Coach House Books

09/10/2026

Lisa Robertson's Riverwork has made the 2026 American Library in Paris Book Award Shortlist!

09/10/2026

See you tonight! Remember your cash for drink tickets!

Join us for the 2026 Wayzgoose on Thursday, September 10! Out front of the Coach House (80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto), from 5 PM 'til late. RSVP now through the link in our bio. 🪿🍻📚🌭🐿️

Q: What is a Wayzgoose?

A: It's traditionally a party given by printers to mark the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight.

But we do it a bit differently! There will be free food (hot dogs and snacks), cheap beverages (alcoholic and nonalcoholic), and book sales. Meet fellow book lovers and authors, and discover your new favourite book.

Please note that the event is outdoors on mostly level pavement. There will be an accessible porta-potty.

09/09/2026

Just in time for tomorrow night (that's Thursday!): a brand new picnic table and cutter for the Coach House!

We had been using our old cutter to trim all of our books since 1979! Our old picnic table was also very well-loved and well-used. Huge thank you to John for this beautiful new one.

The entire Coach House team hopes to see you tomorrow at our Wayzgoose! Come see these new improvements for yourself. Bring a bag for books (or buy one of our anniversary totes here!) and some change for drink tickets, and we’ll see you soon. Our bookshelves are slowly turning into snack storage in the meantime. 🌭📚🍻🪿

(We're still accepting RSVPs via our eventbrite, BUT if you see we're "sold out", please come anyway! Our RSVPs give us a good expectation for attendance numbers, but aren't required at all. Thank you!)

09/08/2026

Happy pub day to The Point! by Nasser Hussain!!!

A wondrous collection of poetry with a beautiful cover of silver foil on pink felt stock, this is a book that’s sure to delight and excite all of its readers! Copies are available everywhere you buy books now❗️‼️

Missing everything but the point: visual poetry celebrating excitement!

The exclamation point is much maligned. It’s bad style. It’s like laughing at your own joke. It screams, it yells, it’s hysterical, it’s maybe even embarrassingly obsequious.

Nasser Hussain disagrees! What’s so bad about expressing enthusiasm? What if you really need to scream? The prescriptions of ‘style’ can feel like an artificial limit placed on our language, insisting we produce a bland monotone that trades on its appearance as rational, subdued, civilized discourse. Against this is The Point!, where poetry bangs its head against this veneer of rationality. Poetry, it insists, is exciting! Is, maybe, excitement itself!

The Point! is composed using only exclamation marks, seeking to reclaim the dignity of the bang’s and explore its expressive possibilities. Against the well-known derision of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elmore Leonard, and Gertrude Stein, Hussain uses the exclamation point to make a point: let’s celebrate the possibility of enthusiasm!

09/08/2026

Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork has made the 2026 Giller Prize Longlist!

We have a VERY LIMITED number of signed (and stamped! check out slide 3 for a video of the process and explanation from Lisa) copies of Riverwork, from the launch earlier this year – we recommend running to chbooks.com to snag one. Good news, if you’re a Canadian reader: Lisa Robertson is returning to Canada this fall for a few literary festivals, including TIFA coming up in October. Sign up to our newsletter so you don’t miss any major event announcements. 💌

09/08/2026

This Thursday, in Toronto! All are welcome, whether you're a longtime Wayzgoose attendee or if you're newly interested in looking around our press with an impromptu tour. Or even if you just want a free hot dog and cheap b**r.

Please scrounge up your change and small bills for us! 🍻

Join us for the 2026 Wayzgoose on Thursday, September 10! Out front of the Coach House (80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto), from 5 PM 'til late. RSVP now through the link in our bio. 🪿🍻📚🌭🐿️

Q: What is a Wayzgoose?

A: It's traditionally a party given by printers to mark the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight.

But we do it a bit differently! There will be free food (hot dogs and snacks), cheap beverages (alcoholic and nonalcoholic), and book sales. Meet fellow book lovers and authors, and discover your new favourite book.

Please note that the event is outdoors on mostly level pavement. There will be an accessible porta-potty.

09/08/2026

We're thrilled to see Lisa Robertson's RIVERWORK here on the Giller Prize Longlist!

September 8, 2026 (Toronto, Ontario) – Fourteen remarkable Canadian authors have been named to the 2026 Giller Prize longlist. These exceptional novels were chosen from more than 140 works of fiction submitted by publishers across Canada. The longlist for the 2026 Giller Prize is: Jennifer Chevali...

09/07/2026

Coach House Books and our authors are back at the Toronto International Festival of Authors!

Join us from October 28 to November 1, 2026 at Victoria University in the University of Toronto for Canada’s largest and longest-running literary festival.

This year, LISA ROBERTSON and ANDRÉ ALEXIS will be in conversation on Robertson’s latest novel, RIVERWORK, on Friday, October 30th, at 7 PM.

KATE CAYLEY, author of PROPERTY, will be leading a masterclass on writer’s craft, focused on finding inspiration and technique in poetry, on Wednesday, October 28th, at 2:30 PM.

Visit COACH HOUSE BOOKS at the SMALL PRESS FAIR on Sunday, November 1st, from 10:30 AM. The Small Press Fair is a free event and no festival pass is required for entry!

09/02/2026

The Fall 2026 CIBA Booksellers’ List is finally here and we’re so excited to show off some of the fantastic books coming your way! 📚✨

Goose Lane Editions, Coach House Books, Biblioasis, and Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press are thrilled to announce Your Favourite Indie’s Favourite Indies – the books by independent Canadian publishers selected for The Booksellers’ List.

The Booksellers’ List celebrates the top 20 books of the Spring, Summer, Fall, and
Winter seasons, as voted on by independent booksellers across Canada.
This Fall, among the selections are:
📖 Your Breath in Charcoal by Nicholas Herring (Goose Lane Editions)
📖 Women, Walking edited by Jane Farrow and Zahra Ebrahim (Coach House
Books)
📖 Daphnis and Chloe by Colin McAdam (Biblioasis)
📖 The Little Way by Carol Bruneau (Nimbus Publishing)

For more information on the books, the selection process, or what this list means for you as a book lover, head to IndieBookstores.ca

09/01/2026

Join us in congratulating Kate Cayley, whose first novel PROPERTY has been shortlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards!

Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards honour works of literary merit that are inspired by the city and its residents. All five shortlisted titles are now available widely via Toronto Public Library. 📚

Hear Kate Cayley read from Property, alongside the other finalists, at the following events:
🌟September 21 at the Arts & Letters Club
🌟September 26 at Word On The Street
🌟November 10 at the Toronto Book Awards Ceremony (held at the Toronto Reference Library)