Biblioasis

06/03/2026

In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.

THE GIVEN WORLD by Melissa Harrison is available now for preorder!

06/02/2026

A full house at the launch of Alex Pugsley's SILVER LAKE last night in Toronto! Thank you to Flying Books for hosting and to everyone who came!

Here's a few photos of Alex and the actors David Chinchilla, Blaise Crocker, and John Fitzgerald Jay, reading and performing scenes from the novel.

Find SILVER LAKE at your favourite local bookstore!

06/01/2026

Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s work has been translated into 27 languages, and international readers are raving! The trilogy's final installment, THE HEART OF MAN (transl. by Philip Roughton), will be available on June 16, 2026.

05/29/2026

Ivana Sajko's EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE is the latest selection for Garth Greenwell's Book Club on ! Greenwell called it "a very remarkable book."

EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE is an extended soliloquy of self-examination, upheaval, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition, and failure, and is a profoundly stark and furious novel.

05/28/2026

05/25/2026

Margaret Cannon at the called Don Gillmor's CHERRY BEACH "one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year". It's safe to say this book has people talking!

05/25/2026

Alex Pugsley's SILVER LAKE (the third standalone novel in the Aubrey McKee series) received a fantastic review from John Warner in the Chicago Tribune over the weekend!

“Terrific . . . infused with a generosity of spirit for the weird and hopeless dreamers who come from places like Tennessee or Toronto and find themselves caught up in the star-making machinery . . . At the heart of my enjoyment is the fact that Aubrey McKee is interesting and plain good company. His life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and the storytelling holds those seeming opposites in pleasing tension.”—John Warner, Chicago Tribune

05/22/2026

New from The Bibliophile: To celebrate Short Story Month, the folks here at Biblioasis have put together a list of our favourite collections. Check them out, and find some great new (or old) short fiction to enjoy.

https://digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/celebrating-short-story-month

05/22/2026

Catherine Khordoc, translator of BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME, is a finalist for this year's French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction!

The prize honours excellence in French-to-English translations for literary works in fiction and non-fiction published in 2025.

05/22/2026

The launch of Alex Pugsley's SILVER LAKE is fast approaching! Join us on June 1st at Flying Books (784 College Street) from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM.

Pugsley, alongside the actors David Chinchilla, Blaise Crocker, and John Fitzgerald Jay, will read and perform scenes from the novel. Books will be available for sale and signing!