Biblioasis

08/31/2024

Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, unveils her plans for the Webuy Complex, her first megaproject in Montreal, her hometown. But instead of the triumph she anticipates in finally bringing her reputation to bear in her own city, the project is excoriated by critics, who accuse her of callously destroying the social fabric of neighborhoods, ushering in a new era of gentrification, and many even deadlier sins.

When she is deposed as CEO of her firm, Céline must make sense of the charges against herself and the people in her elite circle. For the first time in danger of losing their footing, what fictions must they tell themselves to justify their privilege and maintain their position in the world that they themselves have built?

Kev Lambert's MAY OUR JOY ENDURE comes out September 3rd!
Pre-order here 🐰 https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/may-our-joy-endure/

08/31/2024

Check out our forthcoming titles featured on CBC Books' Fall Preview List!

🌊 THE PAGES OF THE SEA by Anne Hawk
On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration.

💜 A WAY TO BE HAPPY by Caroline Adderson
Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.

🐰 MAY OUR JOY ENDURE by Kev Lambert
A shrewd examination of the ultra-privileged.

08/30/2024

"I showed off my samples, stressing the cream paper, the ribbon markers, and the striking cover designs that supposedly set our brand apart. He shook his head and handed me a familiar black notebook in response.

'See this?' he said. 'We make them ourselves, own brand. The same size, the same number of pages. We use the same paper, the same boards, we make them at the same plants in China. They’re every bit as good as a Moleskine, and we ask half as much for them.' He paused for effect. 'And Moleskine still outsells us. And you’re asking me to take shelf space away?'"

Roland Allen's THE NOTEBOOK, comes out next week!

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fiction/general-history/the-notebook/

08/29/2024

Shout-out to Tina for snapping this picture of Richard Kelly Kemick at his book launch for HELLO, HORSE!

Thank you to Upstart & Crow for hosting this wonderful event 🧡.

08/29/2024

"The year 2024 has Richard Kelly Kemick, whose wild imagination and fresh insights cast a spell in HELLO, HORSE; every entrancing story casts off in a different direction, with a genuine “wait? what?!” moment you did not see coming.

Be prepared for talking dogs, feral horses and escaped Bengal tigers. Love and lust preside over everything."—EverythingZoomer

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/short-fiction/hello-horse/

08/28/2024

One week left of our $5 Warehouse Sale!

Stock up for Fall 🦋🍂 https://www.biblioasis.com/product-category/summer-sale/

08/27/2024

Catch Richard Kelly Kemick, author of HELLO, HORSE in conversation with Damien Tarnopolsky tonight at Upstart and Crow at 7pm!

The two will read from, and discuss their new short story collections 🧡.

https://upstartandcrow.com/event/an-evening-with-richard-kelly-kemick-and-damian-tarnopolsky/

08/26/2024

This week in the Bibliophile...When frontlist is backlist!

Last week Dan outlined one of the eternal conflicts of independent publishing: the challenge of keeping books available for readers to discover, in an industry that is perpetually forward-focused.

Given our ongoing obstinacy in the face of short (shelf and otherwise) lifespans, there’s a particular pleasure in saying that the most recent hot new Biblioasis release happens to be a book written thirty years ago: THE UTOPIAN GENERATION, by the great Angolan writer Pepetela.

A Geração da Utopia was first published in its original Portuguese in 1992 by Dom Quixote. (And no, a windmill is never just a windmill.)

Read the most recent edition of the Bibliophile, our weekly online newsletter: https://www.biblioasis.com/the-bibliophile-frontlist-is-backlist/

08/26/2024

"Bold and thrilling...informative and uplifting, THE NOTEBOOK may leave you feeling that you should chuck away your smartphone, pick up a nice, clean journal and start jotting."
—The Wall Street Journal

THE NOTEBOOK by Roland Allen comes out September 3rd! Pre-order here: https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fiction/general-history/the-notebook/

08/25/2024

Vancouver, mark your calendars!

Richard Kelly Kemick, author of HELLO, HORSE will be at Upstart & Crow on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. with author Damien Tarnopolsky to celebrate the launch of their new short story collections.

Stop by for readings and chats 💙

More info here: https://upstartandcrow.com/event/an-evening-with-richard-kelly-kemick-and-damian-tarnopolsky/

08/25/2024

It's an end-of-summer book fair!

For all of you who long for the days of buying a fresh notebook for back to school, why not come and buy some reading supplies instead? Drop by the Picaroons roundhouse in Fredericton today from 12-5pm, grab a drink of your choice, and talk to your friendly local publishers while shopping.

Expect exciting new releases, and personal recommendations, while you add to your ever-growing to-be-read pile! Featuring Biblioasis, Invisible Publishing, Goose Lane Editions, Monster House Publishing, Dog-Eared Books and special guest Little Ghost Books!

08/24/2024

Only one week left to snag $5 Biblioasis Books...and help us clear out our warehouse!

