Turnstone Press

02/18/2025

Excited to see Janice MacDonald (VICTOR & ME IN PARIS, Ravenstone imprint) interviewed with All Lit Up!

"...literature and poetry have schooled me in the way I look at the world, and how I behave, both idealistically and day-to-day. I mean, I have never slid a note under a door since reading Tess of the D’Urbervilles, to be pedestrian about it." Janice MacDonald answers our interview questions about the writing life, her earring collection, and her new mystery series, beginning with VICTOR & ME IN PARIS (Turnstone Press).

https://alllitup.ca/writers-block-janice-macdonald/

02/18/2025

This Thursday Peterborough & area friends! Laura Rock Gaughan (MOTHERISH) will be moderating an insightful conversation with Andrew Forbes, Hollay Ghadery, and Adelle Purdham at Take Cover Books. You don't want to miss this!

https://takecoverbooks.ca/events/1761220250220

02/18/2025

Yukon Friends, an opportunity to take part in a free workshop with Joanna Lilley (ENDLINGS, IF THERE WERE ROADS).

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02/14/2025

From now until next Friday use the coupon code LUVBOOKS to receive 25% off your order through our website. Additionally, the GST holiday continues until midnight February 15. & The best reason of all for ordering from Turnstone is that we are a Canadian press publishing Canadian authors!

Happy Friday Friends!

02/14/2025

Starting Friday with the lovely news that forthcoming titles WHEN ANNA PEARL LAY DOWN IN THE GARDEN by Deborah Schnitzer (Turnstone), TERMINAL SOLSTICE by Sean Minogue (Ravenstone) and THE TENANT by Michelle Berry writing as M.S. Berry (Ravenstone) have all been included in the 49th Shelf's incredible Most Anticipated Spring Fiction Preview. Thanks 49th Shelf!

All the fiction you're going to be falling in love with during the first half of 2025.

02/14/2025

Our book club favourites include short fiction! Celebrate I love to read month with MOTHERISH by Laura Rock Gaughan!

The women who populate Laura Rock Gaughan’s debut collection, MOTHERISH, veer from playful to distraught, reckless to restrained, anchored to unmoored. Gambling grandmas, athletes and organists, pregnant bus passengers and punitive bank tellers are pushed to the brink by Gaughan’s distinctively precise prose, while they grapple with what it means to mother and be mothered. With various perspectives, Gaughan creates box after box—and actual chicken coops—for her characters to explode from, hide in, emerge out of, and ultimately transform.

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/motherish.html

02/14/2025

Janice MacDonald and Bree Meiklejohn have a terrific conversation about writing, Paris, and of course mysteries on The AudPod, the official podcast of Audreys Books Ltd. in Edmonton.

Podcast Episode · The AudPod · 2025-02-11 · 38m

02/14/2025

We continue sharing some of our popular Book Club favourites with DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME. Shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award, Don’t Try This at Home chronicles the hilarious and sensational misadventures of a Canadian family as they travel across 15 different countries in the Southern Hemisphere. In an honest reflection on parenting, marriage, and living for a year on a tight budget, Krause and Salamon take readers through some of the world’s most stunning vistas while meeting the challenges of foreign customs, broken-down buses, stomach bugs, personal loss, and their often less-than-enthusiastic children.

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://turnstonepress.com/books/non-fiction/don-t-try-this-at-home.html

02/11/2025

We also have Book Club Questions for many of our Non-fiction books!

Shortlisted for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Sally Ito's THE EMPEROR'S ORPHANS is a book club favourite and received this high praise from The Midwest Book Review:

Deftly written, deeply personal and impressively informative, The Emperor's Orphans is an extraordinary blend of personal memoir and cultural/political history born of wartime fears and defensive policies ... An extraordinary, thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end. —Midwest Book Review

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://turnstonepress.com/books/non-fiction/emperor-s-orphans-the.html

02/10/2025

BANIT by Wayne Tefs starts our second week of our I Love to Read Month Book Club features. Nominated for the Mary Scorer Award, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year, Bandit is a fictionalized consideration of one of the largest gold heists in Canadian history and is a book club favourite.

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/bandit.html

02/07/2025

Andrew Unger's ONCE REMOVED rounds out the first week of our I Love to Read Month Book Club features. Winner of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book and Shortlisted for the Margaret McWilliams Award in Popular History, David Bergen praised Once Removed, calling it "An affectionate pastiche of small-town Mennonite life, replete with duty, folly, irreverence, and joy."

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/once-removed.html

02/07/2025

Did you know that some of our poetry collections are popular Book Club favourites? Joanna Lilley's ENDLINGS is a book club favourite, won the prestigious Fred Kerner Book Award, and even has a teaching guide available! Here's what David Suzuki had to say about Endlings:

We are so disconnected from nature we think it’s the economy that makes our lifestyles and lives possible. In fact it’s the complex web of nature within which we are inextricably linked and on which we are utterly dependent.

When a species disappears, that complex web of life loses resilience and productivity. This book is a reminder of what we have lost within human memory. It’s a frightening reminder that Nature is our Mother and source of life.

—David Suzuki

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/poetry/endlings.html

02/07/2025

Next up is STILL ME. Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, Still Me follows protagonist James Khoury after he discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed. While he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son come to the forefront.

Alll month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/still-me.html

02/05/2025

Thanks to Shawn Breathes Books for recently interviewing Dora Dueck (ALL THAT BELONGS) as part of his Friday Reads series!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQq8dO4UiHM&t=1s

02/04/2025

We continue our I Love to Read month feature with Leo Brent Robillard's THE ROAD TO ATLANTIS.

All month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

THE ROAD TO ATLANTIS by Leo Brent Robillard

Following the coast on their summer vacation, the Henrys stop at the beach to break up the monotony of their road trip. Matty and Nat build castles in the sand as Anne and David take turns minding the children. A moment of distraction, a blink of the eye, and the life they know is swept away forever.

https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/road-to-atlantis-the.html

02/03/2025

February is I Love to Read month and all month long we'll be highlighting some of our popular Book Club favourites by sharing some of our "Good Questions" from our various book club resources.

Available book club questions can be found on a featured book's page on our website (link in bio) or at the coordinates below.

First up:
ALL THAT BELONGS by Dora Dueck

All that Belongs was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and has been a popular book club favourite since its release.

" ... [A] gentle but compelling meditation on love, aging, the nature of memory and the need to acknowledge and forgive the pain of the past.

—K.D. Miller, author of Late Breaking

https://turnstonepress.com/books/fiction/all-that-belongs.html

02/03/2025

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01/31/2025

There's still time to enjoy 25% off your purchase through our website. Use coupon code BLUE25 at checkout. Sale ends tonight at midnight CST.

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