So Long, and Thanks For All the Books...

As many of you will know, Open Book is sadly closing up shop as our summer season comes to an end. Our last piece of book coverage went out on Friday, ...

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The Acclaimed Author of FRET, Nadia Bozak, Takes on Our Writers as Readers Interview

Today we're featuring our last title of the Summer 2026, in Fret (ECW Press) by acclaimed writer and academic, Nadia Bozak. The fifth book from the ...

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Four Centuries of Language, Power, and Creation in THE KING JAMES BIBLE PLAY

What happens when the people shaping history are just as complicated, opinionated, and fallible as everyone else? The King James Bible Play (Playwrights ...

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We Inteviewed Maya McKibbin, Mega-Talented Illustrator of MAKADE ASIN / BLACK STONE

A frightening dream turns out to be the beginning of a much more significant journey in Makade Asin / Black Stone (Groundwood Books), an English and ...

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Read an Excerpt from WHENEVER YOU ARE by Celebrated and Renowned YA Author Martine Leavitt

A crucial mistake is the driving force behind Martine Leavitt's new YA novel, Whenever You Are (Groundwood Books), in which the possibility of a second ...

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Read an Excerpt from A HUNGRY FIRE, the New Modern Epic Novel by Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath

A centuries-old story finds a very different kind of afterlife in A Hungry Fire, where mythology becomes a way of making sense of a body that refuses ...

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Read an Excerpt from CARRYING WAR, the Affecting New Memoir by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Some experiences never entirely leave us. The new memoir, Carrying War (Dundurn Press) traces how encounters with violence, instability, and fear can ...

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Story Sparks & Surprises with Katie Arthur, Author and Illustrator of BACKPACK

A beloved bag can carry a lot more than lunch and library books. In the new picturebook, Backpack (Owlkids Books), a familiar everyday object becomes ...

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Andrea Coke Reflects on Family, Culture, and Belonging in I AM CARIBBEAN

Author and Speech-Language Pathologist Andrea Coke knows that identity is rarely a simple story. In her memoir I Am Caribbean (Saunders Book Company/Beech ...

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Blaine Thornton on Writing Survival, Healing, and Home in the New Poetry Collection, HERE'S TO LETTING GO

Finding safety is rarely a straight path. Here's to Letting Go (Latitude 46 Publishing) follows one young person's search for belonging through unstable ...

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Kevin Jagernauth on Reimagining Noir in THE LONGEST DEATH

A small-town bank job is just the beginning of the story in The Longest Death (House of Anansi Press), a new work of noir full with longing, ambition, ...

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Simon Casaubon on Writing I AM QUEER to Help Young People Feel Seen

Personal stories can open the door to much larger conversations. In I Am Queer, (Beech Street Books/Saunders Book Company) author Simon Casaubon shares ...

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Dustin Galer Investigates Responsibility, Disability, and the Human Cost of Systemic Failure in BLAME

The death of one man becomes the starting point of a much larger investigation in Blame: Death, Disability, and the Search for Justice for Guy Mitchell (ECW ...

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Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton on Building CHILDREN OF FIRE from Profound Voices of Resistance

Our featured non-fiction title today, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom (Book*hug Press), brings ...

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Anne Baldo Explores the Lives That Shape Us in ONE DAY, HARD AND CLEAR

Growing up often means discovering that the people we love can't always become the people we need them to be. In One Day, Hard and Clear (Dundurn Press), that ...

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Story Sparks & Surprises with Anna Lazowski, Author of I BUILT A ROCKET SHIP

Sometimes children find their own language for grief. In I Built a Rocket Ship, that language takes the shape of a backyard project, as one child quietly ...

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Read an Excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, the Fascinating New Essay Collection by Alex Boyd

Art has a way of turning up in unexpected places, and Take this for the Pain (Palimpsest Press) follows those moments wherever they lead. Drawing on ...

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Story Sparks & Surprises with Anita Yasuda, Author of BOLLYWOOD BEAT!

A dance recital is exciting enough on its own, but Bollywood Beat! (Kids Can Press) captures everything that happens around it too, from the nervous ...

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THOSE ARE PEARLS Author André Narbonne Takes on Our Storytellers Interview

One decision can echo through generations, and we've seen this play out time and time again in some of Canada's best fiction. In the new novel, Those ...

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Read an Excerpt from Valerie Sherrard's Heartwarming ABSOLUTELY NO BODY PARTS

Cleaning out an old building shouldn't pull at the threads of a mystery, but that's exactly what happens in Absolutely No Body Parts (Cormorant/DCB Books), ...

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