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Dundurn Press Read with us. These are your stories. www.dundurn.com Dundurn Press is a leading independent book publisher based in Toronto, Canada.

We seek to amplify and elevate exceptional Canadian voices to the world, particularly those that have not yet been discovered or have been previously underrepresented in trade publishing. We publish across numerous genres from literary and genre fiction, to biography, history, lifestyle, and public policy, and middle-grade and teen fiction.

Coming this November — fully revised with new destinations to explore, renowned travel personality .esrock curates Canad...
08/01/2025

Coming this November — fully revised with new destinations to explore, renowned travel personality .esrock curates Canada’s most unique and memorable experiences in the newest edition of THE GREAT CANADIAN BUCKET LIST.

Robin reveals the inspiring activities and destinations one must do — and can only do — in Canada. Each chapter is packed with colourful descriptions, unforgettable characters, quirky trivia, and eye-popping photography. Spanning nature, adventure, culture, history, food, and the bizarre, The Great Canadian Bucket List unpacks the remarkable and unforgettable.

Get ready to:
• feel the hot breath of a polar bear
• sail in the Galápagos of the North
• backcountry horseback ride in the Rockies
• hike the East Coast and West Coast Trails
• ice canoe across the St. Lawrence River
• taste the world’s most memorable cocktail
• cruise across the Northwest Passage
• float in Canada’s very own Dead Sea
• and much more …

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Coming just in time for spooky season — explore Canada’s cultural relationship with the supernatural in EERIE WHISPERS!D...
07/29/2025

Coming just in time for spooky season — explore Canada’s cultural relationship with the supernatural in EERIE WHISPERS!

Delving into Canada’s often neglected and buried haunted history and drawing from the diverse folklore of its immigrant communities and the traditional stories of Indigenous Peoples — it asks why Canadians, unlike Americans or the British, are reluctant to celebrate this part of our culture.

Brian Baker (founder of ) encourages us to embrace the uncanny and find the courage needed to amplify our nation’s supernatural voice.

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Coming this Fall: ETHICS ON TRIAL exposes the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.Canadian researchers...
07/28/2025

Coming this Fall: ETHICS ON TRIAL exposes the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.

Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowed to flirt with informed consent; “forum shop” for less restrictive ethical oversight; and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of Canadians —including those in situations of vulnerability — under the indifferent eye of a federal government unwilling to fix the system.

Janice E. Parente — who has led the fight for oversight and accountability of human research in Canada for three decades — shows readers the devastating consequences of the current flawed approach. She proposes a simple solution that embraces a good and ethical system of governance — a system that Canadians should insist on and Canada’s lawmakers and research funders should wholeheartedly adopt.

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07/16/2025

The summer heat is here — and what better way to cool off than with a good book and cold drink? Whether that's under the shade of an umbrella on the beach or with an iced coffee in hand from the cafe.

Find our collection of perfect summer reads at the link in our bio!

Congratulations to .kempadoo for winning First Prize at the Guyana Prize for Literature in the Fiction category for NANI...
07/14/2025

Congratulations to .kempadoo for winning First Prize at the Guyana Prize for Literature in the Fiction category for NANIKI!

Through luminescent light, ancestral paths, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world, NANIKI explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings.

COMING THIS FALL: The fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons desperate to keep inmates inside and...
07/11/2025

COMING THIS FALL: The fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons desperate to keep inmates inside and the escapees pursuing freedom.

Probing the origins, structure, and failings of a collection of historic and contemporary correctional institutions, ON THE LAM brings into sharp focus the attempts of masterminds, tricksters, villains, and innocents to claw their way to freedom — sometimes successful, sometimes abortive, often deadly.

A convict who returned to the prison he had recently escaped from to foment a mass breakout; a murderer on the run who veered from folk hero to persona non grata after killing a police dog; a fugitive from the United States who was recaptured in Canada after she was featured on America’s Most Wanted — these are just a few of the felons whose prison break adventures continue to enthrall and terrify.

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Annapurna’s Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold has been featured on MS. Magazine's July 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us!"F...
07/10/2025

Annapurna’s Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold has been featured on MS. Magazine's July 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us!

"From goddesses to gurus and samosas to curries, this volume is a collection of retellings complemented by vegetarian recipes using the rich legends and ingredients of India. Veena Gokhale feeds us mind, body and soul with this wise and delicious book."

07/07/2025

In what the Ottawa Review of Books called "a haunting, intelligent, and resonant read" — North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, and his protégé, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to him in Doha’s last breath: “Soju Club, Dr. Ryu.”

In the meantime, a Korean American CIA agent , Yunah Choi, races to salvage her investigation of the North Korean spy cell in the aftermath of the assassination. At the centre of it all is the Soju Club, the only Korean restaurant in Oxford, owned by Jihoon Lim, an immigrant from Seoul in search of a new life after suffering a tragedy. As different factions move in with their own agendas, their fates become entangled, resulting in a bitter struggle that will determine whose truth will triumph.

Oxford Soju Club weaves a tale of how immigrants in the Korean diaspora are forced to create identities to survive, and how in the end, they must shed those masks and seek their true selves.

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We're thrilled to announce that Hòt'a! Enough!: Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights by Wayne K. Sp...
06/25/2025

We're thrilled to announce that Hòt'a! Enough!: Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights by Wayne K. Spear (Kanien’kehá:ka) and Georges Erasmus (Dene) has won the the 2025 IVAs Prose in English Award!

For decades, Georges Erasmus led the fight for Indigenous rights. From the Berger Inquiry to the Canadian constitutional talks to the Oka Crisis, Georges was a significant figure in Canada’s political landscape. In the 1990s, he led the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and afterward was chair and president of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, around the time that Canada’s residential school system became an ongoing frontpage story.

Georges’s five-decade battle for Indigenous rights took him around the world and saw him sitting across the table from prime ministers and premiers. In the 1980s, when Georges was the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, he was referred to as the “Thirteenth Premier.” This book tells the personal story of his life as a leading Indigenous figure, taking the reader inside some of Canada’s biggest crises and challenges.

06/25/2025

This week in 1936 (June 23) the Canadian Broadcasting Act established the CBC, paving the way for talent and inspiration that would bring among a groundswell of children's television programming in Canada.

Read more about it in ImagiNation — coming October 2025!

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Indigo is offering 30% off their Most Anticipated Canadian Books — including He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Fai...
06/23/2025

Indigo is offering 30% off their Most Anticipated Canadian Books — including He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada!

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The dog days of summer are quickly approaching — and they're the perfect time to settle into thematic new reads from Can...
06/20/2025

The dog days of summer are quickly approaching — and they're the perfect time to settle into thematic new reads from Canadian authors.

Whether you like to read under the sun on a sandy beach, or with the window down on country back roads, or around the warm glow of a campfire — there's a little something for everyone on our summer lists!

Our first highlighted collection is for the back country campers, the long drives to the cottage, and dedicated to lovers of the great outdoors and the open road! ☀️ ⛰️🚗🏖️

And follow our summer reading campaign on the Dundurn blog to find this and more upcoming lists of great summer titles with great summer discounts.

Find the collection at: https://buff.ly/OPWuM8Y or visit the website link in our bio!

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Dundurn Press is a leading independent, inclusive publisher offering Canadian books from every corner of the country. It's your story.

Dundurn's long successful publishing program began in 1972 with fewer than five employees, and has since expanded to over twenty. The company now has more than 2,500 books in print and 1,700 ebooks available. In 2012 and 2014, Dundurn was nominated for the Libris Award for Publisher of the Year, presented by the Retail Council of Canada.