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Dundurn Press Read with us. These are your stories. www.dundurn.com Dundurn Press is a leading independent book publisher based in Toronto, Canada.

We seek to amplify and elevate exceptional Canadian voices to the world, particularly those that have not yet been discovered or have been previously underrepresented in trade publishing. We publish across numerous genres from literary and genre fiction, to biography, history, lifestyle, and public policy, and middle-grade and teen fiction.

We're thrilled to share that OXFORD SOJU CLUB by Jinwoo Park and CELESTINA'S HOUSE by Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez (.t.gon...
01/08/2026

We're thrilled to share that OXFORD SOJU CLUB by Jinwoo Park and CELESTINA'S HOUSE by Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez (.t.gonzalez) are on the 2026 longlist from !

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COMING IN 2026: Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders by Annahid Dashtgard“With wisdom, vulnerability, and clari...
01/07/2026

COMING IN 2026: Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders by Annahid Dashtgard

“With wisdom, vulnerability, and clarity, Dashtgard offers both solace and strategy, making this book an essential companion for changemakers.”
— Olivia Chow, mayor of Toronto

“As one of the few Indigenous leaders driving a national strategy, I constantly navigate environments where systemic norms and patterns of scrutiny affect my impact. Dashtgard’s teachings are invaluable, providing deep validation and strategic understanding… a powerful roadmap for any BIPOC professional.”
— Robert Doane, Director of Indigenous Strategy, CBC

In these politically fraught times, organizations need strong leadership to help navigate uncertainty and complexity. A crucial yet overlooked group of leaders are also racial minorities, who often move into positions of influence with little support or acknowledgement. If you’re one of these leaders (or hope to be), this book is specifically for you. Fire and Silence offers a roadmap to leadership using compassion instead of trauma, authority without victimhood, and strength inclusive of vulnerability, in ways that are fair to all.

From the trenches of social activism to coaching boardroom executives, Annahid Dashtgard offers proven strategies and real-world stories alongside practical tips and tools to support growing numbers of BIPOC leaders in achieving the impact and recognition they so richly deserve — without having to sacrifice who they are in the process.

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01/06/2026

COVER REVEAL: BECALMING from Aga Maksimowska

Gosia, a high school chemistry teacher, travels to her native Poland to visit her estranged father. Back in Canada, meanwhile, her father-in-law — who has been more of a dad to her than her own — is dying of cancer. Away from her routine, Gosia questions everything in her life, including her long-term boyfriend, Peter. She feels stuck in the terrifying time of early adulthood, in her first grown-up job while managing student debt, monogamy, and existential dread. Is this really it, she wonders?

Gosia’s time in Poland gives her the chance to examine her life, and she finds herself pulled homeward to Canada, where she faces the fact that Peter’s father — like her own — is far from perfect. Can she love despite betrayal? Can she find hope in her fiery, complex love for Peter? Is there something more to this life that she didn’t even realize she had?

BECALMING tells the story of two people realizing that happily ever after is not something to be but something to continue to explore, through adversity and outrage, tragedy and inspiration, and love.

Happy holidays from everyone here at Dundurn Press!
12/19/2025

Happy holidays from everyone here at Dundurn Press!

COMING THIS WINTER: OYSTER from Marianne Ackerman “An absorbing family saga that grabs you by the throat and won’t let y...
12/16/2025

COMING THIS WINTER: OYSTER from Marianne Ackerman

“An absorbing family saga that grabs you by the throat and won’t let you go.” — Leah McLaren, author of Where You End and I Begin

“Like a finely cut jewel, light reflecting off its many facets and illuminating the love, tensions, and complexities of family, not to mention today’s publishing world. I read it in one sitting but didn’t want it to end. Brilliant.” — Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

One-time bestselling novelist Amelia Cameron has writer’s block. After her octogenarian father falls off a roof during a windstorm, his funeral brings the four Cameron siblings together on the family farm, following years of separation. With the patriarch gone, familiar relationships begin to crumble.

While the siblings spar, Amelia’s niece, Ginny Gupta, begs her famous aunt for writing advice on her first novel. After a wine-soaked weekend and an innocent bit of typing, the resulting novel, The World Is Your Oyster, brings both women to the brink of scandal with the potential to shake the powerful literary world.

Veering between the high-stakes literary scene and the splendour of Prince Edward County vineyards, Ackerman’s glittering, sharp-edged prose takes aim at the County’s legendary codes — sweep gossip under the rug and tamp down high emotion — while slyly dissecting the pretences of book publishing.

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The sound of blades sliding across the ice, the thunder of the puck flying as a stick hits — this holiday season stock y...
12/11/2025

The sound of blades sliding across the ice, the thunder of the puck flying as a stick hits — this holiday season stock you and your loved ones’ shelves with classic moments from some of hockey’s greatest teams. And with books from a Certified Canadian Publisher, you'll be giving Made In Canada this holiday!

