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n this deeply moving memoir, Margaret Trudeau speaks with Icandour and insight about the illness that silently shaped her life—a life lived often in turbulence and in the public’s fasci- nation. Plagued since childhood by extreme moods, Margaret was ill-prepared for the high-profile role into which she was cast at age twenty-two, as Canada’s youngest first lady. Capti- vated by her high spirits, youth and beauty, Canadians fell in love with Margaret, just as they had with her charismatic hus- band, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, three years earlier. When their first son, Justin, was born on Christmas Day and their second son, Sacha, on the same day two years later, this “I believe that I was born bipolar couple seemed almost enchanted. but that it took nearly fifty years for But away from the cameras and the public appearances, and increasingly isolated at 24 Sussex Drive, Margaret struggled a true and proper diagnosis, and for with a growing depression offset by bouts of mania. Her behav- me to be able to accept that fact.” iour seemed inexplicable to many—including to herself—and —from On Balance two years after the birth of their third son, Michel, the mar- riage broke down. Gradually, though, a fragile stability took hold, as Margaret found happiness in work as a photographer margaret trudeau and in her marriage to Fried Kemper. But the tragic death of Mi- chel Trudeau, closely followed by Pierre Trudeau’s own passing, On Balance caused her to spiral into suicidal depression. Finally accepting A Memoir the diagnosis of bipolar, she sought medical treatment. Under intense international scrutiny, Margaret Trudeau MEMOIR • $34.99 CL has survived remarkable highs and devastating lows. Since ISBN: 978-1-55468-538-7 regaining control of her life, she has brought her formidable ONE-day LaydOwN: OCtOBER 19/10 passion to helping others, be they Canadians suffering from BIO026000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 mental illness or families living without access to water half a 50 full-colour photos rights acquired: world/all languages world away. A recipient of the Society of Biological Psychiatry other rights: Michael A. Levine, Goodmans LLP Humanitarian Award, she now offers her journey of recovery, editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Rob Firing acceptance and hope, and generously shares with us many pre- viously unreleased photos, in one of the most important mem- oirs to come out of this country.
MARGARET TRUDEAU was born in Vancouver, Canada, where she attended Simon Fraser University. The former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, she is also the author of two previous memoirs, Beyond Reason (1979) and Consequences (1982). Margaret now works with WaterCan, a registered charity dedi- cated to providing clean drinking water to the world s poorest people, and speaks across the country on mental health issues. She lives in Montreal.
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r. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician o five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he dat Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journalist. Nev- twas born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. er one to shy away from controversy, Goldman specializes in At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case kicking open the doors to the medical establishment, revealing Old Nick comes. The popular host of CBC Radio’s what really goes on behind the scenes—and in the minds of Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where White Coat, Black Art takes us to the doctors and nurses. Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. This room is not on any map In The Night Shift, Goldman shares his experiences in the Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for front line of emergency medicine witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. herself and her son, but she knows it’s not enough for either of We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an ER after mid- them. Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation— emma donoghue dr. brian goldman night: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last and Room can’t contain either of them for much longer . . . call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman Told entirely in the inventive, often funny voice of Jack, Room the Night Shift who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Room is a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and A Novel Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of child, and a brilliantly executed novel about a journey from one Real L ife in t he Hear t of t he E R everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death world to another. FICtION • $29.99 CL decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, ISBN: 978-1-55468-831-9 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt HEaLtH/HEaLtH CaRE • $29.99 CL FIC019000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 ISBN: 978-1-55468-391-8 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understand- EMMA DONOGHUE has published six novels, including the rights acquired: Canada/English language HEA028000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 ing and a quick fix in the twenty-four-hour waiting room. Writ- internationally acclaimed and bestselling Slammerkin, Life Mask other rights: Little, Brown U.S. rights acquired: world/all languages ten with Goldman’s trademark honesty and with surprising and The Sealed Letter, which was longlisted for the Giller Prize. editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Emma Ingram other rights: Rick Broadhead & Associates humour, The Night Shift is also a frank look at many issues fac- Born in Ireland, Donoghue lives in London, Ontario, with her editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love ing the medical profession today, and offers a highly compelling partner and their two children. Visit the author online at www. inside view into an often shrouded world. emmadonoghue.com.
