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Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence Catherine McKercher 9781773100982
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a... -
The Gift Child by Elaine McCluskey 9781773103242
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76How important is truth? What is normal? These are the questions raised in The Gift Child, Elaine McCluskey's fictional oeuvre - a funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty... -
Anything but a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak by Nathan Greenfield
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (English Non-Fiction)A Globe and Mail's Spring Book Preview SelectionMolly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying... -
GWG: Piece by Piece Catherine C. Cole 9780864926418
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.60Winner, Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Award, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publications, and Redgees Legacy AwardShortlisted, Robert Kroetsch City of... -
Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift by Adam Welch 9781773104393
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.38An avid supporter of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, prodigious contemporary art collector Phil Lind (1943-2023) was drawn to artworks that shone a light on social and political... -
Strange Heaven by Lynn Coady
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award Winner, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award Winner, Dartmouth Book Award Winner, Thomas Head Raddall Award Finalist, Governor General's... -
Bombs and Barbed Wire: Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 by Ronald Cormier
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada's armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war effort... -
Skin by Catherine Bush 9781773104317
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (Short Stories) Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada's most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into... -
Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Co-Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionPatricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision,... -
The Best of The Great Trail, Volume 2: British Columbia to Northern Ontario on the Trans Canada Trail Michael Haynes 9781773100326
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.52What is the longest, most exciting hiking and cycling trail in the world? It can only be The Great Trail. Spanning the entirety of Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic Oceans, this... -
The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan Andy Flanagan 9781773100050
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06Shortlisted, 2018 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingSuggested Reading by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative AssociationNear the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers... -
!["Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers": Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 by Andrew Theobald 9781773101248](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2267204/2266554/9781773101248__14358.1709728901.jpg?c=1 ""Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers": Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 by Andrew Theobald 9781773101248")
"Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers": Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 by Andrew Theobald 9781773101248
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.40Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton,... -
The Forbidden Purple City by Philip Huynh 9781773100784
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A... -
Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World's Largest Syrian Refugee Camp by Karen E. Fisher 9781773102351
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.60"The recipes in Zaatari are glorious. Passed down the generations from mother to daughter, cooking keeps the people of Zaatari camp connected to the towns and villages of the Syria they fled." -... -
Walk, Eat, Repeat: Culinary Adventures on the Camino de Santiago by Lindy Mechefske 9781773103280
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.59Shortlisted, Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)A fresh take on the Camino packed with the flavours of northern Spain. In this deeply personal culinary travelogue, food culture writer Lindy... -
On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user.Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and "compelling." In 2016, Carlyn... -
Joyce Wieland: Heart on by Anne Grace 9781773104409
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £38.48Bold, audacious, and colourful, Joyce Wieland was the first woman living artist to have a solo exhibition at both the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was a major figure... -
Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rocks by Kevin Snair
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30"A remarkable and magical place enriched and enlivened by Kevin's tenderness, sensitivity, and skill." - Deborah Carr, author of Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka. Every year, thousands... -
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 by Andaleeb Badiee Banta 9781773103181
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £32.52Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Second Prize (Prose Illustrated) and IPPY Award Silver Medal (Fine Arts) Gathering together just over 250 objects, including paintings, prints, scientific... -
Different Beasts J.R. McConvey 9781773101262
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative FictionA bear runs amok in a luxury hotel. A daily swim at the local pool becomes a question of life or death. The champion of a border wall faces... -
The Great Trees of New Brunswick by David Palmer 9781773100951
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99An Atlantic BestsellerNew Brunswick is home to more than five billion trees, many native to the Acadian forest and some exotics introduced by settlers. For this new edition of The Great Trees of New... -
305 Lost Buildings of Canada by Raymond Biesinger
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Winner, AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Second Prize (Prose Illustrated) A National Bestseller The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more -... -
Our Land: The Maritimes by G P Gould 9781773104539
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Our Land: The Maritimes examines the historical and legal background to Indigenous land claims in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, tracing the patterns of land dealings that... -
Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game by Karissa Donkin 9781773104362
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76When the first puck dropped in the Professional Women's Hockey League in January 2024, it had been a long time coming. Women have been playing hockey since at least 1890 and playing professionally... -
It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Wake of Slavery in Canada by Andrew Hunter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76"My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law ... came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths,... -
Jewish Life in Canada: William Kurelek by Sarah Milroy 9781773103198
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £23.54William Kurelek (1927-1977) is a beloved figure in Canadian art, a revered Ukrainian-Canadian painter whose works express his deeply felt immigrant experience and his compassionate vision of humanity... -
The Last Hockey Game by Bruce McDougall 9780864923783
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.52Finalist, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth time the teams had ever played each other in the Stanley... -
Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence by Nancy Campbell 9781773101392
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.34Winner, 2021 Melva J. Dwyer AwardItee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by their... -
How to Be Alone by Heather Nolan 9781773102856
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30A breathtaking duet of spare, poetic novellas documenting the double-edged sword of self-acceptance. Heather Nolan returns with How to Be Alone, a pair of novellas that depict the euphoric highs of a... -
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity by Gerald McMaster 9781773102993
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £32.52Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated) Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between... -
Crow Gulch Douglas Walbourne-Gough 9781773101019
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ AwardFrom the author: I cannot let the story of... -
Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology by George MacBeath 9780864923806
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that are... -
A Like Vision: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by Ian Dejardin 9781773102054
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.51Winner, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide SelectionA Like Vision is a lavish... -
Waterfalls of Nova Scotia: A Guide Benoit Lalonde 9781773100227
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.29An Atlantic BestsellerNova Scotia is blessed with numerous must-see waterfalls, and this volume from self-described "waterfall addict" Benoit Lalonde brings together 100 of the province's best... -
Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality, 3rd Edition by Michael Haynes
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99A comprehensive hiking guide to Atlantic Canada's largest urban space, Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality, 3rd Edition, marks the arrival of a new compendium by the East Coast's most... -
Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan 9781773102818
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their... -
Atlantic Salmon Flies 2 / Mouches Pour Le Saumon Atlantique 2 by Jacques Héroux 9781773104423
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.52Following the resounding success of Atlantic Salmon Flies / Mouches pour le saumon atlantique, master fly tier, angler, and author Jacques Heroux's eagerly awaited second volume unveils a treasure... -
Hiking Trails of Mainland Nova Scotia, 10th Edition by Michael Haynes 9781773102504
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Calling all adventure seekers: the 10th edition of Hiking Trails of Mainland Nova Scotia is now available. This gorgeously illustrated trail guide shows off the most beautiful hiking routes that Nova... -
Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador by Mireille Eagan
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £31.95Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in ResearchIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and...