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E lena Forbes I an Hamilton LR A ndrew Heintzman Christopher Hitchens spring 2011 S tephen Kelman I a n L e s l i e T i m L i l b u r n G e o r g i a N i c o l s M a t t R a d e r R o b i n R o b e r t s o n S t e v e S e m - S a n d b e r g S h a r o n T h e s e n Kathleen Winter

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“Ian Hamilton achieves the impossible — he makes the global search for hidden money as thrilling as James Bond fleeing down a snowy slope on one ski. Ava Lee is tough, fearless, quirky, and resourceful, and she has more — well, you know — than half a dozen male detectives I can think of. Hamilton knows his stuff, and he has created a true original in Ava Lee.” — Linwood Barclay, author of No Time for Goodbye

Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong–based “Uncle,” who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 5' 3" and 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razor- sharp intelligence and unorthodox rules of engagement allow her to succeed where traditional methods have failed. In The Water Rat of Wanchai Ava travels across con- tinents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it’s in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava’s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . . . In the first of what promises to be a massively suc- cessful series, Ian Hamilton introduces the reader to one of crime fiction’s most unique and compelling heroines, FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ and uncovers the dark machinations of the global shadow WOMEN SLEUTHS economy. 978-0-88784-251-1 5.25 x 8 • 424 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 IAN HAMILTON has written for BISAC: FIC022040 Maclean’s, Boston Magazine, the Calgary RIGHTS HELD: World Herald, and Saturday Night. He has Rights Sold: English UK and Com- worked as a journalist, diplomat, busi- monwealth, excl. Canada (Sphere, Little nessman, senior government official, and Brown), Netherlands (Mouria), France (Editions 10/18, Univers Poche), Spain as a consultant in the seafood industry. (Umbriel), Germany (Kein + Aber)

marketing notes • Part of Spiderline launch promotion: • ARCs • Author appearances national advertising, radio ads, online • National media attention • Co-op available A n a nsi’s new crime fiction imprint promotions, postering campaign 2 2 3 July April The Disciple of Las Vegas Die With Me An Ava Lee Novel A Mark Tartaglia Mystery Ian Hamilton Elena Forbes

Ava tracks missing funds from Vancouver to Las Vegas to London, and finds Now in mass market paperback with a new series look, Die With Me is a herself deep inside the shady world of online gambling. highly acclaimed, modern crime drama and psychological thriller that New York Times bestselling author Sheldon Siegel calls “a stellar debut.”

In The Disciple of Las Vegas, Uncle and FINALIST, CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION JOHN CREASEY Ava are hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD Philippines, to recover $50 million in a land swindle that took place in Canada. The Filipino billionaire’s reputation When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer’s is on the line, and his family is on the brink of disaster. broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian’s church Ava tracks the missing funds from Canada to San Fran- in a quiet London suburb, the official ruling is that she cisco to accounts in Costa Rica owned by the Moneida, jumped to her death from the organ gallery. But when a a First Nations band that owns and operates The River, witness claims to have seen Gemma kissing a much older an online poker web site. Ava uncovers an illegal online man outside shortly beforehand, and a toxicology report gambling ring, and follows the trail to Las Vegas. There, reveals traces of a date-rape drug in the girl’s system, a she confronts one of the greatest poker players in the murder investigation is launched. world, David “The Disciple” Douglas, and his partner, At the helm is Mark Tartaglia, a stubborn detective Jeremy Ashton. Meanwhile, Jackie Leung, an old target known for following his hunches. It’s Tartaglia’s first time of Uncle’s and Ava’s, has made it rich. He wants revenge, in charge, and he walks right into a political minefield as and he’s going after Ava to get it. the murder squad turns up three more suspicious deaths Will Ava save Ordonez’s family and reputation? Or — all originally ruled suicides — involving vulnerable will Jackie Leung get to her first? young women falling from high places. Can Tartaglia FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ and his team connect the dots between victims in order WOMEN SLEUTHS IAN HAMILTON has written for to find a serial killer with a chilling predilection for lonely 978-0-88784-252-8 FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ Maclean’s, Boston Magazine, the Calgary girls and deadly heights? 5.25 x 8 • 424 pages GENERAL 978-0-88784-262-7 Trade paperback • $19.95 Herald, and Saturday Night. He has 4.125 x 6.875 • 400 pages BISAC: FIC022040 worked as a journalist, diplomat, busi- Mass market paperback • $11.99 ELENA FORBES is the author of the Mark Tartaglia RIGHTS HELD: World nessman, senior government official, and BISAC: FIC022000 Mystery Series. The most recent book in the series, Evil Rights Sold: English UK and Com- as a consultant in the seafood industry. RIGHTS HELD: Canada in Return, was published in August 2010. She lives in monwealth, excl. Canada (Sphere, Little OTHER RIGHTS: Lutyens and Brown), Netherlands (Mouria), France London, England, with her husband and children. Rubenstein (Editions 10/18, Univers Poche), Spain (Umbriel), Germany (Kein + Aber) marketing notes “Die With Me delivers . . . Brilliantly crafted.” • Part of Spiderline launch promotion: marketing notes — Globe and Mail national advertising, radio ads, online • Part of Spiderline launch promotion: • ARCs • Author appearances promotions, postering campaign national advertising, radio ads, online • National media attention • Co-op available • National media mailing “A stellar debut.” — Ottawa Sun promotions, postering campaign • Co-op available 4 5 April Our Lady of Pain A Mark Tartaglia Mystery Elena Forbes

“Intelligent, beautifully constructed . . . Forbes provides a terrific plot, great characters, and plenty of atmosphere . . . A psychological chiller.” — Globe and Mail

A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 10 CRIME BOOK A PICK FOR BEST CRIME FICTION fiction On a snowy February morning, London art dealer Rachel Tenison’s naked, frozen body is discovered in Holland Park, bound and arranged in a strangely sym- bolic manner. DI Mark Tartaglia and Sam Donovan are assigned the case. Still haunted by “The Bridegroom,” a chillingly seductive serial killer with a penchant for lonely girls and deadly heights, they’re forced to put the past behind them as they try to uncover the identity of Rachel’s murderer. But when a tip from a journalist draws their attention to similarities between this mur- der and an unsolved crime committed the year before, the mystery grows deeper than ever.

ELENA FORBES is the author of the Mark Tartaglia Mystery Series. The most recent book in the series, Evil in Return, was published in August 2010. She lives in London, FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ GENERAL England, with her husband and children. 978-0-88784-263-4 4.125 x 6.875 • 464 pages Mass market paperback • $11.99 “A classic British police procedural . . . an excellent read.” BISAC: FIC022000 — National Post

RIGHTS HELD: Canada OTHER RIGHTS: Lutyens and “. . . an intricately woven plot . . . Forbes clearly has a Rubenstein strong idea about who her characters are and what moti- marketing notes vates them.” — FFWD • Part of Spiderline launch promotion: national advertising, radio ads, online promotions, postering campaign • National media mailing • Co-op available 6 May Patrick deWitt

