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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.

Coach House wins the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts!

The 2008 Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts were announced at a ceremony in Toronto last night, and Coach House Books is beyond thrilled to announce that we’ve won the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in the category of arts organization!

Coach House shared the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts with the winner in the category of individual artist, Ron Noganosh, Ottawa-based sculptor and installation artist.

Alana Wilcox, senior editor, in total disbelief, expressed gratitude to the Ontario Arts Council and this year's jury and the many, many phenomenal writers we at Coach House work with.

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. This is the first year that the Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts has honoured both an individual artist and an arts organization.

So, we’re having a giant thank-you sale!

Oh yes, you heard us. We’d be nowhere without our authors, of course, or without you, their loyal readers. To celebrate our good fortune, we’re having a three-for-two sale. (It just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) It works like this: you buy two books from our site and you get one free. We’ll charge you for the two more expensive titles, and all you need to do is email mail@chbooks.com with the name of your free book – the offer is subject to the book’s availability, of course – and we’ll mail everything off to you in a jiffy! But don’t delay, as they say: the sale is only on until July 4.

Don't just commit, overcommit!

The Scream Commitment

See them at the Scream, then take home their books! Coach House is pleased to offer you its Scream Literary Festival commitment, chock full of our Screamly authors. For a mere $65, you can get Claudia Dey’s Stunt, Maggie Helwig’s Girls Fall Down, Sina Queyras’s Lemon Hound and Jordan Scott’s Blert. Happy Screaming! (Please note that commitments cannot be used in conjunction with other offers.)

Price: A rock-bottom $65.00

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 measly $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 frighteningly 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 rock-bottom $100.00

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Coach House on the ReLit shortlist!

On Friday, July 4th, the shortlist for the ReLit Awards were announced, and we are delighted to report that two Coach House titles have been shortlisted -- one in the category of poetry and one in the category of novel.

Congratulations to David McGimpsey (Sitcom, shortlisted in the poetry category) and Andrew Wedderburn (The Milk Chicken Bomb, shortlisted in the novel category)!

Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts Video

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At the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts awards ceremony, short films of all the nominated artists and organizations were screened. Check out the link to see the film on Coach House Books, hosted by the Ontario Ministry of Culture website.

Sean Dixon's first UK review

Excerpt:

'It's the novel that everyone will be talking about in a few weeks' time ... Voted one of the 15 best books in Canada in 2007, it's taken a year and a name change (it used to be called The Girls Who Saw Everything) for this to cross the pond. But it will take a lot longer for readers to forget.'

Reviewer: Lauren Paxman

Publication: London Lite

Coach House Books wins Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts!

Our jaws are still wide open in shock and amazement. We were shortlisted with some of the country's finest institutions -- the Guelph Jazz Festival, Hot Docs, the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation and R�seau Ontario -- groups that do incredible work and that Coach House Books greatly admires.