news | 2018-10-10
Deni Ellis Béchard's new novel has arrived!

…Deni Ellis Béchard’s White is a riveting novel that explores whiteness, modern humanitarianism, …

news | 2018-06-22
Pride Month Reading!

…and from our backlist, Jane Rule’s landmark novel Desert of the Heart and Michel Marc …

news | 2018-04-10
Four Talon titles nominated for ReLit Awards!

…Awards for books published in the year 2017! One novel and three collections of poetry have been … Awards are given to books in three categories – novels, short fiction, and poetry – that have been …

news | 2018-03-28
Dead by lightning? We have the cure!

…Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s 1996 novel The Cure for Death by Lightning was nominated for …

news | 2018-03-26
Montreal Gothic in the house

…arrival is The Green Chamber, a Montreal Gothic novel by the brilliant Martine Desjardins and … M.A.C. Farrant, “Desjardins has created a comic novel worthy of the word ‘great’”! Set between 1913 and … is a riveting, fast-paced, highly atmospheric novel that chronicles the decline of a wealthy …

news | 2018-03-19
Kuei, My Friend has arrived!

…Natasha Kanapé Fontaine and Québécois-American novelist Deni Ellis Béchard. Within the contexts of the …

news | 2017-10-04
A GG nomination for In Search of New Babylon!

…Translation category! This gripping, post-western novel written by Dominique Scali and superbly …

news | 2017-08-28
Fall fiction is in the house! New novels by Wajdi Mouawad and Philippe Arseneault

…Two new novels are now available! Our fiction game is strong … Anima ($19.95 CDN) is the much anticipated novel by playwright Wajdi Mouawad. It has won numerous … by Linda Gaboriau at last brings this celebrated novel to English readers. This masterful novel is told … by Fred A. Reed and David Homel, this surreal novel is set in the murky fictional domain of the …

news | 2017-08-23
Réjean Ducharme, a loss for Quebec and all of us

…Ducharme’s works – particularly his debut novel L’Avalée des avalés (published in English as The … of Quebec culture. Two of Ducharme’s novels have been published by Talonbooks in English … both culturally subversive and well received. His novels and a play won Governor General’s Awards in …

news | 2017-07-21
Cross your heart and hope to read

…Michel Tremblay’s new-to-English novel has arrived! A Crossing of Hearts ($16.95) … Michel Tremblay’s Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, a family saga set in Montreal during World War … I. This third novel bursts with life as Rhéauna (Nana) and her baby … enchanted forest of her inner, maturing self. The novel also further develops the character of Nana’s … under the strictures of the Catholic church. Each novel in the series can be read on its own, but if you …

events | 2017-04-29
Authors for Indies Day (national)

…Quartermain, most recently the author of the novel U Girl, will be at VANCOUVER’s The Paper Hound …

events | 2014-05-03
Meet Garry Thomas Morse at FanExpo Regina

…Episodes / Major Ruckus from The Chaos! Quincunx novel series. The fifth and final novel in the series, …

events | 2012-10-26
Adeena Karasick and Stephen Collis at Zinc Bar, New York

…Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007), and a forthcoming novel, The Red Album (BookThug, 2013). His collection …

events | 2010-04-29
Talon’s 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour: Vancouver

events | 2010-04-27
Talon's 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour: Calgary

events | 2010-04-22
Talon’s 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour: Edmonton Poetry Festival

events | 2010-04-07
Drew Hayden Taylor with Adeena Karasick - Book Launch

…(Random House of Canada) Drew Hayden Taylor’s new novel is a hilarious romp about how the arrival of a … a journalist/columnist, short story writer, novelist and scriptwriter (_The Beachcombers_,_North of …