Westwood Creative Artists ______

FRANKFURT CATALOGUE Fall 2012

INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS Laura Cook Natasha Haines (on leave)

AGENTS Carolyn Forde Jackie Kaiser Michael A. Levine Linda McKnight Hilary McMahon John Pearce Bruce Westwood

FILM & TELEVISION Michael A. Levine Dara Rowland

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FICTION

Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk CIAO BELLA (Hungary: Tericum Kiado)

Natalee Caple IN CALAMITY’S WAKE (US: Bloomsbury)

Kimberley Fu FOR TODAY I AM A BOY (Australia: Random House)

Sandra Gulland IN THE SERVICE OF THE SHADOW QUEEN (US: Doubleday / Random House)

Elizabeth Hay ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM (Quebec: XYZ; US: MacLehose Press)

Thomas King ONE GOOD STORY, THAT ONE (US: University of Minnesota Press); A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS IN CANADA (US: University of Minnesota Press)

Robert Kroetsch THE LOVELY TREACHERY OF WORDS (Japan: Sairyusha)

Alice Kuipers FORTY THINGS I WANT TO TELL YOU (Croatia: Skorpion Publishing)

Kyo Maclear STRAY LOVE (Israel: Matar)

Yann Martel BEATRICE AND VIRGIL (Hungary: Cartaphilus); LIFE OF PI (Bulgaria: Prosoretz [lic ext]; Denmark: People’s Press [lic ext]; Finland: Tammi [lic ext]; Hungary: Europa [lic ext]; India – Tamil: Ethir Veliyedu; Indonesia: Gramedia [lic ext]; Israel: Kinneret [lic ext]; Italy: Piemme [lic ext]; Korea: Jakkajungsin [lic ext]; Quebec: XYZ [lic ext]; Russia: Exmo [lic ext]; Thailand: Earnest Publishing; Turkey: Inkilap [lic ext])

Rohinton Mistry FAMILY MATTERS (China Complex: Persimmon Cultural; Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext]); A FINE BALANCE (Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext]; Norway: Aschehoug [lic ext]; Vietnam: Tre Publishing); SUCH A LONG JOURNEY (Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext])

Riel Nason THE TOWN THAT DROWNED (Australia: Allen & Unwin)

Cathy Ostlere KARMA (Russia: Pink Giraffe)

John Ralston Saul DARK DIVERSIONS (Serbia: Arhipelag)

Manjushree Thapa SEASONS OF FLIGHT (India: Aleph); TILLED EARTH (India: Aleph)

Robert Paul Weston CREATURE DEPARTMENT (World: Razorbill / Penguin US)

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Izzeldin Abuelaish I SHALL NOT HATE (Korea: Little Mountain)

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER BRAIN (China Complex: Business Weekly Publications; Korea: Korea Price Information Corp.)

Romeo Dallaire SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (Japan: Fukosha [lic ext])

Ann Dowsett Johnston THE DRINKING DIARIES (World: HarperCollins US [Australia: HarperCollins, Canada: HarperCollins, UK: HarperCollins])

Thomas King THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN (US: University of Minnesota Press)

Dr. Marc Lewis MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN (Holland: Maven)

Marc Raboy MARCONI AND OUR TIME (World English: Oxford University Press US)

Fiona Stevenson & Lyranda Martin-Evans REASONS MOMMY DRINKS (World: Crown / Random House US)

Manjushree Thapa A BOY FROM SIKLIS (India: Aleph); LIVES WE HAVE LOST (India: Aleph)

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David Bergen

THE AGE OF HOPE ______

“Why is Bergen so magical? What has he done with my cynical reviewer’s mind? Bergen took a risk, with a book that looks and sounds like forgettable book club fare, but is anything but. The risk paid off.” – Zoe Whittall, The National Post

From Dublin IMPAC Award shortlisted novelist David Bergen comes a tale of remarkable love and heartbreak – the story of a generation caught between tradition and liberation.

In 1951, at the age of twenty-one, Hope Koop leaves behind the hardships of her childhood and sets aside her ambitions of becoming a nurse in order to marry Roy, the Mennonite son of a car dealer. On her wedding night she rises from bed and walks around their little house, touching her Kenmore stove, the Mixmaster, the oak dining room set, and marveling at her good fortune.

Hope gives birth to three children in quick succession, and then to a fourth. Soon after her youngest arrives, Hope finds that she can no longer recall the number or names of her children, and she drives out to the edge of town, abandons her baby and her Chevy Impala at the side of the road, and walks out into a field to die. She is rescued by a farmer and treated with electroshock therapy, and recalls her mother’s words during her convalescence: “Just imagine you’ve arrived at the end of the road and there isn’t anywhere else to go. Then you make do with what you have.” After three months in the hospital, she returns home to Roy and the children, and carries on. But her home and children have been changed forever by her absence, as has she.

As Hope’s consciousness is raised by the turbulent sixties, and by her friend Emily who left her husband for a bohemian life in the city, she strives to find a solid place in the ever-changing family she has nurtured. How valuable is she to them, and indeed to the world? Witnessing the rise and fall of her husband’s fortunes, and watching her children grow up and accumulate disappointments and hardships of their own, she fears both that she has loved her family too deeply, and that she has not loved them deeply enough.

Told with great compassion, The Age of Hope is a beautifully nuanced portrait of an ordinary woman who, over fifty years, passes through periods of innocence, despair, profit, longing, and hope, striving all the while to understand – and to continually redefine – her worth to herself, her family, and to the world.

DAVID BERGEN was shortlisted for the 2012 Dublin IMPAC Award and the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Matter with Morris. He is also the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel The Time In Between, and other award-winning works of fiction.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Phyllis Bruce Books / HarperCollins STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.davidbergen.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk

THE WOLVES OF ST. PETER’S ______

An exciting, highly atmospheric historical novel that’s also a murder mystery. Set in Itlay during the Renaissance, this is perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant, Sarah Waters – and Donna Leon too.

Rome, November 1508. But not the Rome of historical romances, Renaissance fairs, or Da Vinci Code-style conspiracy theories. This is Rome as it really was then: a violent, corrupt, medieval town of disease-ridden slums, where in the absence of accountable law enforcement, citizens form their own complex – but not always trustworthy – networks of protection and support.

Michaelangelo’s houseboy, Francesco degli Angeli, is a young man who recently lost his employment as lawyer for Florentine landowner Guido del Mare when he fell in love with Guido’s wife. Now Guido is out for revenge, and Francesco’s family has sent him away to work for Michelangelo. The taciturn artist, who trusts no one in Rome, not even the Pope, is making slow progress on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Meanwhile his rival, the charming Raphael, is competitively at work in the Vatican Apartments.

Francesco spends his nights with Susanna, the maid next door, and his evenings with Raphael and his circle at the Vatican-sanctioned brothel of the courtesan Imperia. But Francesco’s comfortable exile ends the day he watches the body of one of Imperia’s prostitutes being dragged from the swollen Tiber. She is Calendula, a prostitute whom Francesco has found disquieting because her golden hair gave her an uncomfortable resemblance to Guido’s wife Juliet.

Francesco becomes obsessed with hunting down Calendula’s killer, and quickly discovers that there can be dozens of motives for wanting one prostitute dead. As heavy rains threaten and starving wolves come to the city in search of food, Guido also appears. There are murders, plots and counter-plots – and finally a personal tragedy for Francesco, after which he is forced to leave Rome. As he bids Michelangelo farewell, it appears that the Pope will get his ceiling painted after all. (November 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the completion of the Sistine Chapel.)

GINA BUONAGURO was born in New Jersey and now lives in Toronto. JANICE KIRK was born and lives in Kingston, Ontario. After meeting in a French class in Kingston, they became writing partners and eventually co-authors of The Sidewalk Artist and Ciao Bella (both published by St. Martin’s in North America). The Sidewalk Artist, which James McKenn, author of Quattrocento called “an enchanting story of life and art, bringing to life the passion that inspires both,” has been published in Germany and Ciao Bella in Norway. The Wolves of St. Peter’s is envisaged as the first of a trilogy with Francesco Angeli as the central character.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins (publication 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHORS’ WEBSITE: www.sidewalkartist.blogspot.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: John Pearce

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Natalee Caple

IN CALAMITY’S WAKE ______

“Breathlessly good.” – Washington Post on Mackerel Sky

“Caple is no ordinary writer. She is captivating and skilled and in possession of a startling sensibility… original and memorable… following in the footsteps of the patient wisdom and sure-footedness of Czech writer Milan Kundera.” – Vancouver Sun on The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World

Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her; a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter – a woman named Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette’s beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: “You have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you’ve heard sickening things and those things are all true but I’m sure she wants to know you.”

Set in the Badlands of the North American west in the late 1800s, In Calamity’s Wake tells the story of Miette’s quest, across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father’s, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother’s best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many other characters who hold small parts of Miette’s identity in the stories they tell about Calamity Jane.

Interspersed with Miette’s story are the stories of Jane as told in legend, history books, dime store novels, and by the woman herself. When Miette and her mother finally meet the two tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.

In Calamity’s Wake is a contemporary retelling of the lives of women who were as brave, as daring, and as important to their communities as any outlaw or hero. In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje’s Collected Works of Billy the Kid or HBO’s Deadwood, In Calamity’s Wake blends fiction with real conversations and events to transport us, through a vivid crafting of atmosphere and seductive storytelling, to a side of the wild west we’ve never seen before.

