Coach House Books

  • A House of White Rooms

    The first collection from a new voice in Toronto poetry. ‘To read Helen Tsiriotakis is to know the scalding appetites of morning without recourse to shade … Dear reader, take…

    $16.95
  • A More Tender Ocean

    Natalee Caple made quite a splash with her first two books, The Heart is its Own Reason, a short-story collection from Insomniac Press, and The Plight of Happy People in…

    $16.95
  • A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario

    A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario has been published serially since the late seventies and was collected in book form for the first time last year by ECW Press; the…

    $16.95
  • A Painted Elephant

    A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love – unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A lonely Indian elephant, newly arrived at the Calgary Zoo from…

    $16.95
  • East/West

    East/West is a guided tour of old stories and fresh perspectives on the architecture and planning of housing and urban development in central Toronto – including both success stories and…

    $18.95
  • Eunoia: The CD

    Now you can invite that jazzman into the comfort of your own home! Reading Eunoia to yourself was fun, sure, but now you can hear it as it was meant…

    $16.95
  • Everybody Loves Nothing

    Artist and writer Steve Reinke is best know for his video work, an acerbic oeuvre that spans over a decade and includes his most famous piece, The Hundred Videos, literally…

    $17.95
  • Excessive Love Prostheses

    The heart, writes Margaret Christakos, is ‘a public organ of private damage.’ The poems in Excessive Love Prostheses confess, rather than deride, the complexities of contemporary desire, describing a subject…

    $16.95
  • From the Atelier Tovar

    Guy Maddin is one of Canada’s most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary,…

    $19.95
  • Gifts

    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices…

    $17.95
  • Goodness

    This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a…

    $13.95
  • How the Blessed Live

    Minor earthquakes every day; that’s what they say. Lucy feels the tremors like a needle sensitized to respond to the slightest movement. She feels the push, the blind thrust of…

    $18.95