36 Canadian books you should be reading in May
A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for May 2025.
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Ley Lines by Tim Welsh
Set in a mythical boom town during the Klondike Gold Rush, Ley Lines follows a ragtag group of characters who are grappling with the demise of their town when the unlucky prospector Steve Ladle triggers a chain of events that brings about its ruin. As they navigate their upended world, they reckon with the personal, historical and supernatural forces that have shaped their fate.
Ley Lines is available May 1, 2025.
Tim Welsh is a Toronto-based author who was born in New York and grew up in Ottawa. Ley Lines is his debut novel. He holds an MA in English language and literature from Carleton University.
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
In The Fun Times Brigade, Amy struggles to understand her sense of identity as she steps into the role of a mother, after spending years pursuing and enjoying a busy career as a successful children's musician. When Amy faces a devastating loss, it highlights the fragility of artistic success and the complexity that comes with defining our identity.
The Fun Times Brigade is available May 1, 2025.
Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a Toronto-based author and the creator of the Love Lettering Project. She holds a MA in creative writing from the University of Toronto. Her first picture book, Dear Street, was selected as a Junior Library Guild pick, named a Canadian Children's Book Centre Book of the Year and nominated for the 2024 Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award. She is also the author of the novel Letters to Amelia.
Chinatown Vancouver by Donna Seto
Chinatown Vancouver is a vibrantly illustrated history of the neighbourhood's buildings and celebrates the Chinese community's contributions to Canada. It features iconic businesses like Cathay Importers and Ho Inn Restaurant, while highlighting the resilience of early Chinese settlers. It honours Chinatown as a living heritage site that connects Canadians to their past and future.
Chinatown Vancouver is available May 1, 2025.
Donna Seto is a writer, artist and academic based in Vancouver. She holds a PhD in politics and international relations from the Australian National University. Her story Generation Congee was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize in 2019.
On Sports by David Macfarlane
In On Sports, David Macfarlane expresses his love for sports and his discomfort with their commercialization in the digital age. Through a mix of personal reflection and sharp critique, he examines how sports have transformed into a spectacle driven by profit, corporate interests and gambling — exploring the consequences of this shift.
On Sports is available May 6, 2025.
Macfarlane is a writer and editor based in Toronto. His previous works include the nonfiction book The Danger Tree and the novels Likeness and Summer Gone which was a finalist for the 1999 Giller Prize.
The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs
In the darkly funny novel The Retirement Plan, three middle-aged wives secretly plot to secure their dream retirement by cashing in on their husbands' life insurance policies. The catch? Their husbands are still alive. While the wives hire a hitman to make their plans come true, they're unaware that their husbands have also hatched their own scheme.
The Retirement Plan is available May 6, 2025.
Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs. The Retirement Plan is her debut novel. She lives in Toronto.
The Snag by Tessa McWatt
In The Snag, when Tessa McWatt's mother's dementia progressed and she could no longer live independently, it forced McWatt to experience and confront grief. This led her to a forest, where she discovered that from the youngest seedling to the oldest snag in the forest, every stage of a tree's life holds meaning — finding solace in the natural world as a source of healing and understanding.
The Snag is available May 6, 2025.
McWatt is the author of several novels and two books for young readers. Her previous works include Dragons Cry, Vital Signs and Higher Ed. She wrote the memoir Shame on Me, which won the 2020 Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, the OCM Bocas Prize and the Society of Authors' Volcano Prize. McWatt is a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia. Originally from Guyana, she grew up in Canada and now lives in London, England.
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
In The Book of Records, Lina grows up in "The Sea," a building that serves as a home for migrants from all over the world, while caring for her sick father. She forms friendships with her fascinating neighbours, including a Jewish scholar exiled for his radical views and a poet from the Tang Dynasty, whose stories captivate her. However, her seemingly perfect life takes a startling turn when her father reveals the true reason they came to live at "The Sea."
The Book of Records is available May 6, 2025.
