CBC Books: @teresempierre.bsky.social on books by Black authors that imagine a better world www.cbc.ca/books/3-book...

Some of our recommended reading for #BlackHistoryMonth 📚 Check out the the collection here: https://ow.ly/QHSJ50Ye1KV

✨ #CoverReveal for LEILA AND KHALED by Nyla Matuk ✨ A story of Palestinians—one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land—searching for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession. 🔗 LEILA AND KHALED publishes August 11! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/vtj650Ycs0Q#CoverReveal#BookSky

Introducing ... THE LONGEST DEATH by Kevin Jagernauth, an atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream. 🔗 Publishing June 16th, you can pre-order your copy where books are sold now. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/OsZz50YapN0 #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerSky

The single greatest athletic performance in history.

🌙 SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY by Ashraf Zaghal has been out for one week! Thank you to everyone who attended the launch with Saeed Teebi at Society Clubhouse, and to our friends at Another Story Bookshop for selling books. 🔗 SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY is out now, learn more here: https://ow.ly/NE6m50Yaeq6

The #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics might be kicking off today but we're mentally still in 2018 watching Tessa and Scott's final program. 🥹 🔗 Click here to learn more about TESSA AND SCOTT: https://ow.ly/7OtO50Y9mlY#MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics #Olympics2026 #FigureSkating #TeamCanada

What's on our radar this month? Gripping Suspense, Woman Power, and Sharing the Light! @gooselane.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social #CanLit 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

TOGETHER BY THE SEA is the final novel from legendary Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais, translated from French by Katia Grubisic. 🔗 TOGETHER BY THE SEA publishes February 17th. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/s7sF50Y8k5Y #BookSky #Literature #Canadian

Happy #PubDay to SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY by Ashraf Zaghal 🎉 🌙 “A debut novel that is nuanced, searing, and unforgettable.” —Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian and You Will Not Kill Our Imagination 🔗 Available now where books are sold, learn more here: https://ow.ly/6ypB50Y6mrV

Celebrating the incredible work of these Black authors all #BlackHistoryMonth long. Which of these books are on your TBR list? 🔗 Learn more about these books on HouseofAnansi.com#BlackHistoryMonth#BookSky #BlackBookSky

Augurian Reads is BACK! 🎉📚 & next month’s read is @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social's debut collection, Who Will Bury You? And Other Stories, published with @houseofanansi.bsky.social! Set in Toronto, this fiction book follows the lives of Zimbabweans across twelve short stories!

Is the upcoming #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics making you yearn for the unparalleled joy of watching Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on the ice again? Us too ... us too. 🔗 Learn more about the book TESSA AND SCOTT here: https://ow.ly/m8zk50Y65HU#MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics #Olympics2026 #FigureSkating

🪶 THE BOOK OF BIRDS by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris ✨ Seven years in the making, THE BOOK OF BIRDS is a love letter to the splendours and mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the loss of birds from land, sea and sky. 🔗 Out May 5th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/OuNh50Y5tWV

🌙 In SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY, a Palestinian teenager is forced to confront painful truths about loss, survival, and what it means to find hope. “An assured and superbly crafted novel.” — California Review of Books ✨ 🔗 Out February 3rd, click here to learn more: https://ow.ly/6p7O50Y58Un #booksky

New on the Blog! ✍️ Gillian Deacon, author of A LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE UNKNOWN on embracing uncertainty in 2026. "We'll never find solutions to our problems if we remain incurious and closed off to possibility." 🔗 Check it out here: https://ow.ly/OoWm50Y43sx

🎉 Happy #PubDay to #ALoveAffairwiththeUnknown by Gillian Deacon and #SharingtheLight by Monique Gray Smith! 📚 🔗 Available now at your favourite bookstore. Click here to learn more: https://ow.ly/yAEU50Y1ZTQ#PubDay#ALoveAffairwiththeUnknown#SharingtheLight#booksky

Some nice news….Bobby and Robert are bringing their big gay love story to Canada! Thanks to publishers @houseofanansi.bsky.social

We're honouring this upcoming Holocaust Remembrance Day with these stories about the real life heroes, victims, and lasting impact of the Holocaust. 🔗 Explore these books on our website: https://houseofanansi.com

Transformative practices to navigate life in a changing, challenging world. ✨ Practice 5: Hope ✨ 🔗 SHARING THE LIGHT: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Monique Gray Smith publishes January 27th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/QuSj50XWZjO

⚡ Signing reveal! ⚡ 📚 Check out the authors and illustrators joining us at the OLA Super Conference next week! Visit our booth in the OBPO Pavilion and attend our signings to get exclusive copies of these new books! See you at #OLASC. 😎

✨ Coming May 5th, 2026 ... THE TWO ROBERTS by Damian Barr ✨ An intoxicating, brave, and compassionate novel reimagining one of the most passionate love stories of modern British art. 🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/TguM50Y1t7k Published in Canada by House of Anansi Press. #booksky

Billy-Ray Belcourt's book A MINOR CHORUS is a 2026 Canada Reads contender! 🎉 As champions of Billy-Ray's work, we couldn't be more excited to cheer him on! Tune in to the 2026 Canada Reads debates and learn more about NDN COPING MECHANISMS here: https://ow.ly/44sy50Y1nSq

Today on GET LIT we speak with Su Chang about her novel The Immortal Woman! (exclamation point mine). 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca, on podcasts and here; tinyurl.com/2spbmj38 @houseofanansi.bsky.social

Transformative practices to navigate life in a changing, challenging world. ✨ Practice 4: Happiness ✨ 🔗 SHARING THE LIGHT: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Monique Gray Smith publishes January 27th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/egEn50XWZ6X

⚡️ “A Love Affair with the Unknown brims with curiosity, wisdom, and life. It's a balm for our troubled times. I loved it.” —Claire Cameron, author of How to Survive a Bear Attack 🔗 Out January 27th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/nTU150XZSnl

Congratulations to Karen Solie for winning the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 with WELLWATER! 🎉 🔗 tseliot.com/prize/karen-...

Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*! Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.

Tuesday poem #668 : Farah Ghafoor : Excerpt from "The Last Poet in the World" / @farahghafoor.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/tues...

Transformative practices to navigate life in a changing, challenging world. ✨ Practice 3: Joy ✨ 🔗 SHARING THE LIGHT: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Monique Gray Smith publishes January 27th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/Mikf50XWYO9

We've got new books for a fresh year! Books to help you welcome 2026 from a healthy, happy place! @houseofanansi.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

Celebrating #LetterWritingWeek with LETTERS TO KAFKA by Christine Estima! 💌 “A stunning achievement in historical fiction.” —Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian 🔗 Available now! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/V1ox50XX0p7

Transformative practices to navigate life in a changing, challenging world. ✨ Practice 2: Love ✨ 🔗 SHARING THE LIGHT: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Monique Gray Smith publishes January 27th, learn more here: ow.ly/am5G50XTBBk

LAYAWAY CHILD by Chanel Sutherland explores the emotional landscapes of Caribbean families fractured by migration. In lyrical, linked stories, Sutherland traces the lives of mothers working abroad and the children they left behind. 🔗 Out May 12th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/4Gyy50XVGVB

Savannah Crab interviews Kayla Czaga for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social, about Kayla's @houseofanansi.bsky.social collection "Midway":

Two generations, two timelines, two cultures, two continents. From the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution to the illusions of the American Dream to the awkward embrace of the Toronto theatre community, Su Chang’s The Immortal Woman (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) …

🌙 ✨ SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY by Ashraf Zaghal, out February 3rd “Beautiful and complex … The tension in Ashraf Zaghal’s prose is palpable … A remarkable debut.” —Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree 🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/FfAm50XTbgL

Transformative practices to navigate life in a changing, challenging world. ✨ Practice 1: Gratitude ✨ 🔗 SHARING THE LIGHT: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Monique Gray Smith publishes January 27th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/am5G50XTBBk

EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE by Iryn Tushabe has been selected for the 2026 #CanadaReads longlist! 🎉 🔗 Explore the rest of the longlist here: https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/canada-reads-2026-longlist-9.7029177

Happy New Year, everyone! We're here with some books to help you welcome 2026 from a healthy, happy place. @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01... #CanLit

Read an exclusive excerpt from SHARING THE LIGHT by Monique Gray Smith (out January 27th) in People Magazine below! 💬 https://people.com/sharing-the-light-monique-gray-smith-excerpt-exclusive-11879075

Thrilled to announce that SHARING THE LIGHT is a Winter 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List (@indiebookstoresca.bsky.social)! 🎉 🔗 Explore The Bookseller’s List by clicking here: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/tbl/

"But it catches me later at night, or in winter when branches glow with snow against the dark" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Mystery by Dennis Lee in SoCool (2004 Key Porter), collected in Heart Residence Collected Poems 1967-2017 (2017 @houseofanansi.bsky.social) houseofanansi.com/products/hea...

From all of us at House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books, happy holidays! 💛 Our offices and bookshop will be closed from 5pm today until January 5th, 2026. 🎨 Art by Tine Modeweg-Hansen from COMMUNITY SNOWMAN, story by Deborah Kerbel.

✨ GIVEAWAY on The StoryGraph for SEVEN HEAVENS AWAY (out February 3rd)! ✨ ✨ Giveaway is open from December 19th – January 18th, with 10 available copies to win. ✨ 🔗 Click here to enter: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/7f... Giveaway is open to Canada and the United States only.

Still looking for that perfect gift? 🎁 Pop by the Anansi Bookshop right here in Toronto to shop all our books! We're open at 128 Sterling Road from 1pm - 5pm until this Friday, December 19th, when we'll be taking a short break for the holidays. 👋 We hope to see you there! #toronto #shopcanadian

Cheers to @brianboone.bsky.social and @vulture.com for including my book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, on your Best Comedy Books of 2025. Is that a number one beside it? Further thanks for kindly noting my book’s celebration of humanity and the empathy of comedy. @houseofanansi.bsky.social

"To the surface of the road a trail rose, then a path to the surface of the trail. The desert sent its loose rock up to see." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Road In Is Not The Same Road Out by Karen Solie (2015 @HouseofAnansi.bsky.social Press) houseofanansi.com/products/the...

"Paul Myers (@pulmyears.bsky.social) writes with awe, empathy, and precision about his subjects ... and he was the right choice to conjure a loving and deeply respectful biography on a surprisingly little-documented legend of comedy." www.vulture.com/article/best...

"my throat awake in the street of lindens we both have known a grace of horses our plea to cross the soil" #TodaysPoem #poetry the unmemntioable by Erin Moure from The Unmemntioable (2012 @houseofanansi.bsky.social Press) quillandquire.com/review/the-u...