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02/10/2025

COVER REVEAL 🌊

Bestselling author Giles Blunt brings us historical fiction with a riveting story with a love triangle, moments, the tuberculosis pandemic, and, of course, hidden identities.

Inspired by the icebound beauty of upstate New York's Adirondacks, BAD JULIET is the story of a young tutor working at a tuberculosis sanitarium, who falls in love with the mysterious Sarah who survived the Lusitania disaster.

As she writes down her memoirs during her convalescence, it gradually becomes clear that her memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves her worried that she has little time left, Sarah begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.

BAD JULIET by Giles Blunt will release in August 2025 and is available to pre-order now!

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-juliet-giles-blunt/jZb7f7Ryjrq51uTo
Indigo: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/bad-juliet/9781459755727.html
IndieBookstores: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781459755727/

"The verve of these prose poems recalls the incendiary scintillation of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, two scribes also ...
02/07/2025

"The verve of these prose poems recalls the incendiary scintillation of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, two scribes also alluringly Latinate, also scathingly forensic." — George Elliott Clarke

Start reading ALPHABET SOUP by A. Gregory Frankson now: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750333-alphabet-soup

A chilling mystery perfect for a winters day is how we'd describe SHIPWRECKED SOULS by Barbara Fradkin, the newest book ...
02/06/2025

A chilling mystery perfect for a winters day is how we'd describe SHIPWRECKED SOULS by Barbara Fradkin, the newest book in the Inspector Green Mystery series!

If you're a fan of Louise Penny or Tana French, make sure this book is your next read now: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459753815-shipwrecked-souls

Barbara Fradkin Mysteries

After lying awake for more than five hours, Gordon had got out of bed around 5:00 a.m., went to the liquor cabinet, and ...
02/01/2025

After lying awake for more than five hours, Gordon had got out of bed around 5:00 a.m., went to the liquor cabinet, and poured himself a double Scotch. Allan must not know he does this regularly. He prescribed melatonin for him to take in the early evening. “Gordon, you must sleep for eight hours.” Said with the usual unctuousness. My dear Allan, you must know I cannot command sleep any more than you can medicate against nightmares. Bet you have nightmares too. Might explain your recent interest in psychiatry. Guilty like me. But lucky. Damn lucky.

He took the Scotch into the living room, sat on the recliner bought for Maureen’s comfort eighteen months before her death, and watched BBC World to get the latest on Irma, now a Category 4 hurricane and projected to return to a Category 5. It was predicted to hit northern Cuba and Florida. In the evening, Allan had phoned him from Union Island, worried about the damage Irma might do to Cuba. He’d spent a year there studying Cuban 3 a different hurricane methods for treating psychiatric illnesses, and had visited Baraguá, where the descendants of English-speaking West Indians, including some of Allan’s relatives, still live.

Keep reading A DIFFERENT HURRICANE by H. Nigel Thomas and find out what happens next in this intense family drama: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754065-a-different-hurricane

Cannabis has been making business headlines for the past few years, with lots of winners and losers along the way.CATCH ...
01/31/2025

Cannabis has been making business headlines for the past few years, with lots of winners and losers along the way.

CATCH A FIRE by Ben Kaplan is an insiders account on how it all came to be, with action on every page. Ready to be blown away? Get a copy now: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754652-Catch-A-Fire

👋 Librarian friends! We are ready to connect at OLA SuperConference this week! Here's the lineup of authors signing thei...
01/29/2025

👋 Librarian friends! We are ready to connect at OLA SuperConference this week! Here's the lineup of authors signing their books just for you.

🖋️ Thursday, January 30 at 1:40p.m. Adelle Purdham, Writer signs her memoir I DON'T DO DISABILITY AND OTHER LIES I'VE TOLD MYSELF

🖋️ Friday, January 31 at 1:20p.m. Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters by Greg Frankson

🖋️ Friday, January 31 at 2:00p.m. Barbara Fradkin signs SHIPWRECKED SOULS

📍 Dundurn Press author signings will be located in the ONTARIO PUBLISHERS PAVILION

Our first Rare Machines book of the year is now available at bookstores!ALPHABET SOUP by A. Gregory Frankson is a creati...
01/28/2025

Our first Rare Machines book of the year is now available at bookstores!