“A masterful, hilarious picaresque that keeps company with the best of Charles PATRICK de WITT was born PRAISE FOR PATRICK de WITT AND Portis and Mark Twain . . . a relentlessly absorbing feat of novelistic art.” on Vancouver Island in 1975. ABLUTIONS — Wells Tower He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel “Deeply affecting . . . quirkily metered, brutally Hermann Kermit Warm is going Ablutions, which was named honest, and as funny as a heartbreak . . . deWitt, to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted a New York Times Editors’ with his quiet, stop-you-in-your-tracks writing, on for that. Though Eli has never shared his Choice book. He lives in Portland, Oregon, has snuck up on the literary world.” brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, with his wife and son. — LA Weekly he’s never known anything else. On the road to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San “Extremely clever . . . sometimes poetic, some- Francisco — and from the back of his long- times terrible, sometimes funny, often all three suffering one-eyed horse — Eli struggles to at once . . . In the smoky background there are make sense of his life without abandoning the whiffs of Bukowski . . . [deWitt’s] scenes and job he’s sworn to do. characters the sharp ring of truth.” DeWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over — New York Times Book Review and humorous odyssey through the under- world of the 1850s frontier. Doffing his hat to “A brilliant inside view of addiction.” the classic Western, he then transforms it into — The Times (UK) a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, marketing notes “Stunningly depicted . . . deWitt writes beauti- melancholy, and grit of the West — and of fully about ugliness, and his book casts a these two brothers, bound to each other by • National author tour haunting spell.” — Booklist blood and scars and love. • ARCs • National reviews “Brilliant . . . A brief, intense, and carefully Film rights have been sold to actor John C. • Co-op available sustained piece of writing about the blurry Reilly’s production company in a major deal, • Anansi Q&A edges of existence, shot through with remark- FICTION/LITERARY with Reilly to play one of the brothers. able lucidity.” — Guardian 978-0-88784-289-4 6 x 9 • 336 pages “Dark like Guinness and sparkling like cham- Hardcover • $29.95 pagne . . . hilariously gloomy.” — Independent BISAC: FIC019000

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A radiant debut collection from Canada’s freshest new voice in fiction. JULIE BOOKER’s stories EXCERPT have appeared in numer- ous literary magazines and Elspeth had those blond, straight-across bangs anthologies, including the that only pointed out her lack of eyebrows and Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of 2010 edition of Best Canadian lashes. As if they’d been singed off by a fire- astonishing range, compassion, and acuity. In Stories. She won the Writers’ cracker and been smart enough not to grow this taut collection of twenty short, sharp sto- Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition back. Her eyes were mostly like mailbox slits ries, Julie Booker grabs the reins from writers for Developing Writers in 2009. She is five feet until she got an idea, and then she opened like Lydia Millet and Miranda July and takes tall, has a toy poodle and twin baby boys, and them wide so you could see the rules starting. off at full speed, and in directions all her own. lives in Toronto. One whole wall was a pile of shoe boxes. A pair of plus-sized friends make tracks for Mostly with lids. Each week she’d hide some- a kayaking trip in Alaska. A woman vacations thing from her mom’s bedroom and we’d play with her parents at a Texas trailer park, won- Battleship in the grid of boxes. dering why she can’t meet a man. A worldly D across 5 down, a black penis we could member of a tour group selects sacrifices from twist and bend with our fingers. G7, what I among the most cherished belongings of her thought was a dog-puppet head on a slingshot fellow travellers. A young man dreams of res- but Elspeth said she saw her dad wear it down cuing an abusive friend’s girlfriend — and of there once. H4, pills for her mom’s head. E3 a having her for himself. Through these decep- fish lure Elspeth called an IUD. B2, an Indian tively simple storylines, Booker reminds us of marketing notes sex position book. the power of words to enlighten and move us One time I found a card on the floor that — but most of all, to delight us. Her writing is • National author tour said I know you’ve been frustrated. I’ll be ready a revelation — wildly whimsical and yet razor- • ARCs soon. You’re a saint for waiting. I’m sorry. xoxx sharp, highly unusual and yet prompting gasps • National reviews Brenda. of recognition on every page. Reader, prepare • Co-op available “Give me that,” Elspeth said, like I’d sunk to meet your new favourite writer. her battleship. FICTION/STORIES 978-0-88784-300-6 5.25 x 8 • 236 pages Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC029000

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10 11 July The O’Briens Peter Behrens

The highly anticipated follow-up to Peter Behrens’ Governor General’s PETER BEHRENS is the AWARDS FOR PETER BEHRENS AND Literary Award–winning novel, The Law of Dreams. author of the Governor THE LAW OF DREAMS General’s Literary Award- winning novel The Law of WINNER, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD: FICTION The O’Briens follows the family from Dreams, published around FINALIST, rogers WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe the world to wide acclaim, FINALIST, COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE (CANADA AND THE CARIBBEAN): BEST BOOK O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in and a collection of short stories, Night Driving. FINALIST, CBA LIBRIS AWARD FOR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR remote Pontiac County, , with his two His short stories and essays have appeared in FINALIST, AMAZON.CA/BOOKS IN CANADA brothers and two sisters by his side. Their Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and FIRST NOVEL AWARD father has abandoned the family and died in the National Post. He was born in and LONGLIST, INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD the South African war; their frail mother has lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son. AN AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2000–2010 remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick NATIONAL BESTSELLER Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the pov- erty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe “. . . unsparing in its determination to distil travels the continent, building an empire and marketing notes both the precise eternals of a moment and the a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he fierce interiority of the human mind. The dia- is never quite able to leave his past behind. • National author tour through summer logue, too, seems to emerge from the mouths Told from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and fall of characters who have never been allowed to and their children and spanning the construc- • ARCs talk this way before.” — Globe and Mail tion of the Canadian railroad as well as both • National reviews and media attention world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors • Co-op available “[A]bsorbing, unsparing, and beautifully writ- the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier ten . . . a masterly novel.” — New York Times calls “Canada’s Century.” Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, The “A work of richly empathetic imagination that O’Briens is an epic of great heart, imagination, reminds us once again of how powerful his- and narrative force. Also available torical fiction can be in skilled hands.” — LA FICTION/LITERARY Times 978-0-88784-229-0 the law of dreams 5.25 x 8 • 432 pages 978-0-88784-774-5 “Blending excruciating detail with the hope- Hardcover • $32.95 Trade paperback • $18.95 fulness of beauty, The Law of Dreams is a novel BISAC: FIC019000 of struggle and fulfillment; of trust and the hollowness of betrayal . . . Behrens is a tremen- RIGHTS HELD: Canada dously talented writer.” — Alistair MacLeod, OTHER RIGHTS: Sarah Burnes, author of No Great Mischief The Gernert Company 12 13 February Annabel Kathleen Winter

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the GGs, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a #1 National Bestseller, Kathleen Winter’s spectacular debut novel is now available in paperback.

In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both anansi at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neigh- bour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as international Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as “Annabel”— is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Haunting and sweeping in scope, Annabel is a compel- ling tale about one person’s struggle to discover the truth in a culture that shuns contradiction.

KATHLEEN WINTER has written dramatic and docu- mentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. FICTION/LITERARY Her first collection of short stories, boYs (Biblioasis, 2007), 978-0-88784-290-0 was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the 2006 5.25 x 8 • 480 pages Metcalf-Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Trade paperback • $19.95 Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal. BISAC: FIC019000 FINALIST, SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE RIGHTS HELD: North America FINALIST, rogers WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE RIGHTS SOLD: U.K., U.S (Grove/Black Cat) All Other Rights: Shaun Bradley, TLA FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD: FICTION A globe and mail top 100 book #1 national bestseller A Quill and Quire Best Book marketing notes An Amazon.ca Best Book • National media mailing • Book club outreach at www.anansi.ca “What Winter has achieved here is no less a miracle . . . ” • Book club questions available in the book — Globe and Mail • Co-op available 14 March Pigeon English Stephen Kelman