Check out these and more in our holiday gift guide — now until December 13, get 25% off with code HOLIDAY25 — only on Dundurn.com: https://buff.ly/FbJEvlL

Love a good, enriching story? From the height of the Troubles in Ireland, to the seedy underbelly of modern life’s scam ...
12/04/2025

Love a good, enriching story? From the height of the Troubles in Ireland, to the seedy underbelly of modern life’s scam artists, to a battle of words and beliefs against zealotry during the Islamic Golden Age — these stories will inspire and enthrall book lovers this holiday season. And with books from a Certified Canadian Publisher, you'll be giving Made In Canada this holiday!

Check out these and more in our holiday gift guide — now 25% off with code HOLIDAY25 — only on Dundurn.com

Coming this February: The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery's Writing Life from Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre ...
12/03/2025

Coming this February: The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery's Writing Life from Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre ()

The Glory and the Dream offers a never-before-seen look at her writing life and the challenges she faced, encompassing everything from fans to lawsuits to her creative choices, including an unlikely source of inspiration that enabled her to continue writing about her native Prince Edward Island after she moved to Ontario and her controversial decision to downplay Anne’s own writing ambitions.

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12/03/2025

COVER REVEAL: 🕵️Opposite Sully's Gym: A Patrick Bird Mystery by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house — out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business.

Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother-in-law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not starting a new investigation. But when he discovers Jack Turner’s third-floor darkroom is demolished and the photographer is missing, the other tenants come under scrutiny: Mr. Yusuf, the international student training to be a doctor; Danny Blinken, the shifty taxi driver; and Shirley Burton, the young nurse far from home.

As Bird investigates, he uncovers information about a former tenant. James Earl Ray, who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just weeks earlier, had been hiding out in a room on the second floor.

The case takes Bird and the police down a path of intrigue reaching right into the centre of one of the most infamous assassinations of the twentieth century and leading our truculent PI to just about the toughest spot he could imagine.

For AIDS Awareness Month we’d like to call attention to our forthcoming novel NIGHT TERMINUS from Ellis Scott — an evoca...
12/01/2025

For AIDS Awareness Month we’d like to call attention to our forthcoming novel NIGHT TERMINUS from Ellis Scott — an evocative debut novel reflecting the determination and resilience of a gay diaspora as it faced extinction.

“Night Terminus is a harrowing and thoroughly engrossing novel-in-stories about men who endured the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s — the survivors, the victims, and the survivors-turned-victims. Scott honors their lives with prose worthy of Sebald, dense and rich, summoning forth the memories and ghosts of that era. A must-read.” — Gerald Brennan, author of Alone on the Moon

Beginning with a chance encounter in 1985, an unnamed narrator embarks on a physical and spiritual sojourn over four decades. From a one-night stand in Paris with the troubled and enigmatic Louis; to Montreal, through a divided Europe, and into the Iranian desert with the sick yet determined Yuri; and finally to Provence, where he meets the gregarious but wistful Frank, the narrator encounters a cast of exiles, fugitives, rebels, and artists. In a journey across continents and decades, we watch the impacts of one of the greatest health crises of the last hundred years through the eyes of those who both survived it and must now remember those who didn’t.

11/27/2025

COVER REVEAL: 👑 THE LOST QUEEN by Heidi von Palleske 👑 () — a gripping tale of love lost, hope renewed, and the search for truth that will leave you questioning what it means to be truly found.

“Heidi von Palleske steps back into the haunting, beautiful world she first conjured in The Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack. She writes with a kind of quiet magic — the kind that sneaks up on you, the kind that makes ordinary moments shimmer… It’s a book to fall into, get lost in, and come out the other side changed.”
— Thom Ernst, author of The Wild Boy of Waubamik

In 1992 opera singer Clara vanished from an airport in Cape Town. Her husband, Gareth, declared her dead in absentia eight years later. But when an anonymous opera manuscript arrives at a struggling punk opera company in Berlin, it seems to hold cryptic clues to Clara’s fate.

As unlikely allies unite to uncover the mystery, they must confront a difficult question: If they find Clara, how will it change their fragile lives? More importantly, how can they put her story on the stage?

COMING WINTER 2026: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax by Linda McQuaig and...
11/25/2025

COMING WINTER 2026: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

“A must read. This is a very important book explaining why it is so urgent to confront the extreme concentration of wealth and power — and why global mobilization is building.”
— Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, they now dominate us to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. With their voracious consumption, unbridled resource exploitation, and relentless obstruction of climate action, they are rapidly undermining democracy and destroying the very viability of the earth for human life.

Their staggering power and hoarding of wealth have prompted a number of G20 nations to consider imposing a wealth tax, aimed exclusively at the super-rich. In Canada, such a tax would apply only to those with wealth above $25 million. Yet it could collect $40 billion a year — funding public programs that could immensely improve the lives of millions of Canadians while clipping the wings of the super-rich.

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Dundurn Press is a leading independent, inclusive publisher offering Canadian books from every corner of the country. It's your story.

Dundurn's long successful publishing program began in 1972 with fewer than five employees, and has since expanded to over twenty. The company now has more than 2,500 books in print and 1,700 ebooks available. In 2012 and 2014, Dundurn was nominated for the Libris Award for Publisher of the Year, presented by the Retail Council of Canada.