Our Bookshelf
Browse and shop the growing collection of award-winning books that have been presented with us since 2022.
Parramisha by Frances Roberts-Reilly
Parramisha challenges the reader to reconstruct a new image as a life affirming narrative of our wholeness as a Romani identity.
Wait, What? by Richard-Yves Sitoski
Wait, What? is the 2nd place winner of the 2022 Don Gutteridge Award for a full-length poetry manuscript. It's a harrowing, humorous and surreal trip into a psych ward and out the other side. If you can lose your head while all about you are keeping theirs, this book is for you.
archipelago by Laila Malik
The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging.
Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging by Mariam Pirbhai
After a lifetime of traversing continents and cities, Mariam Pirbhai found herself in Waterloo, Ontario, and there she began to garden. As she looks to local nurseries, neighbourhood gardens and nature trails for inspiration, she discovers that plants are not so very different from people.
The Shifters by Kaiya Ajmera
The Games are back on and they are looking for only the best competitors each school has to offer. Each school participates in five fierce competitions. Hand to hand combat, archery, the race, weapons combat, and a melee tournament.
Sweetgrass & Cigarettes by Aleria McKay
In her second poetry collection, writer and playwright Aleria Mckay explores themes of identity, trauma, and family, through the life, love, and the loss of her father.
Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi
Its three sections—Outer Circle, Inner Circle, Centre—draw us in as we move from the “outside” world of politics, culture, and art to the “inside” world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the “core” world of the self.
Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin
From his childhood home in Ireland to his long-time home in Hamilton, Barwin shares the thoughts that keep him up at night (literally) and the ideas that keep him creating.
Burr by Brooke Lockyer
Mixing realism and the fantastic, Brooke Lockyer’s debut novel investigates the nature of grief and longing that reach beyond the grave.
Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau
It’s a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past.
Suture by Nic Brewer
Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices.
Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.
Tess by Anthony North
Spirited 15-year-old Tess is frustrated with her recently separated parents, the claustrophobic Ontario town she calls home, and pretty much everything else in her life.
The Way to Go Home by Catharine Leggett
A horseback riding accident in June, 1973 leaves Buddy Scott, the central character in The Way to Go Home, with a broken body in a remote ravine. As he awaits rescue, thinking that his life is about to end, his mind wanders into his past.
Streams that Lead Somewhere by Fareh Malik
Fareh Malik’s debut collection aims to explore the intersection between mental illness and social racialization. The poet dives deep into his long history with Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of discrimination.
Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner
Rooted firmly in Irish myth and lore, with references to strong female figures who shapeshift and move between dimensions, there are Atlantic echoes of both Ireland and Newfoundland at work in these poems.
The Seventh Devil by Suzanne Craig-Whytock
When 19-year-old runaway Verity Darkwood, flat broke and devastated by guilt, takes refuge in a bar to escape the unwanted attention of a stranger, she doesn't expect to meet Gareth Winter, let alone become business partners with him.
The Marriage of Rose Camilleri by Robert Hough
An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough.
Hungover by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Hungover is an irresistible blend of culture, history, science, philosophy and mischievous humour. Part Simon Winchester, part A. J. Jacobs and all Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Hungover is both a lamentation and a celebration of a very human experience.