Coach House Books
Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. linktr.ee/chbooks
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- We ❤️ library readers of indie books. Thanks for borrowing What I Know About You, Encampment (@maggiehelwig.bsky.social), The Sleeping Car Porter, Fifteen Dogs, and Messy Cities ( @dylanreid.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social).
- Tonight in Ottawa: join André Alexis to talk books and enjoy some light refreshments!
- In celebration of Black History Month, André Alexis will be in conversation with Jamaal Amir Akbari in Ottawa on Feb. 5! A Q&A and light refreshments will follow the chat about André's writing and relationship to Ottawa. More info & RSVP: booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/celebrati...
- Tonight (Feb. 3) in Toronto: @maggiehelwig.bsky.social will be joining the By the Lake Book Club for their meeting on Encampment! More info here: www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...
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- We're having a great time at the OLA (Ontario Library Association) Super Conference! #OLASC Visit us in the OBPO Pavillion. This morning, our author Kate Cayley stopped by to sign copies of Property:
- And learn more about the book, What You Won't Do For Love: A Conversation, from David Suzuki, Tara Cullis, Miriam Fernandes, and Ravi Jain: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
- What You Won't Do For Love (@whynottheatreto.bsky.social) is going on tour in Ontario this spring! After a lifetime devoted to activism, environmentalists David Suzuki and Tara Cullis take to the stage in an intimate and inspiring theatre experience. More info here: whynot.theatre/work/what-yo...
- What You Won't Do For Love (@whynottheatreto.bsky.social) is going on tour in Ontario this spring! After a lifetime devoted to activism, environmentalists David Suzuki and Tara Cullis take to the stage in an intimate and inspiring theatre experience. More info here: whynot.theatre/work/what-yo...
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- Wonderful conversation with Jordan Tannahill below! For those interested in Tannahill's provocative playwriting, check out Theatre of the Unimpressed, his reflection on how dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it: chbooks.com/Books/T/Thea...
- In celebration of Black History Month, André Alexis will be in conversation with Jamaal Amir Akbari in Ottawa on Feb. 5! A Q&A and light refreshments will follow the chat about André's writing and relationship to Ottawa. More info & RSVP: booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/celebrati...
- Great to see both Dad Era by Jordan Abel and On Occasion (ed. Sina Queyras) here in Q&Q's Spring Poetry Preview!
- On TalkPaperScissors this week, David Berry @pleasuremotors.bsky.social (How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists) talks all things art and economics alongside Raymond Biesinger! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
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- A great interview between Adam Haiun (I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid) and rob mclennan to read over this chilly weekend:
- Coach House Books is thrilled to be distributing Lisa Robertson's The Weather, XEclogue, and Debbie: An Epic, originally published by New Star Books. Robertson fans and new readers alike can now purchase these three titles directly from us @ chbooks.com/Authors/R/Ro... 🌟
- Last few hours of 26% off all already-published books on our site, including our 2025 releases and backlist favourites! chbooks.com/Books Discount automatically applied at checkout. Ends at 11:59 PM tonight.
- Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day! We're having a Squirrel Appreciation Day Sale today only: all books published before 2026 are 26% off! SHOP 26% OFF: www.chbooks.com 🐿️📚
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- Reposted by Coach House BooksThis is squirrel is going somewhere. Click here to find out where: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B... B.11.22 is a 13th/14th c. Book of Hours bursting with beautiful and amusing illustrations. #squirrelappreciationday
- And while merch isn’t included in the sale (the squirrels are desperate to keep it all for themselves), match their style with our 60th Anniversary totes and tees! chbooks.com/Merchandise 🐿️📚
- Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day! We're having a Squirrel Appreciation Day Sale today only: all books published before 2026 are 26% off! SHOP 26% OFF: www.chbooks.com 🐿️📚
- Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day! We're having a Squirrel Appreciation Day Sale today only: all books published before 2026 are 26% off! SHOP 26% OFF: www.chbooks.com 🐿️📚
- On Feb. 10, join author @maggiehelwig.bsky.social at the Vancouver Writers Fest! Maggie will be discussing Encampment, in conversation with Jackie Wong, whose journalism on housing and drug policy has been published widely. More info & RSVP: writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite...
- 'A sparse yet powerful exploration of the complexity of female desire and how it is articulated in art and nature.' When Water Became Blue from Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (trans. Rhonda Mullins) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
- In @quillandquire.bsky.social's Spring Fiction preview, we're glad to see Lisa Robertson's forthcoming Riverwork highlighted as one of the titles they're most excited about this season: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp... ✨ Riverwork is now available for pre-order: chbooks.com/Books/R/Rive...
