Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM, Munro’s Books, Victoria, BC Please join us in celebrating the launch of new books by two acclaimed BC authors: TUNNEL ISLAND by Bill Gaston and WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD by Clea Young! Highly original and empathetic, Tunnel Island features a cast of characters striving to understand and overcome their pasts through eleven […]
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Check out this stellar review of Lloyd Ratzlaff’s Walking Upstream on the SaskBooks Reviews website: https://reviews.skbooks.com/walking-upstream/ “Ratzlaff possesses a gift for evoking emotion in just a few poignant lines—some might consider this poetry’s raison d’être—and his poems reflect that over a lifetime, the former counsellor’s mastered the oft-ignored art of listening.” —Shelley A. Leedahl, SaskBooks
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Sharon Berg chats with Thistledown author Marlis Wesseler about her novel The Beech Forest in this interview for The Temz Review! Check out the interview here. “Primo Levi wrote, comparing normal life to life in the camps, that we live in the ‘comfort and suffering’ of our own homes. I wanted to highlight an ordinary
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Thistledown Press is thrilled to announce that two of our titles have been shortlisted for the 2025 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene by Guy Vanderhaeghe (Sept 17, 2024), and The Beech Forest by Marlis Wesseler (June 4, 2024). Congratulations to Guy and Marlis, and
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“[Wallace’s] final lecture, if you will, is both a roadmap to and a celebration of a life well lived. It is also a mature and moving meditation on mortality.” —Theresa Shea, Alberta Views Theresa Shea wrote a lovely review of Jo-Ann Wallace’s A Life in Pieces in Alberta Views Magazine! Click here to read the
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Congratulations to Trevor Herriot for winning the 2024 Glengarry Book Award Prize for his debut novel, The Economy of Sparrows! Launched by the Saskatchewan Foundation For the Arts (SFFA) in 2021, the Glengarry Book Award Prize was created to support and foster Saskatchewan’s literary culture. According to Claire Kramer, founding trustee of the SFFA, “The
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We are so excited to announce our Spring 2025 titles! Coming soon: April 8, 2025: Walking Upstream by Lloyd Ratzlaff April 29, 2025: Tunnel Island: Stories by Bill Gaston May 27, 2025: Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel by Elizabeth J. Haynes Follow the links to learn more and to pre-order!
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“Vanderhaeghe is an award-winning historical novelist who has managed to bridge the tricky gulf between populist appeal and literary fiction — and here we’re seeing how it all began. This is a book of many rewards.” Thank you to Jamie Portman from Postmedia Network for the excellent review of Because Somebody Asked Me To by
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“Readers will become engaged with all the quirky characters in this easy-flowing story about friendship, family, and self-worth.” Thank you to Calgary Herald for featuring The Genius Hour Project in the January 2025 Children’s Books list! Read the full review and see the rest of the list here.
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In case you missed it, Leanne Shirtliffe appeared on Calgary’s CONNECT with Sarah Crosbie for a special feature about The Genius Hour Project! Listen to the “Sarah Cr-oliday 2024 Special” linked below or listen to it on Spotify.
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In case you missed it, Dave Williamson reviewed Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Because Somebody Asked Me To! Read this review of Vanderhaeghe’s “Praise worthy prose” on The Winnipeg Free Press‘s website here.
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“I have written this in the spirit of whimsy, one of Wallace’s more captivating themes. Whimsy also combines with pluck and candour to render her distinctive voice. I’m aware, of course, that my existence is separate and apart from Wallace’s. I sit here, at my desk, while she writes no more. A Life in Pieces
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Guy Vanderhaeghe chats with Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC’s The Sunday Magazine and looks back on what shaped him as a writer. Check out the interview here.
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Quill & Quire has published an excerpt from Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Because Somebody Asked Me To. Read the full excerpt here!
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Marlis Wesseler has a chat with Dennis Rimmer about her latest novel The Beech Forest, writing, and publishing in episode 271 of Talkingbooksandstuff Podcast. Listen to the episode here.
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“. . . a feast of compelling material, a peeling back of the curtain sure to enthrall existing fans of Vanderhaeghe, CanLit enthusiasts, and general readers.” “The subjects of this collection truly are his obsessions. The voice in these pages really is his voice. Because Somebody Asked Me To is Guy Vanderhaeghe: wise, wry, authentic, and principled.”—Brandon
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“Earning enough money to keep writing is the toughest part of being a writer.” Check out All Lit Up’s latest Writer’s Block interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe! Guy answers five rapid-fire questions about writing, books, and his latest, Because Somebody Asked Me To. You can find the interview here.
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In case you missed it, have a listen to this excerpt of CBC Calgary’s The Homestretch to hear book columnist Anne Logan give a shout-out—and a glowing review from her daughter—of Leanne Shirtliffe’s middle-grade novel The Genius Hour Project! You can check it out here.
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“What I need to do is go on to the next book, and to say to myself, ‘Hope that every book that you write is a better book than the last book. And that without that, there is not much point to doing this.’” Listen to this special feature interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe on CBC’s
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“Who is – was – Jo-Ann Wallace? A Life in Pieces tells us. Eloquently. Enjoyably. Who are we, the reader? A Life in Pieces tells us. . . In the ultimate goal of memoir, resonance and relevance, it is a success.” Read this beautiful review of A Life in Pieces by Jo-Ann Wallace here.
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