On January 21, 2026, we hosted the Giller Book Club with Eddy Boudel Tan and Deepa Rajagopalan. Eddy is the author of THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, a finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize. Deepa was a jury member for the 2025 Prize and is the author of PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM, shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize.

About THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, published by Viking:
Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn’t discuss: the loss of his twin brother, Sam.

Over twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a crisis brings Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and clutching a pair of scissors, seemingly trapped in the memory of that tragic night. In order to move forward, the Han family must finally confront the past and untangle the mystery of what really happened to Sam.

About PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM, published by House of Anansi:
An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewellery. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. And a foster child, orphaned in an accident directly attributable to climate change, brings down her foster father, an oil lobbyist, in spectacular fashion.

With an intense awareness of privilege and the lack of it, the fourteen stunning stories in Peacocks of Instagram explore what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

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