A unique blend of memoir, research, and cultural criticism, The Monster and the Mirror (September) charts K.J. Aiello’s life as they try to understand their own mental illness using The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and other stories as both guides to heroism and agency and cautionary tales of how mental illness is easily stereotyped as bad and violent. Senescence: A Year in the Canadian Rockies (November), by Amal Alhomsi, takes readers on a captivating journey through the rhythmic beauty of nature. And in Uncut (November), Jonathan A. Allan leads readers through the history and cultural construction of the foreskin—from Michelangelo’s David to parenting manuals, from 19th-century panic over masturbation to foreskin restoration—to ultimately ask: what is the future of the foreskin?

A Mom Like That (August), by Aaisha Alvi, is a powerful exploration of postpartum psychosis and motherhood—and a call to end the stigma and blame. The HBC Brigades: Culture, conflict and perilous journeys of the fur trade (July), by Nancy Marguerite Anderson, is a lively recounting of the tough men and heroic-but-overworked packhorses who broke open B.C. to the big business of the 19th-century fur trade. And in the deeply personal investigation In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life (August), award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret.

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold (October), by Brian Antonson, Mary Trainer and Rick Antonson, is examined in riveting detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic. One of Canada's most evocative modern painters, Cree artist Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of First Nations culture, and a new edition of Medicine Paint (September) is a collection of his best work, reproduced in glorious full colour and reflecting the evolution of the artist's distinctive style. And rigorous and compelling, Beothuk (September), by Christoper Patrick Aylward, demonstrates the enduring power of stories to shape our understanding of the past and the impossibility of writing Indigenous history without Indigenous storytellers. 

Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time in Heart on My Sleeve (October). Combining journalism, cultural commentary, and personal reflection, Hearty (September) follows andrea bennett’s curiosity into kitchens, gardens, fields, and factories, offering a compassionate and compelling perspective on food from seed to table. And in Our Green Heart (September), the inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.

The latest from S. Bear Bergman, Special Topics in Being a Parent (July) is an illustrated guide of practical parenting advice for anyone parenting outside the mainstream, informed by queer experiences. In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck (August), her first full-length non-fiction since the influential A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand explores 17th, 18th and 19th-century English and American literature—and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and world, of what was possible and what was not. And Treaties, Lies & Promises: How the Métis and First Nations Shaped Canada (September), by Tom Brodbeck, is a riveting account of the links between the Red River Resistance and the numbered treaties explores a largely unknown part of Canadian history.

Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights (October), by Jon Careless, is a case-study analysis of the public housing district of Lawrence Heights in North York, Toronto, a neighbourhood undergoing the largest revitalization in Canada. Exploring key historical shifts in contemporary media while providing a rich and novel theoretical framework, Kevin Chabot's Poetics of the Paranormal (October) addresses with renewed rigour the relationships between media, perception, temporality, and the elusive concept of the evidential. A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life in We Used to Dream of Freedom:  A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell (September), by Sam Chaiton.

Delores Churchill, Haida weaver, shares the stories of her life, her culture and the importance of passing cultural knowledge from one generation to the next in From a Square to a Circle (October). In Grandfather of the Treaties (November), Daniel Coleman introduces the founding Wampum covenants that the earliest European settlers made with the Haudenosaunee nation and shows how returning to these covenants, and the ways they were made, could heal our society. And actor, director, and playwright Layne Coleman's An Open-Ended Run (October) is a collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage

The Good Allies (September), by Tim Cook, is a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. Finding Otipemisiwak (October), by Andrea Currie, is a Sixties Scoop survivor's journey back to her Nation and the story of her fight—first to survive, then to thrive as a fully present member of her Nation and of the human family. And, as the war in Ukraine has shown us just how endangered democracy is, Jane Cooper's What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy (September) is an insider’s view of election monitoring that sheds light on Canada’s support for international democracy.

From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren charts his encounters with people of faith, fame, and fortune in Heaping Coals (October). In Mainstreaming Porn (September), Elaine Craig makes a powerful argument for applying legal mechanisms to corporate-owned online platforms while offering a sober evaluation of the limits of the law in governing pervasive cultural norms and social understandings of sexuality.  And An Accidental History of Canada (July), by Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey L. Hudson, makes plain that whether they are interpreted as an intervention by providence, a miscalculation, an inevitability, or the result of observable risk, accidents—and our responses to them—reveal shared values.

