MISS WORLD 1970 BY JENNIFER HOSTEN, COMING SPRING 2020 ABOUT SUTHERLAND HOUSE

Founded in 2017 by Canadian author and publishing executive Kenneth Whyte, Sutherland House is a new Toronto-based publisher of non-fiction books for global English-language audiences. Sutherland House specializes in narrative works of biography, memoir, history, business, culture, and current affairs. Aiming for high-quality and broad appeal, it published eight books in 2019 and will deliver nine in 2020. Each volume will be commissioned and edited by Mr. Whyte. All of our publications will bear the unique aesthetic of the Sutherland House brand, and be subjected to rigorous market testing from conception to launch. By maintaining a low overhead, the company is dedicating an unusually high portion of its resources to the promotion and mar- keting of its titles, which will be managed by our international network of service providers. Our Sutherland Classics series, which began in 2019 with the republication of Bernard Crick’s definitiveGeorge Orwell: A Life, is indicative of our commitment to quality non-fiction. We will reprint one or two masterpieces of biography, memoir, or character-driven history every year under the Sutherland Classics imprint.

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5201 Dufferin Street 30 Amberwood Parkway Toronto, ON M3H 5T8 Ashland, OH 44805 Email: utpbooks@utpress. Tel: (888) 814-0208 utoronto.ca Email: [email protected] Misbehaviour, a major motion picture based on To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to the author’s life and starring Keira Knightley and be the unluckiest. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Jennifer Hosten), will be released globally in 2020. THE SHORT LIFE OF HUGHIE MCLOON 1970 A True Story of Bandits, Bootleggers, and Baseball The Craziest Pageant Ever and the Rest of My Life

ALLEN ABEL JENNIFER HOSTEN

FEBRUARY 2020 MARCH 2020

200 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and 300 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” 1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the Hardcover it was baseball’s age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players Hardcover $22.95 USD supersonic Concorde—a time of new possibilities and social $22.95 USD $26.95 CAD believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. $26.95 CAD 978-1-989555-23-1 upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the 978-1-989555-21-7 Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Biography & Autobiography Caribbean island of , was as surprised as anyone to find Biography & Autobiography Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he / Women herself in the midst of it. / Sports made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy Biography & Autobiography After winning a Miss Grenada contest, she travelled to Lon- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team / People with Disabilities don for the 1970 Miss World pageant and arrived at Royal Albert Arts finished last in each of the three seasons that the A’s rubbed his Hall determined to make her mark. So, too, did members of the History / / History / Women hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. 20th Century fledgling Women’s Liberation movement who chose that global- He loved the crowds and they loved him back. MARKETING & ly-televised moment to protest the sexual exploitation of women. MARKETING & Graduating from batboy to boxing manager, and running his PUBLICITY They planted bombs, stormed the hall, and chased comedian Bob PUBLICITY own speakeasy while serving as a secret agent for the Chief of Marketing & Publicity Marketing & Publicity Hope from the stage. Contact: Sarah Miniaci Police, Hughie was the toast of Philly until one summer night in Contact: Sarah Miniaci By the end of the night, the world had been introduced to • PR campaign emphasizing • Full-scale PR campaign 1928 he was caught in a murderous crossfire outside his tavern. emphasizing book reviews, both radical feminism and a new ideal of feminine beauty. Ms. book reviews, interviews, interviews, features/pro- Twenty-six years old, he bled to death on Cuthbert Street. The features/profiles, and Hosten was the first woman of color crowned Miss World. excerpt placements with files, and excerpts with next day, 15,000 admirers lined up to see his four-foot corpse. major U.S. print, online, and Philadelphia, PA and broadcast media (women’s is the story of the craziest and most The age of magic was over. national U.S. print, online, interest, public affairs, meaningful pageant ever, an inspiring account of Ms. Hosten’s and broadcast media history, news & culture) The Short Life of Hughie McLoon is Allen Abel’s haunting and (baseball/sports, history, barrier-breaking win and her subsequent globe-trotting career as • Online influencer marketing stylish biography of the most remarkable and beloved of the base- books/culture, human in the #Bookstagram and a development worker and diplomat. interest) literary, lifestyle, women’s ball mascots, and a new chapter in the complicated mythology of • Publishing trade ARC/ interest and history blog- With historic photographs, movie stills, and a foreword by the American dream. galley outreach ger communities acclaimed actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw. • NetGalley homepage • Film tie-in from producers feature of The Queen • Select author appearances • Publishing trade ARC/galley & book signing events in outreach ALLEN ABEL has reported from more than 100 countries major markets • Select author appearances A native of Grenada, JENNIFER HOSTEN trained with the as an award-winning newspaper columnist and magazine • Goodreads First to Read & book signing events in BBC and worked as a broadcaster and airline hostess before ARC giveaway promotions major markets journalist. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smith- • Targeted advertising • Targeted advertising winning the 1970 Miss World competition. After, she enjoyed a sonian, and the Globe & Mail. He has written, produced, and campaigns on Facebook, campaigns on Facebook, career in diplomacy, trade negotiation, and international devel- Goodreads and BookBub Goodreads and BookBub hosted broadcasts and documentaries for HBO, the Discovery for Featured New Release for Featured New Release opment. She also founded and ran a succesful inn in Grenada, Channel, and the CBC, earning an Emmy nomination. The promotion promotion and now practices as a registered psychotherapist. A mother of • Pre-order push and ongo- • Pre-order push and ongoing Washington Post called his non-fiction book Flatbush Odyssey: A ing release promotion in release promotion in two children, she lives in Oakville, Ontario. Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn “one of the best travel- Sutherland House Books Sutherland House Books newsletter and social newsletter and social media ogues about anywhere, ever.” media Canadians are polite and deferential. Murder, mischief, and madness – the We think that’s virtuous. acclaimed biography of an American master But what if we’re just sheep? returns to print.

NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE THE TELL-TALE HEART

An Impolite Report on the State of Freedom The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe in JULIAN SYMONS PHILIP SLAYTON APRIL 2020 FOREWORD BY SARAH WEINMAN, MAY 2020 AUTHOR OF THE REAL LOLITA 175 Pages, 6” x 9” 275 Pages, 6” x 9” Softcover Hardcover $22.95 USD Few things are more precious in a democratic society than indi- $26.95 USD $24.95 CAD $29.95 CAD 978-1-989555-22-4 vidual freedom, and few things are easier to take for granted. Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian 978-1-989555-20-0

Social Science / Essays In this timely, provocative essay, Philip Slayton argues that Symons’ The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biog- Biography & Autobiography Canada, in ways large and small, is frittering away the liberties raphy of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential authors in / Literary Figures Political Science / Commentary & Opinion on which a free and open society depends. We give too much the . Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective Political Science / World / power to our politicians and unelected judges. We paper over our A highly-regarded mystery and crime writer in his own right, Canadians divisions and stifle voices that challenge conventional wisdom. Symons is in a unique position to understand Poe’s work and to Literary Criticism / Horror & Supernatural We tolerate inaction on the most pressing issues of the day. sharply, thoroughly reveal the secrets of his life. He paints Poe MARKETING & PUBLICITY It is time, writes Slayton, for Canadians to throw off their as his contemporaries saw him: a man whose life was filled with MARKETING & PUBLICITY Marketing & Publicity self-imposed chains, to stand up and fight for what we believe in tragedy and who struggled to make a living through his writing, Contact: Sarah Miniaci before we lose our ability to do so—a prospect, he warns, that is Marketing & Publicity only to emerge as a definitive voice in murder-and-madness Contact: Sarah Miniaci • PR campaign emphasizing far more likely than we realize. fiction and the inventor of the detective story. book reviews, interviews, • ARC/galleys to #booksta- features/profiles, and More relevant than ever in our horror-obsessed times, The gram and online literary excerpt placements with community reviewers and Canadian & international Tell-Tale Heart is the second volume in the Sutherland Classics influencers print, online, and broad- Born in and raised in Manitoba, PHILIP SLAYTON series, which seeks to rediscover and reprint classic works of • Publishing trade ARC/galley outreach cast media (politics, public is a Canadian lawyer and the former dean of law at the Univer- affairs, news, opinion/ narrative non-fiction. • NetGalley homepage editorial) sity of Western Ontario. He is the best-selling author of Lawyers feature “As absorbing and compelling as a good detective story.” • Goodreads First to Read • Author appearances for Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, news commentary and – Washington Post ARC giveaway promotions feature/profile interviews and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs • Targeted advertising campaigns on Facebook, with regional and national Your Life, among other books. A Rhodes Scholar, he has been Canadian radio, TV, and Goodreads and BookBub podcasts, including CBC, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and President of PEN Canada. for Featured New Release One of Britain’s most acclaimed mystery writers, JULIAN promotion TVO, Canadaland, and Married to the writer Cynthia Wine, he lives in Toronto and more SYMONS was the author of the award-winning novels The • Pre-order push and ongoing • Publishing trade ARC/galley Nova Scotia. release promotion in outreach Colour of Murder and The Progress of a Crime. He also published Sutherland House Books • Select author appearances works of biography, history, and literary criticism, including newsletter and social & book signing events in media major markets Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, • Targeted advertising a celebrated study of mystery storytelling. He was a Grand campaigns on Facebook, Goodreads and BookBub Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and received the for Featured New Release prestigious Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Associa- promotion • Pre-order push and ongoing tion of Great Britain. Symons died in 1994. release promotion in Sutherland House Books newsletter and social media “Democracy in Canada—defined as government of the people, by the people, and for the people— is in deep trouble.” – Preston Manning

DO SOMETHING!

365 Ways You Can Strengthen Canada

PRESTON MANNING

FEBRUARY 2020 Politicians, legislatures and parliament are widely mistrusted. 250 Pages, 6” x 9” Softcover Canadians do not see their issues and concerns reflected in $17.95 USD $22.95 CAD the priorities of the people elected to serve them. The rise of 978-1-989555-25-5 populism is one symptom of discontent. Others are low voter

Political Science / Civics & turnouts and an increasingly vicious public sphere. It is time for Citizenship Canadians to repair and strengthen their democracy. It is time to

Political Science / World / Do Something! Canadians In this riveting and inspirational book, author and parlia- Political Science / Public Policy mentarian Preston Manning calls on Canadians of all beliefs and allegiances to renew their nation’s democracy and the ideas, MARKETING & processes, and institutions that support it. Drawing on a lifetime PUBLICITY of public service, he offers 365 practical ways that people can get Marketing & Publicity Contact: Sarah Miniaci involved and make a difference, in their communities and on the ALSO AVAILABLE • PR campaign emphasizing national stage. book reviews, interviews, “There is an old saying,” writes Manning, “that a Canadian features/profiles, and excerpt placements optimist is someone who believes things could be worse. But I am throughout Canadian print, an optimist who believes the future can be better if enough of us online, and broadcast media (politics, public resolve to make it so.” affairs, news, opinion/ editorial) • Author appearances for news commentary and PRESTON MANNING was a member of the Canadian feature/profile interviews with regional and national Parliament from 1993 to 2001. He founded two new politi- Canadian radio, TV, and cal parties—The Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian podcasts, including CBC, TVO, Canadaland, and Reform Conservative Alliance—both of which became the more official opposition in parliament and laid the foundation for the • Publishing trade ARC/galley outreach present-day Conservative Party of Canada. He is the Founder of • Select author appearances the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. He and his wife & book signing events in major markets Sandra divide their time between Calgary, Vancouver, and a • Targeted advertising family ranch in Saskatchewan. campaigns on Facebook, Goodreads and BookBub for Featured New Release promotion STILL LIFE SMART, SUCCESSFUL & ABUSED

A Memoir The Unspoken Problem of Domestic Violence and the High-Achieving Female JEFF SUTHERLAND DR. ANGELA MAILIS

“The training manual for facing loss and redefining the good life” – Mo Rocca, CBS Sunday Morning An intimate and conversational inquiry into the most puzzling Father, husband, athlete, medical doctor, Jeff Sutherland was form of domestic violence: the abused endured by high-achieving already suffering from a terminal ALS diagnosis and locked in women who to all appearances have everything required to stand 200 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover his own inanimate body when still greater loss struck his family. up for themselves. 200 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” $22.95 USD Softcover $24.95 CAD His story, written on a computerized device that tracks his eye “A much-needed dialogue,” Jane Francisco, editor-in-chief, $17.95 USD 978-1-9994395-6-9 $22.95 CAD movements on a screen, is a testament to human will’s ability to Good Housekeeping. 978-1-9994395-7-6 Biography & Autobiography overcome unspeakable tragedy, and the power of familial love to / Personal Memoirs heal incomprehensible pain. Social Science / Women’s Studies Body, Mind & Spirit / General Psychology / Interpersonal Biography & Autobiography Relations / Medical Family & Relationships / Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse

YO U R M OV E MORE THAN WE BARGAINED FOR

What Board Games Teach Us About Life An Untold Story of Exploitation, Redemption, and the Men Who Built a Worker’s Empire JOAN MORIARITY & JONATHAN KAY JOHN STEFANINI

