news | Wednesday July 1, 2026

Talonbooks Summer Sale

More than halfway through 2026 and Talonbooks has had a very exciting year! So many Talonbooks authors have been receiving recognition for their outstanding titles and we knew we had to celebrate.

From now until July 31, enjoy 30% off of any of these commended titles when you purchase them through the Talonbooks website. Enter the Code SUMMER2630 at check out. The offer is valid until July 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Get yourself a brand new beach read* this summer with Talonbooks’ summer sale. Learn more about the Talonbooks titles that have appeared on book prize lists so far this year:

The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and is a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! This gorgeous work of poetry is written in an imagined voice of Zulaykha, the “wife of Aziz” in the Qur’an and the biblical “wife of Potiphar.”

th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett was longlisted for the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! This “novel of pomes” is the latest offering from one of Canada’s most legendary and beloved literary icons.

Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award! Crowd Source is a book of poetry for corvid lovers everywhere.

Heartlines: A Love Story by Sarah Waisvisz was a finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama. This debut play imagines the queer lives and love of gender pioneers, artists, and nazi resisters Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn won the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English! This personal and educational book uses the spirit marker writing system as a foundation for teaching ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin.

Lha yudit’ih We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William won the 2026 Jeanne Clarke Local History Publication Award! This essential book is a community oral history of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, the first case in Canada to result in a declaration of Aboriginal Rights and Title to a specific piece of land.

Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry! This innovative debut poetry book examines pleasure, shame, and Muslim daughterhood and is powerful in both form and content.

Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. This dual-language collection presents poems side-by-side in English and Innu-aimun.

We wish you good summer reading!