In i heard a crow before i was born (September), across chapters that tell of his troubled relationships, Jules Delorme unwraps the pain at the centre of his own story: the residential schools and the aftershocks that continue to reverberate. Acclaimed Québec feminist Martine Delvaux turns her sharp eye and even sharper pen on the history of gentlemen's clubs and male fraternity with a wide-reaching study of patriarchy in The Boys’ Club (August), translated by Katia Grubisic. The Rough Poets (October) presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, Melanie Dennis Unrau arguing that these writers are uniquely positioned, both as petropoets who write poetry about oil, and as theorists of petropoetics with unique knowledge about how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels. And Bloom Across Canada (October), by Beka Shane Denter, is a fascinating collection of fifty interviews and portraits that celebrate diversity, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes Above the Noise (September), by DeMar DeRozan and Dave Zaruma, a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone. Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, Got Blood to Give (November, by OmiSoore H. Dryden, examines how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation systems. And in Dear Da-Lê: A Father's Memoir of the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution (September), an intensely revealing memoir written for his Canadian daughter, Anh Duong breaks a lifetime of silence about the traumas of his childhood in war-torn Vietnam and his years as a refugee in revolutionary Iran.

Hòt'a! Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights (November), by Wayne K. Spear and Georges Erasmus, is the story of the political life of Dene leader Erasmus—a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. Living With Dementia (September) is the collected columns from Darce Fardy, former reporter and head of CBC current affairs, illuminating his experience following a dementia diagnosis. And Travels Up the Creek: A Biologist’s Search for a Paddle (November), by Lorne Fitch, is a new collection of essays that will engage readers, inspire change, raise awareness, nurture empathy, and reshape perspectives on environmental stewardship towards a sustainable future.

Featuring excerpts from Terry Fox’s own Marathon of Hope journal, Hope by Terry Fox (September), edited by Barbara Adhiya, including interviews and over 200 photos and documents, shows that with enough resilience, determination, humility, and support, ordinary people can do impossible things. In By Strength, We Are Still Here (November), Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwitch’in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children. And 80 years after they first were published, Mavis Gallant's early newspaper columns remain as fresh as ever and highlights are collected in Montreal Standard Time (October), edited by Neil Besner, Marta Dvorak, and Bill Richardson.

As much about people as it is about the written word, Line Breaks (August) offers vivid portraits of many of the characters George Galt encountered during his literary life, from Al Purdy, Margaret Atwood, and Peter Ustinov to Charles Ritchie, Jan Morris, David Frum, and Pierre Trudeau. In A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream (October), Marc Garneau chronicles his once-improbable ascent from a mischievous teenager and rebellious naval midshipman to a decorated astronaut and statesman who represented Canada on the world stage—both on and off the planet. And through extensive research and reporting, Climate Hope (October), David Gesekbracht’s boundary-crossing and highly readable survey of efforts to tackle climate change, aims to replace our paralyzing fears with a restored sense of hope and determination.

Métis Music (October), by Monique Giroux, critically examines music as a shifting site of encounter, showing its readers what to listen for, how to learn by listening, and the importance of acting intentionally with the learning gained through listening. And through evocative personal stories in Mad Sisters (October), Susan Grundy compassionately explores the devastating consequences of her older sister's severe mental illness and passionately sounds the alarm about the ongoing lack of resources in the mental health care system.

Pirates, rumrunners, moonshine—in Who Shot Estevan Light? (October), Douglas Hamilton delivers an eclectic collection of maritime stories and folktales from in and around the Salish Sea. A memoir and fourth-generation narrative of the Japanese Canadian experience, The Nail That Sticks Out (October), by Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann, bridges the individual and collective to celebrate family, places, and traditions. And She Won The Vote For Women: The life and times of Lillian Beynon Thomas (November), by Robert E. Hawkins, is the story of how a young girl came with her settler family to a desolate part of the hardscrabble prairie and who, despite these humble origins, succeeded in engineering a fundamental Canadian democratic reform and championing the emerging Canadian cultural nationalism.

