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We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2024 catalogue!

Download the PDF and read at your leisure, or view all of the forthcoming titles on our website.

Happy browsing!

The Lives of Lake Ontario
An Environmental History

By Daniel Macfarlane

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have … Read More >

We are pleased to officially announce our Spring/Summer 2024 catalogue! You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

More Richly in Earth
A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod

By Marilyn Bowering

The journey to understand the life of a Gaelic Scottish bard and the reach of her … Read More >

We are pleased to officially announce our Spring/Summer 2023 catalogue! You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

Agent of Change
My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism

By Huda Mukbil
A spy’s struggle for belonging – foiled by workplace misogyny and Islamophobia – and … Read More >

Decorating gingerbread “bookies” has been a long-standing MQUP tradition, which was sadly put on hiatus for the past couple of years.  Bookie decorating was back in full swing this holiday season, just in time to celebrate the production of our Spring/Summer 2023 catalogue! Below, see 14 tasteful renditions from this latest catalogue. You can also … Read More >

We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2022-23 catalogue, in both hard-copy and digital form. You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

Singular Creatures
Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

By Mark Kingwell

Welcome to posthuman life: could non-human consciousness be an evolutionary … Read More >

Against the backdrop of a news cycle dominated by the pandemic’s empirical impact – on health, employment, and the economy – we can clearly see the critical role the humanities play in helping us understand the lived experience found in those numbers.

We are pleased to officially announce our Spring 2020 catalogue, in both hard-copy and digital form. This season, rather than simply offer the links to the PDF or a few highlights, we strove for something a touch more creative… and sweeter: bookies! What is a bookie, you ask? It has become an MQUP staff tradition at … Read More >

We’re excited to announce our Fall 2018 catalogue is officially out, in both hard-copy and digital form. Absorb it cover to cover with the digital Flipbook or download the PDF and read at your leisure. Each forthcoming title can also be found on our website. Happy browsing!

October is Women’s History Month, commemorating the achievements of women and girls throughout history. Further, October 18 is Persons Day, honouring Canada’s highest court’s decision to include women in the legal definition of “persons” on October 18, 1929. In celebration, we’ve pulled a selection from our Spring and Fall 2017 catalogues that explore … Read More >

We are pleased to share that MQUP poet Margo Wheaton is a Canadian Authors Association 2017 Literary Award-winner.

The Unlit Path Behind the House (Spring 2016) won the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Book Award. It was also a finalist for two other 2017 awards: the League … Read More >