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We’ve selected Michel Anctil’s Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms as the August Book of the Month. For those unfamiliar with the program, MQUP offers 30% off a new or best selling book each month. Simply add the book to your shopping cart on our website and … Read More >

“We disrupted a conference about May 68 … telling speakers: ‘“You commemorate, we start again.”’

Valerie Costa-Kostritsky, a journalist based in London and Moscow, has written for the LRB Blog on the student protests that escalated this May during a commemoration of the protests of May 1968. Costa-Kostritsky outlines in detail the progression of the … Read More >

Inspired by the February-March issue of Canada’s History, which will explore evidence of Norse Viking settlement in Canada, as well as the Vikings: The Exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, we’ve selected two titles for February’s Book of the Month: A Grand Adventure and The Land of Feast and … Read More >

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 >

Today, July 18th, 2017, marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, the famed English novelist whose works include Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.  Largely unnoticed as an author during her relatively short lifetime, Jane Austen and her six completed books are now recognized worldwide as some … Read More >

The first week of July marked the hundredth anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson, the renowned 20th-century Canadian artist whose influence was integral to the formation of the Group of Seven. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions (2004) explores Thomson’s impact on Canadian art and … Read More >

Andy Huynh came to Canada as a teenager in the 1980s as one of about 70,000 Indochinese refugees who were granted entry to the country.  The story of his journey, and all of the memories associated with it, recently resurfaced unexpectedly when Huynh spotted a photograph of himself in a CBC article about Canada’s role … Read More >

The Book: A Backstory
by Christopher Dummitt

Why would anyone ever write a book? I first started thinking about the book that would become Unbuttoned in 2003. And yet it is only this spring, fourteen years later, that the book was published. I’m inclined to agree that delayed gratification increases pleasure, but that is one heck of … Read More >

Author Christopher Dummitt’s new book Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life has been receiving substantial attention in the press.  Below is a list of some of Dummitt’s recent media appearances, along with reviews and news pieces related to the book.

Excerpt in the Toronto Star

Piece by Jim Bronskill in The Globe … Read More >

(PCUH) – The 24th Annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were held April 29, 2017 at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The awards celebrate excellence in writing and publishing. Prof. Bohdan Kordan’s No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience was shortlisted and then selected as the recipient of the Jennifer … Read More >