“Pigeon English is a triumph.” — Emma Donoghue STEPHEN KELMAN was stephen kelman in his own words, born in Luton, England, in on the inspiration for writing 1976. He has held jobs as a pigeon english warehouse operative, a care- It was my response to the real-life case of Newly arrived from Ghana with worker, and in marketing and Damilola Taylor, a young boy from a similar his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old local government adminis- background to the character of Harrison who Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of tration. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is was murdered at the hands of another child. a block of flats on a London housing estate. currently working on his second. He lives in Though his death was ten years ago, it became The second best runner in his grade, Harri Bedfordshire, England. emblematic of the growing problem of child- races through his new life in his personalized on-child violence, which is experienced in cer- trainers — the Adidas stripes drawn on with tain deprived areas of the U.K. I myself grew up marker — blissfully unaware of the very real on a housing estate much like the one featured threat all around him. With equal fascination marketing notes in the book, and have experienced or witnessed for the local gang — the Dell Farm Crew — many of the social problems that affect the lives and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri • ARCs of their residents, be they native or immigrant. absorbs the many strange elements of his new • National media mailing, advertising At the same time, I feel privileged to have life in England: watching, listening, and learn- • Co-op available grown up in a multicultural environment, and ing the tricks of inner-city survival. But when strongly believe that this kind of diversity can a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a only enrich us. I wanted to portray the positive police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, aspects of estate life — the book’s characters Harri decides to start a murder investigation of praise for Pigeon English are full of life, they’re vibrant and stubborn, his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers and although they’re aware of how narrow the fragile web his mother has spun around her “A wonderful novel with a Ghanian-Londoner their horizons are, they rush towards their fate family to try and keep them safe. child narrator you’ll never forget . . . Simultan- with fierce spirit and dark humour. There’s an A story of innocence and experience, hope eously accurate and fantastical, this boy’s love almost spiteful exuberance about them which and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbind- letter to the world made me laugh and tremble makes it impossible to think of them in terms FICTION/LITERARY ing portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of all the way through. Pigeon English is a triumph.” of heroes or villains — they’re just kids being 978-0-88784-260-3 manhood and of the forces around him that try — Emma Donoghue, author of Room kids the best way they know how, despite soci- 6 x 9 • 288 pages to shape the way he falls. ety’s best efforts to impose a premature and Hardcover • $29.95 “A powerful and impressive novel . . . Utterly callous adulthood upon them. BISAC: FIC019000 convincing and deeply moving.” — Clare Morrall, author of Astonishing Splashes of RIGHTS HELD: Canada Colour and The Man Who Disappeared OTHER RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh

16 17 August The Emperor of Lies Steve Sem-Sandberg

Winner of the prestigious August Prize, a finalist for the Nordic Council STEVE SEM-SANDBERG is PRAISE FOR STEVE SEM-SANDBERG Award, and an international sensation, The Emperor of Lies is a powerfully an award-winning Swedish AND THE EMPEROR OF LIES moving story set in World War II Poland. writer, critic, and translator. He is the author of twelve WINNER, AUGUST PRIZE In February 1940, the Nazis estab- novels and four works of non- WINNER, KERSTIN M. LUNDBERG PRIZE lished what would become the second-largest fiction. He has won a number FINALIST, THE NORDIC COUNCIL AWARD Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Łódź. Its of literary prizes, including the August Prize, chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Aftonbladet Literary Award, and the De “Perhaps the very first Holocaust account that a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman Nios Grand Award, and was a finalist for the dares to step away from the black and white and orphanage director — and the elusive, prestigious Nordic Council Literary Award perspective. In the hands of Sweden’s foremost authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s on two occasions. His critically acclaimed European storyteller, the truth is not always very existence. and powerful novel The Emperor of Lies will be what it seems.” — Daniel Sjölin, author of The From one of Sweden’s most critically ac- published in more than twenty countries. He World’s Last Novel claimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor divides his time between Vienna and Stock- of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski’s holm. “A genuine craftsmanship of words, a sharply monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews detailed documentarian prose transformed for the next four years. Driven by a titanic into a poem that grows ever more profound. ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto And such works of art consume, displace, alter, into a productive industrial complex and strove aggravate, and deepen questions rather than to make it — and himself — indispensable to marketing notes answering them.” — Per Svensson, cultural the Nazi regime. Drawing on the detailed critic for Dagens Nyheter records of life in the Łódź ghetto, Steve Sem- • ARCs Sandberg asks the most difficult questions: • National media mailing, advertising “A majestic portrayal where documented facts Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an • Co-op available create the foundation for fiction’s insight into accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust historical fate.” — Mikael van Ries, cultural for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist critic for Svenska Dagbladet FICTION / LITERARY who managed to save Jewish lives through his 978-0-88784-259-7 collaboration policies? 6 x 9 • 608 pages The Emperor of Lies is a haunting, profoundly Hardcover • $32.95 challenging novel. It will be published in more BISAC: FIC019000 than twenty languages, promising to be an international literary event. RIGHTS HELD: Canada OTHER RIGHTS: Nordin Agency

18 19 April What Is Poetry? Lawrence Ferlinghetti Art by Frederic Amat

Poetry is the Unknown Guest in the house. Poetry is the Great Memory, every word a live metaphor. Poetry the eye of the heart, the heart of the mind. Words wait to be reborn in the shadow of the lamp of poetry.

Described as a “sublime distillation of an author’s lifework,” What is Poetry? is a brilliant, soulful, and life- affirming collection of aphorisms in free verse by one poetry of our most important contemporary poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In this latest collection, Ferlinghetti (who began writing the aphorisms in 1950 and has read them in public on a number of occasions) shares brief observations that capture the nature of poetic expression. Anansi is thrilled to be releasing What is Poetry? in a spectacular hardcover limited edition, featuring stun- ning full-colour artwork by acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Frederic Amat. This is a unique and timeless collector’s edition that all lovers of poetry will want to have on their shelves.

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI is an acclaimed poet, activist, anarchist philosopher, and editor. He is one of the founders of City Lights, the legendary bookstore and POETRY publishing house. His most acclaimed work of poetry, 978-0-88784-320-4 A Coney Island of the Mind, has sold more than 1 million 8.075 x 13 • 66 pages copies and has been translated into nine languages. He Hardcover • $24.95 lives in San Francisco, California. BISAC: POE000000

RIGHTS HELD: North America (TBC) FREDERIC AMAT is a visual artist, painter, filmmaker, OTHER RIGHTS: Zare Books (TBC) and writer who has illustrated a number of books, includ- ing a rare edition of A Thousand and One Nights for the Gutenberg Galaxy. He lives in Barcelona, Spain, with his wife and son. marketing notes • National media • Co-op available 20 April April Methodist Hatchet Oyama Pink Shale Ken Babstock Sharon Thesen

The eagerly anticipated fourth collection from the poet acclaimed by TIME “It’s Thesen’s versatility that impresses most . . . her language [is] crisp and magazine as “one of the best things to happen to poetry in Canada.” lively, but she’s as likely to be tenderly elegiac as she is sardonically funny.” —

Here is the exhilirating new collection from one of Governor General’s Literary Award our most important and talented poets, a finalist for the finalist Sharon Thesen’s latest poetry collection, Oyama 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2006 Governor Gen- Pink Shale, is a sly, self-directed, yet joyously emancipa- eral’s Literary Award and winner of the Trillium Book tory work. By animating and voicing various moments Award for Poetry. and selves — indebted adult friend to artists, cold docu- Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a mentarian of a haunted sanitarium, engaged contemporary map of the world and a world of false maps, these poems ticking off beauties, among others — Thesen’s poems show cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to the transience of the earthly moment while convincing us sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes of the thread of spirit that links all our lost bits and makes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second them possible. There’s an uncontainable buoyancy and Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem lift in the lines and quick-shifting frames as they swerve itself — the idea of a poem — as a unit of understanding is toward the darker, more gravid complexities of contem- shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, porary life. Oyama Pink Shale exhibits a love for both the its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet quotidian and the oblique angle, and a singular talent for gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and the music of cumulative wonder. Writing at the peak of her exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, powers, Thesen gives us her best work yet. this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken SHARON THESEN POETRY Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book. POETRY is the author of eight previous books 978-0-88784-293-1 978-0-88784-272-6 of poetry. She received the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages KEN BABSTOCK is the author of three previous col- 5.5 x 8.5 • 80 pages for her collection A Pair of Scissors and is a two-time final- Trade paperback • $22.95 lections of poetry, including Airstream Land Yacht, Trade paperback • $22.95 ist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. BISAC: POE000000 which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the BISAC: POE000000 She was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and now lives in Governor General’s Literary Award, won the Trillium Lake Country, where she is a professor at The University RIGHTS HELD: World RIGHTS HELD: World Book Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. of British Columbia. He lives in Toronto. marketing notes marketing notes • Anansi Poetry Bash in April in • Anansi Poetry Bash in April in Toronto Toronto • Author tour • Author tour • National media • National media • Co-op available • Co-op available 22 23 April June A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle The 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Over the River Arno Anthology Matt Rader A Selection of the Shortlist Edited by Tim Lilburn

“Rader has quickly gone from being a poet to watch to one of the poets The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and to watch.” — Zachariah Wells, ARC International poetry.

