Nimbus Publishing

Nimbus Publishing
Nimbus Publishing
Headquarters Halifax, NS
Website www.nimbus.ca

Nimbus Publishing is a Canadian publishing company, founded in 1978, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company specializes in subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces. Nimbus produces more than thirty new titles a year on a range of subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces— children’s picture books and fiction, literary non-fiction, social and cultural history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues.

Nimbus Publishing is the largest Canadian English-language publisher east of Toronto.[1]

In 2005, Nimbus introduced a new fiction imprint called Vagrant Press.[2]

Contents

Notable authors

  • Janet Kitz
  • Sheree Fitch
  • Michael Howell
  • Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay
  • John Boileau
  • Shauntay Grant
  • Kate Inglis
  • Jennifer McGrath Kent
  • Steve Vernon
  • Lesley Crewe

Notable titles

  • Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery, by Janet Kitz
  • The Tent Dwellers, by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books (book)
  • Kiss the Joy as it Flies, by Sheree Fitch
  • Relative Happiness, by Lesley Crewe
  • Halifax: Warden of the North, by Thomas Raddall
  • Sidney Crosby, by Paul Hollingsworth
  • The Illuminated Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lance Woolaver and Bob Brooks
  • Oak Island Gold, by William S. Crooker
  • The Sinking of the Titanic, by Logan Marshall
  • Up Home, by Shauntay Grant
  • Chocolate River Rescue, by Jennifer McGrath Kent
  • Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens, by Marie Nightengale
  • Kisses, Kisses, Baby-O!, by Sheree Fitch
  • Sleeping Dragons All Around by Sheree Fitch

References

External links

Official website


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