NATALEE CAPLE’s previous novels are Mackerel Sky and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World. Her story collection The Heart is Its Own Reason was pronounced “arresting” by The New York Times. Natalee’s work has been nominated for the Journey Prize, the Bronwen Wallace Award, the Eden Mills Fiction Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She recently earned a PhD in English and won the Joyland short fiction contest.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins (publication Spring 2013) US: Bloomsbury STATUS: Manuscript available FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Hilary McMahon

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Tricia Dower

STONY RIVER ______

“Stony River is a powerful coming-of-age novel, which meticulously evokes time and place, and tackles moral dilemmas, religious dogma, spirituality, sexuality, depression, incest and abuse. It’s rare to find such a polished debut and Dower is a masterful storyteller to watch.” – The Globe and Mail

“Exquisitely written, honest, and entertaining, everything in this disquieting story works toward a successful narrative... intensely satisfying.” – Book Club Buddy

Mouthy Tereza Dobra and self-righteous Linda Wise are unlikely new friends, but on a sweltering New Jersey day in 1955, they are forever bound. While smoking cattails together down at the Stony River, a police car pulls up to a nearby house known only as “Crazy Haggerty’s.” The two girls scurry to hide themselves so they can watch what happens next. Inside the decrepit house, fifteen-year-old Miranda Haggerty opens the door to the first outsiders she has spoken to in twelve years. The police officers tell her that her father has died. Awash in fear, Tereza and Linda watch her take her first wobbling steps into a new world.

Life will never be the same for the three young women. Miranda is soon housed at a Catholic convent, and keeps her father alive in her mind while grappling with the “gift” of seeing things others don’t. Tereza escapes from her stepfather’s belt into fantasies of becoming an actress, until murder, assault, and a missing girl force her to face reality. And an encounter with a dangerous stranger sends Linda careening off course. As their lives grow more complex, and the three young women each venture past loneliness, fear, and danger into a sense of their own worth, their lives continue to intersect.

At once comic and tragic, spiritual and profane, Stony River challenges assumptions about right and wrong, about sanity and madness, about love and abuse.

TRICIA DOWER was a senior executive in the financial services world before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her fiction has appeared in Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Hemispheres, The Malahat Review, Cicada, NEO, Insolent Rudder, and Big Muddy. Her first book, Silent Girl, a collection of contemporary stories inspired by characters from Shakespeare, was published in 2008 by Inanna, and in 2010 she won the The Malahat Review’s first prize in their Open Season fiction contest. Dower is a dual US and Canadian citizen and currently lives in British Columbia.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Penguin STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.triciadower.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: John Pearce

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Kimberley Fu

FOR TODAY I AM A BOY ______

“The world doesn’t need many new novels, but the world needs this one.” – Keith Maillard

In the tradition of Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Kathleen Winter’s Annabel, a formidable debut novel about gender by a twenty-five-year-old writer, sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in a two-book deal.

Peter Huang is given the Chinese name juan chaun, or powerful king, at birth. He is the exalted only son in the middle of three daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his father’s dreams of western masculinity and lineage. But Peter has different dreams: he knows that he is a girl.

Peter narrates as he and his sisters – elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant – grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of their small town and make their way to Los Angeles, Montreal, and Berlin. Peter’s own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his father.

In powerful, unsentimental prose, For Today I Am a Boy recounts a unique struggle at the intersection of culture and gender: the story of a young woman in the body of a second generation Chinese immigrant man.

This is a novel about gender, and the lengths Asian-American children go to please their parents. It is also about the seldom acknowledged desire to be white, and about finding your place not only in the world, but – more elusive still – within your family.

KIMBERLEY FU, twenty-five, holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. A former national champion of the French martial art of savate, she lives in Seattle.

RIGHTS SOLD Australia: Random House Canada: HarperCollins (publication Fall 2013) US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2 books) STATUS: Manuscript available December 2012 AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.kimfu.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Gail Gallant

APPARITION ______

YOUNG ADULT

A haunting romantic thriller introducing a reluctant teenage clairvoyant with lots of attitude and an unusual problem: she is torn between her devotion to her dead boyfriend and her flesh- and-blood affection for the new guy in town.

The last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, dead of an apparent suicide, Amelia’s whole world comes crashing down.

And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret that even Matthew didn’t know: sometimes, she sees ghosts.

When a local history columnist named Morris Dyson contacts Amelia after the funeral and tells her that he thinks the barn Matthew died in is haunted, and that Matthew wasn’t its first victim, an unlikely partnership is born. With Amelia’s gift for seeing ghosts, Morris’s radical theories on the supernatural, and a bit of help from Morris’s sexy but skeptical son, Kip, a mystery unfolds. One by one, the barn’s other ghostly residents are revealed: all innocent, love-struck young men who’ve died horrific deaths, seemingly by their own hands.

Life and death couldn’t get more complicated as Amelia is torn between her devotion to the ghostly Matthew and her growing flesh-and-blood attraction to Kip, who may not believe in ghosts but can’t help believing in Amelia. When she’s confronted with a rivalry between the living and the dead, which side of the great divide will Amelia choose?

Apparition is a fast-paced supernatural mystery about memory and obsession, bodies and spirits, love and loss.

GAIL GALLANT is a television writer and story-editor who has worked for the CBC, Discovery Channel and History Television. Apparition, her first novel, draws on her lifelong interest in the supernatural; her passion for strong heroines, from Jane Austen to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and her firsthand experience of teenage alienation. She divides her time between an old (and likely haunted) farmhouse in Grey County, the setting for this novel, and London, England.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Doubleday (2 books; publication Fall 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available October 2012 FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Bill Gaston

THE WORLD ______

“Canada has produced few writers as astonishingly original as Bill Gaston.” – The Globe and Mail

“Gaston is a writer of great empathy… His language is pure, his concerns humane.” – 2002 Giller Prize Jury on Mount Appetite

Stuart, a recently divorced early retiree, embarks on a tragic-comic road trip following the accidental burning down of his just-paid-for house, which may or may not have been insured. He’s broke, and heads east for two unformed reasons: one, to visit an old friend and lover, Melody, or Mel, who’s sick; and two, to try to track down someone in the insurance bureaucracy, an actual human he can talk to about his claim.

Mel, a colourful bohemian character who has done, eaten or drunk everything at least once, has decided not to do a third round of painful chemo to treat her throat cancer. Stuart interrupts her careful plans for her suicide by showing up at her door unannounced and homeless. Mel finds this surprise both a heartbreaking reminder of her life of indulgences, and a fortuitous opportunity to take care of one nagging loose end. Mel’s Alzheimer’s-stricken father, who left his family to study Buddhism in Tibet, has returned to Toronto to end his days in a care facility. He no longer always recognizes her, and Mel has a nagging guilt about planning her death and leaving him alone – until Stuart, who has nothing but time on his hands, arrives.

“The World” is the novel Mel’s father wrote in his youth, possibly biographical, which tells of a historian who unearths a cache of letters, written in Chinese, in an abandoned leper colony off the coast of Victoria. Stuart and Mel read “The World” to the patients at the care facility, including Mel’s father, whose drifting lucidity makes it difficult to know how much he remembers or understands, about the past or the present.

A novel about having and not needing, needing and not having, wanting to stay but having to go, and wanting to go but having to stay, and figuring out what’s left when the things we once took for granted are taken away – The World transforms the cruelty of life into something not only beautiful but heartwarming.

BILL GASTON is a Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. Previously, he served as director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of New Brunswick and as editor of The Fiddlehead. Mount Appetite, a short story collection, was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Sointula, a novel, was nominated for the 2004 Ethel Wilson Prize. Bill was the recipient of the inaugural Timothy Findley Award in 2003.

RIGHTS SOLD World: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Canada STATUS: Books available FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Carolyn Forde

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Don Gillmor

MOUNT PLEASANT ______

“Gillmor’s elegant prose and ability to wring universal truths out of everyday circumstances is what makes his story accessible.” – The Globe and Mail on The Desire of Every Living Thing

“A veteran craftsman whose unsentimental prose aches with poignancy… [Gillmor] excels at enigmatic characters who nonetheless engage a deep emotional level.” – The Toronto Star on The Desire of Every Living Thing

A darkly funny novel about a troubled marriage in our monetarily troubled times, where money is its own outrageous character and the central scam is ripped from the headlines.

Debt has become the most significant relationship in Harry Salter’s life. Born to wealthy parents, he grew up in a leafy and privileged world that was defined by its WASP elite. But nothing in life has turned out the way Harry was led to expect. Now, his place in society uncertain, Harry is faced with a crumbling marriage, a sullen son, and a dying father.

As he sits at his father’s bedside, Harry’s thoughts inevitably turn to his inheritance. A couple of his father’s millions would surely rescue him from his ballooning debt. It might even save his marriage and improve his relationship with his son. But when the will is read, all that’s left for Harry is the paltry sum of $4,200. Dale Salter’s money is gone.

Out of desperation and disbelief, Harry enlists the help of a forensic accountant. As they follow a trail strewn with family secrets and unsavory suspicions, Harry discovers not only that Old Money has lost its grip and New Money taken on an ugly hue, but that his whole existence has been cast into shadow by the weight of his own great expectations.

A portrait of our debt generation that will appeal to fans of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, John Lanchester’s Capital and Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King, Mount Pleasant captures the financial delusions of the middle class with wit, elegance and raw honesty.

DON GILLMOR, an award-winning author and journalist, lives in Toronto.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Random House (publication March 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Chris Gudgeon

SONG OF KOSOVO ______

“Gudgeon’s writing tone is the gritty, documentary, urban style of Raymond Carver, the best of his stories contain strikingly odd elements that seem like projections of the dark and nervous energy at the heart of human relationships… a major new talent in Canadian fiction.” – Books in Canada

Song of Kosovo is a masterful and utterly original novel – as witty as it is profound. It is both the story of a young man coming of age during the Balkan wars of the late 1990s and a meditation on religion, faith, and history. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the story mixes history and mythology with pure fiction as Gudgeon weaves a wondrous adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive.

The story revolves around Zavida Zanković, a young Serbian man trying to understand the world that is, literally, coming apart before his very eyes, and his relationship with his strange, manic, and larger-than-life father. Awaiting trial for a dizzying array of charges – Fomenting Treason, Impersonating a Prisoner of War, Providing Material Support for a Terrorist Organization, Consorting with History – Zavida tells his story to the beautiful, detached court-appointed lawyer, Nexhmije Gjinushi. He offers a full accounting of his journey, from his part in the Crnilo Mining Disaster to his love affair with a young woman he calls the Red-Haired Angel of the Salivating Dogs. Finally he acknowledges his exact whereabouts and particulars in the hours before, during, and after the infamous Flori Massacre.