Madeleine Thien is a short story writer and novelist. She is the author of the novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Thien's debut novel, Certainty, published in 2006, won the Amazon First Novel Award and was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Thien is also the author of Dogs at the Perimeter, which was a Globe and Mail Best Book, and the children's book The Chinese Violin. Her first work of fiction, Simple Recipes, won four awards in Canada and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
In Detective Aunty, when recently widowed Kausar Khan hears that her daughter has been accused of murdering the landlord of her clothing boutique, nothing can hold her back to help figure out who is the true culprit. But even Kausar is unprepared for the secrets, lies and betrayals that she'll uncover along the way.
Detective Aunty is available May 6, 2025.
Uzma Jalaluddin is a teacher, parenting columnist and author based in Ontario. Her previous works include the novels Ayesha At Last, Hana Khan Carries On, Much Ado About Nada and Three Holidays and a Wedding.
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
In One Golden Summer, photographer Alice returns to a childhood summer cottage with her nan. What she expects to be a relaxing, peaceful summer takes an unexpected turn when Charlie Florek — a shameless flirt — shows up, making Alice feel like a 17-year-old again and wondering if there could be something more between them.
One Golden Summer is available May 6, 2025.
Carley Fortune is a Toronto-based writer and journalist who has worked as an editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Her previous books are Every Summer After, This Summer Will Be Different and Meet Me at the Lake, which was a contender for Canada Reads 2024, championed by Mirian Njoh.
Only Because It's You by Rebecca Fisseha
In Only Because It's You, Miz panics when her best friend Kal faces the possibility of being forced to return to Ethiopia, as she can't imagine life without him. She comes up with a plan to marry him so he can stay, with the idea of quickly getting a divorce afterward — believing nothing will change between them, right?
Only Because It's You is available May 6, 2025.
Rebecca Fisseha is an Ethiopian Canadian writer based in Toronto. Her previous works include the novel Daughters of Silence and short stories and essays that have appeared in the anthologies Addis Ababa Noir and Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, the Vancouver Film School and an alumnus of the TIFF Writers' Studio.
Other Worlds by André Alexis
Spanning from 19th-century Trinidad and Tobago to a small town in Ontario, from Amherst, Massachusetts to modern-day Toronto, Other Worlds is a short story collection that explores characters encountering moments of profound puzzlement in these diverse settings.
Other Worlds is available May 6, 2025.
André Alexis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and raised in Ottawa. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award (now known as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award) and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Pastoral, Asylum, The Hidden Keys, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and Days by Moonlight, which won the 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was on the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.
Alexis's novel Fifteen Dogs, championed by Humble The Poet, won Canada Reads 2017 and the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
milktooth by Jaime Burnet
At 31, Sorcha is eager to settle down and have a baby. In milktooth, she meets Chris, whose charm and grand romantic gestures soon make their relationship serious. But when she becomes pregnant, she must confront the harsh reality of Chris's increasingly abusive behavior, which threatens the family she has longed for.
milktooth is available May 6, 2025.
Jaime Burnet is a writer, musician and labour and human rights lawyer based in Mulipj'kejk/Herring Cove, Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia. Her debut novel, Crocuses Hatch from Snow, was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award.
Way Off Track by Carl Brundtland, illustrated by Claudia Dávila
Blending Jamaican culture with the West African trickster Anansi, Way Off Track is a fun and fast-paced story that follows Nansi's determined — and sometimes misguided — journey. Nansi is used to winning every race — until a snobby girl named Tania beats her. Convinced it's all because of Tania's fancy shoes, Nansi has to get a pair before track tryouts. But where is she going to find $338?
Way Off Track is for ages 8-12 and will be available May 6, 2025
Carl Brundtland is a Jamaican Canadian writer based in Toronto. Growing up, his favourite stories were those about Anansi the spider, which inspired the antics found in his debut graphic novel Way Off Track.
Claudia Dávila is an illustrator from Toronto. She has illustrated the nonfiction books Child Soldier by Michel Chikwanine and Jessica Dee Humphreys, and Change It!, Move It! and Touch It!, all written by Adrienne Mason. She also wrote and illustrated the picture book Super Red Riding Hood.
