Coach House makes end-of-year lists

As 2009 approaches, many newspapers, blogs and critics are making their end-of-year lists, and Coach House is proud to announce some of our books are among 2008's most lauded titles.

NOW Magazine listed their top ten books of 2008, and Coach House novels took the number one and ten spots! Of number one book, Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down, Susan G. Cole said:

'Toronto stars in this timely story of a young, not so lovable photographer obsessed with an ex-girlfriend and slowly going blind in a city where people keep collapsing from a mysterious ailment. How could the literary juries miss this?'

And of Claudia Dey's Stunt (number ten):

'Playwright Dey’s first novel, about a nine-year-old abandoned by her dad to the rest of her dysfunctional family in lovingly detailed Parkdale, is a celebration of the bizarre and a triumph of literary invention.'

Girls Fall Down was also listed in the National Post's Top Ten Books of the Year ('Helwig gives the city its first post-SARS novel ... Where was this book come awards season?'), and in Uptown's year-end favourite-book roundup:'a beautiful, strange novel about paranoia, lost love, family bonds and the Toronto subway.'

Our poetry titles were also widely hailed.

Crabwise to the Hounds by Jeramy Dodds, Blert by Jordan Scott and What Stirs by Margaret Christakos were all listed as books of the year by various bloggers, including Paul Veermeersch, Lemon Hound (Sina Queyras), Carmine Starnino and Steven Fama:

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Congratulations to all our authors!