The Coach House Commitment

Spring Commitment 2007

Clear out your bookshelves to make way for the Coach House Spring Commitment. Get all of our titles, The Girls Who Saw Everything, The Milk Chicken Bomb, Notebook of Roses and Civilization, Human Resources and Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays, for a wallet-pleasing $70.

Price: A frighteningly low $70.00

Fiction 2007 Commitment

Choose three Coach House fiction titles for only $50. Order online, and we'll contact you via email immediately and get your selection of 3 books!

Price: An economical $50.00

Spring Poetry Commitment 2006

Time to settle down with some Coach House verse! For a sweet sixty bucks, shipping and taxes included, you’ll get Sylvia Legris’s Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated Nerve Squall, Margaret Christakos’s Lowther-nominated Sooner, as well as all three of our spring 2006 poetry titles. Sina Queyras's Lemon Hound is a poetry not of snapshots or collages but of long-exposed captures of the not-so-still lives of women; Jon Paul Fiorentino's The Theory of the Loser Class documents the tribulations and insecurities of everyone’s inner geek; and in a.rawlings's Wide slumber for lepidopterists, language cocoons itself, dreams itself, lures you with a promise of wings toward the killing jar. Sign up for the Poetry Commitment starting today.

Price: A frighteningly low $60.00

Fiction Commitment 2006

In honour of our spectacular fiction, we've put together the Fiction Commitment. For only $60, taxes and shipping included, we'll send you Down Sterling Road, The City Man, Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon (paperback) and Miss Lamp. Commit now and you'll save more than 25% off the cover price. Plus, you'll finally have a reason to end that pesky starter marriage!

Price: A reasonable $60.00

Utopia / SOTA Commitment

69 essays. 2 fold-out colour maps. 16 pages of colour photographs. $45? Yep, you heard right. For just $45, become the proud owner of the anthologies uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto and The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. Give them as Christmas gifts or hold onto them – if you read one essay a day, they'll see you well into January! So make your New Year's resolution early and get into bed with the uTOpia series.

Price: A low low $45.00

Toronto Commitment

Now that the voting's done, let us introduce you to a new way you can commit to Toronto. For only $70 (shipping and taxes included), get a happy mix of fiction and non-fiction about Toronto delivered right to your door. Split 'em up and spread 'em around or keep 'em all for yourself: it's up to you.

Sign up for the Toronto Commitment and receive Howard Akler's The City Man, Darren O'Donnell's Your Secrets Sleep With Me, uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto and The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. Whether you like your Toronto with sly, sexy pickpockets; cynical, latte-sipping kids; Smart Car drag strips; or fresh perspectives on culture, this package is for you.

Price: We're practically giving them away at $75.00

Griffin Prize Commitment

Coach House books have garnered three Griffin Poetry Prize nominations in the last five years. In honour of our very respectable track record, we're offering the Griffin Commitment. For a flat $45, pick up these three prized collections: Eunoia, Now You Care and Nerve Squall.

Price: An absolute bargoon at $45.00

The Coach House Fall Commitment 2006

You love all our fall books, and can't chose just one, or even two? You can't decide among enjoying a trailer-park romance, being terrified by a metaphysical thriller, journeying through the 20th century's history of ruins, or learning about the aesthetics of Value Village? It's like Sophie's Choice, but possibly more difficult. But you don't have to choose! All four fall 2006 fiction and poetry titles can be purchased in one bundle for $65 (including taxes and shipping).Includes King, The River of Dead Trees, Touch To Affliction and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.

Price: We're practically giving them away at $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 veritable bargain at $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 budget-conscious $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 paltry $100.00

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: An economical $65.00