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why yes we do have the limited edition signed copies of R.F. Kuang’s Taipei Story in stock! pick your copy up here, onli...
09/10/2026

why yes we do have the limited edition signed copies of R.F. Kuang’s Taipei Story in stock! pick your copy up here, online, or at Trident Bookseller & Cafe!

From R.F. Kuang, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes a wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock—all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei.

College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is driving her insane, and a reckless trip to the hot springs with a guy she barely knows soon has her classmates viciously gossiping. She feels adrift, a foreigner in a country she thought would feel like home.

Then shocking news arrives: Lily’s grandfather has passed away. The loss forces her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history. As Lily grieves, she’s drawn into a journey of self-discovery—piecing together memories, stories, and silences over a series of hilarious and devastating attempts at connection.

Taipei Story asks: What if the diaspora fantasy of homecoming never comes true? What if learning a language can’t bring you any closer to the people you’re trying to reach? What if you search for your family’s history, but your family doesn’t want to share? What if you wait too long to ask the right questions? As Lily struggles for answers, her summer becomes a poignant search for understanding—of herself, her family, and the meaning of home.

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09/10/2026

that’s right

Halifax! Join us at CAFÉ LARA on September 19th to launch All The Waking Hours, the new essay collection from Erin Wunke...
09/09/2026

Halifax! Join us at CAFÉ LARA on September 19th to launch All The Waking Hours, the new essay collection from Erin Wunker! Joining Erin will be Allison Lasorda, Arundhati Dhara, Fazeela Jiwa, and Sadie Beaton, with hosting duties by the incomparable Asha Jeffers!

Now in stock from Emily Wilson, Crossing the W**e Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature! In this sharp and often...
09/04/2026

Now in stock from Emily Wilson, Crossing the W**e Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature!

In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson—whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination—explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over “foreignizing” and “domesticizing” styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to readers with no classical background, Crossing the W**e-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew.

Now in stock, the complete ERIS Gems series! These are beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets of outstanding shor...
09/03/2026

Now in stock, the complete ERIS Gems series! These are beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction. Check them out in our display on the cash desk or browse them on the main page of our website!

Our September Book of the Month pick is Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel! From now until the end of the month save 25...
09/01/2026

Our September Book of the Month pick is Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel! From now until the end of the month save 25% when you preorder your copy or pick it up in store after the September 15th release date!

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.

Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air.

As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.

Come upstairs from the bookstore on Sep 10th to join award-winning writers Nicholas Herring and Alexander MacLeod in-con...
08/28/2026

Come upstairs from the bookstore on Sep 10th to join award-winning writers Nicholas Herring and Alexander MacLeod in-conversation to celebrate the launch of Herring’s gorgeous new novel, Your Breath in Charcoal!

This event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase courtesy of yours truly.

📍 KTS Room, New Academic Building, University of King’s College. 2nd floor above King’s Co-op.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Knickle is a young Islander with no friends, direction, or purpose in his life. When he drives to northern New Brunswick to pick up an acquaintance’s brother from a mental health hospital, the pair make a sudden decision to travel further west to try to find a life amidst the chaos of Upper Canada. In the big city of Tah-ron-ah for the first time, Knickle discovers love, hope, and profound loss.

A hilarious, sensitive, and heady working-class odyssey rife with metaphorical richness and references to literature, film, and 90s music, Your Breath in Charcoal peers into the mind of its irrepressible and relentlessly quotable East Coast everyman. A follow-up to Some Hellish, Herring’s breathtaking Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize-winning debut novel, Your Breath in Charcoal marks yet another galvanizing entry into the East Coast literary canon.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nicholas Herring’s head-spinning debut novel, Some Hellish, won the prestigious Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Critics described it as “heart-wrenchingly beautiful,” “irreverent, screwball, and inspired,” and “a winding, raucous ride.” His writing has also appeared in The Puritan and The Fiddlehead.
Herring graduated from St. Jerome’s University with an honours degree in English Literature and attended the University of Toronto, where he completed an MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, where he works as a fisherman and a carpenter. Your Breath in Charcoal is Nicholas Herring’s second novel.

Now in stock, the new release The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters! I’ve read this one already and you don’t want to miss ...
08/27/2026

Now in stock, the new release The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters! I’ve read this one already and you don’t want to miss it, and as our August book of the month pick it’s still 25% off for 4 more days!

From the award-winning and bestselling author of The Berry Pickers, an unforgettable novel of family, legacy and secrets, following one woman as she confronts buried truths, lost love and the fragile future she alone must protect.

“My mother died pushing me into the world. . . . I don’t know if I saw her face or if she saw mine. Only that, by the first crack of thunder, she was gone.”

So begins the powerful new novel by critically acclaimed, award-winning author Amanda Peters.

In 1955, Aliet’s mother dies in childbirth beneath the birthing tree, a large old oak, where Indigenous women have been giving birth for longer than anyone can remember. Aliet’s grandmother, the local midwife, has assisted in the successful births of babies there for decades. Yet on that fateful day, tragedy strikes, and it’s her own daughter, Maggie, who dies under her care.

After her mother’s death, Aliet is raised by her grandmother and becomes an apprentice to her knowledge of midwifery and Indigenous medicine. At the base of the birthing tree, Aliet becomes the keeper of sacred knowledge, educated so that she may, one day, carry on these traditional practices. Yet, when Aliet grows older, she unexpectedly turns away from her grandmother, her community and all that she’s learned.

Years later, after her grandmother dies, Aliet returns home to a crumbling house and the memories she thought she’d outrun: the love and loss that shaped her young life; the teachings of her grandmother; and the mystery of her own bloodline. She also realizes that to truly start her life over again, she must finally come to terms with a long-held family secret and the unresolved heartbreak and grief of her past.

stay safe out there friends
08/25/2026

stay safe out there friends

It’s movie giveaway time! We’re partnering with Atlantic International Film Festival ( AIFF ) and the The Bookstore That...
08/24/2026

It’s movie giveaway time! We’re partnering with Atlantic International Film Festival ( AIFF ) and the The Bookstore That Never Sleeps to give away a 4-Ticket Pack to the Atlantic Canadian Premiere at the Reel East Coast Shorts Gala!

Catch The Bookstore That Never Sleeps on the big screen!

How to Enter:

1. Follow King’s Co-op Bookstore, Atlantic International Film Festival ( AIFF ), and The Bookstore That Never Sleeps

2. Like this post

3. Tag a friend in the comments who you’d hit the red carpet with

Winner drawn on Sept 8/9/10

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