Fall 2021 Recent Highlights
The Age of Fentanyl Alone: A Love Story Brodie Ramin, M.D. Michelle Parise
978-1-4597-4670-1 978-1-4597-4690-9 Canada $22.99 | U.S. $20.99 Canada $22.99 | U.S. $18.99
“A fascinating, wise, and humane “Beautifully and powerfully analysis of one of the most pressing written, Alone: A Love Story left me health challenges of the 21st heartbroken and inspired at the century.” same time.” —Steven Pinker, author of —Terry Fallis Enlightenment Now
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978-1-4597-4911-5 Contents
Publisher’s Note 2 Introducing Rare Machines 3
FICTION Even So 4 Lauren B. Davis The Devil to Pay 5 Barbara Fradkin The Devil’s Choir 6 Martin Michaud
NON-FICTION Hockey 365, The Second Period 7 Mike Commito Modest Hopes 8 Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy Hard to Be Human 10 Ted Cadsby The Rebel Christ 11 Michael Coren Massey Hall 12 David McPherson The Beatle Bandit 13 Nate Hendley
RARE MACHINES The Shaytān Bride 14 Sumaiya Matin˙ Yume 15 Sifton Tracey Anipare I, Gloria Grahame 16 Sky Gilbert Persephone’s Children 17 Rowan McCandless Nothing Will Be Different 18 Tara McGowan-Ross Seven Down 19 David Whitton
KIDS & TEENS The Underground Railroad 20 Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost Lost Shadow 21 Claire Gilchrist
Recent Highlights 22 How to Order 24 Publisher’s Note
Welcome to the new look of Dundurn Press. The Fall 2021 season is the first catalogue featuring our recently announced new branding and logo, the design of which evolved out of the long-standing castle colophon by echoing the castle’s arched windows, creating a visual effect of a portal or beckoning hallway. Dundurn’s new mandate underscores our commitment to discovering new and underrepresented voices in Canadian publishing, amplifying exceptional Canadian writers and stories to the world, and opening a portal to writers and readers. In step with our editor-driven approach to acquisitions, the first books from our new literary imprint, Rare Machines, launch this Fall. You can find our vision for the imprint on the next page and details about Rare Machines titles on pages 14 to 19. You will continue to see a variety of genres from this press as we build on our strengths. This Fall season features a remarkable array of books, from a demon-filled fantasy novel set in Japan (Yume, page 15) to hockey history for diehard fans (Hockey 365, The Second Period, page 7) to middle-grade fiction with coyotes Lost( Shadow, page 21) to genre-bending memoir (Persephone’s Children, page 17). I invite you to discover these stories and more in the following pages. We acknowledge the perseverance of the community of booksellers, librarians, authors, agents, reviewers, and readers, and we thank you for your continued support of Dundurn Press.
Scott Fraser Publisher, Dundurn Press
2 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Introducing Rare Machines
Dundurn Press’s new literary imprint, Rare Machines, is curious, courageous, and forward thinking, much like the press itself. From pages 14 to 19, you will find the imprint’s inaugural list of innovative and daring fiction and memoir, featuring Sumaiya Matin’s memoir, The Shaytān Bride, and David ˙ Whitton’s inventive novel, Seven Down. Rare Machines’ lead acquisitions editors, Julie Mannell and Russell Smith, are writers themselves with deep ties to literary culture. Their vision for the imprint lifts authors’ talent and originality to the fore. The name Rare Machines emerges from the idea that a writer is a rare machine for producing books, and the book itself is as elegant and complex as the most unusual of devices. Rare Machines welcomes hybrid forms; it welcomes emerging writers; and it is a place for both the experimental and the polished.