It’s an epic journey that takes Zavida through some of the darkest moments in recent history, and lands him on the cusp of a new world of hope and inspiration. At its heart, it’s a compelling story about survival, a search for faith, and the power of love.

CHRIS GUDGEON is a best-selling author, screenwriter and producer. He’s written seventeen books, ranging from critically acclaimed fiction like Greetings from the Vodka Sea to a celebrated biography of Stan Rogers and a range of popular history including The Naked Truth: The Untold History of Sex and Sexuality in Canada. He has numerous film and TV credits, including creating/writing and producing both GeoFreakz and the Gemini-award winning Ghost Trackers and has a strong background in interactive media. He lives in Victoria, BC, with his three favourite tax deductions, Charlie, Tavish, and Keating.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Goose Lane Editions STATUS: Books available FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: John Pearce

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Sandra Gulland

IN THE SERVICE OF THE SHADOW QUEEN ______

“Teeming with the rich period details that make historical fiction so rewarding, Gulland’s dynamic and nuanced portrait of Louis’ notorious reign thrums with page-turning expediency… deliciously seductive.” – Booklist on Mistress of the Sun

The author of the beloved Josephine trilogy returns with an irresistible tale inspired by the life of a maid in the court of the Sun King whose duties include a lot more than making up the bed.

This is the story of Claudette des Oellets, the impoverished and socially scorned daughter of itinerant actors who nevertheless rises to become the confidential attendant to the most powerful woman in the 17th century court: Madame de Montespan, mistress of the charismatic king, also known as the Shadow Queen.

Claudette’s life is like an ever-revolving stage set: in the First Act, she’s the starving child of a family of caravan players, devoted to tending her beloved “half-wit” baby brother; in the Second, she’s with the greats of French theatre – Pierre Corneille, Molière, Racine – witnessing her mother’s amazing rise to stardom in the fantastical (but cut-throat) world of the 17th century stage; in the Third, she’s front and center in the dazzling world of the charismatic Sun King.

Insinuating herself throughout the worlds of the theatre and Court is the witch Catherine Voisin, sometimes benevolent, but ultimately ruthless, a woman willing to sacrifice innocent lives to satisfy the corrupt desires of her wealthy clients. A woman who ultimately pays for her sins on the pyre – but not without exposing the rot at the heart of these glittering worlds.

Claudette rises from poverty to a position of power because she is loyal and can be trusted, a vow she made as a teen to her father. But Claudette’s so-called “respectable” position requires her to obtain love potions and other magical charms, as well as to occasionally satisfy the King’s sexual needs (thereby bearing him a daughter). As the mercurial Shadow Queen becomes ever more desperate to hold onto the King’s sexual favour, innocent love charms move into the realm of deadly Black Magic, and Claudette must choose between betraying a trust and doing the right thing – an act which will put her own life at risk, as well as the lives of those she loves dearest.

SANDRA GULLAND’s bestselling Josephine B. trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide, been published in seventeen languages, and been optioned for a television miniseries written by Michael Hirst (The Tudors, Elizabeth). Her most recent novel, Mistress of the Sun, has so far been published in nine languages.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins (publication Spring 2014) US: Doubleday / Random House STATUS: Manuscript available October 2012 AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.sandragulland.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Ian Hamilton

THE RED POLE OF MACAU AN AVA LEE NOVEL ______

“What I love in the novels: The constant travel, the high-stakes negotiation, and Ava’s willingness to go into battle against formidable opponents, using only her martial arts skills to defend herself… If you want a great read and an education in high-level business dealings, Ian Hamilton is an author to watch.” – The Toronto Star

“With just two books under his belt, Ian Hamilton is now the author of one of my favourite new mystery series.” – Sarah Weinman of Publishers Marketplace in The National Post

“Fast-paced and very entertaining.” – Montreal Gazette

The fourth novel in a new series launching a fascinating and intelligent writer and a captivating, believable, and thoroughly addictive protagonist, Ava Lee.

The most searing and dramatic Ava Lee novel to date, The Red Pole of Macau takes the reader on a pulse-pounding journey through Hong Kong’s underworld. Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull out of a multi-million dollar real estate deal in the territory of Macau. The developers are threatening to halt construction unless Michael and his business partner put up another $80 million; the bank is looking for repayment on their loan; and her father is prepared to sell everything to protect his first-born son. When Uncle is unable to help, Ava is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong. As Ava untangles the twisted money trail, she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into Hong Kong’s dark and deadly world of organized crime.

Will Ava protect her family’s future? Or will this job lead to a violent end?

IAN HAMILTON has written for Maclean’s magazine, Boston magazine, Saturday Night, The Regina Leader Post, and the Calgary Herald. He has worked running Consumer and Corporate Affairs in Ontario, as Director General of Fisheries and Oceans, and as Canadian Consul and Trade Commissioner in New England. Subsequently, he started his own seafood business and has worked in more than sixty countries as a consultant.

RIGHTS SOLD World: House of Anansi Press (Brazil: Editora Sariva [Books 1-4], France: 10/18 [Books 1-4], Germany: Kein & Aber [Books 1-4], Holland: Mouria [Books 1-4], Spain: Umbriel [Books 1-2], UK: Sphere / Little Brown [Books 1-2], US: Picador / Macmillan [Books 1-4]) STATUS: Books 1-4 available, Book 5 manuscript available, Book 6 manuscript available, Book 7 manuscript available Spring 2013 FILM & TV RIGHTS: Union Pictures / Strada Films

AGENTS: Bruce Westwood & Carolyn Forde

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Robert Hough

DR. BRINKLEY’S TOWER ______

Longlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize

“A master storyteller...” – Steven Hayward, The Globe and Mail

“Stunning... a tapestry-rich, almost magical narrative with dozens of fully realized characters and a vividly detailed world... [Dr. Brinkley’s Tower] is a thing of wonder.” – Robert J. Wiersema, Edmonton Journal

Vivid, lusty, and wildly imaginative, Dr. Brinkley’s Tower takes us to 1931 Mexico and Corazon de la Fuente, a war-ravaged border town where the only enterprise is a brothel in which every girl is named Maria. Enter Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, inventor of the miraculous “goat gland operation” said to cure male impotence. When Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan radio tower there so he can broadcast his services, the town’s fortunes change overnight. As word of the new prosperity spreads, Corazon is overrun with desperadoes and mercenaries itching to reopen old wounds. The tower’s frequencies are so powerful the town glows green, and the signal is soon broadcasting through every bit of metal it can find: fencing wire, toasters, even an unlucky young woman’s new braces. Worst of all, Dr. Brinkley has won the affections of the town’s most beautiful citizen, Violeta Cruz. With the help of a motley band of allies that include an octogenarian Casanova, the village witch and a brooding Spanish nobleman, Violeta’s spurned fiancé decides to fight back.

Dr. Brinkley’s Tower paints post-revolutionary Mexico in all its vibrant colour and inextinguishable passion. Yet Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is also a wry critique of imperialism, warmongering, and age-old human greed. Like a contemporary Mark Twain or Miguel Cervantes, Robert Hough holds a mirror up to our times – and our souls.

ROBERT HOUGH has been praised by PW for his “exceptional narrative intuition” and published to rave reviews in 15 territories. His debut novel, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and praised by Kirkus as “just about perfect,” by The Globe and Mail as “crackerjack entertainment,” and by The Bookseller as “a book to be pressed into the hands of customers.” His second novel, The Stowaway, was a Boston Globe top-ten fiction title of 2004. His third novel, The Culprits, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Prize, the Commonwealth Award, and the Rogers/Writers Trust Fiction Prize, and praised by The Globe and Mail as “exuberant… a bravura performance, one part literary ventriloquism and one part ripping narrative.” He lives in Toronto.

RIGHTS SOLD World: House of Anansi Press (US: Steerforth Press) STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.roberthough.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Susan Juby

BRIGHT’S LIGHT ______

YOUNG ADULT

“Delightful noir motifs distinguish the tale… As always, Juby endows her endearing characters with quirky, comedic voices and original backgrounds.” – Kirkus (starred) on Getting the Girl

“In her sparklingly witty and charming first novel for adults, [Juby] delightfully combines satire and a distinctly modern voice with old-fashioned sweetness, and her laugh-out loud writing is tempered by the characters’ emotional pain and efforts to help one another heal.” – Booklist on Home to Woefield

At the House of Gear, glamorous ‘favours’ put on the ultimate party for the productives. The favours are actually clones, engineered to be supremely attractive and focused on fun and awesomeness. But how is Bright ever going to compete with her dressingmate Fon, who has top- notch surgeries, a relentlessly positive attitude, and a signature twinkle-light studded wire halo?

Bright is blissfully unaware that she has more to worry about than buying a better jet pack and finding time for her nutritional updates. For The Store – the single dwelling housing the last humans – has been infiltrated by a space man named Grassly. Painfully earnest, Grassly is on a mission to rescue the threatened humans, and he’s created a light out of bits and pieces as a tool of enlightenment. The task is proving much more difficult than he thought.

Posing as one of the personal support staff (who are responsible for making sure everyone who is important feels important), Grassly enlists Bright and Fon in his increasingly dangerous mission. For if anyone catches a whiff of curiosity, rebelliousness, or free will, the Board of Deciders may reboot the entire population – just as Bright is discovering a whole new purpose within herself.

Susan Juby brings her trademark humour to a dark dystopian world – that rare place where human extinction meets hilarity and not so smart but gorgeous party girls meet philanthropic aliens.

SUSAN JUBY is the author of the comedic adult novel Home to Woefield, which is in development for television, the memoir Nice Recovery and five young adult novels including the bestselling Alice MacLeod trilogy, which was made into a television series. Her work has won the Sheila E. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, been selected as a Children’s Book Sense 76 Pick, a Kirkus Editors’ Choice, and an ALA Best Book, and been shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (twice), the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, an Edgar Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.susanjuby.com

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David Macfarlane

WHEN BEAUTY WAS EVERYTHING ______

“One of the most readable and beautifully written books to emerge from Canada in recent years.” – Mordecai Richler on The Danger Tree

“A masterpiece. David Macfarlane is an architect of the past, building extraordinary memory mansions in which the reader feels eerily at home.” – Alberto Manguel on The Danger Tree

“The rough landscape of northern Ontario takes on universal dimensions in Summer Gone, David Macfarlane’s expertly controlled first novel… Finishing Summer Gone leaves the reader with a sense of loss – not only the loss that inheres in Bay Newling’s quiet tragedy, but the loss of the narrator’s good company upon reaching the final page.” – The New York Times Book Review on Summer Gone

It is the summer of 1968. By grim happenstance, a young man ends up in Italy – in a town near the marble quarries of Carrara. This unexpected twist of fate introduces Oliver Chipley to the most beautiful place he would ever know, to the world of sculptors and their quest for the perfect stone, and to the wild, headstrong artist, Anna Castello – the woman who, for the rest of his life, he realizes he never should have left.

More than forty years later, the sudden arrival of a young stranger causes Oliver to remember the summer and the life he once abandoned. Once again, his life is changed.

When Beauty Was Everything is a love story – love of youth, love of art, love of pleasure, and love of the famous white stone that for centuries has embodied both the skilled traditions of local artisans and the most inspired pieces of sculpture the world has known. Macfarlane’s novel is a brilliant meditation on the creative spirit, an exploration of the mysteries of the past, and a joyous and wistful celebration of that brief time in everyone’s life when beauty is everything.

DAVID MACFARLANE’s first book, The Danger Tree, won the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Non-Fiction, and his novel, Summer Gone, was nominated for the Giller Prize and won the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. He has won numerous National Magazine Awards and a National Newspaper Award.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins (publication Fall 2013) US: Crown [Amanda Urban, International Creative Management] STATUS: Manuscript available October 2012 FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Rohinton Mistry

UNTITLED ______

Westwood Creative Artists is pleased to announce that further details surrounding Rohinton Mistry’s upcoming novel will be available in the Spring of 2013.

“He remains one of our most important writers – one of our most important moral voices.” – Quill and Quire

“A work of genius… it should be read by everyone who loves books, [and] win every prize.” – Literary Review on A Fine Balance

“A masterpiece of illumination and grace.” – The Guardian on A Fine Balance

“Worthy of the 20th century masters of tragic realism, from Hardy to Balzac.” – Time on A Fine Balance

“Heartbreaking and utterly beguiling.” – The Herald on Family Matters

“A rich and lovingly crafted novel.” – The New York Times on Family Matters

ROHINTON MISTRY is the internationally acclaimed author of three novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag. A Fine Balance was the winner of the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Award, and Denmark’s ALOA Prize. It was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Femina. In 2002, A Fine Balance was selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Family Matters was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award. Born in Bombay, Rohinton Mistry came to Canada in 1975 after completing a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics at Bombay University. He has accepted honorary degrees from the University of Ottawa (Doctor of the University, 1996), the University of Toronto (Doctor of Letters, 1999), York University (Doctor of Letters, 2003), and Ryerson University (Doctor of Letters, 2012). He was awarded the Trudeau Fellows Prize in 2004, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009, he was a finalist for the 2011 Man Booker International Prize, and winner of the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In translation, his work has been published in more than thirty languages.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: McClelland & Stewart UK: Faber US: Knopf

AGENT: Bruce Westwood

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Katrina Onstad

EVERYBODY HAS EVERTHING ______

Longlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize

“I inhaled every page, feeling gut-punched by a writer willing to tackle such taboo subjects as the ambivalence of motherhood, the catalytic nature of children, and the restlessness of marriage. There are no unearned tears, when I laughed or cried it was always for the same reason: painful recognition. I loved this book.” – Lisa Gabriele, author of Tempting Faith DiNapoli and The Almost Archer Sisters

“Tenderly observed and elegantly drawn, Onstad’s characters are true to the deep worries and tangential shifts of fate which often define modern life; they remind us of that life’s ability to soothe, to hurt, and to heal.” – Vincent Lam, author of the Giller Prize-winning Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

A darkly comic novel about parental ambivalence in a baby-mad culture where everyone feels entitled to have it all.

James, a newly downsized public TV personality, and Ana, a corporate lawyer, have been unable to get pregnant despite three years of trying and $30,000 worth of in vitro fertilization. When a car accident leaves their friend Marcus dead and his wife Sarah in a coma, Ana and James become the legal guardians of their three-year-old son, Finn.

At the time of the accident, the jury was out on their future as a family. Now, Finn’s crash- landing in their lives – the ultimate test run – throws into high relief some troubling truths about their deepest selves, both individually and as a couple. After several chaotic, poignant, and life- changing weeks as a most unusual family, Ana and James must face an inconvenient realization: only one of them actually wants to be a parent, after all.

Katrina Onstad’s Everybody Has Everything combines a pitch-perfect, whip-smart dissection of contemporary urban life with a fresh, perceptive examination of the often unasked question: Is everyone cut out to have a kid?

KATRINA ONSTAD’s award-winning journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Elle, and Toronto Life. A former film critic for the National Post, she is a columnist in the Arts and Life section of The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: McClelland & Stewart France: Belfond Holland: Artemis / Ambo-Anthos World English (excl. Canada): Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group US STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.katrinaonstad.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available

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David Rotenberg

MURDER OF CROWS BOOK TWO OF THE JUNCTION CHRONICLES ______

“It’s a corker – a moody speculative thriller that should power his planned three-part trilogy into the stratosphere.” – Winnipeg Free Press on The Placebo Effect

“The Placebo Effect… is a thoughtful, challenging novel masquerading as a thriller.” – Quill and Quire

Decker Roberts is back, and he always knows when you’re telling the truth.

David Rotenberg first introduced Decker Roberts and his unique gifts in the critically acclaimed thriller The Placebo Effect. Since Decker’s last run-in with the NSA, he’s been trying to remain off the radar, searching for his estranged son. His synaesthetic abilities, once a lucrative gift, are increasingly becoming a liability.

When a vicious attack wipes out the best and brightest of America’s young minds, devastating the country’s future, Decker is forced to step out of the shadows and help track down the killer. And as the hunt brings him in contact with other people of “his kind,” Decker begins to realize that there may be depths to his gifts that he had never even imagined.

Meanwhile, several parties are secretly tracking the progress of Decker’s son, Seth, trying to determine if he has the same unique gift as his father. Decker is determined to go to any lengths to find his son, but along the way he will have to face down enemies, both old and new, as well as struggle with whether his son even wants to be found.

David Rotenberg’s thrilling sequel to The Placebo Effect is full of suspense, and will challenge what you think you know about people who have special “gifts.” From rural Africa to downtown Toronto, the paths of Rotenberg’s colourful characters intertwine as they move towards a conclusion that none of them can see coming.

DAVID ROTENBERG has been a master acting teacher for over twenty years. He has directed on Broadway, in many major regional theatres, and for television. He has taught at York University, the National Theatre School of Canada, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the University of Cape Town, and Princeton. He resides in Toronto.

RIGHTS SOLD North America: Simon & Schuster (publication February 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.davidrotenberg.com FILM RIGHTS: Don Kurt

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Elizabeth Ruth

MATADORA ______

“It’s a virtuoso performance… Ruth is an innovative storyteller, so full of vitality, so drawn to so many things simultaneously, so alive, reading her is always likely to be more of a D.H. Lawrence rollercoaster than a Virginia Woolf ferris wheel. Ruth is utterly compelling.” – The Globe and Mail on Smoke

Like many orphans, Luna Caballero is searching for love and belonging. But in 1930s Spain, a time and place where roles are clearly defined, she defies all convention to satisfy that longing in a most unusual place – the bullring.

Raised as a house servant on an Andalusian bull-breeding ranch, Luna is desperate to prove her worth. She slips out at night to meet the landowner’s sons, who see the young girl’s ambition as a route to their own freedom and fortune. When she proves her bravery and skill, Don Carlos, a man with a dark secret weighing on his heart, accepts that Luna has the instincts his sons do not, and reluctantly gives his consent for her to pursue her dream.

The trio travels from Andalusia to Mexico, building Luna’s reputation and wealth along with her strength and courage; earning her first glittering suit of lights and the name of El Corazon. But when they return to Madrid – the only place a bullfighter can graduate to the ultimate status of Matador de toros – civil war tears Luna’s country and adopted family apart, forcing her to choose between the bullring and her lover…

Matadora is a powerful, compelling exploration of love, art and politics, and an intelligent mirror for our times. It carries the reader from the dusty ring and bohemian Mexico City to the terror of a country at war. The exotic setting and bold sensuality, the ethical questions raised, and accessible but finely drawn style, should all expand Elizabeth Ruth’s existing popularity with book clubs.

ELIZABETH RUTH’s first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence, was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. Smoke, her acclaimed second novel, was chosen as a One Book One Community title, seeing 6,000 people read and discuss the book over a summer. Both books are taught in high schools and universities. Ruth teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and is a mentor in The Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Cormorant Books (publication Spring 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.elizabethruth.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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John Ralston Saul

DARK DIVERSIONS A TRAVELLER’S TALE ______

“Alternatively a cloistered academic, a corporate executive, a fellow traveller with guerrilla forces in Africa and Asia, defender of freedom-of-speech rights on the public stage, confidante of the rich and powerful, wise Canadian Everyman and outspoken Don Quixote charging at the windmills of globalism, Saul has much from which to draw the cunning little vignettes that make Dark Diversions such a readable book.” – The Toronto Star

With savage wit, John Ralston Saul creates a world where intrigue, prestige, and debauchery span continents and social milieux.

In Dark Diversions, his first novel in over fifteen years, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions, from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti. When he’s not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul’s unnamed journalist narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself into the lives of aristocrats and nouveaux-riches. With him, we enter a world of secret lovers, exiled princesses, death-by-veganism, and religious heresies. The emotional fireworks of these inhabitants of the First World are sharply juxtaposed with the political infighting of the dictators and the corruption, double-dealing, and fawning that attend them. But as he becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, his outsider status grows more ambiguous: is he a documentarian of privileged foibles and fundamental inequity – or an embodiment of the very “dark diversions” he chronicles?

