Flying Books

Toronto

Flying Books is a bookstore, book publisher, and writing school. Find us at 784 College St., near Shaw, in Toronto. Rotating selections include fiction, memoirs, graphic novels, science, history, poetry, and children’s books – always choosily chosen.

Why the name? To read is to take flight. Great writing transports you to other places, takes risks, breaks down barriers, and enlivens your world. That’s Amelia Earhart in the logo, drawn by artist and writer Leanne Shapton. When Earhart witnessed the air show at the 1917 Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, she was inspired by the possibilities of aviation, a “marvel of modern invention,” as she called it. Flying Books takes her as its inspiration, opening on the first day of the 2015 CNE, and launching marvels of written invention one flight at a time.