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Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others. A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.

Spring Forward with Coach House

Get your pruning shears and gardening gloves ready. Coach House Books' spring titles will soon bloom forth in events and bookstores across the country. This April and May, witness the debut of Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down, Claudia Dey's Stunt, RM Vaughan's Troubled, Jordan Scott's Blert, Jen Currin's Hagiography. and Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists by Mike Hoolboom.

Don't just commit, overcommit!

Utopia Commitment

Get all three books in the uTOpia series – uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto and GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto – for $60 including GST and shipping (in Canada), a savings of more than 25%

Price: A rock-bottom $60.00

Fall 2007 Commitment

Clear out your bookshelves to make way for the Coach House Fall Commitment. Get all 10 of our titles – Pulpy and Midge, Twenty Miles, The Alphabet Game, Sitcom, The Work of Days, Isolated: Two Plays, Age of Arousal, GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto, Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies, Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen – for a bargain-basement $175, including GST and shipping (in Canada). That's more than 25% off!

Price: A low low $175.00

Toronto Commitment

Essential reading for Torontonians new and old: uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto and GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto, Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies and East/West: Where People Live in Toronto. Get all five books on your doorstep all for just a hundred smackers. Whatta bargain!

Price: A measly $100.00

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Coach House shortlisted for the Permier's Award for Excellence in the Arts!

Coach House Books is ecstatic to announce we've been shortlisted for the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts!

The award, administered by the Ontario Arts Council, recognizes outstanding achievement in the professional arts by an individual or a group. It honours both the contribution of well-established artists and Ontario?s promising new talent.

One of Ontario?s outstanding artists and one arts organization will be announced winner at the 2008 Premier?s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Coach House Books has been shortlisted in the arts organization category, along with such great institutions as the Guelph Jazz Festival, Hot Docs, the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation and Reseau Ontario. The winning arts organization will be awarded $50,000.

The Coast on Troubled

Excerpt:

'Troubled is a memoir of an inappropriate union, and its emotional, psychological and legal consequences. But Troubled isn't Dr. Phil material -- this is a beautifully angry confession told through poetry and fragmented prose, interspersed with blacked-out photocopied documents and correspondences between lawyers and medical professionals.'

Reviewer: Sue Carter Flinn

Publication: The Coast

Girls Fall Down grips Eye Weekly

Excerpt:

'Girls Fall Down never proffers the easy closure of an outright catastrophe, there's enough gravity to Helwig's writing for the aftershocks to be felt.'

Reviewer: Brian Joseph Davis

Publication: Eye Weekly

Time Out Chicago makes time for Stunt

Excerpt:

'A surreal coming-of-age novel, Stunt reminds us of Katherine Dunn's classic, Geek Love. It walks the tightrope, like Eugenia herself, between fantasy and reality, joyous and melancholic. Dey has created a world that defies definition and, in its deeply weird and totally beautiful storytelling, celebrates flights of imagination.'

Reviewer: Beth Dugan

Publication: Time Out Chicago