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- Our friends at the Tranzac have a call for residencies open! They're inviting artists, groups, curators, ensembles, and organizations to apply to their performance residency for April - September 2026! Deadline to apply is Fri., Jan. 23, 2026. More info & link to apply: tranzac.org/residencies/...
- For booksellers, librarians, and reviewers interested in advanced reading copies, please get in touch with us at Olivia@chbooks.com, and check out our linktree to sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop. 📚
- Now announcing our Spring/Summer 2026 slate of books! This season includes speculative fiction imagining alternate and revolutionary worlds, a book of homilies offering resistance to urgent contemporary fears, and much more: chbooks.com/Books/FORTHC...
- Now announcing our Spring/Summer 2026 slate of books! This season includes speculative fiction imagining alternate and revolutionary worlds, a book of homilies offering resistance to urgent contemporary fears, and much more: chbooks.com/Books/FORTHC...
- Out May 5: Lisa Robertson's Riverwork A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris. chbooks.com/Books/R/Rive...
- Tonight at the Burdock Music Hall in Toronto, hear readings from Kate Cayley and other great poets! More info + tix below:
- Next week at the Burdock Music Hall: Kate Cayley will be reading alongside a few other great poets! More info and tickets here: www.showpass.com/come-to-me-w...
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- Next week at the Burdock Music Hall: Kate Cayley will be reading alongside a few other great poets! More info and tickets here: www.showpass.com/come-to-me-w...
- On Kerry Clare's podcast Bookspo this week, Kate Cayley talks all things Property! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
- So nice to see our books being read at the library as always: What I Know About You, Encampment, The Sleeping Car Porter, Messy Cities, Fifteen Dogs, and No Jews Live Here all amongst the most borrowed indie books. 📚❤️
- On the last day of our sixtieth year (!!!), we are wrapping up our year-long project of highlighting books from the Coach House archive with (was there any doubt) bpNichol’s The Martyrology, the first book of which was printed at Coach House Press in the early spring of 1972:
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- Happy holidays from the Coach House team – and all of our 2025 releases! We're still offering free Cdn shipping on www.chbooks.com until 11:59 PM on Dec. 31st (just keep in mind your books will ship out to you upon our return to office on Jan. 5th). ❤️
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- Reposted by Coach House BooksSOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread! Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
- On the occasion of Elon Musk pretending that he reads books, I thought I’d reshare my “100 Best Books On City-Making Ever Written” article in @planetizen.bsky.social. It’s 12 years old and needs updating, and got plently of debate back then, but I’d still recommend most of these. #UrbanismBookClub
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- Attention all booksellers, librarians, and influencers! Sign up for our newsletter created specifically for you, in your book-focused role, as we head into 2026 with anticipation for our Spring/Summer season: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 💌
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- Holiday notice: our coach house will be closed from December 20 to January 5! Any orders placed after the morning of Dec. 19 will be processed and shipped out no earlier than Jan. 5. 🎄📚 We will continue to offer free Canadian shipping until the end of the year for those book orders that can wait!
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- @antonhur.com recommends Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter for your holiday gifting needs: 'Sometimes, you come across a novel so perfect that you are confident that whomever you gift it to will love it.' Read his full recommendation at the link below. 🎄
- The Carol Shields Prize's Silent Auction ends tonight (Dec. 16) -- win a selection of Coach House titles, including two Shields Prize Finalists (Pale Shadows and The Sleeping Car Porter)!
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- ‘Yesterdays is relentlessly rude and crude, but also bold, experimental, truthfully ugly, and unforgettable,’ says Colin Grant in the December 18th issue of The New York Review of Books! Full piece: www.nybooks.com/articles/202... And read Yesterdays for yourself: chbooks.com/Books/Y/Yest...
- Originally published in 1967, Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters is our feature from the Coach House archive this week:
- Coming February 10, 2026! Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage. A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary disabled theatre artists, edited by Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson. chbooks.com/Books/R/Rebe...
- 'Each story in the collection reads as fresh, infused with empathy and curiosity for the human condition, and a warmth and humour that sit in balance.' 49th Shelf on Robert McGill's Simple Creatures:
- Congratulations to Saskia Vogel for making the 2025 Shortlist of @societyofauthors.bsky.social's John Calder Translation Prize, for her translation of Karolina Ramqvist's Bread and Milk. For North American readers, you can discover Bread and Milk here: chbooks.com/Books/B/Brea...
- '[The book's essays] bring to vivid life what it means to be a part of a connected community.' Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
- This Thursday in Mississauga, join authors Kate Cayley (Property) and Jumoke Verissimo (Circumtrauma) at The Ampersand Review's December Reading Series! More info & RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ampers...