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 3 Fiction
Even So Lauren B. Davis OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4764-7 5.5 x 8.5 | 336 pages
Canada September 14, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. October 12, 2021 | $18.99
FICTION / Literary
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Father Sweet J.J. Martin ISBN: 9781459747647 paper $20.99 978-1-4597-4396-0
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An evocative character-driven novel that explores the challenge and necessity of loving difficult people. Angela Morrison has it all. She’s married to a wealthy man, adores her son, grows orchids, and volunteers at Our Daily Bread Food Pantry. What more could she want? More — much more. And she’s willing to risk everything after meeting Carsten, the landscaper with the glacier-blue eyes. Sister Eileen, who runs Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, struggles with the silence of God and harbours a secret she believes is unforgivable. She Two White yearns to convince Angela she is loved by God, despite her selfishness and Queens and the destructive behaviour, but in order for that to be authentic Eileen must One-Eyed Jack learn to love her first, and that’s no easy task — especially after Angela Heidi von Palleske causes a terrible tragedy. Through the crucible of their relationship, paper $22.99 Angela and Eileen discover how caring for the most difficult among us and 978-1-4597-4678-7 practising forgiveness, no matter how painful, opens a door to the miracle of transformation.
Lauren B. Davis is the author of The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Against a Darkening Sky, The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, and The Radiant City. She has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and the ReLit Awards, and shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Lauren lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
EvenSoNovel laurenbdavis.com @laurenbdavis Laurenbdaviswriter laurenbdavis
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The Devil to Pay An Inspector Green Mystery #11 Barbara Fradkin IN THE SAME SERIES
Paperback 978-1-4597-4384-7 5 x 8 | 328 pages
Canada October 19, 2021 | $19.99 U.S. November 16, 2021 | $16.99
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
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#10 None So Blind 978-1-4597-2140-1 ISBN: 9781459743847 $17.99 #9 The Whisper of Legends 978-1-4597-0567-8 9 781459 743847 $17.99 #8 Beautiful Lie Impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael the Dead Green returns and unwittingly puts his daughter, a rookie 978-1-9266-0708-5 $16.95 patrol officer, in the line of fire. #7 This Thing of Sidelined to administrative duties, Inspector Michael Green misses the Darkness thrill of the chase. So when his daughter Hannah, now a rookie patrol 978-1-8949-1785-8 $16.95 officer, responds to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in a wealthy #6 Dream Chasers suburban neighbourhood, he is intrigued. Both husband and wife deny a 978-1-8949-1758-2 problem and, despite Hannah’s doubts, no further police action is taken, $15.95 but Green encourages her to dig deeper on her own. When the husband #5 Honour Among Men disappears and his car is found at the airport, the police conclude he 978-1-8949-1736-0 is simply fleeing an unhappy home, a floundering law practice, and a $15.95 mountain of debt. Until a body is discovered. #4 Fifth Son 978-1-8949-1713-1 While Green’s old friend Brian Sullivan investigates the victim’s work $16.99 and family, Hannah is haunted by fear that her actions precipitated the #3 Mist Walker murder. On her own time, she begins to dig into questions that linger at 978-1-8949-1703-2 the periphery of the case. What has happened to the family dog, which $12.95 disappeared the same night as the husband? And who is the odd, solitary #2 Once Upon a Time 978-0-9291-4184-8 young Ph.D. student who was researching ducks near the murder site? $12.95 Her relentless search for answers leads her into the countryside, straight #1 Do or Die into the path of danger. And another body. 978-0-9291-4178-7 $17.99 Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people turn bad. She is the author of the Amanda Doucette series and the critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels, two of which have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel: Fifth Son and Honour Among Men. She lives in Ottawa.
InspectorGreenMystery barbarafradkin.com @BarbaraFradkin
“For those who like a solid classic mystery with added character, Inspector Green is perfect.” —Globe and Mail
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The Devil’s Choir A Victor Lessard Thriller #3 Martin Michaud IN THE SAME SERIES
Paperback 978-1-4597-4270-3 5.5 x 8.5 | 544 pages
Canada October 26, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. November 23, 2021 | $17.99
FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
Rights World, English Also available as an ebook
Never Forget Martin Michaud ISBN: 9781459742703 paper $21.99 978-1-4597-4273-4
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In this intricate, intense mystery from the acclaimed “master of the Quebec thriller,” the ghosts of Victor Lessard’s past come back to haunt him as he investigates a horrific murder-suicide that doesn’t add up. When a young Montreal family dies in an orgy of bloody violence, all signs point to a rampage by the father. But Victor Lessard isn’t convinced. The brilliant, brooding detective suspects that others were involved in the killings. But who? And why? As Lessard struggles to solve the puzzle, the Without Blood discovery of a nightmarish chamber of horrors seems to confirm that the Martin Michaud murders are part of a wider pattern. With a ghost from his past making paper $21.99 him doubt his own sanity, Lessard must evade the lethal operatives of a 978-1-4597-4209-3 powerful, highly secretive organization as he races to untangle the mystery before a diabolical killer can strike again.