A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over The best books of poetry published in English the River Arno carries within it all the technique, internationally and in Canada are honoured annually vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest Matt Rader’s first two collections but ascends, also, to a and most prestigious literary awards. This edition of the new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of anthology includes poems from each of the books short- the human. listed in both the Canadian and international categories Wildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and ill- for 2011, and are selected and introduced by judges Tim ness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy Lilburn, Colm Tóibín, and Chase Twichell. Royalties history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO’s Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive World Poetry Day, created to support linguistic diversity poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such through poetic expression and to offer endangered lan- a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the guages the opportunity to be heard in their communities. moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers — those mapped TIM LILBURN has published eight books of poetry, for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadow- including Kill-site, which won the Governor General’s POETRY lines we ourselves draw — in order to test their validity. Literary Award for Poetry. He has published two essay 978-0-88784-255-9 If Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, collections, Living in the World as If It Were Home and Going 5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages it might look like these poems. This is an astounding col- POETRY/ANTHOLOGIES Home, both concerned with poetics, eros, and politics. Trade paperback • $22.95 lection from a thrilling voice in poetry. 978-0-88784-294-8 He was a participant in the 2008 Pamirs Poetry Journey. BISAC: POE000000 5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages He teaches at the University of Victoria. MATT RADER is the critically acclaimed author of two Trade paperback • $22.95 RIGHTS HELD: World previous collections of poetry, Living Things and Miracu- BISAC: POE001000 lous Hours, which was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Also available RIGHTS HELD: World Memorial Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award. The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2001 The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2006 978-0-88784-672-4 • $16.95 His poems, stories, and nonfiction have been nominated 978-0-88784-742-4 • $16.95 The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2002 The 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology marketing notes for numerous awards, including the Journey Prize, the 978-0-88784-676-2 • $16.95 978-0-88784-764-6 • $16.95 • Anansi Poetry Bash in April in National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He marketing notes The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2003 The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 978-0-88784-687-8 • $16.95 978-0-88784-789-9 • $16.95 Toronto lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. • Griffin shortlist announced in The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2004 The 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology • Author tour April, prize awarded in June 978-0-88784-699-1 • $16.95 978-0-88784-824-7 • $18.95 The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2005 The 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology • National media • National media and advertising 978-0-88784-725-7 • $16.95 978-0-88784-955-8 • $22.95 • Co-op available • Co-op available 24 25 Available The Wrecking Light Robin Robertson

“The Wrecking Light is a work of extraordinary visionary power . . . If there were justice in the world, it would win every prize going.” — Guardian

finalist, T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry FINALIST, COSTA POETRY AWARD FINALIST, FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION nonfiction Intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking, The Wrecking Light is written with the au- thority of classical myth, yet sounds utterly contemporary: the poet’s gaze is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Pablo Neruda and Eugenio Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, these poems pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. Ghosts sift through these poems, all of them haunted by the pres- sure and presence of the primitive world against our own, and the kind of dreamlike intensity of description that has become Robertson’s trademark. The Wrecking Light is a work of considerable grandeur POETRY and sweep, and confirms Robertson as one of the most 978-0-88784-258-0 arresting and powerful poets at work today. 5.125 x 7.75 • 112 pages Trade paperback • $22.95 ROBIN ROBERTSON’s first collection of poems, BISAC: POE000000 A Painted Field, won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best RIGHTS HELD: Canada First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year OTHER RIGHTS: Macmillan UK Award. His second collection, Slow Air, appeared in 2002, and his third, Swithering, won the Forward Poetry Also available: Prize for Best Collection and was a finalist for the T. S. Swithering 978-0-88784-739-4 Eliot Prize for Poetry. His work appears regularly in the Trade paperback • 96 pages • $18.95 London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. In 2004 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London. 26 May Born Liars Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit Ian Leslie

“A genuine achievement: a lively, engaging read that makes a bold argument about the role IAN LESLIE’s first book, To marketing notes of lying in our lives. The first truly honest appraisal of our human capacity for deception.” Be President, was published — Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and The Ghost Map to critical acclaim and was • National media mailing, advertising excerpted in Granta maga- • Co-op available Lying is an intrinsic part of our social zine. He regularly appears fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and as an analyst of American misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. politics on Sky News and on the BBC. He has Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that written about politics, culture, marketing, makes us question not only our own relation- and psychology for , The Times, ship to the truth, but also virtually every daily Prospect, and the BBC. He lives in London. encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophi- EXCERPT cal ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonder Woman’s lasso Mark Twain put it like this: “Everybody lies one day be ironed out; I discovered that it has of truth, and why we should be wary of anyone — every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his driven the evolution of our species. I thought I with more than 150 Facebook friends. dreams; in his joy; in his mourning.” We lie knew how to spot a liar; I was mistaken. I took Born Liars is thought-provoking, anecdot- when we say “I’m fine, thanks” when we’re feel- lying to be a sign of mental instability; I dis- ally driven narrative nonfiction at its best. Ian ing miserable. We lie when we say “cute baby” covered that good liars tend to be better bal- Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, whilst inwardly marvelling at its pug-face. Most anced people than the rest of us. I believed I biology, cultural history, philosophy, and popu- of us have simulated anger, sadness, affection, was always honest with myself; none of us are. I lar psychology belies a serious central message: and even said “I love you” when we don’t mean learnt that self-deception often leads to success that humans have evolved and thrived in large it. Nearly all of us have faked enthusiasm for at work, better health, and happier relationships part because of their ability to deceive. somebody else’s cooking. Not only do we tacitly — and that when we are stripped of our lies, we accept that some lies are necessary, but some- become depressed or even go mad. times we enthusiastically approve them. We are born into deceit, and we never leave I have never quite been able to reconcile the it. The ability to knowingly deceive and detect NONFICTION/social science/general hotness with which people condemn lying with deception is uniquely human, and an essential 978-0-88784-334-1 the regularity with which everyone practices part of the make-up of an aware, self-reflective, 6 x 9 • 352 pages and approves of it. I wanted to find out why our and well-adjusted person. It is, quite simply, Trade paperback • $21.95 attitudes to lying are so mixed up. I soon dis- impossible to understand human relations, or BISAC: SOC000000 covered that everything I thought I knew about to understand yourself, without first under- lying was wrong: I imagined that the human standing the dynamics of deceit. RIGHTS HELD: Canada tendency to lie was a design flaw that would 28 29 February The Little Book of Rob Ford The Unknown Torontonian

From public transit to gay marriage to “riding the gravy train,” here is the Praise for Rob Ford Excerpt ultimate collection of Rob Ford quips, quotes, and colourful comments. “He’s like Julian Fantino — what you see Rob Ford on Public Housing is what you get . . . I say he’s going to be the “People do not want government housing built Watch out Sarah Palin — here greatest mayor this city has ever seen . . . As far in the city of Toronto. They want roads fixed, comes Rob Ford! as I’m concerned you can put that in your pipe more police presence, but they don’t want you left-wing kooks.” — Don Cherry more government housing that will depreciate Love him or hate him, Rob Ford and his pub- the value of their property.” lic (mis)statements are endlessly entertaining, “Rob Ford is bananas.” — Eye Weekly often antagonizing, and always outrageous. Rob Ford on the Homeless For the first time ever, here are more than 100 “When I heard he had decided to run for mayor, “This is an insult to my constituents to even of the best quips, quotes, jabs, and gaffes from I wondered if he knew it was a full-time job.” think about having a homeless shelter in their one of Canada’s most colourful and controver- — Councillor Adam Vaughan ward. And you want me to have a public meet- sial politicians. ing to discuss this? Why don’t we have a public “He is the Walmart of politicians.” lynching?” Rob Ford on AIDS Prevention — Toronto Life “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, Rob Ford on Transportation you wouldn’t get AIDS probably . . . How are wom- en getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bisexual “I can’t support bike lanes. Roads are built for men.” buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at Rob Ford on “Oriental People” the end of the day.” “Those Oriental people work like dogs . . . They sleep beside their machines. The Oriental people, NONFICTION / POLITICAL SCIENCE/ they’re slowly taking over . . . They’re hard, hard Government/Local workers. 978-1-77089-007-7 5.5 x 5.5 • 128 pages Rob Ford on LGBT Rights Trade paperback • $8.99 “I don’t understand. Number one, I don’t under- stand a transgender. I don’t understand: is it a guy BISAC: POL040040 dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy? And we’re funding this for, I don’t know, what does RIGHTS HELD: World it say here? We’re giving them $3,210?”

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30 31 February Hitchens vs. Blair The Munk Debates Be it resolved that religion is a force of good in the world Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair

Two formidable minds. One powerfully charged debate. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Excerpt is the international best- selling author of God is Not Tony Blair: It is undoubtedly true that people Great: How Religion Poisons commit horrific acts of evil in the name of reli- On November 26, 2010, intellectual Everything. He is a regular gion. It is also undoubtedly true that people do juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher contributor to Vanity Fair, acts of extraordinary common good inspired by Hitchens went head-to-head with former Brit- The Atlantic Monthly, and Slate religion. Almost half of healthcare in Africa is ish Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the delivered by faith-based organizations, saving Western world’s most openly devout political TONY BLAIR was prime min- millions of lives. There are in Canada thousands leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. ister of the United Kingdom of religious organizations that care for the men- Few world leaders have had a greater hand in from 1997 to 2007. In 2008 he tally ill or disabled or disadvantaged or destitute. shaping current events than Blair; few writers launched the Tony Blair Faith So the proposition that religion is unadulterated poison is unsustainable. It can be destructive. It have been more outspoken and polarizing than Foundation, which promotes can also create a deep well of compassion and Hitchens. respect and understanding frequently does. People are inspired to do such In this edition of The Munk Debates — among the major religions. good by what I would say is the true essence of Canada’s premier international debate series faith, which is, along with doctrine and ritual — Hitchens and Blair square off on the con- particular to each faith, a basic belief common NONFICTION/RELIGION/General tentious questions that continue to dog the to all faiths in serving and loving God through 978-1-77089-008-4 topic of religion in our globalized world: How serving and loving your fellow human beings. 5 x 8 • 112 pages does faith influence our actions? What is the Trade paperback • $14.95 role of people of faith in the public sphere? Is Christopher Hitchens: I knew it would come BISAC: REL000000 religious doctrine rigid, or should we allow for up, that we’d be told about charity. And I take this flexibility in our interpretations? very seriously because we’re the first generation RIGHTS HELD: World For the first time ever, this exclusive debate, of people who know what the cure for poverty which played out to a sold-out audience, is now really is. The cure for poverty has a name, in fact. available in print form, along with candid It’s called the empowerment of women. Name interviews with Hitchens and Blair. Sharp, pro- me one religion that stands for that or ever has. vocative, and thoroughly engrossing, Hitchens Wherever you look in the world and you try to vs. Blair is a rigorous and electrifying intellec- remove the shackles of ignorance and disease and tual sparring match on the oldest question: Is stupidity from women it is invariably the clerisy religion a force for good in the world? that stands in the way. I’d like to hear a word of apology from the religious about that, if it was on offer.

32 33 June January The New Entrepreneurs You and Your Future Building a Green Economy for the Future Your Signs, Your In-Depth Personality Patterns, Your 40-Year Horoscopes Andrew Heintzman Georgia Nicols

“The New Entrepreneurs paints a heartening picture of what the green economy Canada’s most popular astrologer tells you everything you want to know could look like.” — Toronto Star about your past, your present, your future, and yourself.

In The New Entrepreneurs, author and You and Your Future is the first book by venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman brings together Canada’s foremost astrologer, Georgia Nicols, whose two concepts once considered mutually exclusive: sus- newspaper columns are read daily by millions. Now you tainability and profitability. Heintzman introduces us can read 40 years of forecasts (1985–2025), allowing you to a burgeoning class of entrepreneurs who are at the to predict your future by testing Georgia’s accuracy in forefront of the green economy. From forestry to water reading your past. Never before has a single astrology to agriculture and oil, Heintzman maps out the leading book spanned four decades of change — it’s the only enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, high-profit, astrology book you’ll ever need! Discover: clean-tech products and systems for export to a vast and • What Makes You Tick rapidly expanding global market. • What Your Style Is in Love and Romance Powerful, timely, and necessary, The New Entrepre- • When Partnerships Are in Jeopardy neurs offers a fresh and visionary approach to redesigning • When You Should Buy or Sell Real Estate our current economic system, one that uses the powerful • When a Major Move Is Coming forces within capitalism to act as a catalyst for change — • When to Ask for a Raise or Promote Your Career and profit. • Who You Really Are at Home and at Work • How to Be a Happier Person ANDREW HEINTZMAN is president and a co-founder BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/ of Investeco Capital, the first Canadian investment com- BODY/MIND & SPIRIT/ASTROLOGY/ Eerily accurate and written in Georgia’s wickedly wit- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pany focused exclusively on environmental sectors. He HOROSCOPES ty trademark style, You and Your Future is an entertaining 978-0-88784-292-4 was co-editor of Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over 978-0-88784-237-5 and insightful astrology guide that works! 5.5 x 8.5 • 296 pages Energy Is Changing Everything, Feeding the Future: From 6 x 9.25 • 624 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 Fat to Famine, and Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future, Paperback • $24.95 GEORGIA NICOLS is a popular international astrologer BISAC: BUS072000 BISAC: OCC009000 all published by . Before Investeco, whose horoscope columns appear in the National Post, RIGHTS HELD: World Andrew was a co-founder and publisher of Shift maga- RIGHTS HELD: World, excluding U.S. Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Chicago Sun-Times, zine. He lives in Toronto. OTHER RIGHTS: Rick Broadhead & Press Democratic (Santa Rosa, California), and China Daily Associates (Beijing). She is a regular columnist in Elle Canada and the San Francisco Examiner among others. She also makes regular appearances on television and radio, and has a marketing notes marketing notes popular website (www.georgianicols.com) with more than • National media mailing • National media mailing a million annual readers. • Co-op available • Co-op available 34 35 Available

The 2010 CBC Player One Massey Lectures What Is to Become of Us will be rebroadcast on CBC Radio One’s A Novel in Five Hours Ideas on March 28 The 2010 CBC Massey Lectures to April 1, 2011. Douglas Coupland

“Player One continues the inexorable drive into the Couplandesque . . . into the realms of really great fiction.” — Indepedent

longlist, SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An amazon.ca best book national bestseller granta and International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on- portobello his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about them- selves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of FICTION/LITERARY existence as a species — and that there is no turning back. 978-0-88784-972-5 5 x 8 • 256 pages DOUGLAS COUPLAND is the international bestselling Trade paperback • $19.95 author of Generation X, and eleven other novels, including BISAC: FIC019000 The Gum Thief, Hey Nostradamus!, All Families Are Psychotic, RIGHTS HELD: World and Generation A, which was a national bestseller and a Rights Sold: World English, excluding North America (William Heinemann), finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His Netherlands (J.M. Meulenhoff), China nonfiction books include Marshall McLuhan, Polaroids from (China Citic Press), Portugual (Editorial the Dead, Terry: The Life of Terry Fox, and Souvenir of Can- Teorema), Russia (AST-PRESS), France (Au Diable Vauvert), French, North ada. His books have been translated into thirty-five lan- America (Editions Hurtubise), Germany guages and published in many countries around the world. (Klett-Cotta Verlag) He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.

36 June July This Party’s Got to Stop Andes Rupert Thomson Michael Jacobs

“Wonderfully dark, relentlessly slippery . . . I read this entire memoir with A fascinating journey southwards along the world’s longest mountain range, my breath held.” — Observer exploring the diverse geography and cultures of the mountains themselves, and the compelling stories of Andean travellers past and present.

WINNER, WRITERS’ GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN AWARD: NONFICTION Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and contain- ing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the larg- In his first venture into nonfiction, the celebrated est salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. alone. But beyond the range’s sheer immensity is its con- On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned centration of radically contrasting scenery and climates. home from school to discover that his mother had died In this remarkable book, travel writer Michael Jacobs suddenly while playing tennis. Twenty years later, Thom- journeys across seven different countries, from the balmy son and his brothers receive word that their father, who Caribbean to the inhospitable islands of the Tierra del suffered chronic lung damage during the war, has died Fuego, through the relics of ancient civilizations, to re- alone in hospital. In an attempt to come to terms both with trace the footsteps of previous travellers. His route begins their own loss and with their parents’ legacies, the three in Venezuela, following the path of the great nineteenth- brothers move back into their father’s house. The time century revolutionary Simón Bolívar. On his way Jacobs they spend in this decadent, anarchic commune leads to a attempts to uncover the stories of those who have shared rift between Thomson and his youngest brother, a rift that his fascination, and to reveal the secrets of a region steeped will not be addressed for more than two decades. in history, science, and myth. This Party’s Got to Stop works Thomson’s memories into a powerful mosaic that reveals the fragility of family BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ TRAVEL/ESSAYS & TRAVELOGUES MICHAEL JACOBS was born in Italy and studied Art life in graphic and often heartbreaking detail. It is both PERSONAL MEMOIRS 978-1-84708-176-6 History at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the 978-1-84708-174-2 a love letter to a lost brother and a chronicle of the mur- 5 x 8 • 592 pages author of several travel books, and was shortlisted for the 5 x 8 • 272 pages derousness and longing that can characterize blood rela- Trade paperback • $24.95 2004 Thomas Cook Prize. He lives in Spain and London. Trade paperback • $19.95 tionships. BISAC: TRV010000 BISAC: BI0026000 RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels: Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air & Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book of Revelation, Divided Kingdom, and most recently, Death of a Murderer, which marketing notes was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and by World Book Day for the Book to Talk About 2008. He • ARCs available marketing notes lives in Barcelona with his wife and daughter. This is his • National review attention • ARCs available first book for Granta. • Co-op available • National review attention 38 39 march April when i lived in modern times Children of the Sun remind me who i am, again Max Schaefer linda grant

When I Lived in Modern Times A stunning debut novel in the tradition of Absolute Beginners, The Buddha of Linda Grant Suburbia, and The Line of Beauty. A stylish reissue of the Orange Prize–winning novel.

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, 1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world from across Europe to start a new life in a brand new country. In the of brutal racist violence, and bizarre ritual. It’s a milieu glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems pos- in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every sible — the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept encounter is explosively risky. 2003: James is a young TV at disguises, reinvents herself as the bleached-blonde Priscilla Jones. researcher, living with his boyfriend. At a loose end, he Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she finds love, and with begins to research the far right in Britain and its secret Johnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game. gay membership. He becomes particularly fascinated by

FICTION/LITERARY Nicky Crane, the leader of the movement who came out 978-1-84708-261-9 as gay before dying of AIDS in 1993. 5 x 8 • 272 pages Remind Me Who I Am, Again Trade paperback • $18.95 The two narrative threads of this extraordinarily BISAC: FIC019000 Linda Grant assured and ambitious first novel follow Tony through “A skillful, moving, even humorous book.” the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, as the skinhead movement splin- — Scotland on Sunday ters and weakens, and James through a year in which he At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant’s mother, Rose, was diag- becomes dangerously immersed in his research, making nosed with dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant contact with individuals on far-right websites and receiv- tells the story of Rose’s illness and tries to reconstruct the history of ing threatening phone calls. And then the lives of these their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland FICTION/LITERARY two very different heroes unforgettably intersect. to New York and London. Writing with humour and great tender- 978-1-84708-242-8 Children of the Sun is a work of great imaginative sym- ness, Grant explores profound questions about memory, autonomy, 5 x 8 • 256 pages pathy and range — a novel of unblinking honesty but also and identity, and asks if we can ever really know our parents. Trade paperback • $18.95 of deep feeling, which illuminates the surprisingly thin BISAC: FIC019000 line that separates aggression from tenderness and offers LINDA GRANT was born in Liverpool in 1951. She was educated in us a picture of a Britain that is strange and yet utterly Liverpool and studied at the University of York and in Canada. Her convincing. first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Award and was shortlisted for the Fiction Prize. She is the author of a Guardian MAX SCHAEFER was born in London in 1974 and stud- memoir — Remind Me Who I Am, Again — and two further novels: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ ied at Cambridge and Harvard. Children of the Sun is his When I Lived in Modern Times, which won the 2000 Orange Prize for PERSONAL MEMOIRS first novel. 978-1-84708-269-5 fiction, and The Clothes on Their Backs, which was shortlisted for the 5 x 8 • 320 pages marketing notes Trade paperback • $18.95 Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, We Had It So Good, will be pub- BISAC: BI0026000 lished in 2011. • ARCs available • National review attention 40 41 May April Bride Flight Madame Verona Comes Down Marieke van der Pol the Hill Dimitri Verhulst

Taking off in London in 1953 and touching down in New Zealand some fifty A tender, precise, and pitch-perfect novel about a widow of legendary beauty years later, Bride Flight is a compelling debut. and a love that endures beyond death.