ALPHABET SOUP by A. Gregory Frankson is a creative memoir in 26 essays, one for each letter of the alphabet, which explores themes of mental health, food, Black lived experiences, and more. Get your copy today: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750333-alphabet-soup

“Two families with ancient wartime secrets collide in this riveting return of the beloved Inspector Green... A beautiful...
01/27/2025

“Two families with ancient wartime secrets collide in this riveting return of the beloved Inspector Green... A beautifully told story.” — Iona Whishaw, bestselling author of the Lane Winslow Mysteries

Complicated threads of betrayal come to light in the much-anticipated Inspector Green Mystery, SHIPWRECKED SOULS by Barbara Fradkin! Get a copy now: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459753815-shipwrecked-souls

Barbara Fradkin Mysteries

01/24/2025

📖 COVER REVEAL!! Fans of our Rare Machines imprint, get ready for AMARANTHINE CHEVROLET by Dennis E Bolen, about a teenage boy’s curious road trip across a radically changing country. Think Homer's The Odyssesy meets Kerouac's On the Road, tinged with a soupçon of prairie noir.

In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, ma*****na farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.

Do yourself a favour and pre-order AMARANTHINE CHEVROLET at your local bookstore today, and you'll delight your future self when it releases in May 2025 😉

Learn more: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754775-amaranthine-chevrolet

Congratulations to Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson! His debut novel THE ROAD TO HEAVEN has been shortlisted for a Mystery Wri...
01/23/2025

Congratulations to Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson! His debut novel THE ROAD TO HEAVEN has been shortlisted for a Mystery Writers of America 2025 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category! 🏆

ABOUT THE BOOK
Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely looking for love in rented rooms. But his easy routine is shattered by a new case involving a missing girl.

Sixteen-year-old Abbie Linklater hasn’t been home for two days. Her stepmother believes Abbie’s getting an abortion. Her twin brother thinks she’s studying at the library. Her best friend couldn’t care less. Her father has no idea; he just wants her home without involving the police.

Before the sun sets on the first day of his investigation, as Bird roams the streets of Toronto looking for the runaway, he’s caught a drifter prowling in the Linklaters’ backyard, stumbled into a creepy church with a belligerent minister, sparred with the client, been hit by a car, and discovered some loose ends in a bank robbery gone wrong a decade earlier.

Read more: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459753723-the-road-to-heaven

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COVER REVEAL 🌊 Bestselling author Giles Blunt brings us historical fiction with a riveting story with a love triangle, #MeToo moments, the tuberculosis pandemic, and, of course, hidden identities. Inspired by the icebound beauty of upstate New York's Adirondacks, BAD JULIET is the story of a young tutor working at a tuberculosis sanitarium, who falls in love with the mysterious Sarah who survived the Lusitania disaster. As she writes down her memoirs during her convalescence, it gradually becomes clear that her memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves her worried that she has little time left, Sarah begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her. BAD JULIET by Giles Blunt will release in August 2025 and is available to pre-order now! Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-juliet-giles-blunt/jZb7f7Ryjrq51uTo Indigo: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/bad-juliet/9781459755727.html IndieBookstores: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781459755727/

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📖 COVER REVEAL!! Fans of our Rare Machines imprint, get ready for AMARANTHINE CHEVROLET by Dennis E Bolen, about a teenage boy’s curious road trip across a radically changing country. Think Homer's The Odyssesy meets Kerouac's On the Road, tinged with a soupçon of prairie noir. In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable. Do yourself a favour and pre-order AMARANTHINE CHEVROLET at your local bookstore today, and you'll delight your future self when it releases in May 2025 😉 Learn more: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754775-amaranthine-chevrolet

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