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Canadian distributors of the best in independent publishing. Part of the Raincoast Distribution Group. 🇨🇦

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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hey, we're PGC Books, Canadian distributors for some of your favourite independent publishers. We're not great at social media, but we are quite good at getting books where they need to go.
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We are publishing The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi, translated by Alexander Elinson, on 26th Feb (UK) + 24th March (US).

Read this excerpt in @markaz-review.bsky.social to find out why we're so excited about it:

themarkaz.org/the-end-of-t...

#Algeria #FictionInTranslation
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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"Messy Cities" - a Canadian indy bestseller! #23 on the 2025 list of bestselling books by Canadian publishers in independent bookstores. The perfect gift for the urbanist in your life! quillandquire.com/omni/indepen...
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Here we go!!! Starting our annual countdown of the best books of the year, we rounded up the 20 best crime fiction books of 2025: crimereads.com/best-books-2...
The Best Books of 2025: Crime Fiction, Mysteries, and Thrillers
As we approach the end of the year, it’s time to celebrate the best crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers of 2025. The works below feature quite a few old favorites at the top of their game,…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨

Read @bopgoth.bsky.social’s review below & grab it now via @charcopress.com

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At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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theglobeandmail.com
Tom Stoppard’s life in five plays
The English playwright’s career had a mathematical elegance - and perfect dramatic arc
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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An in-depth interview about 🌚 astro 🌚
published in the US by @transitbooks.bsky.social

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*Interview by Katy Dycus, @worldkidlit.bsky.social
Interview with Spanish Illustrator and Picture Book Creator Manuel Marsol
by Katy Dycus I met author/illustrator Manuel Marsol at Feria del Libro de Madrid in June 2023. I was 7 months pregnant with my son, and Manuel had his own baby boy in tow. He signed a couple books…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I was surprised at how much I genuinely admired last year’s Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. I’ve read ALOT of Christmas stories, as you might imagine. Now from Grove and translator Diane Oatley comes Winter Stories, by the same, Ingvild Rishøi. So good
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Lit Hub's favourite books of 2025, including titles from the mighty @charcopress.com, @deepvellum.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and @twolinespress.com!

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Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025
It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
pgcbooks.bsky.social
Including books from our friends @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social and Ronsdale Press!

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Our Top Fiction of 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
The fiction that rocked the year that was. 
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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here:
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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More love for On the Calculation of Volume! Available from @ndbooks.bsky.social in Canada and the US!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Five of the best translated fiction of 2025
The return of Nobel laureate Han Kang; film-making under the Nazis; stuck in a time loop; Scandinavian thrills; and essential stories from postwar Iraq
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
pgcbooks.bsky.social
Great to see so many titles from PGC publishers on this list!

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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'Tom, with his huge generosity of spirit, has sat at the heart of Faber publishing for six decades. He was a delight to work with and a true friend.'

Dinah Wood remembers Tom Stoppard.

faber.co.uk/journal/faber-remembers-tom-stoppard/
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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‘He carved out his career in his own always carefully chosen words.’

theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/30/sir-tom-stoppard-obituary
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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'He wasn’t just a brilliant creative artist and a marvellous entertainer, he was a conscience to us all.'

Tom Stoppard’s biographer, Hermione Lee, reflects on his dazzling wit and scrupulous integrity.
Tom Stoppard's biographer Hermione Lee reflects on his dazzling wit and scrupulous integrity
Get full access to the app & website:
observer.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Farewell to a modern great

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
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November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
pgcbooks.bsky.social
Lovely to see mentions for Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle in the morning news!
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Morning Update: Behind the best books of 2025
Also in today’s edition: An energy agreement and a miscarriage of justice
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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So excited to see that Joan Smith has chosen Red Water by Jurica Pavicic as one of the @thetimes.com Books of the Year for 2025! 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 2 is one of @theobserveruk.bsky.social's books of the year 2025, included in their essential guide to what to give this holiday season!

Discover The Xenotext: Book 2: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...
‘In this audacious work – arguably the world’s first example of “living poetry” – the poet and Leeds Beckett University professor Christian Bök chronicles the completion of his 25-year experiment, in which he used a “chemical alphabet” to encode a sonnet into the genome of the almost indestructible bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans – which can survive radiation, acid, freezing and even outer space. Miraculously, the microbe “writes” a poem back. Although his text is shadowed with apocalyptic gloom, Bök stokes a romantic idea: that poetry might live in more than just our hearts, perhaps even outliving humanity itself.’
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Maggie Helwig’s Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community is featured on @theglobeandmail.com's 100 Best Books of 2025!

Learn more about Encampment here: chbooks.com/Books/E/Enca...
‘In 2022, Helwig, a priest at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, controversially began opening her churchyard to the homeless, where they’ve remained ever since. In this memoir, she profiles occupants of the tent cities that have become fixtures across the country, explaining her natural affinity for this population and the frustratingly practical obstacles they face trying to get off the streets.’
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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john-self.bsky.social
A future Iran where men are subjugated by women; a wartime love story, where "every woman ought to feel proud" if an SS officer gets her pregnant; a dying ferryman with memories of Edward G Robinson; and a submerged Netherlands ("4 life jackets for the price of 3!").

Me on new translated fiction:
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM