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The New York Times Book Review included Vijay Khurana's debut novel THE PASSENGER SEAT in its list of 2025 hidden gems!
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December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: We take a brief detour from our Holiday Book Guide posting for a peek inside the press as we hand-bind chapbooks!

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Close-up photo of hands holding a sheet of square title labels for Richard Kelly Kemick's "Playing God" chapbook. In white text over the photo reads: Playing God A brief detour for some holiday fun at the press! The Bibliophile
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The @chicagotribune.com holiday book guide calls Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories "an addicting revival of the Victorian-born tradition of reading scary stories at holidays." 🎁📚

Send a chill down your spine with our 2025 bundle! www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...
Rectangular graphic with the Chicago Tribune header and article title: "Holiday book guide 2025: The best gift books of the season, paired to some very specific people" by Christopher Borelli. Below the header is a photo of several books included in the guide, including "The Mistress in Black" by Rosemary Timperley, from the 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories.
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Everyone's doing their holiday shopping, and they're all getting Christmas Ghost Stories 👻🎁

These little books are going out today, but we've got plenty more still on-hand for anyone looking for the perfect stocking stuffers!

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Photo of a wooden table with 15 stacks of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories 2025, with the book "The Mistress in Black" by Rosemary Timperley (an orange and black cartoon image of a woman eerily holding a lit match) on the top of all of them, and a Biblioasis bookmark laid vertically on the bottom row.
December 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Ray Robertson, author of DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS), explains the significance of the song DUST by Danny Kirwan (Fleetwood Mac).
"A song that's about desolution, annihilation, the ephemerality of life . . . yet, because of the way Danny writes, it becomes a very affirmative thing."
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Join us THIS Thursday, December 11 at Upstart & Crow for our BEST CANADIAN POETRY bash! 🎉🎉

Readings by Billy-Ray Belcourt, Kate Genevieve, Catherine St-Denis, Jaeyun Yoo, M.W. Miller, Estlin McPhee and Megan Morrison, and hosted by Aislinn Hunter.
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: We share Part Two of our staff holiday book recommendations! Stay tuned next Friday for our final recs, and a word from the publisher 🎁📚

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December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A lovely review of the 2025 Christmas Ghost Stories from our friends at Cemetery Dance Magazine ranks them right up there with Mariah Carey as a telltale sign of the holidays!

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Purple background with golden christmas light graphics strung along the top and bottom alongside white snowflakes. In the centre are the three Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories, "The Mistress in Black", "Lucky's Grove," and "Lady Ferry." In yellow text above reads the quote: "Beautiful and uniquely collectible."—Blu Gilliand, Cemetery Dance.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“This slender volume makes for excellent conversational kindling . . . The book is an embodiment of its core values, engaging with multiple viewpoints and arguments." @juliesedivy.bsky.social's review of Ira Wells' ON BOOK BANNING in @albertaviews.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ICYMI: Graeme Macrae Burnet's BENBECULA was reviewed in the Chicago Tribune!

John Warner writes that the novel has "a kind of gravitational pull that you cannot escape."

Read the full review here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/b...
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Our Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories got a fun shout-out on So Many Damn Books! And congrats to them on 250 episodes of the podcast 🎉

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Rectangular graphic. Upper half is a white background with blue text reading: Episode 250 - 250 Episodes - So Many Damn Books. Lower half is the covers of the three 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories, "The Mistress in Black," "Lady Ferry," and "Lucky's Grove".
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: This week, we're looking back at our 2025 titles and sharing the first part of our staff holiday book recommendations!

Check out these fantastic reads, and stay tuned next Friday for the second half of our list. 📚🎄

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November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: The introduction to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS), a collection offering a dozen portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and fascinating musicians.

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Photo of "Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)" by Ray Robertson, face out against a white background. In white text over the photo reads: Second verse same as the first... - The introduction to Ray Robertson's Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars).
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉

Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie

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The cover of "Baldwin, Styron, and Me" by Melikah Abdelmoumen (translated by Catherine Khordoc) on a blue background of the Carnegie Medal logo, announcing the 2026 shortlist selection for Nonfiction. Winners announced January 27!
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Happy pub day to our BEST CANADIAN 2026 anthologies!

We have an exciting lineup of upcoming events, starting with tonight's launch of BEST CANADIAN STORIES in Vancouver at Upstart & Crow!
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: We're featuring a peek at the introductions to this year's Best Canadian anthologies, as each editor explores how they selected their chosen essays, poems, and stories. Find them on bookstore shelves next Tuesday, Nov 18!

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A photo of the Best Canadian Essays 2026, Best Canadian Poetry 2026, and Best Canadian Stories 2026 books standing upright in a staggered line on a wooden table in front of bookshelves. In white text over the image reads: "Knowing, searching, hunting: Excerpts from the introductions to the Best Canadian Series 2026"
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Happy pub day to Graeme Macrae Burnet's BENBECULA—Drawing on a host of archival material, Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of HIS BLOODY PROJECT to construct a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy pub day to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS)!

In DUST, Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential, and fascinating musicians.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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New on The Bibliophile: We're back! This week we're sharing an interview with Graeme Macrae Burnet on his new novel BENBECULA, which publishes in North America next Tuesday.

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Photo of Graeme Macrae Burnet's book "Benbecula". One copy is face out, featuring a golden-toned landscape painting on the cover; beside it is a stack of copies with red spines out. In white text over the image reads: "Gone a wee bit mad - An interview with Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of Benbecula."
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Join us in Toronto on Nov. 17th for the launch of VOICES OF RESISTANCE and Baraka Books' RAZING PALESTINE, two essential books about Palestine and the war in Gaza. This is a free event. More info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-raz...
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Happy pub day to our 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories: LADY FERRY by Sarah Orne Jewett, LUCKY'S GROVE by H. Russell Wakefield, and THE MISTRESS IN BLACK by Rosemary Timperley! A haunted school, demonic Christmas tree, and eerie houseguest—all three stories will send chills up the spine.
Photo of the 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories: Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett, The Mistress in Black by Rosemary Timperley, and Lucky's Grove by H. Russell Wakefield.
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Happy pub day to The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton! Book #2 in his Trilogy About the Boy, an epic saga and a timeless story that portrays the human struggle for hope within the ferocious majesty of Iceland.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"Cleverly illustrated . . . [Lady Ferry] is more thoughtful than creepy, but still tells a ghostly tale. The other two books in the 2025 series are about a school haunted by a former teacher (The Mistress in Black) and demon forces at work when a sacred tree is chopped down (Lucky’s Grove)."
Photo of the book "Lucky's Grove" by H. Russell Wakefield, with an orange and black toned cover of a mansion on fire in the winter, designed by cartoonist Seth. Photo of the book "The Mistress in Black" by Rosemary Timperley, with an orange and black toned cover of an eerily lit woman holding up a burning match, designed by cartoonist Seth.
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories were included on The Longest Chapter's new releases list, with some extra love for the eerie Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett!

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Photo of the book "Lady Ferry" by Sarah Orne Jewett, with a purple toned cover of a skeleton woman in period clothing designed by cartoonist Seth. Above the photo is the banner for the site "The Longest Chapter: A book critic's discoveries and recommendations."
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM