author: Armstrong, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966610
- Language: English
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The Amethyst Cross: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$7.95 Add to cartWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.
When Margaret finds a cottage to rent in the moorlands for her visiting Aunt Dorothea, she pays no mind to its rumored dark
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Fitt, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966408
- Language: English
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Podolo: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$7.95 Add to cartWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.
When a group of tourists visits the deserted island of Podolo, one wants to rescue a feral cat they find there, and the oth
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Hartley, L. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966386
- Language: English
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
$19.95 Add to cartThe first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revo
- Author: Allen, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966289
- Language: English
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On Oil
$15.95 Add to cartA journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.
Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening
- Series: Field Notes #10
- Author: Gillmor, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 177196667X
- Language: English
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Dark Like Under
$18.95 Add to cartAn Independent Best Book to Look Out For in 2025
At an elite secondary school in the English countryside, students and teachers cope with a sudden loss.
In the aftermath of a surprising death, students
- Author: Chadwick, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966653
- Language: English
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The Passenger Seat
$17.95 Add to cartA searing examination of male friendship and the broader social implications of masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness
Two teenagers leave their small town on a vaguely charted road trip through the
- Author: Khurana, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966300
- Language: English
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Heaven and Hell
$17.95 Add to cart“Stef?nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy.”–Eileen Battersby, TLS
In a remote fishing village, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about po
- Series: Trilogy about the Boy #1
- Author: Stef?nsson, J?n Kalman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966513
- Language: English
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Near Distance
$16.95 Add to cart“Stoltenberg’s elegant prose makes each scene . . . so engaging that it gives plot a bad name.”–John Self, Guardian
For her entire life, Karin has fled anything and anyone that tries to possess her. H
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #48
- Author: Stoltenberg, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966432
- Language: English
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The Dishwasher
$16.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD – NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS – A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK – A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 – As heard on CBC’s The Sunday Ed… [more below]
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation
- Author: Larue, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1771962690
- Language: English
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
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Estates Large and Small
$18.95 Read moreProfound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.
What decades of rent increases and declini
- Author: Robertson, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964626
- Language: English
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Forgotten Work
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times New & Noteworthy Book – Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations.–Kirkus Reviews – This book has no bus
- Author: Guriel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771963824
- Language: English
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Dreaming Home
$16.95 Read moreA Globe and Mail Best Spring Book – One of Lambda Literary Review‘s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 – A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023 – A 49th Shelf Best Book of 2023
A quee
- Author: Childs, Lucian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965495
- Language: English
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One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$6.95 Read moreOriginally published on Christmas in 1931 and widely regarded as A.M. Burrage’s masterpiece, “One Who Saw” tells the story of a wrtier enchanted by a spectre of a weeping woman. His obsession builds u
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Burrage, A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1771960663
- Language: English
