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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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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d
Holiday notice: our coach house will be closed from December 20 to January 5! Any orders placed after the morning of Dec. 19 will be processed and shipped out no earlier than Jan. 5. 🎄📚

We will continue to offer free Canadian shipping until the end of the year for those book orders that can wait!
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"It would be nice / to interfere with the accuracy of the world."
- Lisa Robertson, Palinode
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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"what becomes clear in [ @maggiehelwig.bsky.social 's ] narrative is the astonishing resilience the community that set itself up on her church’s lawn has developed over time."

Steven Beattie reviews Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community www.shakespeareanrag.com/a-life-of-co...
“A life of constant displacement”: Maggie Helwig compels readers to empathize with an unhoused community in her hear searing book Encampment – That Shakespearean Rag
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December 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread!

Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
Cover of “Messy Cities: Why we can’t plan everything” with @johnlorinc.bsky.social @jasonthorne.bsky.social etc
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Eric Schmaltz, I Confess / @coachhousebooks.bsky.social ;
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Eric Schmaltz, I Confess
In truth, I was surprised to learn that I was a witness to this collection’s inception. As I prepared to write this afterword,...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Attention all booksellers, librarians, and influencers! Sign up for our newsletter created specifically for you, in your book-focused role, as we head into 2026 with anticipation for our Spring/Summer season: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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A hand holding a copy of Riverwork's ARC. A hand holding a copy of The Coffin of Honey's ARC. A hand holding a copy of The Mulai's ARC. Covers of Instructions for the End of the World's ARC in the CH press.
December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"This book, for its interest in glitch, intimacy, beauty, anachronism, and the voice coming from inside of the computer, is striking, difficult, and altogether magnetic." mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/i-am...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I feel shame singing for my supper but my debut book REBOUND from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social is the great Canadian novel! More info here: chbooks.com/Books/R/Rebo...
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Holiday notice: our coach house will be closed from December 20 to January 5! Any orders placed after the morning of Dec. 19 will be processed and shipped out no earlier than Jan. 5. 🎄📚

We will continue to offer free Canadian shipping until the end of the year for those book orders that can wait!
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ACP welcomed Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture,
@marcmillermp.bsky.social to the @coachhousebooks.bsky.social office for an excellent conversation about books, publishing, cultural exports, and more. Thanks to the Minister and his team for joining us and to Coach House for hosting.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I loved loved loved loved LOVED this book
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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@antonhur.com recommends Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter for your holiday gifting needs: 'Sometimes, you come across a novel so perfect that you are confident that whomever you gift it to will love it.'

Read his full recommendation at the link below. 🎄
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The Carol Shields Prize's Silent Auction ends tonight (Dec. 16) -- win a selection of Coach House titles, including two Shields Prize Finalists (Pale Shadows and The Sleeping Car Porter)!
carolshieldsprize.bsky.social The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social · 9d
Last days to bid! Silent auction open to the U.S. and Canada can.givergy.com/CarolShieldsPrize-SilentAuction-2025

Today’s spotlight:
December 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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“Even as Harold Sonny Ladoo humbly professed to be an apprentice novelist, he considered himself a better, more authentic writer than Naipaul and would clash with anyone who dared to challenge that notion.” —@colincraiggrant.bsky.social
It Takes a Village | Colin Grant
The Trinidadian writer Harold Sonny Ladoo’s novel Yesterdays is relentlessly rude and crude, but also bold, experimental, truthfully ugly, and unforgettable.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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‘Yesterdays is relentlessly rude and crude, but also bold, experimental, truthfully ugly, and unforgettable,’ says Colin Grant in the December 18th issue of The New York Review of Books! Full piece: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

And read Yesterdays for yourself: chbooks.com/Books/Y/Yest...
It Takes a Village | Colin Grant
The Trinidadian writer Harold Sonny Ladoo’s novel Yesterdays is relentlessly rude and crude, but also bold, experimental, truthfully ugly, and unforgettable.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Originally published in 1967, Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters is our feature from the Coach House archive this week:
Book cover of The Dainty Monsters by Michael Ondaatje next to the text: "The first poetry book by one of our national treasures. The cover of The Dainty Monsters is from a piece of batik fabric Michael loved – Stan reports that it took him DAYS in the darkroom to create the film required to print the four colours on the jacket of this gorgeous hardcover. Thus began a long-standing friendship and a remakable literary career." Interior cover flap for The Dainty Monsters. Interior page of TDM. Interior page of TDM.
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Coming February 10, 2026! Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage. A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary disabled theatre artists, edited by Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson.

