Esplanade Fiction
The Globe & Mail Agrees!
Andrew Hood’s Pardon Our Monsters has been picked by First Fiction editor Jim Bartley at the Globe & Mail as #3 in his TOP FIVE of 2008.
Featured Poet
In 2007 Signal Poetry published George Ellenbogen’s Morning Gothic: New and Selected Poems, a unique edition with colour illustrations by French artist Hélène Leneveu.
Di Brandt called Ellenbogen “a master of keen observation, of irony, of wise and raging tenderness for the fierce beautiful suffering world.”
From the archives
Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman at the Double Hook Book Shop in 1974, the year of its founding.
In 2008 translator Sheila Fischman received the prestigious 2008 Molson Prize for “her phenomenal body of work.”
Stunning Debut!
"Chef is easily one of the best first novels I've read in the past ten years. Singh takes on life as it is, with its lust, its mindless rivalry, its brutality and its redemptive epiphanies that never quite pan out, with an attention to detail that can at times be overwhelming and is magnified rather than lessened by Singh's exact and tender prose." —albertaviews
Happy Holidays!
Mont-Royal winterscape by Correy Baldwin
Featured Spring Title
Joanna Fox has created a food-lover's guide to Montreal restaurants where you can bring your own bottle.
This is what she has to say about Yuukai Japanese Fusion
Hot off the press
On This Island in Time :
"Kalbfleisch has composed a Montreal history rich with both the quirky and thought-provoking."—The Hour
On Orfeo :
"The true meanings of love and desire are as slippery and difficult to grasp; you think you know both, but Greif intriguingly suggests otherwise."
—Black Heart Magazine
On 36 Cornelian Avenue :
" Wiseman's avowed touchstones are "commemoration and clarity," and these qualities are everywhere apparent in the book. His images are precise and austere.” —Montreal Review of Books
On The Walkable City:
"She's given us an easy-to-read book that presents substantial ideas that will continue to percolate as the reader explores his or her city.” —The Torontoist
