Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd

09/25/2025

09/24/2025

We're delighted to see Denise Davy's important book Her Name Was Margaret joined by this wonderful book for children sharing details of Margaret's life from Groundwood:

Groundwood Books joins Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd in bringing the story of Margaret Jacobson to readers of all ages.

HER NAME WAS MARGARET is a meticulously researched and compelling portrait of Margaret Jacobson, a homeless woman abandoned by the very systems that should’ve helped her. Margaret's story is a heartbreaking illustration of our society’s treatment of our most vulnerable, and should serve as a wake-up call to politicians and leaders in cities across Canada.

In HOME FOR MARGARET, a little girl named Emma is hiking with her mother when she notices a woman living in a tent. Emma wonders why she’s there, until Mom explains: “Some people have lost their jobs. Some people have health problems. No one chooses to be homeless.” This book features a sensitive portrayal of a person experiencing homelessness, serving as an age-appropriate conversation-starter.

HOME FOR MARGARET publishes October 8th. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/G5BL50WZu42

09/23/2025

Toronto Friends, come and join us at Word on the Street this weekend! We promise we'll bring lots of great books!

09/22/2025

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all our friends celebrating!

09/22/2025

Æther, an Out-Of -Body Lyric by Catherine Graham.
Winner of the Fred Kerner book award and finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Bob Cary, writing for the Toronto Star said "Catherine Graham’s seventh book of poetry is an intricate reverie, in poetry and prose, which floats back and forth in time and between memories, dreams and reflections". You can learn more about Æther here:
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/aether-an-out-of-body-lyric

09/21/2025

"If an alien anthropologist summarized the entirety of human cultural expressions, they might produce Baby Cerberus" - Whitney Adnane. Check out This Magazine for the full fabulous review! You can learn more about Natasha Ramoutar's Baby Cerberus here: https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/baby-cerberus

09/20/2025

BC friends, this great event is just one week away! You can learn more about it here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/626145097216917/

09/17/2025

We're thrilled to be bringing out new poetry from Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi this fall. The Book of Interruptions is an elegant, passionate and expansive work that we feel many of our readers will be entranced by.
You can read a sample here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2335/9075/files/Book_of_Interruptions_-_excerpt.pdf?v=1757617473
And learn more about the book here: https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-book-of-interruptions

09/15/2025

We're starting a new series we're calling Backlist Mondays here at the press. Every Monday we'll be profiling a fabulous backlist title to remind everyone of all the great books that we've brought out over the years and that you might not have seen the first time around.

Our first book is Monster Child, by Rahela Nayebzadah.

A finalist for the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and for the 2022 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, this is a powerful debut novel. Writing for the Hamilton Review of Books, Anuja Varghese described it as "a book that examines bonds of blood and dares readers to ask which is the greater foe — the monsters in the world around us, or the monsters lurking within." You can learn more about Monster Child here:
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/monster-child

09/09/2025

We're thrilled to have a new novel coming from Katie Welch! Her last book with us, Mad Honey, was a fabulous mystery where Melissa Makepeace had to unravel what happened to her beekeeper, and lover, Beck Wise. This time we're in BC after the big one, the massive earthquake that happens when the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate slips and shakes the West Coast, on an epic journey with the tough and troubled Del Samara. You can learn more about the book here: https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/ladder-to-heaven and read an excerpt here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2335/9075/files/Ladder_to_Heaven_-_excerpt.pdf?v=1757438679

09/03/2025

We're delighted to have published Ewan Whyte's thoughtful and heart-breaking collection of essays. These essays cover a dark piece of Canadian and American history and are important reading for today. You can learn more about the book here:
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/mothers-of-invention

09/02/2025

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