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Fortune Favours a Bieler:  Adventures in Life, Love, and Business is the colourful story of Philippe Bieler’s life and his long journey through the eventful twentieth century and beyond. It begins with his escape from war-torn Europe in 1941. Hand in hand with a number of prominent trailblazers, he went on to carve out … Read More >

In honour of Queer History Month, MQUP would like to highlight the important books published in our Queer Film Classics series. This series aims to meet the diversity, quality, and originality of classics in the queer film canon, broadly conceived, with equally compelling writing and critical insight. Books in the series have much to … Read More >

Just in time for Christmas, an excerpt from Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums by Andrea Terry. In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and relevance of domesticated representations of Victorian material culture in a contemporary multicultural context. Family Ties connects residential artifacts to performance by examining the Victorian Christmas … Read More >

This year marks the centenary of two major events of World War I, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun. To commemorate, why not add Invasion 14, an epic novel recounting the German occupation of northern France during World War I, to your summer reading list?

Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary … Read More >

 The Globe and Mail has published an excerpt of There's Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach by Christopher Risso-Gill.

One evening in December 1973 Peter Cundill boarded a flight from Toronto to Vancouver to return home for Christmas. He was nursing a monumental hangover and … Read More >