For more than twenty years, DR. BRIAN GOLDMAN has been “Emma donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing in- a highly regarded emergency physician at Toronto s Mount Si- nocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a nai Hospital, and he has parlayed his medical expertise into an book to read in one sitting. when it’s over and you look up, the world looks the same but you are somehow different, award-winning career in medical journalism. CBC Radio One s and that feeling lingers for days.” h ouse doctor, Dr. Goldman is also the host of the radio pro- audrey niffenegger, author of the time traveler's gram White Coat, Black Art, which airs on CBC Radio. He lives wife and her fearful symmetry in Toronto with his wife and two children. “I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling “What’s wrong with me, doctor?” It’s a typical ques- use of language. and with all this, an entirely credible, en- tion, even if it’s not spoken out loud. But it’s in their dearing little boy. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before.” anita shreve eyes; it hovers in the air as I take down their medical history. Some ask an even tougher question: “Am I going to die?” They want answers and sometimes I have them, even if they’re not the answers they want also available by emma donoghue or pray to hear. The Sealed Letter from the night shift 978-1-55468-037-5 $18.95 tpb Slammerkin 978-1-55468-470-0 $19.99 tpb
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Drawn from the life of Henry James— Canada’s most popular military leader an unconventional woman at odds challenges Canadians: lead, follow with those who control her fate or get run over melissa jones general rick hillier Emily Hudson Leadership Matters A Novel BuSINESS • $32.99 CL FICtION • $21.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/ FLaPS ISBN: 978-1-55468-493-9 ISBN: 978-1-55468-542-4 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt ONE-day LaydOwN: OCtOBER 5/10 FIC000000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 BUS071000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: world/all languages other rights: Conville & Walsh other rights: Westwood Creative Artists publicist: Lindsey Love editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love
t the start of the American Civil War, Emily, an orphan, is MELISSA JONES, the daughter of a Jamaican screenwriter eneral Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his GENERAL RICK HILLIER enlisted in the Canadian Forces in aexpelled from school because of her “extravagant” friend- and an English actress, was born in London in 1965 and ed- Gthree decades as a soldier, first by watching many of his 1973 and in May 2003 was appointed Commander of the Army. ship with another pupil and her unsettlingly wild nature. Sent ucated at Oxford University (where she won a scholarship to superiors make bad decisions, then by learning from the school In February 2005, he was promoted to Chief of the Defence to live with her rich, puritanical uncle and his family by the sea study English). After working in film and television as well as in a of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in staff; he stepped down in the summer of 2008. The author of in Newport, she longs to be an artist, but her attempts at self- variety of odd jobs, Melissa is now living with her family in Essex Canada and international task forces in eastern Europe and the #1 bestseller A Soldier First, Hillier resides in Ottawa. expression are frowned upon by her estranged family. Her uncle and writing full-time. Afghanistan. Never one to be shy with his opinions, Hillier is seeks to rid himself of her through a marriage, even though she as frank and straightforward in Leadership Matters as he is in praise for a soldier first, has no fortune. “I loved Emily Hudson: an elegant, persuasive and his #1 bestselling memoir, A Soldier First. a globe and mail best book of 2009 Despite the formidable restraints of her new life, Emily engrossing novel.” For Hillier, leadership is all about people—embracing “what is most important about General Rick Hillier’s book forms a close alliance with her cousin William. Ailing and fay weldon those in your charge and winning over those you need to work is what he writes about the world context in which Canada ambivalent about his sexuality, William becomes obsessed by with—not about risk aversion or management fads. Leaders lives. . . . without the capacity to deploy effective, well- “My favourite book in a long while: a spellbinding tale Emily’s spirit and beauty and uses it as a way of funding his own think long, and have a vision. Their actions speak, not their trained, well-led hard power when needed, no one will pay that manages to be both literary and romantic.” attention to Canada. Hillier superbly makes [that] case.” creativity. He rescues Emily from an uncertain future by inviting words, and they make their own luck. But leaders also act out of julia gregson, author of east of the sun the globe and mail her to accompany him to England, where she enrolls as an art moral courage, accept failure, take advantage of crisis and are student, dependent on his support. “No ordinary piece of Victoriana. . . . [Henry] James’ cousin perpetually optimistic. Dramatically told in beautiful and tender prose, Emily Minnie temple is given the life she deserved.” Leadership Matters is an inspirational, easy-to-read and, in Hudson is a brilliantly readable novel that will appeal to any- the times (london) true Hillier fashion, always entertaining collection of principles also available by general rick hillier body who has ever sought to be true to themselves but also to that will challenge the way you run your business, start a proj- A Soldier First 978-1-55468-491-5 $34.99 cl find love. ect or take that next step in life. available in tpb in august 2010 (see page 53)
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avid Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, n a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by a phyllis bruce book dand after thirteen years of marriage he still can’t imag- Ithe name of Aerlene Ward feels that she must now confess the ine living without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her great secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daugh- demise. Soon she is dead, and he’s both deeply distraught and ter of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwright. The Giller-winning author of An audacious first novel unlike anything the prime suspect in her possible murder. With a brilliant eye and ear for this rich period of history, Clara Callan brings us another unforgettable you’ve read—Mr. Peanut is a police The officers investigating her death are intimately famil- Richard B. Wright brings to life the teeming streets of Elizabe- woman—meet Shakespeare’s daughter iar with conjugal enigmas. Detective Ward Hastroll was hap- than London and the seasonal rhythms of rural life in Oliver procedural of the soul pily married until his wife became inexplicably and militantly Cromwell’s England as he interweaves the intriguing stories bedridden. And Detective Sam Sheppard is especially sensi- of the lovely Elizabeth, who allows herself to be seduced by a richard b. wright adam ross tive to marital guilt, having decades before been convicted struggling young writer from Stratford, and her plain but clever and then declared innocent of his wife’s