Martin Michaud is a bestselling author, screenwriter, musician, and former lawyer. His critically acclaimed Victor Lessard series has won numerous awards, including the Arthur Ellis Award and the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Crime Fiction, and is the basis for the award-winning French-language TV series Victor Lessard. He lives in Montreal.
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“The Devil’s Choir is a ‘complete’ thriller: a very well-run plot, captivating and believable characters, impeccable suspense. Michaud is carving out a place of choice among the elite of the Quebec industry.” —La Presse “Martin Michaud is a master at twisty storytelling and compelling atmosphere.” —Catherine McKenzie
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Hockey 365, The Second Period More Daily Stories from the Ice Mike Commito OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4844-6 6 x 9 | 416 pages
Canada September 28, 2021 | $23.99 U.S. October 26, 2021 | $19.99
SPORTS & RECREATION / Hockey
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Hockey 365 Mike Commito ISBN: 9781459748446 paper $23.99 978-1-4597-4184-3
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More hockey history for every day of the year! Celebrate hockey history with Hockey 365, The Second Period and be reminded of why you love hockey every day of the year. Whether you are a long-suffering Leafs fan or you cheer for a team that has actually won a Stanley Cup in the last half century, this compendium will give you a hockey-history fix no matter your allegiance. From the National Hockey League’s humble beginnings to the empty seats of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Mike Commito has gone back into the vault to bring you even more hockey history. So, get ready, the second period is about to begin. 101 Fascinating Hockey Facts Mike Commito is a hockey historian and writer, whose work has appeared on Brian McFarlane the Athletic, Sportsnet, and VICE Sports, and in the Hockey News. Since 2018, paper $13.99 Mike has been a regular contributor for the LA Kings. Mike was eligible to be 978-1-4597-4566-7 drafted to the NHL in 2003, but is still waiting for the call. He lives in Sudbury, Ontario.
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“Author, historian, and unabashed fan Mike Commito has assembled myriad facts, stories and events, a delicious feast that takes fans day by day through a calendar year, sewing it all together with a thread that links the past with the present … a terrific addition to any hockey library.” —Dave Stubbs, NHL.com Columnist, for Hockey 365
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 7 Non-Fiction
Modest Hopes Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy
Paperback 978-1-4597-4554-4 7 x 8.5 | 216 pages 75 Illustrations, black & white; 25 Illustrations, colour
Canada September 14, 2021 $29.99 U.S. October 12, 2021 $26.99
HISTORY / Social History
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook
ISBN: 9781459745544
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8 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, OF RELATED semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. INTEREST Too often, workers’ cottages are characterized today as being small, cramped, poorly built, and disposable. But in the late 1800s, to have worked and saved enough money to move into one was an incredible achievement. Moving from the crowded conditions of boarding houses, or areas such as Toronto’s Ward or Ashport’s “shanty-town,” just east of the city, to a self- contained, six-hundred-square-foot row house was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future, a belief in it, and a commitment to what lay ahead. For the workers and their families, these houses were far from modest. The architectural details of these cottages suggested Toronto’s Lost status, value, and pride of place; they reminded the workers of Villages where they had come from, with architectural roots from their Ron Brown homeland. paper $22.99 978-1-4597-4657-2 These “modest hopes” are an undervalued heritage resource and an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative about the people who lived in them and built our city.
Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage planner, with forty years of project experience. He is committed to environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability, and to preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories of our communities’ history. He lives in Toronto.
