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Inanna publishes books by imaginative and insightful feminist voices.

Our editorial policy is to publish visionary books that reflect the depth, breadth and diversity of women’s lives across Canada.

11/19/2025

👉 Out now!

The most recent addition to Inanna's fall collection is Concrete Women: Gender, Urbanism, and Protest in South Asia by Tara Atluri, offering firsthand accounts of feminist, transgender, and q***r movements in urban India and Pakistan ✊📣

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People who live in South Asian cities re-shape politics and actualize constitutional rights, in parks, on playgrounds, and in city streets. The author has interviewed those who are part of a generation of unabashedly courageous, intersectional feminists who are living and working in South Asia and share their first-hand stories. These activists stage protests and artistic interventions in a time-period of legal reforms regarding q***r rights, public debates regarding s*x, the rise of urbanization, and growing forms of Internet literacy
and accessibility. Concrete Women is a rumination on the distances between life and death, between unremitting violence and the possibility of justice.
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***rfeminism

11/15/2025

Available today! Drawing on her own lineage of seven generations of Toronto women, author Susan Grundy has crafted a gripping story of multigenerational trauma in Black Creek. 🕯️

🗓️ Don't miss Black Creek's Toronto launch on November 19 at 6:30 pm at Supermarket Bar & Variety. Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/nov19torontolaunch.

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As a child, Kate Stong Smythe drew castles. Now, at thirty-five, she’s found herself hard-edged and uncompromising, designing slick condos in Griffintown, a gentrified working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.

When Kate’s mother dies, she calls out five mysterious names from her deathbed, propelling Kate on a journey to unravel the mysterious dreams she’s had since childhood. She’s met with a shock when she finds the five names in her own family genealogy books, tied to faces she knows from her strange flashbacks. Who are these women, and why have they haunted her dreams since she was a little girl?

Kate’s unsettling visions take her from her home in Montreal to an abandoned farmhouse in the northern suburbs of Toronto, increasingly consumed by her ties to the past and the ancestral hardness that is holding her hostage.
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👉 Find Black Creek at your local bookstore or at inanna.ca!

11/14/2025

We've just received the November edition of the Townships Sun. There's a familiar face on the cover (hi Brenda!), and a lovely article inside about yours truly 💁🏻‍♀️ written by Ross Murray. This edition is full of local book reviews & interviews with local authors, as well as an article about the upcoming Townships Book Fest on November 22nd!

11/13/2025

So thrilled to be here at 2025 to show off not just our books but also some amazing new titles from and 🌿🐝💃✊️Come find us at Booth 42 in the exhibitor hall for the next 4 days!

11/10/2025

Last Sunday, Catherine Walker gave a Tea & Talk at Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, to celebrate the recent release of A Watch of Nightingales ☕📖

Thanks to for hosting, and a special congratulations to Catherine on the lovely Certificate of Achievement from your local MP 🎉

11/06/2025

Did you catch Irene Marques at TIFA this past weekend? Irene joined Maria Joao Lopo de Carvalho for a conversation on how fiction can traverse borders, featuring her book DARIA.

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"Irene Marques’ writing moves extraordinarily between countries and she masterfully creates scenes of beauty and horror, happiness and sadness and, above all, hope and resilience. . . . This moving tale of dreams and healing will leave you yearning for the journey to continue long after the last word.”
— Sonia Saikaley, author of The Allspice Bath
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Learn more about Daria at inanna.ca.

11/04/2025

This stunning collection of call-and-response poetry by Renee Norman and Carl Leggo is our latest poetry book. Echo Chamber was published in September and is available in bookstores now 🔊

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This collection of narrative and lyrical poetry deftly moves between two strong poetic voices that resonate in a heartfelt call and response. The poets reflect on the aftermath of the diagnosis of a terminal illness and its effect on their friendship. They offer deeply moving poems about the important relationships in their lives: daughters, sons, grandchildren, friends, and lovers. It is both a commentary on the challenges and heartbreak endured in a lifetime and a joyful goodbye.
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11/02/2025

If you're in Toronto, come see us until 4:30 PM at the Indie Book Market!

10/30/2025

Last Sunday, author Brenda Hartwell celebrated the release of her debut novel, NO WRONG SEASONS, with a book launch in Sherbrooke, featuring the loveliest book cover cupcakes 🤩

10/27/2025

Next up on our list of fall releases is No Wrong Seasons, a debut novel by Brenda Hartwell, set in Quebec’s idyllic Eastern Townships. 🖼️

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Dieter lives in a small lakeside community, where it is possible to hide, and at the same time, where nothing is hidden. A discovery in the forest results in a chance meeting with Hazel, a reclusive visual artist who becomes his mentor. When his childhood friend K is institutionalized by her parents following a su***de attempt, Dieter embarks on a mission to find answers. As her situation spirals, Dieter confides his worst fears to his new acquaintance. Hazel hears echoes of her own trauma in K’s story, and is compelled to leave the self-imposed isolation of her home to find redemption.
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✨ Find it at your local bookstore or at inanna.ca.

10/23/2025

We're so excited to share our fall lineup of books! First up is A Watch of Nightingales by first-time author Catherine Walker 🎨

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When Emily Carr leaves her restrictive home in Canada to study art in London, England, she longs to prove herself as an artist, trying to carve a path for herself towards financial security. But her dreams don’t receive a warm welcome, as her disapproving English relatives believe that the only respectable path for a woman is marriage.

Before Emily can prove the worth of her artistic career, she falls ill and finds herself trapped in a sanatorium, forming an unlikely friendship with Beth, a Florence Nightingale nurse assigned to her care.

As a web of intrigue and poisonings tightens around them, Beth and Emily find themselves in a race against time to prevent an attempted murder.
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Pick up a copy at your local bookstore or public library!

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