We are very excited to announce our Fall 2024 titles! Coming soon: August 6, 2024: The Genius Hour Project by Leanne Shirtliffe August 27, 2024: A Life in Pieces by Jo-Ann Wallace September 17, 2024: Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene by Guy Vanderhaeghe Follow each link to learn more and to pre-order!
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Join Thistledown Press and Art Gallery of Regina for the double book launch of Marlis Wesseler’s The Beech Forest and Connie Gault’s The Rasmussen Papers! Come by for a lovely evening of readings, book signing, and conversation! When: June 28 at 7PMWhere: Art Gallery of Regina (2420 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK S4T 7S7)THIS IS A
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 7:00 pmMcNally Robinson Saskatoon, Travel Alcove & YouTube Join MARLIS WESSLER and CONNIE GAULT for the joint launch of their new novels, THE BEECH FOREST and THE RASMUSSEN PAPERS. This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The Beech Forest
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“The Beech Forest is a very timely read. At a time when global conflict ignites old animosities, societies grapple with shameful pasts, and individuals are increasingly taking it upon themselves to learn about – and from – historical injustices, this novel shows us that we can see ourselves, warts and all, and continue to go on.” —SaskBook Reviews
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Thursday, June 13 at 7:00 PM (MDT)Shelf Life Books1302 4 St SW 100Calgary, AB Canada Join us at Shelf Life Books for a triple book launch featuring What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor (Thistledown Press),The Head by Robyn Braun (Great Plains Publications), and Farm: Lot 23 by Tonya Lailey (Gaspereau Press). ABOUT THE BOOKS THE HEADOn the morning of her
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“The Rasmussen Papers shows us that there is more to life than writing, but sometimes, writing is the way through.”—Brandon Fick, SaskBook Reviews Read the full review here!
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Congratulations to Sharon Butala for winning the 2023 Glengarry Book Award Prize for her novel Leaving Wisdom! 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. The Glengarry Book Award Prize is an annual award for the first edition
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We are thrilled to announce our Spring 2024 titles! Coming soon: April 9, 2024: What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor May 14, 2024: The Rasmussen Papers by Connie Gault June 4, 2024: The Beech Forest by Marlis Wesseler Follow each link to learn more and to pre-order!
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Thistledown Press is pleased to present the Thistledown Reader’s Club! In this virtual book club, we’ll bring in acclaimed authors for exclusive, behind-the-scenes conversations on their work. Join us for the second meeting of the Thistledown Reader’s Club! Our virtual session will feature a lively conversation with Rita Bouvier on her latest poetry collection, a
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We are thrilled to share that David Carpenter won the 2023 Nonfiction Award from the High Plains Book Awards for I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like: A Memoir! Congratulations, David! David is one of six Canadian writers to take home a High Plains Award. The award ceremony took place on October 7, 2023
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Labelled both a “heady and exhilarating historical adventure” and “a densely layered and immaculately paced escapade,” The Heathens and the Dragon: A 13th-Century Adventure by Kate A. Boorman received a starred review on Publishers Weekly! Read the full review on the Publishers Weekly website here. Grab your copy of The Heathens and the Dragon here!
To celebrate the publication anniversary of Silencing Rebecca by Nikki Vogel (August 31, 2023), we’re giving away THREE copies of the book! The giveaway will run on Goodreads from September 3 to 21, 2023. Enter below! Goodreads Book Giveaway Silencing Rebecca by Nikki Vogel Giveaway ends September 21, 2023. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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Thistledown Press is pleased to present the Thistledown Reader’s Club! In this virtual book club, we’ll bring in acclaimed authors for exclusive, behind-the-scenes conversations on their work. We are so excited to announce the inaugural meeting of the Thistledown Reader’s Club! On Tuesday, September 12, join award-winning Canadian author Sharon Butala for a conversation on
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We are so excited to see three Thistledown authors shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Awards! 2023 Non-Fiction Award – Shortlist: I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like by David Carpenter 2023 City of Saskatoon Award – Shortlist: I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like by David Carpenter 2023 Poetry Award – Shortlist: Shimmers of
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We have a new review of Nikki Vogel’s Silencing Rebecca! Read the full review here. “I have no idea how to categorize this book. It is a coming of age story for sure but it also has touches of horror, fantasy, and dramatic fiction, among other genres. I love that it broke through so many
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We are thrilled to see The Elephant on Karlův Bridge by Thomas Trofimuk on the Edmonton Journal‘s “Bookmarks: Top Edmonton Reads of 2022”! Read the full list here.
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Our wonderful publicist Jun Lee is leaving us at the end of December. We are so grateful for his hard work, commitment, and creativity. (And those wonderful video trailers he created for our books!) We wish him well in his next adventure. We are happy to welcome Jaclyn Morken as our new Publicist. She will
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We are so excited to see Thomas Trofimuk’s novel, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge, on 49th Shelf’s “Top 22 of ’22: Our Books of the Year”! Read the full list here.
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Check out this lovely review of Thomas Trofimuk’s The Elephant on Karluv Bridge written by Kerry Clare on the Pickle Me This blog! “Thoughtful, artful, playful . . . Thomas Trofimuk’s latest novel, The Elephant on Karluv Bridge, is an absorbing literary puzzle and truly a delight to encounter.”—Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This
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On Friday, December 16 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and author, librettist, and playwright, Phoebe Tsang for the launch of Setting Fire to Water (Thistledown Press). This debut collection of stories that illuminates the lives of those who exist inside otherness: shifting restlessly from dark to light and back again, written in
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