In 1953, the last great transcontinental air race from LONGLIST, IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD London to Christchurch is about to begin, but even before the KLM plane has left the runway, it has already become Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a famous as the “bride flight” for its cargo of brides-to-be home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small vil- flying out to join their fiancés on the other side of the lage. There they lived in isolation, practicing their music world. Among them are Ada, Marjorie, and Esther, who and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. all have their own reasons for wanting to leave the past When Mr. Verona died, the locals might have expected behind and make a fresh start. And then there’s Frank, that the legendary beauty would return to the village, but a charismatic bachelor with big dreams for the future, Madame Verona had enough wood to keep her warm dur- whose path will continue to cross with each of the women ing the years it would take to make a cello — the instru- as they build very different lives for themselves in New ment her husband loved — and in the meantime she had Zealand. It is only when they meet again, years later at her dogs for company. Frank’s funeral, that the three women realize just how One cold February morning, when the last log has tightly their lives have been bound together by what hap- burned, Madame Verona sets off down the village path, pened on that fateful voyage. with her cello and her memories, knowing that she will have no strength to climb the hill again. Poignant, pre- MARIEKE VAN DER POL is the author of the prize- cise, and perfectly structured, this is a story of one wom- winning script for the international hit film The Twin an’s tender and enduring love — as a wife and as a widow. FICTION/GENERAL FICTION/GENERAL 978-1-84627-173-1 Girls. This, her debut novel, has also been made into a 978-1-84627-157-1 5 x 8 • 448 pages film in the Netherlands. 5 x 8 • 160 pages DIMITRI VERHULST is the author of a collection Trade paperback • $18.95 Trade paperback • $18.95 of short stories, a volume of poetry and several novels, BISAC: FIC000000 BISAC: FIC000000 including Problemski Hotel (Marion Boyars), which was translated into English in 2003. All his books are widely translated in Europe and receive a lot of critical praise.

marketing notes marketing notes • ARCs available • ARCs available • National review attention • National review attention 42 43 April Filthy English GRANTA MAGAZINE The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing Edited by John Freeman Peter Silverton

A frank, funny, and provocative journey through the international culture of The world’s most prestigious English-language magazine of new writing. swearing, from the shocked seventies to the naughty noughties.

When the Sex Pistols swore live on televi- Granta 114, February 2011: Aliens sion in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Head- This new issue of Granta features tales from the shift- lines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. ing terrain of alien culture, and those at odds with and Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream yet fully inside of another culture. Mark Gevisser writes — bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. of two closeted gay South African men whose friendship This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade has lasted five decades. Dinaw Mengestu writes of a war journey from the fringes of decency to the working cen- being waged in Sierra Leone by exiles. Robert MacFar- tre of a more linguistically liberal nation. lane meets Palestinian families who can no longer return Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive, and witty to their own homes. Nami Mun conjures a couple who look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability feel like strangers in the wake of a terrible betrayal. on our language, our manners, and our society. He con- This issue of Granta will draw into focus one of the siders how we have become more openly emotional, yet most pressing issues of our time: Who do we call outsiders? more wary about insulting others. And how it’s seemingly become all right to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. Granta 115, May 2011: The Dirty Word This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of This bold, political issue of Granta will explore the power dynamic between women and men from a wide variety the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim Granta 114, February 2011 of literary genres and perspectives. In “You Speak to filthy English and use it. 978-1-90588-133-8 LANGUAGE ARTS/GENERAL Save Your Life,” A. L. Kennedy investigates the surpris- 978-1-84627-169-4 ing ways in which the human voice can be trapped and 5 x 8 • 256 pages PETER SILVERTON has been a journalist for thirty Granta 115, May 2011 978-1-90588-134-5 unlocked. Sara Wheeler retraces the travels of Fanny Trade paperback • $19.95 years. He started as features editor at Sounds in 1976, cov- BISAC: LAN000000 ered Punk, went on the Anarchy Tour bus with the Pistols Trollope, who uprooted to Ohio from England at the age LITERARY COLLECTIONS/GENERAL of forty-eight and began an improbable second life. Julie and Clash and later wrote Glen Matlock’s autobiography 4.7x 7.2 • 256 pages Otsuka contributes a powerful piece of fiction about mail- (I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol). He’s also worked as an edi- Trade paperback • $21.95 order brides from Japan arriving in the U.S. and with tor at Time Out, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Express, 32pp plate section, 20 illustrations “The Sex Lives of African Girls,” the issue will introduce and the Guardian, and written for practically every music BISAC: LC0000000 magazine and newspaper in the land. Taiye Selasi, who spins a haunting story about the way marketing notes adult sexuality can be imposed upon the young. The Dirty Word addresses a complex theme many read- • ARCs available ers know has never lost its urgency. • National review attention • Co-op available 44 45 March The Granta Book of the Irish Edited by Anne Enright

Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright’s selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years.

Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection groundwood of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades books of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form.

Includes stories by:

• Maeve Brennan • Mary Lavin • William Trevor • John McGahern • Colum McCann FICTION/ANTHOLOGIES (MULTIPLE • Colm Tóibín AUTHORS) 978-1-84708-218-3 ANNE ENRIGHT 6.2 x 9.3 • 752 pages has published essays, short stories, a Trade paperback • $29.95 nonfiction book about motherhood, Making Babies, and BISAC: FIC003000 four novels, including The Gathering, winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She lives in County Wicklow.

46 June May High Riders, Saints and Death Cars My Tattooed Dad A Life Saved by Art Written by Daniel Nesquens Nicholas HerrEra Illustrated by Magicomora

How art saved a very troubled young Hispanic man — now a great role model. A beautifully illustrated chapter book for boys, whether their dads are tattooed or not!

Nicholas Herrera started life as a mis- A young boy describes what life is like when his dad chievous, dyslexic boy, born into one of the old Spanish comes home — how he fries up chicken samosas for din- families of New Mexico. Bad teachers and poor schooling ner, how he makes jokes and fools around, and how he helped him to lose himself in drugs, drinking, riding mo- carries him off to bed when he is sleepy. His dad also tells torcycles, and driving fast cars. A near-death experience, wonderful stories of his adventures in far-off lands, often a wonderful mother, and a fascination with making art inspired by his many exotic tattoos. His letters to his son saved him. are full of great stories about the past — what the first Today Nicholas Herrera is one of the most noted date with the boy’s mother was like and how he saved the Santeros — artists who create images of saints and other boy’s life twice. But as his mother says, his dad has ants religious figures — in the U.S. He is noted for the highly in his pants, which means he’s often not around. Still, life personal, political nature of his work. A survivor of alco- rolls along with one fantastical tale after another, in good holism and drug addiction, which almost led to his death times and bad. This extraordinary father’s gift to his child in a terrible car crash, Herrera is now sober and remark- is the life of the imagination, which is always with his son, ably productive. even when he is not. JUVENILE NONFICTION/ Nicholas’s story will speak directly to young people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ especially those who might feel that life has nothing to DANIEL NESQUENS is a prolific, award-winning ART JUVENILE FICTION/FAMILY/ 978-0-88899-854-5 offer them due to their economic circumstances or their author who has written books for children and young PARENTS 9.3 x 11.4 • 56 pages class or ethnic backgrounds. adults. Several of his books have been listed in the White 978-1-55498-109-0 Hardcover w/jacket • $24.95 Ravens Catalogue and have been recognized by Venezu- 8 x 11 • 48 pages BISAC: JNF007010 NICHOLAS HERRERA is one of the best-known folk Hardcover w/jacket • $18.95 ela’s Banco del libro in “Los mejores libros para niños y artists working in the United States today. His art is in BISAC: JUV013060 jóvenes” (the best books for children and youth). He lives Rights Held: World the permanent collections of museums across the U.S., in Zaragoza, Spain. including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Ameri- Rights held: English, North can Art. His work has been exhibited in New York, , America MAGICOMORA is one of the most important pop surreal- Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Pueblo, and Santa Fe. He ist artists in Spain and has exhibited his work all over the lives in El Rito, New Mexico. world. He is also a children’s book illustrator with more than fifteen books to his credit. The Spanish edition of JOHN T. DENNE is a photographer who lives and works My Tattooed Dad was named best children’s book by the in New Mexico. Association of Illustrators of Catalonia. Magicomora lives in Barcelona, Spain.