Corporate Control by Nora Loreto
In Corporate Control, Nora Loreto explores why a handful of corporations in Canada wield such tremendous power, leaving Canadian politicians seemingly powerless to challenge corporate interests. She examines how, despite promises to address pressing issues, politicians remain unable to confront the root causes of the problems facing Canadians, constrained by corporate influence.
Corporate Control is available May 6, 2025.
Loreto is an activist, author and journalist based in Quebec City. She is the editor at the Canadian Association of Labour Media and co-hosts the political podcast Sandy and Nora Talk Politics.
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner
In the novel Austen at Sea, the setting is 1865 Boston. Two daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice are chafing against the restrictions placed upon them as women. Inspired by the works of Jane Austen, they start a secret correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother. They travel to Europe on a life-changing journey that teaches them how to love life by way of the power of literature.
Austen at Sea is available May 6, 2025
Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie Jenner now lives in Oakville, Ont. as the owner of an independent bookstore. Her previous books include Bloomsbury Girls and The Jane Austen Society, which was a Goodreads Choice Award runner-up for historical fiction and finalist for best debut novel.
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is a memoir-in-essays that explores how a love of "dad rock" music helped Niko Stratis come to a better understanding of life, love and the world around them. Stratis was a closeted 20-something trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory during the time when "dad rock" bands like Wilco, Radiohead and The National were regular fixtures on the radio and in rock culture circles.
The incisive essays in the book examine how Stratis discovered a sense of queer and trans identity and belonging by way of listening to "emotionally available" artists such as Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten within this subgenre.
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is available May 6, 2025.
Stratis is a Canadian writer, author and critic from Toronto by way of the Yukon. Her writing has appeared in publications like Catapult, Spin and Paste.
The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh
The Road Between Us is a novel involving characters facing tough choices in life and love. Estela is a woman struggling to balance her personal and professional lives, due to the loss of a sibling at a young age. Estela is also dealing with the fallout from an estranged best friend who loves Estela unrequitedly. Other complex and flawed characters within her orbit force Estela to better understand her identity and her connections to family and friends.
The Road Between Us is available May 13, 2025.
Bindu Suresh is a fiction writer and paediatrician based in Montreal. Her debut book was 26 Knots. She studied literature at Columbia University and medicine at McGill University. CBC Books named Suresh a writer to watch in 2019.
The Saltbox Olive by Angela Antle
Through a series of connected stories spanning past and present, The Saltbox Olive tells the untold story of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy during World War II. The novel begins with Caroline Fisher's quest to figure out why her grandfather burned his brother's wartime letters.
The Saltbox Olive is available May 13, 2025.
Angela Antle is a writer, artist, journalist and documentary filmmaker from St. John's, N.L. Her work has appeared in Riddle Fence and Newfoundland Quarterly, among others. She wrote and directed Gander's Ripple Effect: How a Small Town's Kindness Opened on Broadway, and wrote the documentary Atlantic: What Lies Beneath, which won best documentary awards at the Dublin, Wexford, Nickel and Chagrin Film Festivals. She is currently an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University and a member of Norway's Empowered Futures Energy School.
The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja
Lia Juma, a successful corporate lawyer in The Summers Between Us, has built a life to meet the expectations of her immigrant family, from her career to her choice of partner. But returning to her family's summer cottage resurfaces old memories and secrets that could change everything — especially when Wes, an old flame, comes back into her life.
The Summers Between Us is available May 13, 2025.
Noreen Nanja is a Toronto-based writer and second-generation immigrant. Her writing frequently explores themes of identity and belonging that's wrapped in stories of romantic and familial love.
To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand
In To Place a Rabbit, a scientist impulsively agrees to help a novelist translate her novella from French into English. Troubles ensue, as the story she is reading triggers memories of a long-ago affair that she had with a French lover. Already struggling with completing the translation, things are about to get even more complicated, as the lover makes a reappearance.
To Place a Rabbit is available May 13, 2025.
