
Between the Lines
Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. We publish nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society. We aim to amplify the struggles of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities; migrants; women; queer folks; and working-class people. BTL is proudly left-wing and the books we publish reflect our activist roots and our commitment to social justice struggles. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists—all our authors hope their books will spark political and social change.
BTL has no boss, no individual owner; we are run by a small group of staff and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee. Decisions on what we publish are made by consensus. We publish books not to seek profit, but to archive and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.
Our press is situated in Tkaronto, traditional Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee territory subject to the Dish with One Spoon treaty. This land was stewarded by the Mississauga of the Credit River and is home to many Indigenous peoples, including the Métis, and those displaced from their homelands by Canadian extractive and other industries.
Amanda Crocker
permissions@btlbooks.com
(416) 535-9914
permissions@btlbooks.com
(416) 535-9914
Featured Listings
Current Listings

Civil Society in Question

Compass Points

Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet

Eating Fire

Better to Have Loved

User Error

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

Booze: A Distilled History

An Action A Day

East Timor: Testimony

An Unauthorized Biography of the World

Rebels, Reds, Radicals

The Ursula Franklin Reader

Mission of Folly

Some Like It Cold

Gold Dust On His Shirt

Reasoning Otherwise

New World Coming

Harvest Pilgrims

Losing Control

States of Race

Our Friendly Local Terrorist

Persistent Poverty

Generation NGO

Home and Native Land

Committing Theatre

Whose Streets?

“Too Asian?”

Warrior Nation

Speaking Up

Unlikely Radicals

The Great Revenue Robbery

Fear of a Black Nation

Canadian Copyright

Languages of the Unheard

Unions Matter

From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

Pain and Prejudice

Bold Scientists

A Line in the Tar Sands

Nothing to Lose but Our Fear

Disarming Conflict

Fired Up about Capitalism

Fired Up about Reproductive Rights

Radical Transformation

Capitalism: A Crime Story

Symbols of Canada

1919

The Montreal Shtetl

Beyond Guilt Trips

Feminist City

Resilience Is Futile

Enemy Alien

Won’t Get Fooled Again

The Taste of Longing

Brotherhood to Nationhood

Jeannie’s Demise

Fired Up about Consent

Bent out of Shape

The Case for Basic Income

The Fire and the Ashes

Code White

Shift Change

Testimonio

Wonder Drug

Unsettling Canada

It Should Be Easy to Fix

Disarm, Defund, Dismantle

Women Winning Office

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

The End of This World

Harvesting Freedom

Cleaning Up

Fear of a Black Nation

The Tenant Class

The Bund

Crisis and Contagion

The Mantle of Struggle
