"a funny, buoyant thriller that tells its story in just over 200 pages... The novel is translated by Sam Taylor, and in testament to their work, I would never have known it wasn’t originally written in English." Thanks @crimefictionlover.bsky.social! crimefictionlover.com/2026/04/holy...

This April, Tobias Carroll recommends six translated titles for you to add to your TBR. Keep scrolling to learn more about the books on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

We’re giving away a copy of MOM CAMP by Veronique Darwin and a MOM CAMP hat! To enter, sign up for our mailing list before Sunday May 3 at 11:59 at assemblypress.ca/subscribe The winner will be notified by email on on Monday May 4, so make sure the email address you use is legit, please!

City TV's John Ackermann chats with Aaron Chapman & Simon Kendall about their brand new book, "Real Enough: The Unlikely Story of Doug & the Slugs." vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/26/d...

Busiest indie bookstore day in history!! Thanks to all those that shopped with us ❤️🥳 Shop indie. Always.

"Beaulieu published this book at the exact time I needed someone to give me permission" -- thank you Jerry Iwanus at The Prairie Maritimer for your review of DO IT WRONG: theprairiemaritimer.com/poetry/ @pressassembly.bsky.social

Of SHORELINES from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @fuse8.bsky.social says “Body positivity isn’t usually associated with mermaid books...a fault on our part. In this novel in verse, the practicalities of what it would take to be a mermaid come into play” afuse8production.slj.com/2026/03/27/p...

Booker Prize Winner Samantha Harvey on Writing, Time, and the Shape of a Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKK0...

A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/

The new platform is the first online bookselling platform to serve both the English- and French-language readers across Canada, representing more than 180 member bookstores.

Meet the shortlisted writers for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction via the @literaryhub.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙 lithub.com/meet-the-sho...

There’s still time to join Canada’s largest bilingual book club, One eRead/Un Livrel, and read What I Know About You with us! On April 30, join Éric Chacour, Pablo Strauss, & Antonio Michael Downing virtually to discuss the book, followed by a live question and answer session. tr.ee/uAqQ1AdB2H 📖

THE COACH HOUSE BOOKS SPRING GROUP LAUNCH! Join us on Thursday, May 21, from 7 to 10 PM, at Society Clubhouse as we launch a number of our Spring 2026 titles. Readings from Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Geoffrey D. Morrison, Sina Queyras, and Maggie Helwig. RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

Announcing our 2026 #GriffinPoetryPrize Shortlist! ✨ Artwork: Toronto Ink Company #2026GriffinPoetryPrize

The 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Which will you be reading next? #WomensPrizeforFiction

We are so happy to share that Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly has been shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to Rozie and all the authors on this year's shortlist! Visit the @womensprize.bsky.social website to read more about the shortlisted books 📚 #WomensPrizeForFiction

On a different note, big kids and #teens too have a #BookBirthday to celebrate! from @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS MUSIC is a “revelatory, beguiling celebration of sound and observation, i” says @ala-booklist.bsky.social www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

“A thoroughly enjoyable book that will make an excellent storytime read-aloud” MY TIGER from @geckopress.bsky.social flyingoffmybookshelf.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-t...

A rare Vancouver reading from Phoebe Wang! Phoebe will be joining Joanne Leow in launching their @pressassembly.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social books at Iron Dog Books. April 30th, 6:30 PM, details here: irondogbooks.com/events/48383...

We spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚 www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...

Here's my ranking of Bernardine Evaristo's novels and memoir, now online:

“Jeyamohan stages his fundamental inquiry into the nature of existence and the meaning of values that runs through all his novels.” Suchitra Ramachandran on translating The Abyss.

From @geckopress.bsky.social MY TIGER “is a brilliant, whimsical, and deeply empathetic exploration of the big feelings that reside inside every child” kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-t...

Our translator-in-residence Polly Barton, discussing her incredible novel, WHAT AM I, A DEER? 🦌

Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by Arthur Sze and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, is out today. What an honor to be included in this vibrant anthology. Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

A #CanadaReads behind the scenes fun fact: at the end of each day, super producer Lucy emails me adorable pictures of @stevedangle20.bsky.social.