Madhur Anand is a poet and professor of ecology at the University of Guelph where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research. She is the author of the A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, which won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. Her book Parasitic Oscillations was named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year.
Contemplation of a Crime by Susan Juby
In Contemplation of a Crime, a butler at a wellness retreat organized by her employer's son, finds herself amongst a diverse group of attendees from different political backgrounds. They've come together for a five-day program aimed at overcoming their ideological and personal differences. But when something deadly happens, Helen must step into the role of investigator and figure out who is guilty.
Contemplation of a Crime is available May 13, 2025.
Susan Juby is an award-winning, bestselling author from Vancouver Island whose book Mindful of Murder was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Some of Juby's other titles include Getting the Girl, Another Kind of Cowboy, A Meditation on Murder, The Woefield Poultry Collective and the Alice MacLeod series. Her novel Republic of Dirt won the 2016 Leacock Medal in 2016.
Encampment by Maggie Helwig
Encampment is about priest Maggie Helwig's lifelong activism, highlighting her dedication to supporting the unhoused who found refuge near her Anglican church in Toronto. As she fights to keep her churchyard open to those in need of shelter, the book brings the stories of the unhoused to the forefront.
Encampment is available May 13, 2025.
Helwig is a white settler based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of 15 books and chapbooks, including Girls Fall Down, which was on the Toronto Book Award shortlist and selected as the One Book Toronto in 2012. She is a social justice activist and an Anglican priest, serving as the rector of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields since 2013.
Colette: The Solitary Bee by Jean-François Sénéchal, illustrated by Pascale Bonenfant
Colette is a solitary bee who loves being on her own and adores her independence. One day Colette realizes that it's okay to sometimes want to be around others — to share fun stories or to help when things don't go to plan — and that it doesn't make her any less independent.
Colette: The Solitary Bee is for ages 3 to 7 and will be available May 13, 2025
Jean-François Sénéchal is a writer from Saint-Lambert, Que. His book Les avenues was the French language winner of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Young people's literature — text and in 2017 Sénéchal won the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize for literature.
Pascale Bonenfant is an illustrator and a professor of graphic design who has illustrated numerous books, including Oops by Julie Massy and Le parapluie jaune, by Lili Chartrand. She lives in Québec City.
Harley Parker by Gary Genosko
Harley Parker is about the legacy of Harley Parker, a Canadian museum designer whose innovative approach reshaped how we experience museums. Through a look at his influential designs and rediscovered manuscript, the book highlights Parker's pioneering contributions to sensory studies and museum theory, and his role as a key figure in communication and cultural studies.
Harley Parker is available May 15, 2025.
Gary Genosko is a professor of communication and digital media studies at Ontario Tech University. He has written extensively on topics such as continental thought, communication modelling, administrative surveillance, critical semiotics and the lives of scholarly journals. His previous works include McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion and When Technocultures Collide. He also edited a critical edition of Harley Parker's book The Culture Box.
Pitfall by Terry Kirk
Pitfall follows the story of Frank Cork, a successful head trader, father and husband in 1929 at a top Chicago brokerage. However, on October 29, his life takes a drastic turn when all his fortune is wiped out in the stock market crash, and to the shock of his firm, Frank disappears without a trace.
Pitfall is available May 15, 2025.
Terry Kirk is a Toronto-based author and lawyer. She studied journalism, English literature, and holds a Juris Doctor degree in law, along with a master's degree in digital transformation.
Horsefly by Mireille Gagné, translated by Pablo Strauss
Horsefly is a chilling tale that explores the dangerous consequences of human attempts to manipulate nature. In 1942, Thomas, a young entomologist, was sent to a remote island to work on a secret wartime project involving horseflies as biological weapons. Eight decades later, in 2025, a man turns to his grandfather, whose dementia keeps him trapped in the past, for help in understanding the experiments, because when a swarm of horseflies is unleashed during a heat wave, people are driven into a violent frenzy.
Horsefly is available May 20, 2025.
Mireille Gagné is an author based in Quebec City. She has written books of poetry, short stories and the novel Le lièvre d'Amérique.
