Doreen Vanderstoop’s Watershed is reviewed in The New Southern Fugitives: “Living as we are in this bewildering time, Watershed chose the perfect moment to arrive. The year
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It’s a rave review for Universal Disorder in the Vancouver Sun, from reviewer Tom Sandborn. “[A] work of glittering brilliance . . . make no
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Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review has reviewed Winter Child by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau and translated by Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, alongside
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2021 New ownership at Freehand Books Award-winning, Calgary-based literary publisher Freehand Books has a new owner as of January 1,
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Heidi Greco reviews John Gould’s The End of Me in the Ormsby Review: As for reviewing a book as expansive as The end of me, I
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Join the Lethbridge Public Library as they host the final speaker in their Fall Reading Series, Dawn Dumont. Dawn discusses her novel, The Prairie Chicken
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Thanks to Angie Abdou and Daybreak Alberta for profiling Freehand Books, and some of our latest books, in this year’s Christmas Book Show! We’re so
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Carole Gerson reviews Dede Crane’s One Madder Woman in The Ormsby Review: “In many ways [Morisot’s] story invites comparison with that of Emily Carr (which
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Dave Williamson reviews Leona Theis’s If Sylvie Had Nine Lives in the Winnipeg Free Press, calling it “sophisticated comedy . . . Sylvie emerges as
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It’s great to see Bernice Friesen’s novel Universal Disorder selected for Quill and Quire‘s list of 2020 Book of the Year: Industry Picks, as selected
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Congratulations to Sarah Leavitt, who won the Vine Award (Fiction) for Canadian Jewish literature for her graphic novel, Agnes, Murderess! The jury said, “Sarah Leavitt
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You can watch a recording from the 2020 Victoria Festival of Authors — “Simply Unbelievable: Fresh Fiction for Unfathomable Times,” featuring Zsuzsi Gartner, Catherine Hernandez,