Leslie Valpy is a conservation practitioner, researcher, and Don Mills writer, with a passion for built heritage, history, architecture, Scott Kennedy and conservation. Working with both intangible and tangible paper $30.00 dimensions of heritage, she has participated in a range of projects 978-1-4597-3682-5 throughout Ontario. She lives in Toronto.
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Dundurn Press Fall 2021 9 Non-Fiction
Hard to Be Human Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws Ted Cadsby OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4884-2 6 x 9 | 232 pages Charts; Graphs; Bibliography
Canada October 12, 2021 | $22.99 U.S. November 9, 2021 | $19.99
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Rights World, All Languanges Also available as an ebook Ignite the Third Factor ISBN: 9781459748842 Dr. Peter Jensen paper $19.95 978-0-8876-2767-5
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Powerful strategies to combat the design flaws of the human brain that make life in the twenty-first century unreasonably difficult. If they could study us the way we study them, other animals would be puzzled by our unique ability to inflict misery on ourselves. We expend a lot of energy replaying past anguish, anticipating future distress, and stewing in self-righteous anger. Other animals would call us out for being oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering, who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves The Greenhouse created. Approach In our defense, we haven’t yet mastered our neuron-packed brains, whose Chitra Anand incredible complexity evolved in somewhat haphazard ways over millennia paper $22.99 in a very different world than today’s, giving rise to the five big design flaws 978-1-4597-4285-7 of the human mind: greedy reductionism, which causes us to oversimplify; certainty addiction, which makes us overconfident; emotional hostage- taking, where we overreact to threats and engage in rumination; competing selves, where we are burdened with inner conflict; and misguided meaning, where we constantly struggle to make sense of things. Hard to Be Human corrals the best insights from psychology, neuroscience, physics, and philosophy to reveal powerful strategies for the five big battles we each face in the war with ourselves. Other animals have a simpler life, but we can have it easier, too.
Ted Cadsby is a corporate director, consultant, and bestselling author. Ted led 18,000 employees as the executive vice president of Retail Distribution at CIBC. He also served as president and CEO of CIBC Securities Inc., chairman of CIBC Trust Corp., and chairman of CIBC Private Investment Counsel Inc. As a speaker on decision-making, team effectiveness, and leadership, Ted has been extensively interviewed by the national media. He lives in Toronto.
HardToBeHuman tedcadsby.com
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The Rebel Christ Michael Coren OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4851-4 5.5 x 8.5 | 176 pages
Canada October 19, 2021 | $19.99 U.S. November 16, 2021 | $16.99
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook The Pagan Christ Tom Harpur paper $22.95
ISBN: 9781459748514 978-0-8876-2195-6
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Christianity is in crisis, and its founder is often misunderstood and misinterpreted. This book presents the real Jesus: a rebel, a radical, and a revolutionary. What did Jesus — the original Jesus — say about the pressing issues of his and our day? He didn’t mention homosexuality but did call for the poor and marginalized to be protected and championed; he never spoke of abortion but did criticize the wealthy and complacent; he didn’t side with the rulers Born Again and wealthy but did condemn those who judged and exploited others and Tom Harpur turned their eyes away from those in need and from the cry for justice. paper $22.99 This was Jesus the rebel, Christ the radical, who turned the world upside 978-1-4597-4023-5 down and demanded that his followers do the same. Too many of them, tragically, seem to have misplaced that vital lesson.
Michael Coren is the author of seventeen books, four of them bestsellers, published in twelve languages. An award-winning columnist, he is also ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada. He lives in Toronto.
