MURDER ON THE INSIDE, ON PROPERTY, SEA LOVES ME, ON TIME AND WATER, and DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT: Biblioasis Titles Turning Heads!

Biblioasis titles are turning heads in news outlets near and far! Check out some recent coverage below:

IN THE NEWS!

Murder on the Inside by Catherine Fogarty has been reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly! Their reviewer had this to say:

“Fogarty’s well-researched and moving debut examines a 1971 Canadian prison riot and the conditions that caused it … For readers who have ever wondered about life behind bars, this is a must-read.”

You can read the full review here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

Against Amazon by Jorge Carrion has been reviewed by the Winnipeg Free Press. Their reviewer, Ron Robinson, had this to say:

“Against Amazon is an optimistic overall take on books, reading and retailing, and an attempt to avoid ending up knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

You can read the full review here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

Sea Loves Me by Mia Couto has been reviewed by Asymptote Journal. Their reviewer, Thuy Dinh, Editor-at-Large for the Vietnamese Diaspora, had this to say:

“Couto’s compact tales, which require several re-readings, represent a deft restructuring of iconic legends in the global canon … Like Mia Couto’s aesthetic effort to render whole the many facets of his contradictory identity, the translators’ linguistic dance simultaneously pays homage to his original fiction, and gives birth to its autonomous and indelible existence in English.”

 You can read the full review here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

On Property by Rinaldo Walcott has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly!: They had this to say:

“Walcott’s analysis of the ways in which white supremacy is baked into the legal systems of Canada and the U.S. is stimulating. Progressives will embrace this well-conceived call for change.”

You can read the full review here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

ON TV!

Ottawa CTV News’ designated “Book Guy”, Sean Wilson recommended On Property as a must-read for Black History Month.

You can watch the full clip and catch Sean’s other recommendations here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

IN FEATURES!

On Property author, Rinaldo Walcott wrote a piece for TVO, extrapolating on why race-based COVID-19 data needs to lead to political action and policy change. Walcott had this to say:

“Collecting race-based data is a policy decision, but it does not guarantee that good policy decisions will follow from the data that is collected. For example, Toronto mayor John Tory often repeats the phrase ‘evidence-based decision making,’ yet the city has not taken the lead in pushing the Ontario government to implement paid sick days, which would make a significant difference to the non-white communities experiencing the brunt of the pandemic.”

You can read the full article here!

If you would like to read On Property, you can purchase it here or through your local independent bookstore.

Parul Sehgal, NYT staff critic and former editor at the NYT Book Review, mentioned Ducks, Newburyport, in a New York Times piece examining the history of the NYT Book Review as the the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary. She had this to say of Ducks:

“I think of Lucy Ellmann, who also contributed to the Book Review around that time. In 2019, she published Ducks, Newburyport, a thousand-page doorstop — all in one sentence, no less — about “life and love and childbirth and war, and jokes and recipes” (and a mountain lion). The novel won awards, raves; no one that I recall accused it of indulgence.”

You can read the full article here!

If you would like to read Ducks, Newburyport, you can find it here or through your local independent bookstore!

ON AWARDS LISTS!

On Time and Water  by Andri Snær Magnason is nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize!

You can read the full announcement here!

If you would like to read this book, you can find it here or through your local independent bookstore.

Elaine Feeney won the Kate O’Brien Award from the Limerick Lit Fest for As You Were

You can watch the full announcement here!

As You Were will be available from Biblioasis in Fall 2021.

ON SOCIALS!

Bookriot contributor, Jessica E Squire, gushed about Forgone by Russell Banks on Twitter! She had this to say:

“[I got] sucked into this book so deeply I read it in a weekend.”

You can read the full thread here!

If this sounds like the book for you, you can find it here or through your local independent bookstore.