“Illuminating...introduces and critiques an overlooked art form” – Kirkus “The engrossing, first-person story of a nation-builder you’ve In a breezy, punchy style, the authors draw on behavior psy- never heard of” – Margaret Wente, columnist John Stefanini, who built the dominant construction union chology, economics, political science, and years of teaching and 270 Pages, 6” x 9” 180 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” playing games to reveal what an array of popular games tell us on the continent, spins the stories of treachery, arson, beatings, Hardcover Softcover $26.95 USD $17.95 USD about our culture, history, society, and relationships. shootings, sabotage, police investigations, and nail-biting negoti- $34.95 CAD $22.95 CAD ations that defined his life as a full-time labor organizer. 978-1-9994395-3-8 978-1-9994395-4-5 “Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games; they allow us to As head of Laborers’ International Union of North America Business & Economics / Games & Activities / Board Negotiating Games explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to Local 183, John Stefanini brought improved pay and working Business & Economics / climate.” – Steven Pinker, Harvard University, author of Enlight- conditions to tens of thousands of construction workers while Social Science / Labor Anthropology / Cultural & enment Now also contributing to pioneering legal reforms that benefitted Social History / Canada / General workers in other sectors of the economy. He lives in Toronto. This Family & Relationships / is his first book. General PERFECT CITY THE CANADIAN MANIFESTO

An Urban Fixer’s Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON, AUTHOR OF 12 RULES FOR LIFE JOE BERRIDGE

“Black reminds us who we were and who we are, and lays the “As a lifelong observer of cities, I couldn’t stop devouring— groundwork for who we might become.” – Jordan Peterson, from and learning from—Joe Berridge’s eye-opening and enjoyable the Foreword account. He mixes a lifetime’s worth of knowledge with a 200 Pages, 6” x 9” Historian Conrad Black argues that making the world a Hardcover constantly fresh eye and pen so that the book is a delight and an $26.95 USD better place “is the destiny, and the vocation, Canada could have, 166 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” $34.95 CAD illumination. An indispensable guide to where our global com- Hardcover 978-1-9994395-1-4 munity is going.” – author and essayist Pico Iyer not in the next century, but in the next five years of imaginative $22.95 USD $24.95 CAD government.” 978-1-9994395-5-2 Social Science / Human Geography Political Science / Public Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Political Science / Public Policy / General Travel / Special Interest / General Political Science / Essays

CHANGE YOUR WORLD GEORGE ORWELL,

The Science of Resilience and the True A LIFE Path to Success BERNARD CRICK

MICHAEL UNGAR FOREWORD BY ALEX WOLOCH, AUTHOR OF OR ORWELL

Finally, a book that explains why self-help mostly fails, and what “The definitive biography” – The Sunday Times really works. George Orwell is more relevant in the age of Trump and The self-improvement industry puts responsibility for change 256 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” Brexit than he was in his own short lifetime. 628 Pages, 6” x 9” Softcover on your shoulders and seldom produces results. Dr. Michael Un- Hardcover $17.95 USD Professor Crick’s enjoyable and clear-eyed assessment of $29.95 USD gar’s mind-bending new book explains how it’s easier—and more $22.95 CAD Orwell’s thought and personality “remains the best one there is,” $38.95 CAD 978-1-9994395-2-1 effective—to change your world than to change yourself. 978-1-9994395-0-7 says The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Self-Help / Personal Growth “Ungar elegantly guides us toward what really creates change Biography & Autobiography / LIterary Figures / Success and hope” – Frank Thomas, Texas Christian University Science / Philosophy and Biography & Autibiography Social Aspects / Editors, Journalists, Publishers Political Science / Public Policy / General Biography & Autobiography / General COMING FALL 2020 SUTHERLAND HOUSE STAFF

KENNETH WHYTE PRESIDENT

KENNETH WHYTE is the former editor-in-chief of Saturday Night Magazine, the founding editor of The , and the former editor and publisher of Maclean’s magazine. He was president of Rogers Publishing, Canada’s largest magazine company, and the founding president of Next Issue Canada (now Texture), in partner- ship with Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst, and Time Inc. Mr. Whyte is the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (2008, Random House), a Washington Post book-of-the-year and a runner-up for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In 2017, he published Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Knopf), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

MATTHEW BUCEMI MANAGING EDITOR

MATTHEW BUCEMI is an experienced editor and writer, with a creative history that includes lead roles at publishing houses, THE THIRD MAN production studios, and newspapers. He earned his PhD in English at Cornell University, where he also taught a series of award-winning Churchill and Roosevelt as Revealed by Their Ally courses in literature, film, and philosophy. and Confidant, Mackenzie King

NEVILLE THOMPSON

LENA YANG DESIGN DIRECTOR

LENA YANG is a book and editorial designer with experience work- ing with publishing houses, independent authors, newspapers, and magazines. Her work has appeared in Maclean’s magazine and The National Post. She is a graduate of Columbia Publishing Course and New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute.