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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 15h

Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!

André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Why We Write the Extra Details: Kate Cayley, author of Property (out today), on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self: lithub.com/why-we-write...

Why We Write the Extra Details

Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, p…

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight!

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d

PROPERTY, by Kate Cayley, officially releases next week on Tuesday, October 7! Celebrate its launch with us at Society Clubhouse, from 7 to 10 PM. Kate Cayley will be in conversation with Steven Beattie.

RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to Property by Kate Cayley!

Join us tonight, October 7, to celebrate the launch of Cayley’s debut novel. Doors open at 7 PM at Society Clubhouse (967 College St., Toronto). We'll hear from Cayley, who will be joined by Steven Beattie. Full details can be found at chbooks.com/events

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Join us on Tuesday, October 14 to celebrate the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA by Jumoke Verissimo! Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto), from 7 PM.

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/circumtrau...

CIRCUMTRAUMA - Jumoke Verissimo (with Hoa Nguyen)

Join us for the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA, by Jumoke Verissimo. With Hoa Nguyen.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Published in 2022, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew uses photos, maps, and treaty documents to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada.

Book cover of Whitemud Walking alongside the text: "Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew Weigel uses photos, maps, and treaty documents, including those related to his own family, to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada. Fun fact: Matthew's visual poems that marginalize treaty texts have occasioned several calls from bookstores concerned the book had printing errors!"

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow morning we'll be sending out a giveaway only to newsletter subscribers for a VERY limited version of the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition. Winners will receive a hardcover signed by the author, André Alexis, as well as Eileen Myles, who wrote a new introduction for the anniversary.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d

Sleeping Car Porter, What I Know About You, Encampment, Fifteen Dogs, and Messy Cities! We love libraries and library readers of our books. 🧡

lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · 5d

With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here're the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in Sept 2025. Feat. a top 10 from: @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social & @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social.

A poster reading "What indie books did Canadians borrow in September 2025?" Featuring the covers of the top 10 most-borrowed books: The Sleeping Car Porter, The Marrow Thieves, Dandelion, Moon of the Crusted Snow, What I Know About You, Jonny Appleseed, Retirement Income for Life, Indigenous Rights in One Minute, Scarborough, Denison Avenue.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d

A very cute reminder that if you are a dog person, have read and loved Fifteen Dogs, or are interested in seeing what the signatures of two acclaimed writers look like on a beautiful hardcover book, you should sign up for the COACH HOUSE BOOKS NEWSLETTER! 💌

signup.e2ma.net/signup/19102...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 5d

PROPERTY, by Kate Cayley, officially releases next week on Tuesday, October 7! Celebrate its launch with us at Society Clubhouse, from 7 to 10 PM. Kate Cayley will be in conversation with Steven Beattie.

RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 6d

Heather Birrell and Ben Ladouceur at the Coach House! Join us TONIGHT (Oct. 2), from 5 to 7 PM, at 80 bpNichol Lane to hear brief readings from these two authors.

For all CH events, head to: chbooks.com/events !

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 7d

👀 Are you signed up for our newsletter? This weekend, we'll be hosting a very special, very secret giveaway in celebration of the official publication of André Alexis's Fifteen Dogs: 10th Anniversary Edition, available only to newsletter subscribers! 👀

DON'T MISS IT: signup.e2ma.net/signup/19102...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Hi, Peter! Bluesky is a little stingy with character counts - on our longer posts on Facebook and Instagram, and in bp's bio on our site, we of course mention his being a member of the Four Horsemen. 🖤

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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 7d

The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with ✨your favourite indie’s favourite indies✨

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP

bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.

Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d

We encourage you to listen to this reading today, as well as to read Arden Ogg's full reflection on the significance of Solomon Ratt's translation for Cree Language Reclamation, as a starting point for your Truth and Reconciliation Day work: creeliteracy.org/2025/09/18/c...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Arden Ogg, Founding Director of Cree Literacy Network, writes: "This new edition is fully bilingual in English and Cree, presented in parallel on facing pages: a literal and figurative gesture “restoration” of stolen language, and a reminder of the significance of Cree âhkamêyimowin / persistance."

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Today on Truth and Reconciliation Day (September 30), Cree Literacy Network has put together a post featuring Solomon Ratt reading – in th-dialect Cree – from his translation of “Mama’s Testament: Truth and Reconciliation," the opening poem: creeliteracy.org/2025/09/28/f...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d

One week of the tenth anniversary edition of Rosanna Deerchild's CALLING DOWN THE SKY out in the world! In this new edition, Rosanna Deerchild's English poetry is set alongside Solomon Ratt's translation into Cree.

A hand holding a copy of calling down the sky, outside the coach house.

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 9d

The perfect new airplane read by @pleasuremotors.bsky.social from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social — it’s like spending a few hours with your smartest, most self-deprecating friend who happens to know a frightening amount about the twinned histories of art and commerce. chbooks.com/Books/H/How-...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow at Queen Books, celebrate Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything with editors Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc, who will be in conversation with contributors Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste!

RSVP to this event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-messy...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Yes! We've highlighted her French Kiss, or: A Pang's Progress (from 1986 which is now published within The Blue Books), and also the larger Nicole Brossard reader, Avant Desire, from a few years ago.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning on this first day post-WOTS! We had a blast meeting everyone that came out and picked up a book from us.

We have a ton of events coming up & a very special giveaway later this week that you don't want to miss, so make sure to sign up for our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/19102...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

We love Nicole Brossard. <3 Hope to hear what you think!

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Wherein I review Horsefly, a disgustingly great piece of eco-horror from @mireillegagne.bsky.social and @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Cover of Horsefly novel on orange and beige background

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