Everything and Nothing At All (August), by Jenny Heijun Wills, whose memoir Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related which received the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Nonfiction and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, weaves together a lifetime of literary criticism, cultural study, and a personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis (September), by Michael W. Higgins, is a fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church. Stories Left in Stone: Trails and Traces in Cáceres Spain (October), by Troy Nahumko, is an in-depth journey into the lives, histories, and art of those who live behind and among the stones in Cáceres and the region of Extremadura.

The Beautiful Dream (August) is an intimate account of Atiba Hutchinson’s career, from his humble beginnings to playing across Europe, the disappointment of failing national team competitions in the 2010s that nearly led to his resignation from the national program, all the way to his triumphant arrival in Qatar to face off against 31 other nations at the world’s most pre-eminent soccer competition. Riveting, insightful, disturbing, witty, and always a joy to read, A Nation’s Paper (October), edited by John Ibbitson, chronicles a country and a newspaper that have grown and struggled together—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from and where we are going. And Rethinking Free Speech (November), by Peter Ives, will change the way you think about the politics of speech in the age of social media.

Richly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada (July), by Jamie Jelinski, provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered. Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir (September) is a provocative book, by acclaimed writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt, that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lens. An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer (October) is the moving story of Nazem Kadri, the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

In Question Authority (November), a critical survey of the predicament of contemporary authority, Mark Kingwell draws on philosophical argument, personal reflection, and details from the headlines in an attempt to reclaim the democratic spirit of questioning authority and thinking for oneself. Voice Lessons (September), by Eve Krakow, is a collection of personal essays about a shy introvert’s struggle to find her voice—as a singer, a writer, a mother, and a human being. And for anyone who has ever struggled to honour their artistic impulses, the essay collection Bad Artist (October), edited by N. Lampert, P. Oakley, C. Smith and G. Turnbull, offers an antidote to toxic productivity narrative.

While searching for the origins of Canada’s most famous fried dish, journalist Justin Giovannetti Lamothe finds a reflection not only of the country’s intricate history, but also of his own neglected cultural roots in Poutine: A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery (September). In Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and Consequence (September), award-winning writer and former reporter Catherine Lang wrestles with the consequences of war in the aftermath of the death of her niece Michelle Lang, who was killed while embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan. And Something Not Nothing (March), by Sarah Leavitt, a project started after the medically-assisted death of her long-time partner, is a poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir about love and loss and navigating a new life.

With playful wit and lyrical style, Pauline Le Bel meditates on the gift of aging, moving through loss, and the process of finding joy and acceptance at the end of life in Becoming the Harvest (October). High-level nuclear waste is the most hazardous byproduct of an energy source that is incredibly useful and increasingly in demand, and finding the ideal place to store it permanently is an urgent policy crisis facing our country, Deep Disposal (September), by William Leiss, revealing the nature of this crisis and how we might overcome it. And The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada (October), by  Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Samuel Tanner and Aurélie Campana provides an essential primer—for journalists, those working in policy institutes and think tanks, and students and scholars—for understanding its vast and urgent homegrown challenges. 

Neuroscientist and bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing in I Heard There Was A Secret Chord (August). The Social Safety Net (August) is the first volume in the "Canada in Decline" series by activist, author, and journalist Nora Loreto, the story of Canada’s untenable status quo and the forces that have led us to where we are today, outlining the choices we need to make as well as the possible paths forward to fix all that is crumbling around us. And in No Jews Live Here (October), from pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the Holocaust, the 1956 Revolution, and finally exodus from a country that can't rid itself of its antisemitic demons.

Grounded in Indigenous methodologies and rendered in full colour, Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other (November), edited by Brittany Luby, Margaret Lehman, Andrea Bradford, Samantha Mehltretter and Jane Mariotti, reveals and examines our interconnectedness through a variety of disciplines—history, food studies, ethnobotany, ecology—and forms of expression, including recipes, stories, and photos. Days and Days (October), by Chris MacDonald, weaves together a tale of friendship and self-discovery that occurs during a backpacking adventure and another celebrating the highly influential yet underestimated UK band Leatherface, a group that The Guardian called “the greatest British punk band of the modern era." And in The Shopify Story (October), economist and business journalist Larry MacDonald investigates the factors behind Shopify’s growth and shares lessons for entrepreneurs, business managers, employees, programmers, policymakers, and investors.

Becoming Green Gables (July), by Alan MacEachern, tells the story of Myrtle Webb and her family, and the making of the Green Gables tourist landmark, reproducing a selection of Webb’s diary’s daily entries, using them as springboards to examine topics ranging from the adoption of modern conveniences to the home front hosting of soldiers in wartime and visits from “Aunt Maud” herself. Despite signs that communities are reengaging with Lake Ontario, it remains the most degraded of the Great Lakes, with new and old problems alike exacerbated by climate change, and David Macfarlane's The Lives of Lake Ontario (September) demonstrates that the lake is both remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable. For readers of Crying in H Mart and In the Dream House, Minelle Mahtani’s May It Have a Happy Ending (October) is a searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice.

otherwise grossly unremarkable (July), by Ashleigh Matthews, is the record of the near total destruction of one woman’s physical and emotional self from misdiagnosis to stage three diagnosis, through treatment after treatment, and onward to recovery and survivorship. Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, offers a personal and inspiring memoir of life-changing events in his early years through five decades in science journalism in Just Say Yes (September). Bestselling historian and author Ken McGoogan delves into dictatorships of the twentieth century to sound this crucial alarm about the possibility of democratic collapse in the US and its implications for Canada in Shadows of Tyranny (August).

Hannah McGregor’s Clever Girl (October) is a smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. Lori McKay’s Searching for Mayflowers (October) is a captivating, never-before-told true story following one woman's quest to unravel the 140-plus-year-old mystery of the first set of quintuplets born in Canada, weaving together history, intrigue, and a complicated family legacy. And Enos Montour’s Brown Tom’s Schooldays (October)—self-published in 1985—tells the story of a young boy’s life at residential school, drawn from Montour’s first-hand experiences at Mount Elgin Indian Residential School between 1910 and 1915, the book an ironic play on “the school novel,” namely 1857’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays, by Thomas Hughes. 

Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen, Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen's Tireless Fight for Justice (September), is based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love. Following Shimun (July), by Laure Morali, translated by Howard Scott, paints a vibrant picture of the Innu community at a turning point in its history. Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top—and almost made it—in Strong and Free (September). 

“If I kept walking,” Alpha Nkuranga remembers thinking as a child as she and her brother fled their home in a Rwanda torn apart by civil war, “I could tell my story,” and now she does in Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience (September). Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years—including democracy, freedom and truth—and asks whether we can reclaim their value in At a Loss for Words (September). And I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself: Memoir in Essays (November), by Adelle Purdham, is a raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through the eyes of a mother to a daughter with Down syndrome.

Julie Salverson traces a fascinating web of personal and political history, of storytelling, of culture and it’s shaping and of a man caught in a time of great change in A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter’s Daughter (October). In Peggy & Balmer (November), following the lives of his grandparents Peggy and Balmer Watt, Tom Radford tells the story of two journalists who arrive in Edmonton the first day of the province's life, September 1, 1905, as Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier announces Alberta as the great hope for "Canada's Century" that lies ahead. A passionate advocate for gender equity, and one of our most respected journalists, Elizabeth Renzetti explores the most pressing issues facing women in Canada today with humour and heart in What She Said (October).

The Adaptable Country (September), by Alasdair Roberts, outlines straightforward reforms to improve adaptability and reminds us about the bigger picture: in a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security, and Canada’s challenge is to show how political systems built to respect diversity and human rights can also respond nimbly to existential threats. Folklife and Superstition: The Luck, Lore, and Worldviews of Prairie Homesteaders (September), by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson, is a history of folk traditions, beliefs, and culturally diverse customs in the early homesteading era on the Canadian prairies. And Just Around the Corner (October) is the story of Member of Parliament for Labrador Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones, an Indigenous girl from a Northern community who broke free of her geographic and political isolation to embrace opportunity in the world

Throughout The Audacity of Relevance (October), Alex Sarian and leaders from across industries discuss the democratization of philanthropy, the dangerous disregard of modern consumer behavior, the urgent need to commit to social justice and reconciliation, and other topics that need our immediate attention if we are to reverse the historical gatekeeping of arts organizations. Amid increasingly strong signs that the public service is in need of a reset, Donald Savoie's Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service (September) concludes with practical recommendations to assist Canadians and their politicians in defining what they want their public service to be. The Canadian Shields (September) brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935–2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected.

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation (September) is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditional written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past (August), by Roxana Spicer, is the story of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. And Erin Steele delivers an authentic, humble and ultimately inspiring story through love, addiction and learning to find peace in the darkest moments of longing in Sunrise Over Half-Built Houses (October).

In Home and Away (October), the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport’s most fabled franchises. Made Up, But Still True (November) is the long-awaited, bracingly candid, and utterly unpredictable personal story of movie legend Donald Sutherland, sharing his deep passion for acting, his intense journey through success and loss, and every wild story in between. And Joanne Thomson’s 300 Mason Jars (October) is a mesmerizing journey through one family's history, told through 300 watercolour paintings of objects "preserved" in Mason jars.

Carnie King: The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows (July), by John Thurston, is the story of the audacious carnie who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Lifestyle pioneer and bestselling author Debbie Travis is back with Laugh More (October) a book of ridiculously funny, touching and true stories drawn from her own life and dedicated to everyone in desperate need of a good laugh. And Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces, Because Somebody Asked Me To (September), spans his forty-year writing career.

With fresh, understated wisdom, Jo-Ann Wallace’s A Life in Pieces (August) explores a woman's entire life, without ever forgetting the shadow of mortality trailing every one of us. In Relative To Wind (October), Phoebe Wang delivers thoughtful renderings of her experiences in sailing—from colonial echoes in language to a beautiful look at what it means like to work alongside crewmates in tempestuous conditions, to battling the desire to quit or gender equity in the sporting world. And analyzing eruptions of public irrationality—from apocalyptic medieval crusades and Nazi doctors in extermination camps to suicidal cults—Stephen J. A. Ward presents his evolutionary theory of public irrationalism in Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy (October), demonstrating that human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy.  

Andrea Warner’s incredible first book is back in a fully revised and updated version, We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music (October), a lively collection of essays that re-examines the extraordinary legacies of the four Canadian women who dominated ’90s music and changed the industry forever. From beloved craftivist Diana Weymar (who grew up in BC), creator of the brilliantly subversive "Tiny Pricks Project," comes Crafting a Better World (September), a collection of projects, actions, and essays to transform your anxiety into action during troubled times. And a candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance, Walking Disaster (October), by Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley’s rise from a punk kid in Canada to an international star.

Broadly internationalist but also deeply insightful about the particular cultures and politics of small nations, It’s Nation Time (October), by Jerry White, defends an idea of nation, and a form of nationalism rooted in the potential for diversity, flexibility, and progressive politics. Braiding together her personal journey with the stories of others who are tending to the Earth, in Homing (September), Alice Irene Whittaker has crafted a lyrical, relatable memoir about regeneration and moving from a life of despair to a life of care. And Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River (October), a memoir in prose poetry, examines a period marked by abandoned love, the pain of a lost pregnancy, and pandemic isolation, and is a reckoning with the creative instinct itself.

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal, as Sarah Marie Wiebe shows in Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency (September). From Jody Wilson-Raybould, the #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, comes Reconciling History (November), with Roshan Danesh, a truly unique history of our land—powerful, devastating, remarkable—as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. And join renowned adventurer Frank Wolf on a gripping and epic journey through Canada's unforgiving northern wilderness in Two Springs, One Summer (September). 

From Teresa Wong, the author of Dear Scarlet, comes All Our Ordinary Stories (September), a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents. In Unruly Encounters (November), James Yékú speaks powerfully from his personal experiences as a writer and academic living outside a homeland he sometimes recaptures through his poetry and scholarship.