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An image of the book cover Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Dead and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage, edited by Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson, on a light blue background with bokeh light effects. Text reading: February 10, 2026, in a bright yellow font. Below, text reading: A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary disabled theatre artists, in a dark blue font. Text is on a light blue background with bokeh light effects. Two photos of the editors, Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson, in black and white. Beside each photo are the editors’ respective bios. Alex Bulmer’s reads: Named one of the most influential disabled artists by UK’s Power Magazine, Alex Bulmer is an award-winning writer, actor, director, and educator with over thirty years of practice across theatre, film, radio, and television. She is fuelled by a curiosity of the improbable, dedicated to interdependent practice, and deeply informed by her experience of becoming blind. Debbie Patterson’s reads: Debbie Patterson is a playwright, director, and actor. Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, she was a member of the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival in 2023. She is in demand across the country as a consultant on crip aesthetics/accessibility and as a dramaturge versed in disability aesthetics. She lives a wheelchair-enabled life in Winnipeg (Treaty 1).
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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'Each story in the collection reads as fresh, infused with empathy and curiosity for the human condition, and a warmth and humour that sit in balance.' 49th Shelf on Robert McGill's Simple Creatures:
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Congratulations to Saskia Vogel for making the 2025 Shortlist of @societyofauthors.bsky.social's John Calder Translation Prize, for her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's Bread and Milk.

For North American readers, you can discover Bread and Milk here: chbooks.com/Books/B/Brea...
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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'[The book's essays] bring to vivid life what it means to be a part of a connected community.'

Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Building Blocks | Literary Review of Canada
Frances Bula reviews “The Rise of the Neighbourhoodin Canada, 1880s–2020s” by Richard Harris and “Messy Cities,” edited by Dylan Reid, et al.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This Thursday in Mississauga, join authors Kate Cayley (Property) and Jumoke Verissimo (Circumtrauma) at The Ampersand Review's December Reading Series!

More info & RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ampers...
Event poster for The Ampersand Review's December Reading Series, with Cayley and Verissimo. The poster features small author photos of Cayley and Verissimo, alongside their respective book covers. Sheridan College HMC Campus, at the Creative Campus Gallery in the B-Wing. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, from 6-8 PM.
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Final hours of our Holiday Sale! Shop all books at 22% OFF, and enjoy free Canadian shipping, at www.chbooks.com until midnight tonight! 📚🎁
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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!

🎁🌟 chbooks.com🌟🎁
A photo of the coach house tinged blue, with the red text: CHB Holiday Sale! From Dec 1-8, shop a new deal every day and enjoy free Caandian shipping on all orders on chbooks.com"
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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LAST CHANCE FOR OUR HOLIDAY SALE: shop 22% off all books on our site until midnight tonight, including our picks below!

Today we're recommending super smart nonfiction for those who prefer podcasts: chbooks.com/Collections/...
A hand holding a stack of books, featuring On Nostalgia by David Berry, Hypochondria by Will Rees, Dream Sates by John Lorinc, Big Mall by Kate Black, Made-Up by Daphne B.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Books for those who like to eat while they read! Now available for 21% off, plus free Cdn shipping. Our holiday sale ends tomorrow night!

Shop our picks: chbooks.com/Collections/...
A hand holding a stack of books, in front of the kitchen at CHB. Featuring Curry, The Trouble with Brunch, Bread and Milk, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings.
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture,' said the Village Voice (RIP, sadly) of Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip.

Our feature from the Coach House archive today, in celebration of 60 years: chbooks.com/Blog/Celebra...
Book cover of LRMSW alongside the text:'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture,' said the Village Voice (RIP, sadly) of Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. The first installment in our ongoing beautiful relationship with Robertson and her visionary poetic project, LRMSW's (yes, her name is part of the title!) poems mine the past to find a lexicon for the future. 'My fidelity is my own disaster' is all that the back cover copy says, in metallic embossing, but we disagree. Interior page of LRMSW. Back cover of LRMSW.
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Our Holiday Sale ends tomorrow! Shop all books on our site (in all their formats, including special edition hardcover, audiobook, and ebook) today at 21% off, and enjoy free Canadian shipping on all book orders!
coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 22d
'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🌟🎁
A photo of the coach house tinged blue, with the red text: CHB Holiday Sale! From Dec 1-8, shop a new deal every day and enjoy free Caandian shipping on all orders on chbooks.com"
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM