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Nimbus Publishing is a Canadian
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 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.

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

Notable authors

  • Janet Kitz
  • Sheree Fitch
    Sheree Fitch
    Sheree Fitch is a Canadian children's author. Though she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, she spent many of her adult years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She earned a B.A. from Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick and an M.A. from Acadia University,...

  • 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
    Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
    Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery is a 1989 Canadian non-fiction book by Janet Kitz describing the experience of the Halifax Explosion with an emphasis on the experience of ordinary people and families who became victims or survivors of the 1917 munitions explosion in...

    , by Janet Kitz
  • The Tent Dwellers
    The Tent Dwellers
    The Tent Dwellers is a book by Albert Bigelow Paine, chronicling his travels through inland Nova Scotia on a trout fishing trip with Dr. Edward "Eddie" Breck, and with guides Charles "the Strong" and Del "the Stout", one June in the early 1900s...

    , by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books (book)
    Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books (book)
    Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books is a non-fiction book by Trevor J. Adams and Stephen Patrick Clare, published by Nimbus Publishing. The first book of its type, it ranks and reviews the top 100 books written by Atlantic Canadian writers, published in the region, or focusing on the region...

  • 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
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