JOHN RALSTON SAUL is an award-winning essayist and novelist, and has had a growing impact on political and economic thought in many countries. Declared a “prophet” by TIME magazine, he is included in the prestigious Utne Reader’s list of the world’s 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. His fourteen works, including Voltaire’s Bastards, Unconscious Civilization, and The Collapse of Globalism, have been translated into twenty-two languages in thirty countries. He has received many national and international awards for his writing, such as Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal, South Korea’s Manhae Prize, and Italy’s Premio Lettarario Internazionale. A long-time champion of freedom of expression, he was elected President of PEN International in October 2009.

RIGHTS SOLD Serbia: Arhipelag World English: Penguin Canada (Australia: Penguin, India: Penguin, UK: Viking / Penguin, US: Penguin) STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.johnralstonsaul.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Shyam Selvadurai

THE HUNGRY GHOSTS ______

“As lush and languid as its Sri Lanka setting… What captures readers is the way the story rolls in waves, mimicking how Amrith looks at himself, then looks away. The luxuriant language with details of architecture and verdant gardens doesn’t call attention to itself, but refreshes like a breeze.” – Booklist (starred) on Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

The Hungry Ghosts is a novel of memory which takes place over a single night, as Shivan, a gay man in his mid-thirties prepares to return from Canada to his dying grandmother in Sri Lanka.

They first meet when Shivan is six-years-old, after his widowed mother is forced to return to his grandmother’s home with him and his sister. Shivan’s grandmother takes them in very grudgingly. She had disapproved of her daughter’s marriage to a Tamil Christian and still has not forgiven her daughter for eloping. Shivan, being the only grandson, however, is chosen by his grandmother for greater things. She is a strict woman and, being of another time, sees discipline and punishment as a sign of love for her grandson, frequently beating him with a cane and forcing him to sit in her room and do his homework every afternoon. Yet, she loves him intensely. As Shivan becomes a teenager, his grandmother begins to groom him to take over her wealth, which derives from her various properties throughout Colombo. Shivan meets Chandralal, a local thug, who does his grandmother’s dirty work, such as evicting tenants and threatening them with violence for non-payment. Shivan is repelled by all this. At school, Shivan also becomes a victim of the school bully, Mili Jayasinghe. When he is sixteen, Shivan realizes he is gay and, after that, he dreams of escape to the West, where he believes he will free himself of his grandmother and become his true self. But happiness remains elusive and the ties to his past are too strong to break.

The Hungry Ghosts, like Selvadurai’s previous work, explores themes of migration, sexuality and family, and brings vividly to life the smell, colours, landscape, manners, and customs of his native Sri Lanka.

SHYAM SELVADURAI was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. Funny Boy, published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, won the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and, in the US, The Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and has been published in the US, the UK, India, and numerous countries in Europe. Swimming in the Monsoon Sea was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2005.

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AGENT: Bruce Westwood

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Jaspreet Singh

HELIUM ______

“Extraordinary… an elegant novel, worthy to stand among the finest of Indian writing.” – The Irish Times on Chef

Jaspreet Singh’s follow-up to Chef wrestles with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of Sikh citizens enabled by the government after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

On November 1st 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination, a nineteen- year-old student travels back from a class trip to the northern regions of India with his professor and mentor. As the group disembarks at Delhi train station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tire over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight.

Fusing documentary and fictional impulses, Helium deals with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of Sikh citizens organized, incited and enabled by the government. Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma. An homage to W. G. Sebald and to Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, this book is a haunting, beautiful, and shocking work of art.

JASPREET SINGH, a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and a former research scientist, grew up in several cities in India and now lives in Toronto. Chef, his first novel, won Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2009 Commonwealth Prize, the Quebec Hugh MacLennan Prize, the Canadian Authors’ Association Literary Award, the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, and was longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Singh is also the author of the award-winning story collection Seventeen Tomatoes. Singh’s books have been translated into French, Punjabi, Italian and Spanish.

RIGHTS SOLD World: Bloomsbury UK (publication May 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.jaspreetsinghauthor.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Scott Thornley

THE AMBITIOUS CITY ______

“Not since P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh has there been a police inspector as sophisticated as MacNeice… with Thornley’s eloquence and his character’s appeal, the two should be at the beginning of a long run.” – Jack Batten, Toronto Star

If a local biker war isn’t enough – seven shrink-wrapped corpses found buried between the barns on a nearby farm – MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from his old friend, the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini-rust belt of the city, but the whole thing may be about to come off the rails: the dredgers have turned up six more bodies at the bottom of the lake, and two of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things, discreetly and fast. The trouble is there is another “visionary” on the loose in Dundurn, a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour.

With the body count rising, the usually super-competent Detective MacNeice feels outgunned by the bikers, outmaneuvered by the serial killer, and deeply unsettled by the connections he begins to uncover between the biker wars and the US and Canadian concrete companies who’ve won the bid to help build the mayor’s dream. The only good thing about the crisis is that he’s persuaded Fiza Aziz, the young Muslim detective who’d burned out on their last case together, to come back to the force. The bad thing: she deliberately puts herself in the killer’s sights.

SCOTT THORNLEY’s debut novel, Erasing Memory, was enthusiastically published by Random House Canada in 2011 to rave reviews. President of Scott Thornley + Company, a strategic and creative firm designing, defining, building, and maintaining the brands of clients in Canada, the US and the UK, Thornley has worked for over twenty years with the pillars of cultural and science communities in the field of applied storytelling. His interests also include drawing and photography – both of which he has exhibited.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Random House STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.scottthornley.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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M.G. Vassanji

THE MAGIC OF SAIDA ______

“Vassanji captures a wide and authentic perspective that ranks with V.S. Naipaul and Graham Greene.” – The Times (UK)

“Belonging in a category with Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Vassanji’s saga is sweeping in scope… complex, compelling, revelatory, and unforgettable.” – The Globe and Mail on The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

From M.G. Vassanji, two-time winner of the Giller Prize, comes The Magic of Saida, in which Kamal Devraj, a Canadian doctor, returns to his native East Africa in search of a childhood sweetheart and lover. Son of an absconded Indian father and a Swahili African mother of recent slave ancestry, Kamal’s childhood in the ancient Indian Ocean town of Kilwa is not just one of loss and deprivation, but equally of love and discovery, of friendship and intimacy with the magical Saida, and of listening spellbound to the nightly recitations of the town’s djinn-inspired blind poet.

This world of poetry and historical mystery, of djinns, and witches, ends when Kamal is “sold” by his mother and sent away. Kamal grows up as a dark Indian academically gifted boy who goes to university and departs for Canada. Left behind to her traditional fate is Saida, whose abandonment pulls Kamal’s guilty conscience back decades later. In Kilwa, at first deliberately frustrated in his efforts, Kamal finally discovers Saida’s secret during a harrowing black night of sinister rites.

M.G. VASSANJI is the author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction. His first novel, The Gunny Sack, was winner of the Regional Commonwealth Prize. Since then he has won a Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets (1994) and a second Giller Prize for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003), and the Governor General’s Prize for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2008). His novel The Assassin’s Song (2007) was shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Prize for Fiction. He is also a recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, before going to university in the United States. He lives in Toronto and is married with two sons.

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AGENT: Bruce Westwood

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Richard Wagamese

MEDICINE WALK ______

“Indian Horse finds the granite solidity of Wagamese’s prose polished to a lustrous sheen; brisk, brief, sharp chapters propel the reader forward. He seamlessly braids together his two traditions: English literary and aboriginal oral. So audible is Saul’s voice, that I heard him stop speaking whenever I closed the book... Wagamese crafts an unforgettable work of art.” – The National Post on Indian Horse

“He is such a master of empathy – of delineating the experience of time passing, of lessons being learned, of tragedies being endured – that what Saul discovers becomes something the reader learns as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true.” – The Globe and Mail on Indian Horse

Franklin Starlight is called to visit his estranged father, Eldon. He’s sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they have shared haunt Franklin, but he answers the call, as he feels that is his duty as a son. He finds his father decimated – dying from liver failure with a prostitute in a flophouse. Eldon asks Franklin to take him to the backcountry and bury him in the traditional Ojibway manner – seated facing the east. What ensues is a journey back through time, as the two men push forward to Eldon’s end.

From a poverty-stricken childhood, to the Korean War, to the derelict houses and alleys of mill towns, Eldon relates the crushing, desolate moments of his life, and the rare moments of bliss he shared with Franklin’s luminous mother, and in doing so, offers his son both a connection to a father he never had, and a connection to himself that he never expected.

By turns graphic and gentle, Medicine Walk is a story about displaced fathers and the sons who ache for them. It’s a story about love, friendship, courage and the idea that the land has within it powers of healing and communion, if we only take the time to feel them.

RICHARD WAGAMESE is Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwest Ontario. A member of the Sturgeon Clan, he is one of Canada’s foremost Native authors and journalists. He is the author of five novels, one collection of poetry and three memoirs. His most recent novel, Indian Horse, was published in March 2012 to brilliant reviews (it was called “an unforgettable work of art” in The National Post), and is already on its fourth printing. He lives outside Kamloops BC.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: McClelland & Stewart (publication Fall 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.richardwagamese.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Robert Paul Weston

PRINCE PUGGLY OF SPUD AND THE KINGDOM OF SPIFF ______

JUVENILE/MIDDLE GRADE

“A natural descendant of the works of Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl while hewing close to the droll atmospherics of Edward Gorey and Lemony Snicket.” – Booklist (starred; top ten debut of 2008) on Zorgamazoo

“One of the most exciting children’s books to hit the shelves in a long time… Robert Paul Weston’s poetic dexterity is unparalleled.” – Canadian Children’s Book News on Zorgamazoo

From the multiple-award-winning author of Zorgamazoo comes another enchanting comic novel told entirely in rhyming verse, with illustrations by Victor Rivas.

