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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.

Dundurn Press is delighted to announce that Akin Akinwumi has joined the acquisitions team as Editor-at-Large. We'd also...
09/24/2025

Dundurn Press is delighted to announce that Akin Akinwumi has joined the acquisitions team as Editor-at-Large. We'd also like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the full team — learn more on the Dundurn blog: https://buff.ly/UXsMYZ4

Happy Pub Day to Under the Full and Crescent Moon from “A resonant reimagining of Islamic history crafted with fierce i...
09/23/2025

Happy Pub Day to Under the Full and Crescent Moon from

“A resonant reimagining of Islamic history crafted with fierce intelligence and masterly worldbuilding. In this timeless and timely debut, Hussain interrogates power, conviction and social change with storytelling grace.”
— Sumaiya Matin, author of The Shaytan Bride

In a battle of words and beliefs, a young woman must defend her city against zealotry during the Islamic Golden Age.

After his long-time scribe retires, Khadija’s father, the city’s leading jurist, offers his introverted daughter the opportunity to take on the role of his assistant. In accepting, Khadija is thrust into her community, the medieval hilltop city of Medina’tul-Agham, where she, as a motherless young woman, has spent little time. Led by Imam Fatima and guided by the Circle of Mothers, it is a matriarchy — the only one in the empire. Though forced to set aside her quiet life among the books and parchments of her family home, Khadija thrives, finding her power and place in the world with the support of her new friends and strong female mentors.

Yet Khadija’s idyllic new life is shattered when fanatical forces weaponize Sharia law to threaten the very fabric of the society. Using only the power of her parchment and quill, Khadija must win the support of the people and write fatwas to fight against injustice, or the peace and prosperity of her city will be nothing more than a footnote in the annals of history.

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We have an exciting weekend coming up at the Brooklyn Book Festival — including an author signing with Emily Weedon for ...
09/18/2025

We have an exciting weekend coming up at the Brooklyn Book Festival — including an author signing with Emily Weedon for her vampire novel Hemo Sapiens!

Find us and Emily at booth #329 on Sunday, September 21 at 12:30PM to get a signed copy of Hemo Sapiens!

With the exciting news of Eddy Boudel Tan's Giller longlist announcement for The Tiger and the Cosmonaut — we’re highlig...
09/17/2025

With the exciting news of Eddy Boudel Tan's Giller longlist announcement for The Tiger and the Cosmonaut — we’re highlighting two of Eddy’s earlier works, After Elias and The Rebellious Tide.

After Elias — a modern q***r tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of his final words, and even Coen is baffled by the cryptic message.

The Rebellious Tide — Sebastien has heard only stories about his father, a mysterious sailor who abandoned his pregnant mother thirty years ago. But when his mother dies after a lifetime of struggle, he becomes obsessed with finding an explanation — perhaps even revenge — but his search for his father leads him to a ship harbouring a dangerous secret.

Use Code FINALIST20 on the Dundurn website (link in bio) to save 20% off these two great books!

🧭 NEW RELEASE: Dalton McGuinty’s BE A GOOD ONE.Politics can seem like a rough, seagoing voyage. Storm-tossed politicians...
09/16/2025

🧭 NEW RELEASE: Dalton McGuinty’s BE A GOOD ONE.

Politics can seem like a rough, seagoing voyage. Storm-tossed politicians may lose sight of their guiding stars. They can lose their way. They can lose themselves. They can end up doing and saying things that betray their fundamental responsibility to give their very best to those they represent.

In BE A GOOD ONE, McGuinty aims to help leaders in a challenging environment stay true to themselves and those they are privileged to serve. An experienced political leader with over two decades spent in the political arena, McGuinty has masterfully assembled a collection of quotations dating back centuries and has accompanied these with his own measured advice.

This compendium is a compass for all politicians and any others seeking to lead with integrity.

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With the exciting announcements this week, Dundurn is looking back at past finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trus...
09/12/2025

With the exciting announcements this week, Dundurn is looking back at past finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction from our list and offering a special sale on these books!

2008 Finalist 🌹 Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself by Russell Wangersky. Visceral and affecting, Burning Down the House is an insightful insider’s account of the perilous world of firefighting and an unforgettable memoir of how, in finding his passion, Wangersky lost himself.

2013 Finalist 🌹Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother by Priscila Uppal is a visceral, precisely written, brutally honest memoir that takes a probing look at a very unusual mother-daughter relationship.

2015 Finalist 🌹 Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo. In this stunning expose, former war crimes prosecutor Eliott Behar exposes the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.

2022 Finalist 🌹 Nothing Will Be Different by Tara McGowan-Ross is a neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir as Tara — following her twenty-seventh birthday, discovers an abnormal lump which serves as the catalyst for a journey of rigorous self-questioning. Waiting on a diagnosis, she begins an intellectual assessment of her life, desperate to justify a short existence full of dumb choices.

Check out our website (link in bio) for 20% with code FINALIST20!

It’s been a busy week of 📚 events — with Jinwoo Park and Emily Weedon reading at The City and the City Books and the Tor...
09/12/2025

It’s been a busy week of 📚 events — with Jinwoo Park and Emily Weedon reading at The City and the City Books and the Toronto launch of Oxford Soju Club at Queen Books!

We hope everyone enjoyed the readings, the good company, and returned home with a heavier book bag and a few new chapters to read before the end of the night.

Our rights team had a great time pitching books for film and TV adaptation at IP Market Day during TIFF! Many thanks to ...
09/10/2025

Our rights team had a great time pitching books for film and TV adaptation at IP Market Day during TIFF! Many thanks to for planning and hosting this great event between publishers, studios, and developers.

NEW RELEASE: ETHICS ON TRIAL exposes the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.“Ethics on Trial is a sto...
09/02/2025

NEW RELEASE: ETHICS ON TRIAL exposes the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.

“Ethics on Trial is a story that needed to be told. For more than a quarter-century, efforts to strengthen the protection of human research participants in Canada have been repeatedly stymied — leaving a flawed system in place. It’s a regretful and shameful reality.”
— Pierre Deschamps, B.CL., Ad.E., C.M. (Order of Canada - research ethics); author of the Deschamps Report

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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Happy Pub Day to Jinwoo Park’s Oxford Soju Club!"In stylistically rich prose, the author carefully portrays complex char...
09/02/2025

Happy Pub Day to Jinwoo Park’s Oxford Soju Club!

"In stylistically rich prose, the author carefully portrays complex characters, distilling the intricate workings of the Korean psyche with riveting tension. Under the cover of a compelling espionage drama, Park conducts a metaphorical exploration of Korean identity."
— Booklist (starred review) ✨

“Canadian Korean Jinwoo Park's debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, is an extraordinarily multilayered examination of identity and loyalty, deftly presented as an addicting spy thriller.”
— Shelf Awareness

“Oxford Soju Club glitters with ferocious intelligence and propulsive action, as it is both a fast-paced spy-thriller and disarming exploration of the Korean diaspora.”
— Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo and Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality

When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, 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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Coming this October — Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025A comprehensive, fully i...
08/29/2025

Coming this October — Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025

A comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of Canada’s warship and maritime aircraft acquisitions from 1910 to the present day.

Combining the talents of two of Canada’s foremost naval historians, this book fills an important void in the story of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and associated Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Maritime Aviation. A never-before-attempted chronological examination of when and why Canada has procured its some 50 classes of warships and a dozen aircraft types over the past 120 years, and how it has employed and disposed of them, it does more than collect statistics on the specifications and characteristics of those vessels and aircraft — it reveals fresh insights to many overlooked themes and connections.

Karl Gagnon’s marvellous profile drawings and many rarely seen images complement this engaging narrative history of the RCN and Maritime Aviation.

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Coming this Fall: Bruins 365: Daily Stories from the Ice ! 🏒🥅 The Boston Bruins are America’s oldest NHL team, so there’...
08/27/2025

Coming this Fall: Bruins 365: Daily Stories from the Ice ! 🏒🥅

The Boston Bruins are America’s oldest NHL team, so there’s no shortage of history with this storied franchise. For many, the Bruins have come to personify hard-nosed hockey, and while the team has evolved over the years, that tough approach to the game has been woven into the fabric of the team and embodied by its players.

While the Bruins’ stronghold is unquestionably in New England, they have supporters around the world. And even if you’re not a fan, you’ll love reading about how the club has been part of some of hockey’s fiercest rivalries from the Habs to the Leafs to the Canucks.

With Bruins 365, you can relive memorable moments from more than a century of Bruins hockey with one short story for every day of the year. From the team’s origins in 1924 to Bobby Orr’s gravity-defying championship-clinching goal in 1970 to some of the milestones from the record-breaking 2022–23 season, Bruins 365 has something for every Boston fan.

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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.