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☀Staff summer picks ☀ Looking for an unforgettable thriller to spend the summer with? Alan, our Managing Editor, recommends David Bergen's Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. Dark, dangerous, and delectable, this novel will have you at the edge of your seat. Available at gooselane.com/DaysOfFeasting
ART: 📕 Edward Mitchell Bannister: Hidden Blackness 📙 AGO Collection Highlights 📕 Things Fall Apart: Notes on Rupture 📙 Genres High and Low by Philip Monk all books available to pre-order now at gooselane.com/new
POETRY: 📕 Nightnursing by Tiana Reid 📙 Whoosh by Michael Trussler all books available to pre-order now at gooselane.com/new
NON-FICTION 📕 Peace By Chocolate (New, Expanded Edition) by Jon Tattrie 📙 How to Eat with Your Hands by Khalil Akhtar all books available to pre-order now at gooselane.com/new
🍂Announcing our fall list! FICTION: 📕 Two Days in Mayaro by Pamela Mordecai 📙 Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson 📕 Your Breath in Charcoal by Nicholas Herring all books available to pre-order now at gooselane.com/new
🥾Calling all outdoors lovers 🥾 Plan your summer adventures with Hiking Trails of Cape Breton Island, out today! Canada’s East Coast is home to stunning nature, picturesque seaside communities, and endless opportunities for exploration. gooselane.com/HikingTrailsOfCapeBreton
The countdown is on for the Still Here Festival! This incredible event honours four centuries of Black heritage, resilience, and community in NB. The festival is accompanied by a book and exhibition, both launching at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery July 31, 5:00 pm. Learn more at stillherefestival.ca
Attention art lovers: Qillaniq is available now! This stunning book accompanies the 2026 edition of the International exhibition of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada. Learn more, or order your copy now, at gooselane.com/Qillaniq
Jon Claytor's Nowhere is a finalist for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, co-presented by @thewalrus.ca! 🤩 Not only is this Jon's debut novel, it's also the first graphic novel to ever appear on the AFNA’s shortlist in its 50-year history. Learn more at gooselane.com/NowhereShortlisted
🌹 Every Paradise, from Sue Sinclair's stunning new collection, New-Fangled Rose Stay tuned this National Poetry Month as we share excerpts, readings, and more from some of our favourite collections! ❤️ Find your next favourite at gooselane.com/poetry
💙 Safety, from Douglas Walbourne-Gough's award-winning collection, Island Stay tuned this #NationalPoetryMonth as we share excerpts, readings, and more from some of our favourite collections! ❤️ Find your next favourite at gooselane.com/poetry
🎉 HAPPY PUB DAY 🎉 Both a sideways glance at contemporary American culture and a mordant yet tender account of the true meaning of ancestry, Spying on America is an unpredictably insightful exploration of family, Canada’s neighbour, and the “American bald ego.” gooselane.com/SpyingOnAmerica
📜 Attention, poets📜 Submissions for icehouse poetry are now open! Guidelines and submission portal can be found at gooselane.com/PoetrySubmissions
🚨 LAST CALL 🚨 Only one day left to submit to the Claire Harris Poetry Prize! The prize is designed to enhance the visibility of debut poetry collections by poets from Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities 📜 All info and the submission portal at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
🌊 HAPPY PUB DAY 🌊 Loch Baillie's stunning debut is finally here! In River Running, Baillie pens an unfiltered queer Bildungsroman that traces both a geographical and emotional journey from his birthplace in New England to where he comes to settle in Quebec. gooselane.com/RiverRunning
🌹 OUT NOW 🌹 Happy pub day to New-Fangled Rose by Sue Sinclair! Like a rose blooming out of season, the poems in this collection are unexpected, unforgettably beautiful, and an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of climate crisis. gooselane.com/NewFangledRose
🚨 CLOSING SOON🚨 Only a few days left to enter the Goodreads Giveaway for River Running by Loch Baillie! Raw and confessional, this stunning queer Bildungsroman dives gracefully into the intangible concept of home, be it person or place. To enter, head to gooselane.com/RiverRunningGiveaway
Join our team! Goose Lane Editions is hiring a part-time shipper-receiver. This position is ideal for someone who loves books and is interested in a high level of customer service 📚 👉 Learn more and apply by March 26, 2026 at gooselane.com/jobs
⬜ NOW HERE ⬜ Happy pub day to Nowhere by Jon Claytor! A hilarious and sinister reflection on growing up in a world where monsters are real, Nowhere is a dreamlike meditation on adolescence and the absurdity of small-town life. Get your copy at gooselane.com/Nowhere
It's finally here! 📚 Almost 20 years later, the sold out Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey dictionary gets a 2nd edition. This remarkable two-volume set has been revised and expanded, including more than 1,000 new entries and an extensive new introduction by the authors. gooselane.com/Latuwewakon
✨ GIVEAWAY ✨ Win a copy of River Running! In his highly anticipated, breathtakingly intimate debut, Loch Baillie pens an unfiltered queer Bildungsroman that dives gracefully into the intangible concept of home, be it person or place. Open until March 22. Head to gooselane.com/RiverRunningGiveaway
🚨LAST CALL🚨 It's the final day to enter the giveaway for Night Birds! Capitalism, climate disaster, and complicity come crashing down around morally complex characters in this all-absorbing thriller by multi-award-winning author Margaret Sweatman. Head to gooselane.com/NightBirdsGiveaway to enter!
✨GIVEAWAY✨ Intense, visceral, and agile, Night Birds is an all-absorbing thriller, whose morally complex characters are called upon to reckon with the power than runs beneath their feet and the consequences of their own complicity. Open until Feb. 12 gooselane.com/NightBirdsGiveaway
🚨NOW OPEN🚨 The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community. Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
Canada Reads season is here and we're beyond thrilled to share that Slice the Water by PP Wong has been longlisted for CBC Books' #CanadaReads2026! Congratulations, PP — we're so excited! ❤📚
🚨 OPENING SOON 🚨 Attention poets! Mark your calendars because the Claire Harris Poetry Prize will be opening for submissions this Friday, January 9! For more information, eligibility, and how to submit, head to gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
Who knows books better than the people that make them? Here's a round up our gift guide, from our book lovers to yours. Check out all our staff picks at gooselane.com/holiday
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s photography department, Collective States explores the museum’s rich history with the medium, the origins of its permanent photography collection, and the AGO’s evolving engagement with the art form.
Photography fanatics, it's finally here! 📸 We're excited to release Collective States: Worlds of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario, co-published with @agotoronto.bsky.social themselves! Learn more or order your copy at gooselane.com/CollectiveStates