Puggly, the newly crowned prince of the muddy (and very unfashionable) Kingdom of Spud, is surprised when he receives an invitation to a lavish ball in the oh-so-chic Kingdom of Spiff. The Spiffians are known for the poshest clothes and the fluffiest wigs, so of course Prince Puggly’s effort at a grand entrance only ends in humiliation. However, Puggly discovers an unlikely ally in Francesca, the bookish Princess of Spiff. Not only do her Spiffian countrymen have no appreciation for her interest in Proust and Dickens, but they also can’t tell a decent pair of pajamas when they see them! But don’t worry: Francesca and Puggly have one very good trick up their unfashionable sleeves, as they set out to teach the Spiffs an absurd lesson in style.

ROBERT PAUL WESTON’s first novel, Zorgamazoo, has been optioned for film by the producer of Shrek (www.vanguardfilms.com). It is the winner of the 2011 California Young Reader Medal, the 2010 Silver Birch Award, the 2009 Children’s Choice Award, and a 2009 E.B. White Honour. It was also a Booklist top ten debut of 2008 and a 2009 Children’s Literature Assembly Notable Book. Weston’s second novel, Dust City, was shortlisted for the 2011 Edgar Alan Poe Mystery Award (Young Adult Category), the 2011 Sunburst Award, and the 2012 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award, and is a Canadian Library Association 2011 Honour Book. Born in the UK and raised in Canada, Weston lives with his wife in London, England.

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Sally Armstrong

THE ASCENT OF WOMEN ______

“This powerful book reminds us that ordinary people, given the chance, can understand complex international situations allegedly reserved for experts – and perhaps influence them if we choose.” – Winnipeg Free Press on Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan

An historic court case is currently underway in Kenya, where 160 girls between the ages of 3 and 17 are suing the government for failing to protect them from being raped. By all accounts they are going to win.

Award-winning humanitarian and journalist Sally Armstrong takes us to the frontlines of a new revolution, whose manifesto is being written in mud-brick houses in Afghanistan and in Tahrir Square in Cairo, from a shelter in Kenya to the forests of the Congo. Women the world over are marching, organizing, and breaking the shackles that chain them to second class citizenship and make them victims of religiously and culturally sanctified acts of violence.

They have powerful supporters who say the world can no longer afford to keep half of its population oppressed. Recent comments by economist Jeffrey Sachs, social scientist Isobel Coleman and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claim that women are the key to an improved economy, better health and an end to violence.

The Ascent of Women will describe the perilous journey that brought women to the final frontier: having control over their own bodies, whether in zones of conflict or their own homes. It will tell the dramatic and empowering stories of change-makers and examine the stunning courage, tenacity and wit they are using to alter the status quo. Those who stand to lose the most from this revolution are pushing back, but through Armstrong’s informed perspective and eye witness reporting, it’s clear that the state of the world’s women will never be the same.

SALLY ARMSTRONG is an Amnesty International award winner, a member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of seven honorary degrees, journalist, human rights activist, and contributor to CBC radio’s “Ideas” and Maclean’s magazine. She is a member of the International Women’s Commission, a UN body that consists of 20 Palestinian women, 20 Israeli women, and 12 internationals whose mandate is assisting with the path to peace in the Middle East. She is the bestselling author of Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan, Bitter Shoots, Tender Roots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women, and the novel The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor.

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Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER BRAIN AND OTHER INSPIRING STORIES OF PIONEERING BRAIN TRANSFORMATION ______

“Barbara’s story… is truly heroic, on par with the achievements of Helen Keller… [she] has been able to describe, in a poignant and often unforgettable way, what it feels like to have a devastating learning disorder – but also what it’s like to leave it behind.” – Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself

“Poignant and uplifting… offers hope to anyone who has ever struggled with a learning disorder, brain trauma, ADD, or stroke. This is an important book.” – Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace

“If you or anyone you know has a learning disability, you will be riveted.” – The Huffington Post

“A groundbreaking, widely praised and enthralling book.” – The Guardian (UK)

This is the incredible story of a remarkable woman. Though she was born with crippling mental deficits, as a young woman, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was able to draw on her excellent memory and iron will to create ingenious exercises to strengthen the weak parts of her own brain. She then went on to create a program that has helped countless others.

Recalling her own painful struggle with a disabling brain disorder that caused teachers to label her stupid, stubborn and worse, she interweaves her own powerful personal story with an Oliver Sacks-like portrayal of the stunning transformations others have made using her groundbreaking exercises. She recounts the heartbreaks, triumphs, and clinical mysteries she has encountered during her career, and sends a message of hope to the millions of children and adults struggling to overcome mild to severe learning disabilities. Barbara’s work is one of the first examples of the extensive and practical application of “neuroplasticity,” demonstrating what a profound impact improved mental capacity can have on how we participate in the world.

BARBARA ARROWSMITH –YOUNG, Director of the Arrowsmith School and Arrowsmith Program, holds degrees in School Psychology and Child Studies. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

RIGHTS SOLD Australia: HarperCollins China (Complex): Business Weekly Publications Korea: Korea Price Information Corp. North America: Free Press / Simon & Schuster (Audio: Post Hypnotic Press [Unabridged]) UK: Square Peg / Random House STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITES: www.barbaraarrowsmithyoung.com & www.thewomanwhochangedherbrain.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Mark Bowden

TAME THE PRIMITIVE BRAIN 28 WAYS IN 28 DAYS TO MANAGE THE MOST IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOURS AT WORK ______

A foolproof system for understanding and handling the behaviour of others.

Noted body language expert Mark Bowden offers a totally practical, easy-to-read guide to understanding the behaviour of others, along with the best tools to manage them. A number one anxiety in business is dealing with new people, or those you’ve known who consistently present problems. In Tame the Primitive Brain, Mark Bowden’s foolproof system is the fastest and most effective way to understand why someone acts towards you the way they do; why you react to their behaviour in the way you do; and most importantly, what exactly to do about it to achieve the most favourable outcomes.

Bowden brings new and fresh perspectives to business readers for dealing with tricky behaviours and explains how to effectively manage those around you at any level in an organization while sharing the latest evolutionary behavioural theory, neuroscientific evidence, and the tried and tested tools and tricks based on these premises.

This simple model of how we humans can and do relate to each other brings increased depth of understanding and expands your tools to better manage yourself and others to achieve what you want.

MARK BOWDEN has worked with leading practitioners of movement psychology and his techniques are now used by top executives and political leaders around the globe who want to gain an advantage beyond words when they speak. He is one of the world’s expert performance trainers, and he is a highly sought after for his business presentation skills at such universities as international top 10 business school Schulich at York University, Rotman School of Business in Toronto and McGill in Montreal. His client list of leading businesspeople, teams, and politicians currently includes presidents and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and prime ministers of G8 powers. His bestselling book Winning Body Language (McGraw-Hill) has been translated into five languages.

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Kathy Buckworth

I AM SO THE BOSS OF YOU AN 8 STEP GUIDE TO GIVING YOUR FAMILY THE “BUSINESS” ______

“The rare exception to the rule of supposedly funny mommy memoirs (the rule being that people should stop publishing them). Buckworth is perceptive, smart and absolutely hilarious.” − The Toronto Star on Journey to the Darkside: Supermom Goes Home

How is it that adults can be so successful in their jobs and so disorganized and ineffective at home? How has a generation of professional over-achievers produced children who are entitled, lazy, and disrespectful of authority? And how can we regain control over this alien species that is technically our offspring? Well take off, helicopter parent. Get back in your cage, tiger mother. Au revoir, aloof French maman. Meet… the boss.

Parenting author and humourist Kathy Buckworth says it’s time to apply the rules of the workplace to the family, and before you can say ‘bedtime consultant’ you’ll have peace and harmony. There might be some yelling along the way, either from the parent or the child (or both) but there will be results! Kids whining? Have them fill out a Complaint Form. Not happy with your teenager? Make sure he understands his Roles and Responsibilities. What type of brand is your family marketing? Take a quiz and find out how others see you. Kathy leads readers through the philosophy and then applies real life examples, forms, and even a spreadsheet or two to help families achieve their goals and, more importantly, empower moms to embrace being the boss.

I Am So the Boss of You proposes a hilarious, yet practical, promising new trend in parenting, ripped right out of the corporate handbook, guaranteed to appeal to any mom looking to get the respect and results that make businesses successful. (Short of downsizing the three year old, of course.) But who says you can’t give a tween a Performance Review?

KATHY BUCKWORTH is the author of five parenting humour books, including The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood and Shut Up and Eat: Tales of Chicken, Children & Chardonnay. She is an award-winning writer, public speaker, and television personality who contributes to a number of publications and networks, including Huffington Post, Metro News, and Sympatico.ca, and is a parenting expert on Canada’s most successful daytime television show, CityLine. Kathy held senior marketing positions with some of Canada’s largest companies before hanging up the briefcase and picking up her pen. She’s also the mother of four.

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Marcello Di Cintio

WALLS TRAVELS ALONG THE BARRICADES ______

“One of the best travel writers of his generation. Marcello Di Cintio tells compelling and engrossing stories with his customary mix of vivid detail, a strong sense of history, a lovely sense of humour and, above all, a fascination with the human race in all its contradictions.” – Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

“I’ve never bought the divisive notion that good fences make for good neighbours. But one thing’s for sure: Walls make for great stories − something Marcello Di Cintio richly demonstrates in this energetically researched and beautifully recounted work of reportage.” – Taras Grescoe, author of The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists

“Di Cintio explores eight political hot spots − zones where walls split terrain, people, and minds. With admirable legwork and vivid prose, he discovers that these walls and the communities living along both sides of them are sites of fear, illness, and suspicion, but also sites of solidarity, storytelling, and intense creativity. This journey is his method of engagement, and in reading it he implicates us in the tensions and suppressed ambitions of these divided societies.” – Moez Surani, author of Reticent Bodies and Floating Life

Walls brings us to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal migrants from the Punjab who have circumvented the high-tech fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He plays a duet on the US-Mexico border wall with a percussionist who considers the barrier a vast musical instrument. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks the migrant trails in Arizona, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the weekly protests against Israel’s security barrier.

From Native American reservations on the US-Mexico border and the “Great Wall of Montreal” to Cyprus’ divided capital and the pubs and Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio ventures beyond the politics to discover what kind of life exists for the world’s fenced in and forgotten people, those who live in the shadows of walls.

