Flying Books

10/29/2026

✨Authors! Authors! Authors! ✨

Always a delight to welcome Patrick deWitt who dropped by our College location to sign copies of Dodge City, his new novel that follows a young man on a mad road trip to Canads to avoid the Vietman draft south of us.

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📍371 Queen W

And a warm hello to Dina Del Bucchia, who dropped by our Queen store to sign copies of her new book, Tougher Than the Rest 📚

This is Martha fall preview pick and here’s what she had to say: “The talented team at Arsenal Pulp Press tell us that Tougher Than the Rest is “for those who are angry but need some hope and humour to get through it all.” That’s exactly where I’m at these days. Also there’s a story in here featuring a s*x robot, and the next book in the Flying Books publishing program may or may not feature a s*x robot. I will most certainly devour this!”

10/27/2026

Another incredible stack of new releases hit our shelves today📚✨

ABANDONING A CAT: A Personal Story by Haruki Murakami
THAT ASIAN GIRL IS A PROBLEM by Rachel Phan🍁
PUBLIC ACCESS AFTERWORLD by Jane Schoenbrun
MY FRIEND KIM JONG UN by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong🍁
ACE THEORY: An Essay in Fragments About As*xuality by Ryan Fitzpatrick 🍁
THE MYSTERY OF WHAT BEFELL IN THE DITCH by Thure Erik Lund, translated by David M. Smith
HOTEL CASANOVA: and other brief texts by Annie Ernaux
SPATIAL MEMORIES AND PREOCCUPATIONS OF AN ARCHITECT by Turner Brooks
A COURT OF SPLINTERED HARMONY Sarah J Mass

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📍784 College St

10/26/2026

📕 What does the future hold for Canadian publishing?

Join Sutherland House publisher Ken Whyte, editor Patrick Crean, and our own Martha Sharpe (Russell Smith calls her optimist of the bunch) as they go head-to-head about the challenges facing Canadian publishing. Are we in dire straits? What can be done?

Moderated by author and journalist Russell Smith alongside poet and translator Beatriz Hausner.

The Future of Canadian Publishing
Thursday, October 29, 7:30 PM
Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto
PWYC

10/26/2026

📚MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: FLYING BOOKS’ NONFICTION BOOK CLUB

Join us for November’s non-fiction book club pick, which is Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion co-edited by Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow.

Women, Walking is a Coach House anthology that collects thirty essays, poems, interviews, short pieces and graphic art on love, grief, identity and why walking can mean so much when moving through the world as a woman. Contributors include Jenny Odell, Miriam Toews, Andrea Gibson, Zalika Reid-Benta, Janika Oza, Ann-Marie MacDonald and Catherine Hernandez, plus many others.

📅 Tuesday November 24th
⏱️6:30 to 8:30 pm
📍371 Queen West
🎟️Ticket details at the link in our bio.

10/24/2026

Is it time to start thinking about braising, stewing, or baking? 🍴 Here’s what’s on our choosily chosen shelves right now: some great Canadian tastemakers, a forager we love, and a few global flavours.

GARDE MANGER by Chuck Hughes and Christopher Merrick 🍁
HAPPY SNACKING AND DON’T DIE! by Alexis Nikole Nelson
DONE RIGHT by Teo Paul 🍁
OTTOLENGHI SIMPLE TOO by Yotam Ottolenghi
H MART: THE COOKBOOK by Stacey Kwon
THE MON LAPIN COOKBOOK by Marc-Olivier Frappier, Jessica Noël, Vanya Filipovic and Mireille Silcoff 🍁

📍371 Queen St W
📍784 College St

EAT WITH AFIA by Afia Amoako 🍁
FOOD IS A FEELING by Carla Lalli Music
GYETK by Rachel Greening and Spencer Greening 🍁
EVERYTHING DELISH by Jamie Milne 🍁
A FEATHER AND A FORK by Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon

10/22/2026

💜Hello to Alessandra Requena Alessandra Requena who dropped by to sign copies of her brand new (and very funny) picture book, I Don’t Care What Simon Says! All hail Fifi, the most delightful little despot 😆

📍371 Queen W
📍784 College

10/22/2026

🎧Through October 29, get two audiobooks for one credit during Libro.fm Audiobooks’s members-only, buy-one-get-one sale and support your independent local bookshop! Not a member? Sign up at the link in our bio!

10/20/2026

Tuesday is our favourite day of the week, with so many noteworthy new releases ✨ 📚

TOUGH LIES: INDIGENOUS BELONGING & MY HEALING THROUGH GOLF by Jesse Wente 🍁
I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT HORSES & S*X by Lisa Hanawait
WE ARE UNDERLINGS by Doretta Lau 🍁
VAIM HOTEL by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searles
SUCKER FALLS by Drew Hayden Taylor 🍁
HYPERSCALE by Paris Marx 🍁
THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ATTEMPTS TO SURRENDER THE CITY by Susanna Clarke
PERFECTING THE SHOT by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
MISS WOLCOTT’S GHOST by Louise Penny

📍371 Queen St W
📍784 College St

10/20/2026

What a WILD night in Fredericton! 🤠 Thank you to everyone who came out last week to celebrate the launch of Wild West by Mark Anthony Jarman, and to Westminster Bookmark and Maybee Brewery 💛

Wild West is the first novel in decades from award-winning Canadian writer Mark Anthony Jarman. A raw, wholly orginal revisionist western, it follows an unnamed narrator through the chaos of the 1800s, crossing paths with the likes of Louis Riel, Custer and Gabriel Dumont. This is a frontier like you’ve never seen!

Pick up a copy at Westminster Bookmark if you’re in Fredericton or from us at Flying Books 📖

10/19/2026