The leaves have all but blown off the trees and there’s a definite chill in the air…it’s perfect book weather! We’ve got some heartwarming stories just in, gorgeous cookbooks to…
Category: Books
Today is the day that all of you Veronica Roth fans have been waiting for…Allegiant is finally here! And, because you’ve been so patient, Backbeat is offering this title at…
Are you counting down? It’s not long now…in only five more days, Allegiant will hit the shelves! In the meantime, here’s a link from Veronica Roth that she made…
Congratulations to Ontario-born Eleanor Catton for winning the prestigious Man Booker Award! Her sweeping second novel, “The Luminaries” just won this year’s competition. We currently have a copy of her…
Between the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement and Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize for Literature, it’s been an extraordinary week for Canadian authors! We just got a shipment of new books…
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Alice Munro is the first Canadian woman to have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature! If you’ve been to our shop…
Just brought these amazing secondhand goodies into the shop today. They’re all in like-new condition and are about to be priced and added to the shelves, but I just wanted…
Today, the shelves are being stocked with some Backbeat bestsellers as well as some new-to-the-shop titles: – “Lucky Peach #8” magazine – “Just Kids” by Patti Smith – “Little Paris…
Just in time for the weekend, two new titles just arrived. One is fiction; the other is non-fiction: 1) “Astray” is the latest novel by the supremely talented Emma Donohue…
A lovely big box of goodies arrived today! There’s something for everyone: – “Private Berlin” by James Patterson – “It’s All Good” by Gwyneth Paltrow – “French Market Cookbook” by…
A few more diverse titles have been added to the table this morning: – “419” by Will Ferguson – “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary – Fourth Edition” – Merriam-Webster –…
Just in time for the last long weekend of the summer…new books! We’ve re-stocked some favourites and added some great new titles. After you’ve worn yourself out at the Perth…
Did you hear the latest local news? “The Best Laid Plans” is being filmed as a CBC mini-series today in Perth! If you haven’t yet read the Canada Reads winning…
Are you a fan of graphic novels? We have some special ones on the shelves at the moment: – “The Complete Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi – “Notes for a War…
A new shipment of books for our smaller-sized customers has made its way to the shop just in time to herald in this year’s back-to-school season: – “Pete the Cat:…
Do you inhale? We got some fresh new titles in the shop today. Here’s the lowdown: – “Wheat Belly” by William Davis, MD – “Born With a Tooth” by Joseph…
Just a quick post to let everyone know that we will be closed Monday, August 5th for the Civic Holiday. Sorry for any inconvience and we hope you are having…
Have you read “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith? It’s without a doubt one of the best books I’ve (almost) finished reading in years. Only 144 pages to go till my…
Too hot to be decisive? Shopping for a gift? Like surprises? Why not be adventurous and pick up one of our “surprise packs” of books? Each wrapped package costs only…
I don’t know about you, but I don’t always automatically gravitate to breezy beach reads in the summer. I did, however, grab “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by…
Some amazing new books just arrived at the shop! Here’s the rundown: – “Bodies of Subversion” by Margot Mifflin – “The Hungry Ghosts” by Shayam Selvadurai – “Print Worskhop”…
Should you use your sparkplugs or your radiator for a tenderloin of pork? Were Jaguars really designed with veal scaloppine in mind? A quirky little cookbook from 1989 with thirty-five…
If you are anything like Hubert, the one-of-a-kind spider who stars in Robert Mills’ new book “Hubert the Spider”, you would try just about anything to fit in. Hubert tries…