Pablo Strauss has translated several works of fiction, graphic novels and one screenplay. He was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for translation for The Country Will Bring Us No Peace, Synapses and The Longest Year. His translation of Le plongeur by Stephane Larue (The Dishwasher in English) won the 2020 Amazon First Novel Award. Most recently, he translated Eric Chacour's What I Know About You, which was on the shortlist for the 2024 Giller Prize and the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in Quebec City.
Precarious by Marcello Di Cintio
Precarious examines the harsh realities faced by migrant workers in Canada, revealing the exploitation, abuse and dangerous conditions they endure under the Temporary Foreign Worker program. Marcello Di Cintio investigates the system's deep flaws, and questions whether a system that relies on the vulnerability of its most marginalized can ever be made more just.
Precarious is available May 20, 2025.
Di Cintio is a writer based in Toronto. His previous works include Walls, Pay No Heed to the Rockets and Driven. Walls won the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and Driven was named one of the best Canadian nonfiction books of 2021 by CBC Books, and was on the longlist for Canada Reads 2022. His work has also been featured in the International New York Times, Afar and Canadian Geographic, among others.
A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz
In A Daughter's Place, set in 1599 Madrid, 15-year-old Isabel goes to live with her father after her mother's sudden death. But her father is no ordinary man — he's the famous writer Miguel de Cervantes. As his illegitimate daughter, Isabel must pose as a maid, and despite coming of age during Spain's Golden Age, she faces a society that is unforgiving, and denies her the legitimacy she longs for.
A Daughter's Place is available May 20, 2025.
Martha Bátiz is a translator, writer and professor of creative writing and Spanish language and literature who moved from Mexico to Toronto in 2003. She has written five books, including the short story collection Plaza Requiem, which won the International Latino Book Award, and the novella Damiana's Reprieve, which received the Casa de Teatro Prize. Her debut novel is A Daughter's Place.
The World of Maxime by Lucile de Pesloüan, illustrated by Jacques Goldstyn, translated by Helen Mixter
In The World of Maxime, 10-year-old Maxime loves books and cats—especially her own cat, Turmeric. She feels different from other kids, preferring the quiet company of her book characters over noisy classmates. She wishes she were brave enough to talk to the new girl at school, who also loves Matilda, Maxime's favorite book.
When she discovers mysterious bowls in an alley, Maxime becomes a detective and meets Catamou, an older woman who feeds stray cats. The two form a friendship, and with Catamou's encouragement, Maxime finds the courage to reach out to the new girl.
The World of Maxime is for ages 7-10 and will be available May 20, 2025
Lucile de Pesloüan is a Montreal-based writer. Her first book was the graphic novel What Makes Girls Sick and Tired.
Jacques Goldstyn is a writer, illustrator and political cartoonist from Montreal. In 2017 he won the Governor General's Award for his book Azadah and has won twice Le Grand Prix du Journalisme Indépendant for his illustrations.
Helen Mixter is a Toronto-based writer and the translator of several children's books, including the 2009 Governor General's Award-winning Harvey.
Big Girls Don't Cry by Susan Swan
In Big Girls Don't Cry, Susan Swan challenges societal expectations as she recounts her defiance of what's traditionally expected as a woman, daughter, wife and mother, while forging her own path as an artist. Swan's memoir invites you to rethink how women are expected to fit into narrow boxes and explore the power of living authentically.
Big Girls Don't Cry is available May 27, 2025.
Swan is a Toronto-based author. Her previous works include The Wives of Bath, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, What Casanova Told Me, The Western Light and Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With. She co-founded the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and was awarded with the Order of Canada in 2023.
Soft As Bones by Chyana Marie Sage
In Soft As Bones, Chyana Marie Sage shares the pain of growing up with her father, a crack dealer who went to prison for molesting her older sister, and the self-destructive ways with which she coped. By revisiting her family's history, she describes the experience of overcoming generational trauma that began with her grandfather, who was forcibly separated from his family through residential schools and the Sixties Scoop. She reflects on how the traditions of her Cree culture played a crucial role in her healing.
Soft As Bones is available May 27, 2025.
Sage is a Cree, Métis and Salish writer based in Edmonton. Her journalism has appeared in the Toronto Star, Huff Post and the New Quarterly. Sage won first place in the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and silver in the National Magazine Awards for her essay Soar. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University where she taught as an adjunct professor. She also teaches Indigenous youth about cultivating self-love and healing through the Connected North program.
Margaret's New Look by Katherine Ashenburg
In Margaret's New Look, Margaret's life appears flawless. She's a respected fashion curator at a prominent city museum, a mother to teenage twin daughters and the wife of a successful mystery novelist. However, her world begins to unravel when she faces pushback over her Dior haute couture exhibition and the death of her father forces her to confront her family's hidden Jewish roots. This journey leads Margaret to cross paths with an elderly couture collector who shares a personal connection to Dior.
Margaret's New Look is available May 27, 2025.
Katherine Ashenburg is a writer and journalist who has worked for the Globe and Mail and the CBC. Some of Ashenburg's other titles include the nonfiction books Going to Town, The Mourner's Dance, The Dirt on Clean and the novels Sofie & Cecilia and Her Turn.
Food for the Journey by Elizabeth J. Haynes
Food for the Journey is a travel memoir that takes readers on a global adventure, capturing rich encounters and vibrant flavours. From volunteering with disabled children in the Philippines to meeting a young girl in Cambodia and learning about the tragedy of the Khmer Rouge regime, Elizabeth J. Haynes expands her first-world perspective through the people she meets and the foods she experiences along the way.
Food for the Journey is available May 27, 2025.
Haynes is a Calgary-based writer whose work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including You Look Good for Your Age. Her previous books include The Errant Husband and Speak Mandarin, Not Dialect, which was a finalist for the Alberta Book Award. Haynes has received the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award, a Western Magazine Award and the American Heart Association Award for fiction. In 2023, she was the Calgary Public Library's writer-in-residence. She worked in speech-language pathology prior to her retirement.
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark is a gripping historical drama set in medieval France, blending love and conflict against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of collapse. The novel follows Thierry Villar, a famous tavern poet, who finds himself thrust into an important role as his country teeters on the edge of destruction amidst a fierce power struggle and a decades-long war. Along the way, Thierry encounters a diverse array of characters, including potential love interests.
Written on the Dark is available May 27, 2025.
Guy Gavriel Kay is the author of 15 novels. His Fionavar Tapestry fantasy series has sold over a million copies worldwide since being published in the 1980s and has been optioned by the Canadian production company behind Orphan Black. Some of Kay's other titles include Children of Earth and Sky, Tigana, River of Stars and A Brightness Long Ago. In 2014, he was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Bones of a Giant by Brian Thomas Isaac
Bones of a Giant, which is set on the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the 1960s, tells the story of 16-year-old Lewis Toma as he navigates grief, responsibility and family secrets.
Bones of a Giant is available May 27, 2025.
Brian Thomas Isaac is a writer from the Okanagan Indian Reserve in British Columbia. His debut novel All the Quiet Places won an Indigenous Voice Award in 2022. Longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, the story follows six-year-old Eddie as he grows up on the Okanagan Indian Reserve in B.C. in the 1950s and faces tragedy as he navigates his culture and the landscape. All the Quiet Places was also on the shortlist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist and was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.
Astronautical! by Brooklin Stormie
A century after planet Zephyr mysteriously exploded, its people now live on floating chunks of the world. Brothers Max and Lari travel the galaxy with their dad, Captain Cherryhair, delivering goods — until their father is kidnapped by the villainous Cynosure, the Planet Breaker.
With the help of some starry ferryboat captains, the brothers set off on a daring rescue mission in Astronautical!. But when Max is injured by a black hole, Lari must step up and take charge for the first time. Can he uncover the secret of Zephyr's destruction, defeat Cynosure and save both his brother, father and their people?
Astronautical! is for ages 8-12 and will be available May 27, 2025
Brooklin Stormie is an artist and illustrator from Peterborough, Ont.