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“I live on the other side of the faith debate from Michael, but that doesn’t prevent intense admiration of his insight, clarity, courage, and honesty.” —Stephen Fry
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Massey Hall David McPherson OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4499-8 8.5 x 8.5 | 240 pages 40 Illustrations, black & white; 32 Illustrations, colour
Canada November 2, 2021 | $39.99 U.S. November 30, 2021 | $34.99
MUSIC / History & Criticism
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
ISBN: 9781459744998 David McPherson COVER NOT FINAL paper $21.99 978-1-4597-3494-4
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The fascinating story of Canada’s most revered concert hall and the myriad artists who have graced its stage. Known for its intimacy and sense of occasion, a night at Toronto’s Massey Hall is magical for both audiences and performers. For many musicians, playing the Hall is the surest sign that they have made it. Looking out over the crowd, performers often comment on the intimacy of the venue and the sense of joining history as they stand on the stage where Sarah Vaughan, The Flyer Vault Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and so many other legends have stood. Daniel Tate and Rob Bowman Based on scores of interviews and meticulous research, this richly paper $35.00 illustrated book chronicles not only the historical and musical moments 978-1-4597-4542-1 of the past century, but the community of artists and supporters that has built up around the hall over the years. Covering both emerging artists such as Shakura S’Aida and William Prince and musical giants from Nana Mouskouri to the Tragically Hip, this full colour book is a celebration of music, community, and our shared cultural heritage.
David McPherson is the author of the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History and has written for Grammy.com, the Globe and Mail, SOCANs Words and Music, No Depression, American Songwriter, and Acoustic Guitar. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
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The Beatle Bandit The Bank Robber Who Fuelled the Debate on Guns, Mental Health, and the Death Penalty OF RELATED Nate Hendley INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4810-1 5.5 x 8.5 | 212 pages 16 illustrations
Canada November 16, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. December 14, 2021 | $18.99
TRUE CRIME / Heists & Robberies
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook The Court of Better Fiction
ISBN: 9781459748101 Debra Komar paper $21.99 978-1-4597-4408-0
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The sensational true story of how a bank robber killed a man in a wild shootout, sparking a national debate around gun control and the death penalty. On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario. The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution. The Man with the Outside the bank, Smith was confronted by Jack Blanc, a former member Black Valise of the Canadian and Israeli armies, who brandished a revolver. During a John Goddard paper $22.99 wild shootout, Blanc was killed, and Smith escaped — only to become the 978-1-4597-4536-0 object of the largest manhunt in the history of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force. Dubbed “The Beatle Bandit,” Smith was eventually captured, tried, and sentenced to hang. His murderous rampage had tragic consequences for multiple families and fuelled a national debate about the death penalty, gun control, and the insanity defence.
Nate Hendley is a journalist and author. His books include The Boy on the Bicycle, The Big Con, and Bonnie and Clyde: A Biography. Nate lives in Toronto.
BeatleBandit natehendley.com @natehendley natehendley8161
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The Shaytān Bride A Memoir ˙ Sumaiya Matin OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4767-8 5.5 x 8.5 | 360 pages
Canada September 7, 2021 | $23.99 U.S. October 5, 2021 | $19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook The Sadness of Geography
ISBN: 9781459747678 Logathasan Tharmathurai paper $19.99 978-1-4597-4502-5 9 781459 747678
The true story of how one woman faced the jinns that tried to shape her fate and escaped her forced wedding. Sumaiya Matin was never sure if the story of the Shayṭān Bride was truth or myth. When she moved from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Thunder Bay, Ontario, at age six, visions of this devilish bride followed her. At first, the Shayṭān Bride seemed to be the monster of fairy tales. However, in the weeks leading to Sumaiya’s own wedding, she discovers that the story — and the bride herself — are much closer than they seem. The Shayṭān Bride is the true coming-of-age story of a girl who suddenly finds herself unravelling the complexities of identity and desire in both A Victory Garden the physical and spiritual worlds. As she encounters the best and worst for Trying Times in people, she must decide what she wants for herself and who she wants Debi Goodwin to become. Sumaiya Matin’s life in love and violence is a testament to the paper $21.99 strength of the heart and one woman’s willpower in facing the complicated 978-1-4597-4505-6 fallout of her decisions.
Sumaiya Matin is a writer and a strategic advisor for the Ontario government, working on anti-racism initiatives. She lives in Toronto.
