Carol Matthews died in Nanaimo on December 18, 2025, at the age of 83. Carol’s family has shared a lovely tribute to her online (https://www.online-tribute.com/CarolMatthews) […]
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Cheers to The Longest Night by Lauren Carter, named a Quill and Quire Notable Book of 2025! “Eerie yet heartfelt, The Longest Night is one of my
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Thanks to Alberta Views and reviewer Bryn Evans for reviewing Tim Bowling’s Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand! As much a truly delightful read as
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Congratulations to Tim Bowling and Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand, selected as one of the Top 100 books of 2025 by the Globe and
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Get 30% off all titles on our website! Use coupon code holiday25 when placing your order. 30% discount offer lasts until January 3, 2026. Thank you
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Congratulations to Benjamin Hertwig, who is shortlisted for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Juiceboxers! Congratulations to all of the
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Freehand Books was very honoured to receive three awards at the 2025 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Our thanks to the Book Publishers Association of Alberta
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Our thanks to Alberta Views and reviewer Kate Black for their insightful review of Mikka Jacobsen’s Good Victory: “One possible thesis of the book is
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Congratulations to Tim Bowling, a finalist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand! The jury says,
A big thank you to McNally Robinson Saskatoon and to Shawn Mooney of Shawn Breathes Books for hosting Sharon Butala’s launch of How to Breathe
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Our fall titles have been featured on 49th Shelf’s fall preview! Bradley Somer’s We Are All of Us Left Behind, Judith Pond’s That’s Where You
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The Literary Review of Canada‘s Bookworm column reviews Tim Bowling’s collection of short stories, Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand: “Stories in Tim Bowling’s Graveyard Shift
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