MARCELLO DI CINTIO has enjoyed stints abroad in West Africa, North Africa, India, and the Middle East. His first book, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa, was published by Insomniac Press, and Knopf Canada published Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran. Poets went on to win the Wilfred Eggleston Prize for Best Non-Fiction.

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Dr. David Goldbloom & Dr. Pier Bryden

GRAY MATTER ______

“On October 5th, 2010, a 53 year-old man named Daryl Orzech jumped to his death from his apartment balcony. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, Daryl had ridden the illness’s ups and downs for more than thirty years. He had been my patient for more than a decade.” So begins Gray Matter, an inside look at the world of psychiatry through the eyes of one of its senior practitioners, Dr. David Goldbloom.

What is it like to be a psychiatrist and to know the pain and intimacy of people’s struggles with mental illness? How does the real world of psychiatry differ from the depictions in film and television? What draws people into this type of work? What does the practice of psychiatry look like in the 21st century in comparison to 20th century stereotypes of years of psychoanalysis or mindless prescription of medications? People have long feared mental illnesses and, by extension, the people who experience them. Will it ever be different? Is there reason for hope? Dr. Goldbloom delves into these questions and more, drawing upon his wealth of experience and knowledge to find meaningful answers.

Goldbloom is one of Canada’s best known psychiatrists with a talent for communicating to both his colleagues and the general public. Both an academic and a clinician, he continues to see patients regularly at the hospital where he works and teaches the next generation of psychiatrists. He also serves as Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada and takes a broad view of the landscape beyond the complexities of individual patients and their families.

DR. DAVID GOLDBLOOM is Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. He also serves as Chair of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

DR. PIER BRYDEN is a staff psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

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Thomas Homer-Dixon

HOW ABOUT… A STORY THAT WORKS FOR OUR GLOBAL FUTURE ______

“For over a decade, Thomas Homer-Dixon has provided that rare thing: a bridge between leading-edge research and the lay reader. Now, addressing the great problems of our time, he points us towards a path forward.” – Robert Kaplan on The Upside of Down

For the majority of the world, pessimism has become our dominant mood. On every side, we face apparently unsolvable problems. In the West, entitlement costs, debt, and stubborn unemployment hamstring our economies, while our middle classes shrink. Worldwide, leaders seem bewildered and helpless as the global economy lurches from one crisis to another.

The pessimism perpetuated by the increasing severity of our greatest problems makes us retreat inwards and focus on things local in space and present in time. This is a perilous cycle. Just as optimism is sometimes self-fulfilling, pessimism can make the future we fear most far more likely to happen. The best way to ensure we’ll fail to solve our problems is to believe we can’t.

Homer-Dixon’s How About… demonstrates how the most basic cause of humanity’s current crisis is a mismatch between our ways of thinking, and our material reality. Our worldviews, institutions and technologies are deeply incompatible with the material requirements of our continued prosperity on Earth. Inspired by the optimism witnessed in the worldviews of his children, Homer-Dixon has identified a minimum set of six solutions to humanity’s crisis in three critical domains: our minds, our political systems and our economic systems. By aligning our mindset with achievable political and environmental goals, Homer-Dixon shows how humanity must, and can, change itself to allow our children a reasonable chance of prosperity and security.

In this brilliant culmination to the award-winning research he began in The Ingenuity Gap and continued in The Upside of Down, Homer-Dixon provides us with a long-term, achievable, and optimistic set of remedies to the hazardous environment we have created for our children. Each solution proposed is necessary for a positive outcome, and together they just might be enough.

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON is the Chair for the Centre for International Governance Innovation of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia and holds a Ph.D. from MIT in international relations and defense and arms control policy. He is the author of several books, including The Upside of Down, which won the 2006 National Business Book Award, The Ingenuity Gap, which won the 2001 Governor General’s Non-Fiction Award, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence, which won the Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association.

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Deirdre Kelly

BALLERINA SEX, SCANDAL AND SUFFERING BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF PERFECTION ______

“A literary dance of narrative and emotion that pirouttes between rage and sorrow, backstage bleakness and transcendent beauty. A terrific book.” – Elizabeth Abbott, author of A History of Celibacy

“A fascinating portrait… the ballerina emerges as a true sexual Gothic heroine.” – Susan Swan, author of What Casanova Told Me

The dancers in Edgar Degas’ iconic nineteenth century impressionist masterpieces evoke the feminine ideal, unblemished and ethereal. In reality, many of the girls he painted were recruited from orphanages, and the jewelry that they wore on stage were public displays of sexual ownership from wealthy patrons who would claim them during the lengthy intermissions.

Our romantic notion of the ballerina persists despite a long history of poverty, starvation, and grueling dedication. In Ballerina, dance critic Deirdre Kelly exposes the true history of these artists, from the early concubines to Balanchine’s sisterhood; dancers of speed and stamina who were fired from the company if they dared attach themselves to other men. Using the high-profile case of Kimberly Glasco, who won a lawsuit against the National Ballet of Canada after being dismissed and publicly declared too old, Kelly argues that ballet remains an autocratic art form, and that there is little room in the spotlight for a dancer over forty.

Yet there is an indescribable joy that possesses these dancers when they move, making all the self-discipline, poor salaries, and injuries worth it. As Kelly examines and celebrates the lives of some of the world’s best ballerinas – Anna Pavlova, Marie Camargo, Gelsey Kirkland, Misty Copeland, and Evelyn Hart, among others – she argues for a rethinking of the world’s most graceful dance form, that would position the ballerina at its heart, where she belongs.

DEIRDRE KELLY has been writing about dance for more than thirty years. The Globe and Mail dance critic for sixteen years, her articles have also appeared in Elle, Vogue, Chatelaine, Dance Magazine, The Dance Gazette, the International Dictionary of Ballet, and the online arts group www.criticsatlarge.ca. Her first book was the bestselling memoir Paris Times Eight: Finding Myself in the City of Dreams, which Chatelaine called “powerful” and The Ottawa Citizen described as “pensive, sardonic and laugh-out loud funny as it chronicles a real life with all its comedies and tragedies… a fast-paced, breezy read.”

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Dr. Marc Lewis

MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN A NEUROSCIENTIST EXAMINES HIS FORMER LIFE ON DRUGS ______

“Foremost, his story illustrates the paradox of addiction: that even though the brain is changed by drugs, the brain-owner is not helpless. He can, if motivated, devise strategies to deafen himself to the siren call of altered states.” – The Wall Street Journal

“It’s a fascinating and fact-filled glimpse into the world of needles and need.” – Georgia Straight

Our minds are governed by a cycle of craving what we don’t have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then being driven by loss, need, desire, or insecurity to crave it all the more. This cycle is at the root of all addictions: addictions to drugs, drink, cigarettes, sex, love, soap operas, wealth, and wisdom itself. But why should this be so? Why are we so driven, often at great cost to ourselves? No one is better qualified to answer these questions than Dr. Marc Lewis.

Dr. Lewis is a distinguished neuroscientist and for many years, he was a drug addict himself, dependent on a long series of dangerous substances. His narrative moves back and forth between the long, dark, ultimately triumphant story of his relationship with drugs, and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain. He shows how drugs speak to the brain – itself designed to seek rewards and soothe pain – in its own language. He shows in detail the different neurological effects of a variety of powerful drugs, from oxycodone to heroin, from drink to love. Marc freed himself from addiction and took up studying it. In his early thirties he traded his powders and pills for the life of a graduate student, eventually becoming a professor of neuroscience – his field for the last twelve years. This is the story of his journey, seen from the inside out.

DR. MARC LEWIS is a developmental neuroscientist and Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology; he taught and conducted research from 1989 to 2010 at the University of Toronto, and is currently at Radboud University in the Netherlands. The author of over fifty journal publications in neuroscience and developmental psychology, he is at the forefront of knowledge of the emotional brain and the neural foundations of personality development. Dr. Lewis co-edited Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and co-authored with his wife Isabela Granic Bed Timing (HarperCollins, 2009) which applies developmental theory to help parents get their young children to sleep through the night.

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Nickelback

UNTITLED AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY ______

They’ve sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and were named the second bestselling foreign act in the US for the 2000s (second only to The Beatles). They are, of course, Nickelback. It’s been seventeen years since founding member Mike Kroeger worked as a Starbucks server, repeating the constant refrain “Here’s your nickel back,” which ended up inspiring the group’s now household name, and they’ve never told their story – until now.

Nickelback’s breakthrough album, Silver Side Up (2001), propelled them to international fame thanks to the lead single “How You Remind Me” which dominated global airwaves for a decade and was the most played song of 2002 and, with over 1.2 million plays, was recently named by Nielsen Soundscan as the most played song on US radio since 2001. In 2005, the group released All the Right Reasons, which is one of the top-selling albums of all time in the US, selling 11 million copies worldwide and going platinum 8 times. Nickelback’s sixth album, 2008’s Dark Horse, racked up over five million digital single sales and more than 52 million video plays and 125 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 200. The current tour, Here and Now, has taken them to North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Billboard Magazine crowned Nickelback “Group of the Decade” and their 2001 breakthrough hit “How You Remind Me” as “Top Rock Song” of the decade. They’ve achieved a remarkable 9 Grammy Award nominations, 3 American Music Awards, 6 Billboard Awards, the World Music Award for World’s Best-Selling Rock Artist, a People’s Choice Award, 12 Juno Awards and 7 MuchMusic Video Awards. With 15 radio singles hitting #1 and over 100 million online views and record-breaking tours that have put them in front of close to 10 million fans across the globe, Nickelback is making rock ‘n roll history.

DAVID GIAMMARCO is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and author. David has interviewed such rock icons as The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, Sting, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Stone Temple Pilots, Steely Dan, Brian Wilson, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Bon Jovi, Neil Young, U2, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Cynthia Lennon, Julian Lennon, and Sir George Martin, and contributed to the Beatles reunion in Las Vegas for the Cirque du Soleil production of “LOVE”. He has written for Cigar Aficionado, The Hollywood Reporter, Playboy, Ocean Drive, ELLE, Razor, Max, Radar, Hello! and FilmMaker Magazine and he writes regularly for The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, and The National Post, as well as The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Miami Herald, The Sydney Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Express, Scotland on Sunday and The London Sunday Times. David has toured with Nickelback numerous times and been granted unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to document their rise.

