Day two of Unwrap Indie is for the ever-evolving giftees on your list who are always keen to welcome and incorporate new perspectives into their own lives. Surprise them with these choice selections from Baraka Books—a progressive and daring press based in Québec with a commitment ... Read more

It's the inaugural day of Unwrap Indie, a checklist of giftable books from one-of-a-kind indie presses. Match the distinctive personalities of the people on your gift list with our recommended book picks from now until November 26th.

Bonus: take 15% off our #unwrapindie book ... Read more

For our final week of our July book club, we've rounded up four follow-up reads to Eric Dupont's  Life in the Court of Matane (Baraka Books/QC Fiction) that'll ease you into a life post-Matane. 

For week three of ALU Summer Book Club, we share some words from Eric Dupont about Quebec literature, along with excerpts from Life in the Court of Matane and a foreword by Heather O'Neill.

Last week  we introduced you to our July book club pick, Eric Dupont's  Life in the Court of Matane (Baraka Books/QC Fiction) and shared a short interview with translator Peter McCambirgde for a behind-the-scenes look at how the book came together. This week, we hopped ... Read more

ALU Summer Book Club is on! We virtually chatted with Peter McCambridge, translator and fiction editor at QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books, about bringing to Eric Dupont's novel Life in the Court of Matane to English readers. Read on for a preview from the book and our ... Read more

Book clubbing season is once again in full swing at ALU HQ. This sixth annual book club brings you a wildly imaginative, coming-of-age novel-as-memoir from Quebec author Eric Dupont, and a powerful, striking debut novel from Rahela Nayebzadah we're sure to have lots of discussion ... Read more

With the inability to travel right now, many of us are looking for ways to escape our current reality. I can promise you this: these five books will take you further than your daily walk ever could—to surreal places ruled by the imagination, where, for better or worse, dream ... Read more

Back at it for another year, we at All Lit Up made reading resolutions to challenge us throughout 2021. Scroll on for our reading resolutions and books in our TBR piles this year.

We can't lie...we like BIG BOOKS! After all, what's better than a hefty page-turner on a hot summer day turned long summer night spent reading until the wee hours of the morning? Check out some of these recommended reads that clock in around 400+ pages — all stories you'll ... Read more