48 49 April A daisy is a daisy is a daisy (except when it’s a girl’s name) Books for Giving Linda Wolfsgruber

Flower names are often girls’ names in all languages. This exquisite book Tessa and Scott will be loved by gardeners, prospective parents, and teachers, who can use Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold the names when talking about different cultures. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir As told to Steve Milton • Foreword by Tracy Wilson Many girls are named after flowers (or even forms 978-0-88784-273-3 • Hardcover • 208 pages • $34.95 of the word “flower,” such as Flora), which inspired Linda “What separates [Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir] from the others? They can Wolfsgruber to create this utterly charming book. Girls’ make you weep. They are trendsetters, with skill, polish, and charisma.” names in different languages accompany her imaginative — Globe and Mail illustrations, so that the reader discovers, for example, that Gul means rose in Turkish, but that it is Rosa in Spanish Canadian Railroad Trilogy and Raisa in Hebrew. Other flowers named in the book Gordon Lightfoot include buttercup, sunflower, lily of the valley, daisy, blue- Illustrated by Ian Wallace bell, snowdrop, hyacinth, camomile, violet, tulip, poppy, and lily. 978-0-88899-953-5 • Hardcover • 56 pages • $24.95 This is a beautiful and intriguing gift book for anyone “In this marvellous and yes, iconic, book, [Ian] Wallace succeeds in interested in girls’ names, flowers, and the fine art of book both honouring [Gordon] Lightfoot’s song and replaying it in a most illustration. It can also be used in the classroom to talk original way.” — Globe and Mail Juvenile Nonfiction/ about multiculturalism, language, and botany. Governor Horn A A Girls & WOmen General’s Book Quill & Quire Horn Book I Know Here Award Award Book of the Best Book of Winner Year 978-1-55498-099-4 LINDA WOLFSGRUBER is a highly acclaimed artist in Laurel Croza Finalist the Year 7 x 8 • 32 pages Austria and around the world. She has exhibited her work Illustrated by Matt James Hardcover • $16.95 throughout Europe as well as in the United States and BISAC: JNF023000 978-0-88899-923-8 • Hardcover • 40 pages • $18.95 Japan and has won many awards, including the Austrian “. . . a beautifully wrought tale in which the illustrations [ . . . ] amplify Rights Held: English, World Children’s and Juvenile Book Award for Illustration (four the book’s emotional resonance as well as its visual impact.” times) and the Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illus- — tration Bratislava. She has also been nominated for prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her very original illustrations appear in Inanna: From the Myths of Life Class Ancient Sumer, Stories from the Life of Jesus, and Brunhilda Diana Athill and the Ring. She lives in Vienna, Austria. Introduction by Ian Jack 978-1-84708-123-0 • Hardcover • 784 pages • $39.95 “There is a sense throughout Athill’s works that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story.” — Observer

50 51 Books for Mom Books for Dad

Far to Go The Munk Debates Alison Pick Edited by Rudyard Griffiths Introduction by Peter Munk 978-0-88784-238-2 • Hardcover • 280 pages • $29.95 978-0-88784-248-1 • Trade paperback • 312 pages • $24.95 “The writing in Far to Go is clean, crisp, and unencumbered. Pick never dwells for too long in an image or metaphor, and she creates small moments Canada’s premier international debate series featuring the world’s leading that are both lovely and frightening.” — Globe and Mail thinkers on the major issues of our time.

Writers’ Orion CBA Libris Independent Trust Non- Book Nonfiction Publisher fiction Prize Award Award Book Award One Bird’s Choice The Wayfinders Finalist Finalist Winner WInner A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty- Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World Something Who Moves Back Home Wade Davis Iain Reid 978-0-88784-842-1 • Trade paperback • 240 pages • $19.95 978-0-88784-243-6 • Hardcover • 288 pages • $29.95 “This year’s Massey Lecturer presents his refreshing view, of examining “Reid isn’t trying to teach anybody how to eat, pray, or love: he simply observes ancient wisdom and indigenous cultures to help us find our own path, and it himself, his family, and all their laughable idiosyncrasies.” — Maclean’s demands to be read.” — National Post

#1 Governor Writers’ BC National QWF Mavis QWF National General’s Trust Award for Gallant McAuslan Nonfiction Canadian Nonfiction Best First A Globe FT/ Lionel Bestseller Award Prize Nonfiction Prize Book Prize National Goldman Sachs Gelber Finalist Finalist Finalist Winner Winner Bestseller and Mail Business Book Top 100 Award Prize The Cello Suites Book Finalist Finalist J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece McMafia Eric Siblin A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Misha Glenny 978-0-88784-958-9 • Trade paperback • 328 pages • $19.95 978-0-88784-818-6 • Trade paperback • 400 pages • $19.95 “To vivify music in words is not easy. But Eric Siblin rises to the task . . . “A riveting and chilling journey . . . Readers yearning for a deeper under- Read The Cello Suites . . . and you will never look at a cello in quite the standing of the real-life, international counterparts to The Sopranos need same way again.” — The Economist look no further than Glenny’s engrossing study.” — Publishers Weekly

Rogers Common- Thrifty IMPAC Dublin Governor Scotiabank General’s Writers’ wealth Literary Award Giller Prize Trust Prize Writers’ Prize Winner Award Living the Frugal Life with Style De Niro’s Game Finalist Finalist Finalist Finalist

Marjorie Harris McAuslan Paragraphe First Book Hugh A Guardian MacLennan Best Book of Prize Prize Winner 978-0-88784-832-2 • Trade paperback • 280 pages • $19.95 978-0-88784-813-1 • Paperback • 256 pages • $14.95 Winner the Year “Harris reminds us that the word thrifty is derived from the word thrive. “Hage’s energetic prose matches the brutality depicted in the novel without If we do it right, she promises, living thriftily will make us feel good — overstating the narrative’s tragic arc — an impressive first outing.” not deprived.” — Montreal Gazette — Publishers Weekly

52 53 books for the beach

A Globe and Mail Help Me, Jacques Cousteau Sandra Beck Top 100 Gil Adamson John Lavery Book 978-0-88784-799-8 • Trade paperback • 280 pages • $18.95 978-0-88784-256-6 • Trade paperback w/flaps • 208 pages • $22.95 “I found that I wanted to read this book slowly, only a few pages at a time, “Sandra Beck emerges from the [ . . . ] enormous talent and skill of a gifted perhaps like a dish that is too rich to be consumed all at once . . . the characters author. It is a pleasure and a marvel.” — Globe and Mail and the writing are gripping.” — Sideroads of Simcoe-Grey

Man Cold Earth A Globe A Quill & Common- Independent IMPAC Dublin A New National Booker and Mail Quire Book wealth Publisher Yorker Bestseller Prize Literary Award February Top 100 of the Writers’ Prize Book Award Finalist Best Book Sarah Moss Finalist Book Year Finalist Winner Lisa Moore 978-1-84708-138-4 • Trade paperback • 288 pages • $16.95 978-0-88784-962-6 • Trade paperback • 320 pages • $19.95 A darkly atmospheric, intelligent first novel about a team of young archaeologists “Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her char- in Greenland unearthing the remains of an extinct Norse community while a acters. She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and plague rages in the outside world. maybe even the point of being human.” — Globe and Mail

Trillium The Baby of Belleville Book Award Heaven is Small Finalist Anne Marsella Emily Schultz 978-1-84627-223-3 • Trade paperback • 320 pages • $24.95 978-0-88784-956-5 • Trade paperback • 250 pages • $18.95 A mad, magical caper set in Paris involving a new baby, some monks on the “. . . captivating . . . hilarious . . . seems tailor-made for a Hollywood run, and a mother-in-law who seems intent on breaking the law. adaptation.” — Flare

I Am the Market ReLit Award How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton and Live Happily Holding Still for as Long as Possible Finalist Zoe Whittall Luca Rastello Translated by Jonathan Hunt 978-0-88784-964-0 • Trade paperback • 312 pages • $18.95 978-1-84708-154-4 • Trade paperback • 176 pages • $21.95 “Whittall is a dexterous puppeteer, and the book is unputdownable.” — Globe and Mail “. . . this is quite simply the best book about cocaine that we have read in the last ten years.” — Maxim UK

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