Shop here: https://www.biblioasis.com/product-category/summer-sale/

08/23/2024

Come on out to the Fredericton Summer Book Market this Sunday, and hang out with our sales director Emily!

She'll be there with our friends from Invisible Publishing, Goose Lane Editions, Dog-Eared Books Ames, Monster House Publishing, and Little Ghost Books!

08/22/2024

Jón Kalman Stefánsson's YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS is now available as an audiobook!

Read by Ulf Bjorklund, YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS is a spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural Icelandic community.

Available on...

Audible - https://www.audible.ca/pd/Your-Absence-Is-Darkness-Audiobook/B0DC7YDQJL

Audiobooks.com - https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/your-absence-is-darkness/751963

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGiQ4qqnz8AOuNdZbo895

Apple Books - https://books.apple.com/us/book/your-absence-is-darkness/id6475732184

08/21/2024

"As an intimate repository for thought, notebooks, Allen amply shows, are essential. An enthusiastic, informative cultural history."

— Reviews, starred ⭐

The Notebook comes out, September 3rd! Pre-order here: https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fiction/general-history/the-notebook/

08/20/2024

A story of sisterhood, secrets, and the sacrifices of love, THE PAGES OF THE SEA is a tenderly lyrical portrait of innocence and an intensely moving evocation of what it's like to be a child left behind.

THE PAGES OF THE SEA comes out September 17th!

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-pages-of-the-sea/

08/20/2024

Now presenting: 150 titles we’re most looking forward to this fall! 📚🍂 https://ow.ly/LwG050SZuqv

Riverhead Books HarperVia Books Algonquin Books Harper Books Scribner Books Bold Type Books Biblioasis ABRAMS Books Liveright Publishing Penguin Press HarperKids BooksAbrams Kids Penguin Kids Simon Teen

08/20/2024

“I love obscure, strange, or hyper-focused histories, and this is the first history of the notebook—a tool that completely changed humanity. I can already tell this is going to be my big gift book for the holiday season.

It’s perfect for the writers, artists, or engineers in your life. And of course for the history buffs.” —Laurel Rhame, book buyer, Phoenix Books

THE NOTEBOOK comes out September 3rd!

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/95755-eight-new-books-indie-booksellers-want-you-to-read-in-2024.html

08/19/2024

Thank you to Beyond The Zero Podcast for featuring Jón Kalman Stefánsson's YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS on their latest episode!

Listen here!

Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.

08/18/2024

Happy Women in Translation Month, featuring Catherine Leroux!

We've been fans of Catherine long before her latest novel, THE FUTURE won ! If you want to check out her previous books, MADAME VICTORIA and PARTY WALL are available on our website for $5/each as part of our Summer Warehouse Sale!

Shop here: https://www.biblioasis.com/product-category/summer-sale/

08/17/2024

Only two weeks left to stock up on $5 books...

Shop here 🦋 https://www.biblioasis.com/product-category/summer-sale/

08/16/2024

Fredericton mark your calendars, we can't wait to hang out with you at the summer book market ⛱

Invisible Publishing
Goose Lane Editions

08/15/2024

TMR’s THROWBACK THURSDAY 🎉
In keeping with Women in Translation Month the spotlight is on The Lantern and the Night Moths, selected and translated by Yilin Wang, reviewed
June 2024 by Associate Editor Alison Manley. Published by Invisible Publishing.

📚”I first came across Yilin Wang as I think many others in writing and reading circles did: the poet-translator was wandering the internet as you do, and stumbled across pictures on the British Museum’s page featuring pictures of her translations being used in an exhibit in the museum.”

Alison’s article continues ⬇️

https://miramichireader.ca/2024/06/the-lantern-and-the-night-moths-selected-and-translated-by-yilin-wang/

08/14/2024

MAY OUR JOY ENDURE is a shrewd examination of the microcosm of the ultra-privileged and a dazzling social novel that depicts with razor-sharp acuity the terrible beauty of wealth, influence, and art.

Kevin Lambert's MAY OUR JOY ENDURE comes out September 3rd!

Pre-order here 🐰💀https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/may-our-joy-endure/

08/13/2024

Happy Publication Day to THE UTOPIAN GENERATION by Pepetela! This seminal novel of African decolonization is available for the first time in English translation!

“A novel of epic proportions that offers a multidimensional historical view of three crucial decades of modern Angolan history from 1961 to 1991. It is the first novel to offer a sustained, probing, heart-wrenching as well as in-depth critique of the postcolonial national project.”—Fernando Arenas, Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-utopian-generation-trade-paper/

08/12/2024

"Pepetela wrote the nearly 500-page The Utopian Generation in just one year while on a writer’s residency in Berlin. 'We thought we would create paradise, but things didn’t turn out how we had thought they would,' Luanda-based Pepetela tells The Africa Report from Lisbon."—The Africa Report

THE UTOPIAN GENERATION by Pepetela will be available for the first time in English, tomorrow!

Order here: https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-utopian-generation/