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Yume Sifton Tracey Anipare OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4737-1 5.5 x 8.5 | 536 pages
Canada September 14, 2021 | $25.99 U.S. October 12, 2021 | $19.99
FICTION / Fantasy / Urban
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The Girl of Hawthorn
ISBN: 9781459747371 and Glass Adan Jerreat-Poole paper $14.99 978-1-4597-4681-7 9 781459 747371
A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan. Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best — even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle. Meanwhile, yokai feast and cavort around Osaka and Kyoto as the barrier between their world and the human world thins. Zaniel spends his nights Evie of the walking the dream world and serving his demon “bodyguard,” Akki. But Deepthorn there is a new yokai on the scene, and it has gotten on Akki’s bad side. When André Babyn Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what paper $21.99 is real and, more importantly, what she really wants … before her life spirals 978-1-4597-4557-5 out of control altogether.
Sifton Tracey Anipare is a Ghanaian Canadian writer who lived and taught in Japan for four years.
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“At its heart, Yume is a compelling story about finding connections — to others as well as to parts of oneself — in an increasingly disconnected world. With empathetic characters, terrifying monsters, and a cinematic feel, Yume is a dream that will keep readers awake at night.” —Richard Ford Burley, author of Mouse
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I, Gloria Grahame Sky Gilbert OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4828-6 5.5 x 8.5 | 200 pages
Canada October 5, 2021 | $22.99 U.S. November 2, 2021 | $18.99
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay
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After Elias Eddy Boudel Tan ISBN: 9781459748286 paper $21.99 978-1-4597-4642-8
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A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated. Denton Moulton — a shy, effeminate male professor — lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman’s story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell anyone’s story at all? Outrageous Misfits A scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, I, Gloria Brian Bradley Grahame alternates between Gloria’s imagined life with her film-director paper $24.99 husband, Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause, and Denton’s 978-1-4597-4697-8 increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The novel takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars and the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art.
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was the founder of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, has had more than forty plays produced, and published seven novels and three poetry collections. Toronto has even named a street after him. Sky lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
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“Brilliant. An important addition to Two-Spirited literature.” —Tomson Highway
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Persephone’s Children A Life in Fragments Rowan McCandless OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4761-6 5.5 x 8.5 | 328 pages 65 Illustrations, black & white; Bibliography
Canada October 12, 2021 | $22.99 U.S. November 9, 2021 | $19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Rights World, All Languages All We Knew But Also available as an ebook Couldn’t Say
ISBN: 9781459747616 Joanne Vannicola paper $19.99 978-1-4597-4422-6
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After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell. Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, including a contract, a crossword puzzle, and a Borderline Shine metafictional TV script, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented Connie Greshner relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge paper $19.99 to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and 978-1-4597-4612-1 intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency. It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.
Rowan McCandless is an award-winning author of fiction and creative non-fiction. She has been longlisted for the Journey Prize and has won the Constance Rooke Creative Non-Fiction Prize. She received gold for One of a Kind Storytelling at the National Magazine Awards. Rowan lives in Winnipeg.
PersephonesChildren rowanmccandless.com @RowanMcCandless rowanmccandlesswrites
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Nothing Will Be Different A Memoir Tara McGowan-Ross OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4873-6 5.5 x 8.5 | 240 pages notes
Canada October 26, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. November 23, 2021 | $19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook Alone: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781459748736 Michelle Parise paper $22.99 978-1-4597-4690-9
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In this memoir-in-essays, a neurotic party girl scrambles to rationalize her life as she knows it after finding a lump in her breast. Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should be happy. Yet Tara can’t stay sober. She’s terrible at monogamy. Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She spends most of her time putting out social fires, barely pulling things off, and feeling sick and tired.
Then, in the autumn following her twenty-seventh birthday, an abnormal People You Follow lump discovered in her left breast serves as the catalyst for a journey Hayley Gene Penner of rigorous self-questioning. Waiting on a diagnosis, she begins an paper $21.99 intellectual assessment of her life, desperate to justify a short existence 978-1-4597-4714-2 full of dumb choices. Armed with her philosophy degree and angry determination, she attacks each issue in her life as the days creep by and winds up writing a searingly honest coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die.
Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a critic of experimental and independent Montreal theatre, and an editor for Insomniac Press. She is the author of Girth and Scorpion Season. She lives in Montreal.
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18 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Rare Machines
Seven Down David Whitton OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4857-6 5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pages
Canada November 2, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. November 30, 2021 | $19.99
FICTION / