It might have been fun and games once to have adventures, make catapults or learn about fossils, but what about now you are starting to feel a bit fossilised yourself? You just know you are going to suffer a ghastly accident if you attempt to make a tree house.The Deranged Book for Old-timers offers advice on life’s more sedate pleasures, from the afternoon snooze to how to twitch curtains properly. With a guide to being a grumpy codger and a Zimmer frame Kama Sutra, this book is fu...

Catherine Hernandez’s debut novel Scarborough was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and the Trillium Prize, Ontario’s richest literary award. Her latest, I Promise, is a beautiful tribute to the resiliency of diverse families.Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy glory -- from dealing ...

What can abolition mean for a child? How can it help them dream a different future for their community?In Abolition is Love, Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners’ Justice Day. Amelie explores big concepts like love, justice, and care, and learns how we can build a different world together through the small choices we make every day. They learn to resolve a conf...

The award-winning cookbook from Michelin-starred chef, Marcus Wareing.Winner of the Food and Travel Awards’ Book of the YearWelcome to Marcus Wareing’s kitchen – learn to cook the Michelin-starred chef’s favourite home-cooked recipes and enjoy his most mouth-watering meals.This is the food that Marcus loves to create and share at home with his family and friends. From delicious weeknight suppers and weekend wonders, to showstopping dishes and specia...

Create something easy and delicious for all the family, any day of the week.Taking inspiration from Marcus’ incomparable cooking career, his childhood experience in his father’s fruit and vegetable distribution business, as well as his role as a father of three, Marcus Everyday goes back to his roots, and to the beginning of the journey of a great home cooked dish.The 8 chapters include relaxed Weekday Suppers, the resourceful Garden Patch, quick In the Fridge, delicious Ho...

Join Marcus Wareing on a culinary journey through France and bring French cooking to your home kitchen.In his 40 years as a chef, Marcus Wareing has immersed himself in the French cuisine, working in restaurants around the world. Now, he’s sharing everything he’s learned and discovered in Marcus’s France.Immerse yourself in the cuisine, where each recipe tells a story of a passion for cooking and heritage. From the sun-kissed fields of Provence to ...

After three decades as an activist, Syrus Marcus Ware reflects on his experiences and impact in various momentous movementsIn Lessons from the Front Lines, Syrus reflects on what he has learned in the last three decades through a series of essays across four key aspects of his experience: activism, life, art, and love. From the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement to mobilization for abolition and prisoner, disability, trans, and queer justice, t...

Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web f...

Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here.We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders, resurgent fascism and a global pandemic, do so many people believe bizarre ...

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who model different ways of inhabiting and sharing space?The volume describes city spaces as sites where bodies are exhaustively documen...

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer futureIn the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet during a health episode attended by Toronto Police Services in the turbulent summer of 2020, communities rose up in rage, grief, and resistance. Alongside mass protests ca...

Marcus Wareing is a brilliant chef. His restaurant group Marcus Wareing Restaurants includes three critically-acclaimed restaurants – the two Michelin-starred Marcus at The Berkeley, as well as The Gilbert Scott and Tredwell’s.Marcus is also judge of MasterChef: The Professionals, combining authority with inspiration for the contestants and viewers alike. But there’s another side to Marcus – away from the professional kitchens – when he’s at home, cooking the food he loves to share...