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Most Anticipated: Our 2018 Spring Nonfiction Preview
Our 2018 Spring Preview continues with spectacular nonfiction, books on art, literature and music, travellers and refugees, nature and history, fathers …
The Way to a Happier Life: Currant Bread from DUTCH FEAST
Put down your smoothie bowls and chia seeds, and embrace Dutch breakfasts, sugar and white bread and cheese, and all.
The Chat with Carleigh Baker
Next up on The Chat, we speak to Carleigh Baker, author of the sensational short story collection Bad Endings, a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ …
Tacit Permissions: Literary Goals Beyond One's Grasp
A list by Thomas Trofimuk, whose This Is All a Lie has been called "a powerful, dazzling accomplishment.”
Lianne Oelke on Strong YA Narrators
Leanne Oelke, author of Nice Try, Jane Sinner, recommends amazing YA novels that are unabashedly Canadian.
The Chat with Ahmad Danny Ramadan
We begin The Chat in 2018 with a conversation with Ahmad Danny Ramadan, author of the stirring debut novel The Clothesline Swing (Nightwood Editions). …
Most Anticipated: Our 2018 Spring Fiction Preview
Here are the books that will be rocking CanLit in the first half of 2018.
Our Holiday Reads
Happy Holidays! Here are the books the 49thShelf.com team will be reading during the break.
Shelf Talkers: 2017's Must-Reads
For this year-end column, we’ve combed through the dozens of recommendations, a year of reading, to create a double-handful of special books, a stack …
Books for the Holidays Part Three
Book recommendations for all the special someones on your holiday shopping list.