brutal murder. daughter, who must live with the consequences. As their lives un- Mr. Shakespeare’s Mr. Peanut When Pepin is linked to a hit man, the ambiguity en- fold, secrets are revealed, love is found and lost, and futures are folding this case begins to resemble the Escher drawings that forever changed. Readers will be fascinated by glimpses of the Bastard A Novel inspire the computer games Pepin designs for a living. These young Will as an actor with the Queen’s Men and, fifteen years A Novel complex, interlocking dramas of murder and marriage bril- later, as a world-weary but increasingly wealthy playwright— FICtION • $32.99 CL FICtION • $32.99 CL ISBN: 978-1-55468-837-1 • aVaILaBLE NOw liantly explore the twinned impulses of love and hate, each who may have had an unexpected daughter. ISBN: 978-1-55468-835-7• SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER FIC022020 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 endlessly cycling into the other. An engaging blend of invention and historical detail, and FIC019000 • 352 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English language Surprising, emotionally intense, and astonishing in its echoing the unmistakable style of the Bard himself, Mr. Shake- rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Susanna Lea Associates reach, Mr. Peanut is a first novel of the highest order. speare’s Bastard confirms Wright as one of our finest storytellers. other rights: The Cooke Agency editor: Alex Schultz • publicist: Margaret Nozuka editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka “the most riveting look at the dark side of marriage since “a many-layered marvel.” Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . . . It induced nightmares, ottawa citizen on clara callan at least in this reader. No mean feat.” stephen king RICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of eleven previous novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 bestseller that won the Giller Prize, ADAM ROSS was born and raised in New York City. He holds the Governor General s Award, the Trillium Book Award and the an MA in creative writing from Hollins University and an MFA in CBA Libris Awards for Best Book and Author of the Year. The creative writing from Washington University, where he studied Age of Longing was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Gov- with Richard Dillard, Stanley Elkin and William Gass. He lives in ernor General s Award. Adultery was a #1 bestseller, as was the Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two daughters. Giller-longlisted October.
also available by richard b. wright When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his Adultery wife, he didn’t kill her himself. He dreamed of 978-0-00-639381-8 $19.95 tpb convenient acts of God. The Age of Longing from mr. peanut 978-0-00-639206-4 $17.95 tpb Clara Callan 978-1-55468-480-9 $19.99 tpb Final Things 978-0-00-639271-2 $18.95 tpb In the Middle of a Life 978-0-00-639207-1 $18.95 tpb October 978-0-00-200690-3 $18.95 tpb Sunset Manor 978-0-00-639239-2 $18.95 tpb
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n a leafy street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there atty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old Olives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy PSt. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant- family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort part of the local book club. Their children, Clara and Rowan, of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your bat- In his first novel since The Corrections, may be experiencing all the hormonal anguish of being teenag- teries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. Meet the Radleys, ers . . . but that’s only a normal part of growing up. However, She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s the extraordinary #1 bestseller, Jonathan an everyday family of vampires Peter and Helen have kept from the children a life-changing dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, com- Franzen delivers a powerful epic of family secret. muter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part contemporary love and marriage One night, when Clara finds herself driven to committing to build a better world. matt haig a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have rather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with jonathan franzen the Radleys their children: why it is that their skin is so sensitive to sunlight, the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Wal- A Novel why they all find garlic so repulsive, why Clara’s recent decision ter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Freedom to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health . . . and other Katz—outré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rival— A Novel FICtION • $21.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/FLaPS disadvantages of being a family of abstaining vampires. still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to ISBN: 978-1-55468-858-6 • SHIPPING IN dECEMBER Reeling from their parents’ revelation, and with the police Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become “a very FICtION • $34.99 CL FIC015000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 ISBN: 978-1-55468-883-8 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt rights acquired: Canada/English language closing in, Clara and Rowan are stunned by the further dis- different kind of neighbour,” an implacable Fury coming un- FIC019000 • 576 pp • 6 X 9 • carton qty: 16 other rights: Canongate Books (U.K.) covery that they also have an uncle, a smooth-talking and de- hinged before the street’s attentive eyes? rights acquired: Canada/English language publicist: Rob Firing cidedly active vampire who has been kept away from them all In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux their lives. But when he swoops into the village to save the day, has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. publicist: Colleen Clarke he unleashes a host of shadowy and even darker secrets that Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations will bring the whole Radley family either to reconciliation and and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken readjustment . . . or to self-destruction. compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and praise for the last family in england joys of Freedom’s intensely realized characters as they strug- “a comic tour de force.” gle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, the times (london) Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving por- trait of our time. praise for the dead fathers club
“Poignant, funny, innocent, touching. . . . a fine piece of JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of The Corrections, win- work by a talented and clearly imaginative young writer.” ner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The sunday express Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. He lives in MATT HAIG has published three adult novels: The Last Fam- New York City. ily in England, The Dead Fathers Club and The Possession of Mr. Cave (which the New York Times called c hilling, riveting, heartbreaking. ) . Matt has also published two highly regarded also available children s novels, Shadow Forest (winner of the Nestl Chil- by jonathan franzen dren s Book Prize) and The Runaway