Out today On the Calculation of IV!

'A lot of romance isn’t very sane, or healthy, and there are aspects of it that are overtly dangerous, but that’s where the fascination lies. That interplay between delusion and the real bits.' Polly Barton talks about WHAT AM I, A DEER? in WORMS: www.wormsmagazine.com/wormhole/pol...

Happy #BookBirthday to @nubeocho.bsky.social on the arrival of APRIL'S JOURNEY “A dialogue-sparking meditation on a global crisis” in #picturebook format www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Now reading Businessmen As Lovers by Rosemary Tonks. “Tonks throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change.” — London Review of Books www.ndbooks.com/book/busines...

…in real life I’m actually a pretty nice person.” New interview with @blipstress.bsky.social on GENDER REVEAL podcast!! Hear her talk about everything from her personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates to her and @tuck.bsky.social shared grievance against contemporary fiction LISTEN: shorturl.at/9NvaU

Join Katherine Koller for the launch of Earthen: Stories ☀️ 📍Belgravia Community League Upper Hall 11540 73 Ave NW Edmonton Alberta 🗓️Thursday, May 14th 2026, 7:30 pm Pre-order your copy from our website or from your local bookstore greatplainspress.ca/books/earthen/

SOON... Canada Reads, Day One... youtube.com/live/i5Kb4sZ...

“Using characters and letters from various alphabets, Ariza creates fantastical animals that fill the protagonist’s story adventures, beautifully representing language as the foundation of stories” in THE BOOKSHOP coming from @kubepublishing.bsky.social ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...

Welcoming Egana Djabbarova to New York City to celebrate publication of her novel MY DREADFUL BODY. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

“Nature’s Genius maps aspects of the collision between humanity and some of the other creatures that live, or attempt to live, alongside us.” Chris Arthur reviews this “whetstone fashioned precisely to enact” a “desperately needed sharpening.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/n...

#Mglit #newrelease #bookreview THE GRAND HOTEL OF FEELINGS WORKBOOK at YABC! yabookscentral.com/middle-grade... #feelingsandemotions #theraputic #interactive #workbook #companionmaterial

Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...

"The novel adopts the tropes of detective fiction only to set them aside, conducting not an investigation but an autopsy of a society on the brink of upheaval." Amany Alsiefy reviews "The End of the Sahara": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/algeria-crime-novel-said-khatibi-desert-romance-review/

★ Gayathiri Kamalakanthan’s “scintillating” debut YA verse novel BAD QUEER, illustrated by Chi Nwosu, is a “poetic slice-of-life portrait [that’s] not to be missed”

Dwight Garner says THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU is, "A humid, meandering, late-period miniature masterpiece of new journalism" in the @nytimes.com, specifically calling out @jwolcott.bsky.social's intro as, "a model for the form" (I agree). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

"an edifying, beautifully composed wellspring of moral courage." A starred review for Instructions for the End of the World by Maggie Helwig from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! www.publishersweekly.com/9781552455210

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova excerpted @literaryhub.bsky.social, translated by Lisa C. Hayden: "According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked . . . because I was unmarried." lithub.com/my-dreadful-...

Toronto Star reader call-out: Toronto’s independent bookstores — which are your favourites?

It was so great to see lots of people out for the CBC Mainstreet #CanadaReads event at the Truro Library yesterday! And thank you to Tyler Hellard for coming into the store today to sign books! I still have copies of all the Canada Reads books if you haven't gotten yours yet! 🍁📚🦆

‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced

We're thrilled to reveal the cover of The Dying Light by bestselling author Ann Cleeves, the fourth novel in the Two Rivers Series featuring Matthew Venn, available September 2026!

We thrilled to have two books on this year's International Booker Prize shortlist! Congratulations to all the authors, translators, publishers on the shortlist!

A huge thank you to our #InternationalBooker2026 judging panel: Natasha Brown, Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango and Nilanjana S. Roy. Here's what they had to say about this year's shortlist.

The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, written by Shida Bazyar and translated by Ruth Martin, is ‘timely, tender, political and wonderfully human... exploring a dream of freedom that never dies’. Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...