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Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
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'Tis the season for a HOLIDAY SALE!

For the first day of our Holiday Sale, all titles (including our newest releases and recent award winners) are 15% off and eligible for free Canadian shipping!

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Our Holiday Sale continues: all books at www.chbooks.com are 17% off today!

Today we're recommending poetry for the techy people who think they hate poetry. Perfect for your cousin who's always up on the latest tech and your brother-in-law who loves tech bro podcasts: chbooks.com/Collections/...
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Congratulations to Ravi Jain on winning the 2025 Siminovitch Prize! With Coach House Books, Jain is a co-author of What You Won't Do For Love: A Conversation and has published his adaptation (with Miriam Fernandes) of Mahabharata.

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Canada's top theatre honour announces winner for $100,000 prize
The founder of Why Not Theatre won Canada’s top theatre honour at a ceremony Monday evening.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We <3 library readers! What I Know About You, Encampment, The Sleeping Car Porter, Messy Cities, and Fifteen Dogs among the most borrowed indie-published books.
With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here're the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in October 2025. Feat. a top 10 from: @ecwpress.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, and @arsenalpulp.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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16% off today!

Experts say books are probably the best gift to give.
Our picks for today are books that make Toronto look actually kind of nice for those new to the city. Perfect reads for those on your list who are new to Toronto, or for those Torontonians you know who love the city (...or maybe WANT to love the city): chbooks.com/Collections/...
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Happy holidays from our coach house!

Today, all books (in all their formats, including paperback, special edition hardcover, audiobook, and ebook) are on sale for 16% off — and all orders are eligible for free Canadian shipping.

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December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So many wonderful books on this catalog, including Will Rees's Hypochondria. ❤️

Shop at your local indies this holiday season!!
Not so great at compiling lists beyond daily To-Dos, but we did assemble a massive year-end catalog.

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December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Messy Cities at Book City Danforth!
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything (ed. @johnlorinc.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, Leslie Woo, and Zahra Ebrahim) on @canadianarchitect.bsky.social's Best Books for Canadian Architects 2025 list!

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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
'Tis the season for a HOLIDAY SALE!

For the first day of our Holiday Sale, all titles (including our newest releases and recent award winners) are 15% off and eligible for free Canadian shipping!

🎁🌟 chbooks.com🌟🎁
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Wrapping up this year’s #ALUGiftGuide, author & educator Lindsay Zier-Vogel highlights 4 thoughtful, holiday-ready reads.

From essays & short stories to nonfiction, these picks blend humour, culinary flair, insight, and heart—perfect for almost everyone on your list!

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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Maggie Helwig’s Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community is featured on @theglobeandmail.com's 100 Best Books of 2025!

Learn more about Encampment here: chbooks.com/Books/E/Enca...
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 2 is one of @theobserveruk.bsky.social's books of the year 2025, included in their essential guide to what to give this holiday season!

Discover The Xenotext: Book 2: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"No consolation prize or midlife bucket list
might be counted beyond a simple day

of textbook weather."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Moirai by David O'Meara from Masses on Radar (2021 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/M/Mass...
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Explore Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody (edited by Emily Macrae) with two upcoming events in Toronto!

For further details and to RSVP: chbooks.com/Events
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated from the French by Pablo Strauss, has been nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award!

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What I Know About You was nominated both by the Toronto Public Library and Bibliothèque de Québec!
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Congratulations to What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated by Pablo Strauss, for its nomination!

Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚

69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.

Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...

#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"I'm afraid the award has really been completely overshadowed. The eviction of the encampment was such a trauma." - Maggie Helwig on winning the City of Toronto Book Award less than 24 hours before the city cleared the encampment she writes about in the book.
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Maggie Helwig
Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 11/17/2025 · 26m
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November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
At long last, the Coach House Books’ 60th Anniversary Party podcast is available to listen to!

Listen to words from Alana Wilcox, Stan Bevington, and a great number of guest speakers connected to the press here: tr.ee/VLGO1G8lz7

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November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nathan Whitlock speaks to Maggie Helwig about winning the Toronto Book Award, the clearing of the encampment at her church, and her long, ongoing writing career, which includes a new book out from us next spring!

Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Spoiler for tomorrow’s episode.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca

@coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Find it at all the podcast places.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
From the Coach House archives, Guy Maddin’s From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings (2003)!

Read about all of our featured titles from the Coach House archive (celebrating 60 years this year!) on our blog: chbooks.com/Blog/Celebra...
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Spoiler for tomorrow’s episode.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca

@coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Find it at all the podcast places.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Ian Williams, author of Word Problems (Coach House Books, 2020) and a member of our Poetry Board, on Coach House’s sixtieth anniversary: 'Behind the scenes, I’ve found people who love poetry, who get their emotions tangled up with manuscripts, who drool a little when they read a good line.’
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Tonight at 7!
Tonight in Toronto. Art, money, artists, money, Sarah, Type Books, me, money, great hair and money. And art.
See you there.

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November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The #SMUReadingSeries presents "An evening with Kate Cayley" on November 27. Winner of the Trillium Award, O. Henry Prize and Mitchell Prize for Poetry, Cayley will read from her new novel Property, published by @coachhousebooks.bsky.social. 7 pm in SB 255: loom.ly/bnvuCYY @smuenglish.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In Verdun tonight, David Berry will be joining Raymond Biesinger for his book launch at Pulp Books!

And tomorrow, in Toronto: Berry's own book launch for How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists at TYPE Books (Queen St. W.). See you there.
Catch David Berry at two events this week, talking all things art and money. On Weds., Nov. 12, he’ll be at Pulp Books in Verdun in conversation with Raymond Biesinger (who designed the cover of HAMM&HMMA), and on Thurs., Nov. 13, please join us for the Toronto Book Launch at TYPE Books!
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM