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Cherry Beach: 2026 Toronto Book Awards Prize Ceremony

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Join us in Toronto for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards Prize Ceremony! Cherry Beach by Don Gillmor is a shortlisted title, and the award winner will be announced at the ceremony that night. Author and comedian, Ali Hassan will be joined by this year’s finalists, and other notable Torontonians to celebrate the City and its literary accomplishments.

The event will take place at the Appel Salon inside the Toronto Reference Library on Tuesday, November 10 at 7PM.

Free registration and more details here.

Get Cherry Beach here!

ABOUT CHERRY BEACH

“This is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston as a character in the action and it’s great.”—Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

Shortlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards

A brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals, a corrupt police force, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest.

When two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated, and Davis is the department’s only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement.

Intricately plotted and brilliantly layered, Cherry Beach is a gripping literary crime novel that examines class, race, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world.

ABOUT DON GILLMOR

Don Gillmor is the author of To the River, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels, Cherry Beach, Breaking and Entering, Long Change, Mount Pleasant, and Kanata; a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History; and nine books for children, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Saturday Night, Toronto Life, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.

Best Canadian Essays 2027: Toronto Launch!

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Toronto friends: Join us for the launch of Best Canadian Essays 2027! Guest editor Deborah Dundas will be joined by several contributors for a night of reading and discussion Books will be available for sale and signing from Another Story.

The launch will take place at Another Story on Thursday, November 19 at 7PM.

Grab Best Canadian Essays 2027 here!

Check out all three of this year’s anthologies here.

ABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2027

Selected and introduced by Deborah Dundas, Best Canadian Essays 2027 provides a unique perspective on what constitutes the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in the previous year. Featuring insights on the impact and aftermath of COVID, battling wildfires and understanding Indigenous fire stewardship, a life before and after trauma, condo-buying, dead mall tours, difficult family histories, and more, these fifteen essays negotiate the zone between then and now, and take readers straight to the heart of the matter.

Featuring:

Darcy Ballantyne • Melinda Burns • Claire Cameron • Kathy Chow • Dane de Souza • Hilary Fair • Lana Hall • Tanis MacDonald • Stephen Marche • Soraya Roberts • Lisa Robertson • Julie Salverson • Cora Siré • Moez Surani • Erika Thorkelson

ABOUT DEBORAH DUNDAS

Deborah Dundas is a writer and journalist, has worked as a television producer and is currently an editor at the Toronto Star. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in Canada, the UK and Ireland including Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Canadian Notes and Queries, The Belfast Telegraph and The Sunday Independent. She attended York University for English and Political Science and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College.