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Harbour Publishing and Nightwood Editions are proud to present their Spring 2024 lists, with books ranging from fast-paced novels to cutting edge poetry to stirring memoirs. For little ones, the latest addi...

Wayne McCrory has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. The $3,500 prize, given by UBC ...

Nightwood Editions author Tim Blackett has been shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards—the Fiction Award and the First Book Award—for his debut story collection, Grandview Drive. The shortlist was presented in partnership with the Regina Public Library on Friday, March 1, 2024.

BC-Bestselling author Katherine Palmer Gordon has won the Jeanne Clarke Award for her book, This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands.The award, mean...

Family Literacy Week takes place across the Canada from January 21-28, to celebrate adults and children reading and learning together. We're celebrating with an automatic 20% discount on all children's title...

What better way of creating a love of reading than by focusing it on the natural world all around us?

The readers have voted, and Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho has made the shortlist for a Crime Fiction Lover Award. Sunset and Jericho is the fourth installment of the Wakeland detective series that explores ...

 by Brian Lynch, November 2023 Resonating with our troubled times and uncovering hidden sources of our humanity, this group of recent novels from Harbour Publishing crosses generations and widely different w...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the longlist for the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and Philippa Joly's A Kid’s Guide to Plants of the Pacific...

The 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced. In the poetry category, Harbour Publishing author Robert Bringhurst is a finalist for his book, The Ridge, which is intensely focused on the e...

Amanda Swinimer's book, The Science and Superpowers of Seaweed: A Guide for Kids has been nominated for the Forest of Reading® Yellow Cedar Award for nonfiction aimed at grades 5-8. This colourful, activity-...

BC authors Samantha Beynon, Philippa Joly, and Amanda Swinimer Awarded Top Honours in the 2023 Moonbeam Prize! Gold Medal in the Cultural Experience Category Oolichan Moon by Samantha Beynon, illustrated ...