“Okay, imagine the craft and form of Caroline Adderson’s Ellen in Pieces, a premise and scope like Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, and an attention to the
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Sarah Leavitt has been nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Best Cartoonist for Agnes, Murderess! Congratulations to Sarah and to her fellow nominees: Brigitte
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Chatelaine included Leona Theis’s If Sylvie Had Nine Lives in their list of 6 New Lighthearted Books to Read This Fall. Thanks to Casey Plett
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Dede Crane’s novel One Madder Woman, which explores the life of Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, has been included on CBC’s list of 60 works of
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The Book Publishers Association of Alberta announced the shortlist for the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards, and Freehand is nominated for four awards. The award
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Sharon Butala’s Season of Fury and Wonder is the winner of The 2019 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize! Congratulations, Sharon. The award, with
Robert J. Wiersema reviews Doreen Vanderstoop’s Watershed in the Toronto Star: …the novel as a whole is powerful and thought-provoking. The book is based on
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Congratulations to Lauren Carter, whose novel This Has Nothing to Do with You has been awarded the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction! Lauren Carter was
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Amy Reiswig has a great review of John Gould’s The End of Me in Focus on Victoria. She calls it “a blend of trampoline, time
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Congratulations to Sarah Leavitt, whose graphic novel Agnes, Murderess has been shortlisted for the Doug Wright Award for Best Book! The 2020 Doug Wright Awards
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Caterina Edwards reviews Lauren Carter’s This Has Nothing to Do with You for Alberta Views: “I savoured each page . . . I discovered that
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Effective March 1, 2020, Freehand Books will be distributed in Canada and the U.S. by University of Toronto Press Distribution. If you have any questions, please contact Kelsey
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