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Coach House nominated for a Libris Award!

May 13, 2013 — Coach House is honoured to be shortlisted for this year's Small Publisher of the Year Libris Award, presented by the Canadian Booksellers Association.

Save 20% with our Plead the Fifth Sale

In addition to being the start of the summer movie season, a time for flowers and the last name of Rod Stewart's friend Maggie, May is also the month of Doors Open Toronto and the start of Book Expo America! But here's the thing about May: it's the fifth month of the year, and as such (and because we're stumped for sale ideas), we're taking a fifth of the price off every title on the Coach House site!

Coach House takes Manhattan at BEA

From May 30 to June 1, the largest publishing event in North America – Book Expo America (or 'BEA' to those in 'the biz') – is hosted at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, and Coach House will be there. Like every year, the Expo provides booksellers and publishing industry workers a preview of exciting new things happening in the world of books.

Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead wins the Believer Book Award!

April 29, 2013 — Coach House Books is proud to share the news that Tamara Faith Berger’s novel Maidenhead has been awarded The Believer Book Award for 2012. The award, selected annually by the magazine’s editors, recognizes ‘the strongest and most underappreciated’ novel or story collection of the year.

Jonathan Ball wins a Manitoba Book Award for The Politics of Knives

April 29, 2013 — Jonathan Ball's latest poetry collection The Politics of Knives was is the winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, presented last night at the Manitoba Book Awards.

The jury shared the following words of praise:

Cosmo wins the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award!

For the past few weeks, CBC Books asked the Canadian public to weigh in on their third annual Bookie Awards by suggesting categories, recommending finalists and voting for the winners.

Nicole Brossard wins the 2013 littérature francophone Benjamin Fondane

April 9, 2013 — Nicole Brossard, whose latest poetry collection, White Piano (translated by Robert Majzels and ErÍn Moure) has been awarded the 2013 winner of the littérature francophone Benjamin Fondane.

Mathew Henderson's The Lease nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award

April 2, 2013 — The Lease, which was inspired by poet Mathew Henderson's time working in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets.

Coach House Offers Free Digital Downloads with Print Purchase!

Coach House now offers free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.

Coach House Books? There's an app for that!

Download the free Coach House Coffee Room app, designed to make it easier to keep up with our press and our authors, wherever you might find yourself.

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Check out footage from our Spring Launch in Toronto

Missed our Spring Launch event in Toronto last month? We're sure you have a valid excuse, but if you're curious about what went on, check out these clips of readers Andrew Faulkner, Tamara Faith Berger, Nicolas Billon, David Seymour, Andrew Kaufman and John Goldbach taking the stage at The Garrison.

Watch the trailer for David Seymour's For Display Purposes Only

David Seymour teamed up with the extremely talented Jeremy Munce to create a book trailer from David's poem 'Eyewitness Testimony,' part of the collection For Display Purposes Only (launching April 13). The mysterious short film stars a number of Canadian poets and novelists — see if you can identify them all!

Coach House Fall 2013 Catalogue

It sounds like spring at Coach House!

You heard it here first: audio excerpts from four of Coach House's Spring 2013 books — Little Cat, Need Machine, The Devil and the Detective and For Display Purposes Only — read by the authors in the ambience of the Coach House recording studios, are now available for your listening pleasure.

Events

May 22 | Andrew Kaufman reads at Harbourfront - Toronto

Authors at Harbourfront Centre presents Andrew Kaufman (All My Friends Are Superheroes), Claire Mulligan (The Dark) and Benjamin Percy (Red Moon).

May 25 & 26 | Doors Open Toronto at the Coach House

Curious about what goes on inside the Coach House? On the weekend of May 25-26, we will once again participate in the annual Doors Open Toronto and open our doors for the public to visit.

May 26 | Cordelia Strube speaks to the Writers' Community of Simcoe County

Cordelia Strube (Milosz, Lemon) talks straight about her serendipitous — although often arduous — route to becoming a novelist, and the grit and savvy required to remain one.

May 27 | Nicolas Billon at Amazing New Stuff Reading Series - Toronto

Playwright Nicolas Billon (Fault Lines) will read at the 'Murderers' Row Edition' of the Amazing New Stuff reading series.

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Little Cat

Tamara Faith Berger

224 pp, Paperback

$19.95 CAD