Véhicule Press

01/06/2026

Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window https://theonion.com/publishers-break-down-door-as-george-r-r-martin-escapes-through-bathroom-window/

12/26/2025

This terrific review of Jason Guriel's FAN MAIL in The Wall Street Journal clocked in the day after Christmas, but was worth the wait. (Link in the comments below)

12/03/2025

Véhicule Press will be at the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec's Read Quebec Book Fair this weekend at the Casa d'Italia, along with many other wonderful publishers from Quebec and beyond!

Our authors will be at the fair to sign books and meet readers:

David Homel: Sat Dec 6, 3-4 p.m. & Sun Dec 7, 1-2 p.m.
Valérie Bah: Sat Dec 6, 4-5 p.m.
Curtis McRae: Sun Dec 7, 3-4 p.m.

Casa d’Italia, 505 Jean-Talon Est, Montréal
Metro Jean-Talon
Sat, Dec 6 | 11–7
Sun, Dec 7 | 11–5

We hope to see you there!

11/18/2025

Véhicule Press will be at the Salon du livre de Montréal Nov. 19-23, 2025!
Visit us at the AELAQ kiosk ( #1509) along with many other wonderful English-language publishers from Quebec.
Two of our authors will have signing sessions during the Salon:
Curtis John McRae on Wednesday Nov 19 from 6-7 p.m.
David Homel on Friday Nov 21 from 7-8 p.m.
Come by and say hello!

11/17/2025

What a lovely launch last week for David Homel's new novel PRIVATE NUMBER!

Thank you to Argo Bookshop for hosting, Dimitri Nasrallah for moderating, and to everyone who came out!

11/13/2025

Montreal, join us tonight at 7 p.m. at Argo Bookshop for the launch of PRIVATE NUMBER by David Homel!

David will be reading from the novel, as well as chatting about the book with editor Dimitri Nasrallah – hope to see you there!

11/13/2025

COVER REVEAL SIGNAL EDITIONS
Winter 2026

CANNIBAL RATS by Richard Greene

Governor General's Award-winner Richard Greene's remarkable new collection, Cannibal Rats, is rich with searing wisdom, complicated grace, and magisterial craft. Reporting from locales as disparate as the Civil War battlefields of America and the storm-worn shores of Newfoundland, "where, as almost nowhere else, you can hold / in hand the inner substance of the world," Greene bears witness to historical injustices, meditates on how "art and memory unravel" under the auspices of mortality, and wrestles with the loss of a beloved mother. "[T]here's a limit to what the heart can learn / without pause and repair," he writes in the stunning travelogue that ends the book, "but I should return / to this place of bayonets and cannon, / small gesture of one still living to what is gone." Cannibal Rats is a major accomplishment from one of Canada's most accomplished poets.

About the author:
Richard Greene is an award-winning poet, editor and biographer. He was born in Newfoundland, educated at Oxford, and is now a professor of English at the University of Toronto. Greene’s Boxing the Compass (Signal Editions, 2009) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2010.

Cover by David Drummond

11/11/2025

COVER REVEAL ESPLANADE BOOKS
Winter 2026

MY SUMMER VACATION by Zeenat Nagree

An auto-fictional account of a childhood ending in turn-of-the-century India, delivered by an entrancing new voice.

When at year’s end a schoolteacher asks her pupils to write an essay about their vacations over the summer, 12-year-old Zeenat turns the routine exercise into a daily exploration of her innermost thoughts. It is the dawn of a new millennium, and she’s coming of age in a politically unstable Mumbai that is still resolutely Bombay to her Muslim community. Though the world beyond her window is full of change, Zeenat spends long hours bored inside her family apartment, preoccupied with the cockroaches under the fridge, the pigeon’s nest above the cupboard, and the shared bathroom in the hall. At night, she reads English books in the kitchen as she questions where she fits between languages in this post-colonial society. Beyond the boredom of her daily routine, her anxiety spikes as she must start following the religious dress codes for a girl her age. And her fear is palpable when a neighbour is kidnapped.

About the author:
Zeenat Nagree is an independent writer and curator who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between India and Canada. Having studied art history in Chicago, she writes on contemporary art and curates exhibitions. My Summer Vacation is her first book.

Cover by David Drummond

11/11/2025

Twenty-three years ago Montrealer Patricia Burns wrote these gripping stories of young men and women who served in the army, navy, and air force during WWII. Many, who returned from the theatre of war, were never the same again. This is history that must never be forgotten.

11/10/2025

We hope to see you at the launch for David Homel's new novel PRIVATE NUMBER, this Thursday, 7pm, at Argo Bookshop, 1841-A Saint-Catherine St West!

Join is in store this Thursday at 7pm for the launch of David Homel’s new book, Private Number!

11/07/2025

Thank you to The Walrus for this amazing review of Lorna Goodison's reimagining of Dante's INFERNO, which was a finalist for this year's Governor General's Award for Poetry. Reviewer Amanda Perry called the book a "thrilling new version of the medieval masterpiece...original and often brilliant." We can't post the link on this platform, but please check it out on The Walrus website!

11/07/2025

COVER REVEAL RICOCHET BOOKS
WINTER 2026

MORGAN'S CASTLE by JAN HILLIARD
Edited by Brian Busby

Charlotte Morgan is both the wealthiest and most beautiful woman in all of Greenwood, Ontario, a mid-sized town on the Niagara Peninsula. Her impressive, expansive home, Hilltop House—known locally as “Morgan’s Castle”—was made possible through the family’s highly profitable vineyards. Charlotte has little to do with the business—she is very much a woman of leisure—so why has the strong-willed matriarch of the Morgan clan hired wholly unqualified sixteen-year-old Laura Dean as her secretary? And why is Charlotte so intent on having the girl live with her and her recently widowed son at Morgan’s Castle? All too soon Laura finds herself caught in the undercurrents of evil that emanates from the rambling structure of a house divided.

First published in 1964 by Abelard-Schumann, at which the author served as fiction editor. MORGAN’S CASTLE combines family secrets and black humour of the darkest kind.

About the author:
Jan Hilliard was the pen name of Hilda Kay Grant (1910-1996). Born and raised in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, she studied at New York’s Grand Central School of Art and lived most of her adult life in Ontario. Her first book, The Salt Box (1951), based loosely on her childhood, was awarded a Stephen Leacock Medal. It was followed by five novels, the last being Morgan’s Castle (1964).