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Doug Saunders

THE MYTH OF THE MUSLIM TIDE DO IMMIGRANTS THREATEN THE WEST? ______

“Balanced, thorough... convincing.” – The National Post

“Approaches popular delusions methodically and surgically… should be welcomed in necessary public debates.” – The Globe and Mail

“Serious, mightily researched, lofty and humane, Arrival City is packed with salient detail and could hardly be more timely.” – The New York Times on Arrival City

This concise book provides a much-needed debunking of the explosive rumors and urban myths that fuel popular ideas about a “Muslim tide” sweeping the Western world. Emanating from far- right commentators and activists, these ideas have already run far too unchecked in even mainstream media and led directly to the mass murder committed by Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik. The charges are that Muslim immigrants are loyal to Islam, as a political ideology, and not to their host countries; that they are reproducing at an unusually rapid pace; that they aim to impose a religious agenda on the West by stealth and create a “Eurabia” in Europe and a less free and liberal society in North America. Exactly the tale once widely repeated about Jews.

Drawing on voluminous demographic and scholarly documentation, on polling and fieldwork, Saunders provides the real numbers and statistics to refute these claims. He then turns to the real conflicts and tensions we should be worried about, including lingering stereotypical ideas about the Muslim world, the need to privatise religion and the need to properly integrate immigrants. Scrupulously argued, this is a book that will be a vital handbook in the culture wars that threaten to dominate North American and European elections and media discussions in 2012 and beyond. It will provoke considerable debate and argument over the real nature of our polyglot societies.

DOUG SAUNDERS is the European Bureau Chief and International Affairs Columnist for The Globe and Mail. His reporting from Toronto, Los Angeles and for the last eight yeasrs from London, has led him to win Canada’s National Newspaper Award on four occasions. His first book, Arrival City, chronicled the effects of the rural-urban migration wave in twenty cities on five continents. Sold in twelve countries, it won the Donner Prize for political writing and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. Saunders lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer Elizabeth Renzetti, and their two children.

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Carol Shaben

INTO THE ABYSS A TRUE STORY ______

“With Into the Abyss Carol Shaben gives us an astonishing true story of catastrophe and redemption. Shaben writes from the inside out, as in the best non-fiction, creating a nuanced and tightly braided portrait of four men and their shared trauma that is by turns terrifying and deeply humane.” – John Vaillant, author of The Tiger

In the wild, it’s not who you are that counts, it’s who you trust.

On a wintry October night in 1984, a Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in the far north of Canada set off into freezing clouds and low visibility. Four hours later, the plane smashed head-long into an isolated forest.

Of the ten people on board, only four – strangers from wildly different backgrounds – would survive the mangled wreckage: Eric, the young pilot who knew he shouldn’t have taken the plane up in such bad weather. Larry, a respected politician and family man. Scott, an easygoing young cop who sustained terrible chest injuries in the crash. And Paul: the only one well enough to forage for firewood and keep the other three alive, should he choose to. Paul – the criminal handcuffed to Scott.

Into the Abyss is an incredible story of tragedy and hope; of four lives changed forever by the fierce crucible of a deadly night in the wilderness, and by what came after.

For readers fascinated with true stories of survival, Into the Abyss promises to be a triumph of the human spirit. Fiction could not have created a more dramatic cast of characters, more incredible and ironic twists of fate, or more compelling individual rites of passage.

CAROL SHABEN, the daughter of one of the crash survivors, has worked as a journalist in Jerusalem, as a researcher, writer, and broadcaster with the CBC, and as an entrepreneur. Her November 2009 feature article about the lack of safety in the commuter airline industry won a Gold National Magazine Award, the nation’s top prize for Investigative Journalism.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Random House (publication November 2012) Holland: Carrera Uitgeverij Spain: Roca UK: Picador / Macmillan US: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.carolshaben.com RADIO BROADCAST: BBC Radio 4 (Book of the Week) FILM RIGHTS: Available

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Priscila Uppal

PROJECTION ENCOUNTERS WITH MY RUNAWAY MOTHER ______

“A luminous debut… Haunting, gripping, and surprisingly nuanced: begins as a simple mystery and turns into a work of great depth and seriousness.” − Kirkus (starred) on The Divine Economy of Salvation

In 1977, Priscila Uppal’s father, employed as a project manager for CIDA, swallowed contaminated water in Antigua, and within 48 hours was a quadriplegic. Priscila was two years old. Five years later, her mother, Theresa, drained the bank accounts, including those of her two children, and disappeared to Brazil. She had no further contact with the family.

In 2002, while searching online for reviews of her first novel, Priscila happened upon her mother’s website, which featured a childhood photograph of Priscila and her brother Jit. A few weeks later, Priscila summoned the nerve to contact the woman who’d abandoned her, and after a few awkward phone calls and e-mails, a meeting was arranged.

Projection is the story of their encounter; how two strangers spent eight days trying to build a relationship, connected only by blood and a love of the movies. Brazil is the vibrant backdrop as mother and daughter explore all the country has to offer, taking refuge from the intensity of the reunion in the darkness and anonymity of the cinema, and the drama of others.

Like Brazil itself, Theresa proves to be full of contradictions and excessive tendencies. After a trip that was alternately shocking, hopeful, humorous and devastating, Priscila realizes that not only does she not love her mother, she viscerally dislikes her.

What kind of woman does a motherless daughter become? Is it possible to recover from decades of absence, if both sides are willing? What traits do we inevitably share with our parents? And what is the consequence of a second rejection?

Projection is an evocative, precisely written, brutally honest memoir that will have particular resonance for with anyone with a turbulent or unresolved familial relationship.

PRISCILA UPPAL is the author of two novels, The Divine Economy of Salvation and To Whom It May Concern. An acclaimed poet whose work has been shortlisted for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, her works have been translated into numerous languages including Dutch, Greek, Korean, Latvian, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Thomas Allen Publishers (publication Spring 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available January 2013 AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.priscilauppal.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Hilary McMahon

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Charles Wilkins

LITTLE SHIP OF FOOLS SIXTEEN ROWERS, ONE IMPROBABLE BOAT, SEVEN TUMULTUOUS WEEKS ON THE ATLANTIC ______

“If Raymond Chandler had written a memoir, I could imagine it reading like this… I don’t know how Charles Wilkins escaped my notice until now, but I intend to read as many of his books as I can.” – Mary Roach, The Globe and Mail, on In the Land of Long Fingernails

It was to be an expedition like no other – a 5,000 kilometre run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There would be no support vessel, no stored water, no sails, no motor. The boat’s crew of sixteen – the largest assembled on the Atlantic since the days of the Norse longboats – included several veterans of US college rowing, a number of triathletes, a woman who had rowed both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and a scrawny, bespectacled sexagenarian – our chronicler, Charles Wilkins.

When he joined the expedition, Wilkins had never swung an oar in earnest or even sat on a proper rowing seat. In sparkling prose, acclaimed writer Wilkins tells a tale that is harrowing, cringe inducing and funny as hell. From rationed food and festering sores to breathtaking sunrises and panoramic ocean views, from sleep deprivation and mile-high waves to breaching whales and the camaraderie of the crew, Little Ship of Fools is a thrilling tale of courage, adventure and the human spirit.

CHARLES WILKINS wrestled Don Starkell’s mountainous diary into the classic work of adventure travel Paddle to the Amazon, praised by the New York Times Book Review as “a model expeditionary journal.” An award-winning magazine writer, he is the author most recently of In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger’s Memoir, which Booklist said “reads like a novel.”

RIGHTS SOLD World: Greystone Books / D&M (Spring 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENT: Jackie Kaiser

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Bryce Wylde

WYLDE ON HEALTH YOUR BEST CHOICES IN THE WORLD OF NATURAL HEALTH ______

“Bryce makes all of us wildly passionate about our health and shares accessible insights and achievable action steps to bring youthful vigour into all of our lives.” – Dr. Mehmet Oz

“Bryce has written a book that should be in your home today and will make you smarter about your own body.” – Dr. Sanjay Gupta

“Bryce gives sensible, medically sound advice in this comprehensive manual on health. If you want to take greater control of your health, this book will be a great help.” – Dr. Andrew Weil

Wylde on Health is alternative health expert Bryce Wylde’s response to the questions about natural medicine and requests for advice that he hears most often in clinical practice, in the course of his weekly television program, and in his regular appearances on The Dr. Oz Show.

The value of living healthily is indisputable, but what exactly can we do in our daily lives to be our healthiest self? Bryce Wylde sets out to answer that question. He sorts out the confusing terminology used to describe natural medicine and leads us through a process of discovery about our own real state of health by showing how state-of-the-art self-testing now permits us to properly assess where we’re vulnerable and where we’re not. Whether you are worried about a vitamin deficiency or wonder if you’re lacking the “feel good” brain hormone serotonin – you’ll learn what simple steps to take to test yourself.

Wylde surveys and individually rates an array of present-day natural remedies, backed by the very latest research. He guides us through today’s hottest health trends, highlighting what is good and steering us away from what is dubious. He makes it clear that in the face of the astronomical rise in disease and the ubiquity of nutrition-devoid foods, we have no choice but to supplement our diets with vitamins, minerals and amino acids if we want to live to our fullest potential. Finally, Wylde on Health explores how the strategic supplementation he recommends will increasingly be used to redress genetic predispositions – the future of preventative health care.

BRYCE WYLDE, the bestselling author of The Antioxidant Prescription, is a respected homeopathic doctor and functional medicine nutritionist. Wylde has his own call-in television show, Wylde on Health, and makes regular appearances on The Dr. Oz Show, where he is a member of their inaugural Medical Advisory Board.

RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Random House (publication December 2012) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.wyldeabouthealth.com FILM RIGHTS: Available

AGENTS: John Pearce & Chris Casuccio

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