Todd Babiak's new novel, The Book of Stanley, about an ordinary man turned deity, has been raved about across the country, appearing in (among many others) the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, and most recently, The Globe and Mail, in which reviewer Steven Galloway calls it a "funny smart, social satire that, at its very centre, has a heart."

Adam Lewis Schroeder's Empress of Asia has been selected as a St. Martin’s Press Winter ’08 Rep Pick. Empress of Asia was 1 of 6 titles chosen from their winter hardcover list of 135 books. Rep Picks are noted for their excellent handsell potential.

Kevin Patterson's debut novel, Consumption, is getting rave reviews in the U.S. Kirkus called it "one of the best debut novels in recent memory," and The New Yorker (in its food issue, aptly enough) has now called Patterson "a sure guide through inhospitable terrain, be it the 'elastic, almost infinite emptiness' of the tundra or the far recesses of the soul."

We are pleased to announce that Ivan Coyote has won this year's ReLit Award for her novel Bow Grip. The awards are open to books published by independent Canadian literary publishers. ReLit is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature.


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We are pleased to announce that Heather Pringle has won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2007) for The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust. The prize was established in 1985, and awarded annually for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia.

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