Invisible Publishing

12/22/2024

Endless gratitude to our friends and idols at Queen Books for featuring, staff-picking, and championing our books, and for introducing us to other amazing independently published books.

11/27/2024

A big stack of All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel BH on the front fiction table of Perfect Books, one of the best indie bookstores in Canada. We, of course, left with books of our own: Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love () and László Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 ().

11/26/2024

Throughout the week, we’ll be announcing our full slate of Spring 2025 releases, all of which will be available for pre-order on our website and at your local independent bookstore (as well as the more … unsavoury outlets). Our second announcement is Reem Gaafar’s debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt—winner of the 2023 Island Prize.

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A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the women have work to do, the children play at the place where the river runs over its own banks. Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum.

In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village.

A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose—and which prophecies it’s time to rewrite.

Reem Gaafar is a writer, physician, and filmmaker. Her writing has appeared in African Arguments, African Feminism, Teakisi Magazine, Andariya and 500 Words Magazine, among others. Her short story “Light of the Desert” was published in I Know Two Sudans where it was awarded an Honourable Mention. Her short story “Finding Descartes” was published in Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices. A Mouth Full of Salt is her debut novel and Winner of the 2023 Island Prize. She lives in Canada.

10/11/2024

Pound for pound one of the best indie bookshops in the world.

09/30/2024

Peterborough: Be the first to catch literary luminary Andrew Forbes as we celebrate the launch of his first novel, The Diapause—out tomorrow!

09/30/2024

Brooklyn: Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making the co-launch of ’s BEIRUT and ’s all new (portable!) MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE so special. Here are some photos of Barrack reading her work and our publisher Norm describing the images, as well as Publishers Hard at Work™️ (📸 )

09/28/2024

Toronto: Today is your opportunity to catch the inexpressibly talented Barrack Zailaa Rima in conversation with Danny Ramadan at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Don’t miss her! Next up is the Brooklyn Book Festival and our party with LittlePuss Press tomorrow evening.

09/26/2024

STAFF PICK ALERT: “Finished this book in under 24 hours—I just couldn't put it down!”—Madeline at Victoria, BC’s Bolen Books ()

09/24/2024

Thank you to Emily Donaldson at the Globe and Mail for featuring two of our fall books in their seasonal preview!

09/08/2024

Slinging books at the bucolic ass Eden Mills Writers’ Festival.

09/04/2024

Right on the stiletto heels of Labour Day, we’re so proud to be celebrating the official publication of Angel BH’s debut novel: All Hookers Go To Heaven.

About the book:

Raised in a conservative Christian home in the East Coast of Canada, Mag is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Desperate to secure her place in heaven, she rejects the hyper-s*xual youth culture of her small town—until she falls for a magnetic, sophisticated girl while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work. Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of s*x for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin—the antithesis of who she was raised to be.

About its author:

Angel B.H. grew up in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her second birth was in a punk-lesbian bar in Montreal. She currently resides in Europe. She enjoys writing about s*x work, Evangelical Christianity, and hopelessly complex friendships between women.

Cover design by Sultana Bambino .bambino
Edited by Alicia Elliott
Interior design by Megan Fildes

Buy it from a fine independent bookseller, or find out more at https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/all-hookers-go-to-heaven/.

08/21/2024

NEW INTERVIEW: Kaleigh Trace, author of HOT, WET, AND SHAKING, in conversation with 's health reporter Michelle Gamage.

Hint: it’s vulnerability.

08/16/2024

When the nails match the cover. 💅🏼 BEIRUT by Barrack Zailaa Rima, translated by Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Turek, publishes on 17 September, 2024.

08/04/2024

Fredericton, NB! You’re cordially invited to another book market featuring old and new friends Invisible Publishing, Biblioasis, Goose Lane Editions, Monster House Publishing, Oromocto’s Dog Eared Books, and the amazing Little Ghosts Books (), a horror bookstore and publisher all the way from Toronto. Bring a friend, drink a beer, get your hands on the hottest books of the fall before everyone else does, and wring out the last few weeks of summer with us at on Sunday August 25 from 12–5pm.

07/22/2024

Good things grow in Ontario.

07/19/2024

Happy to birthday to one of our very favourite writer–translator–musician–bookseller–friend–Ohians! We’ll be celebrating by publishing their brilliant translation of Valérie Manteau’s The Furrow in 2026.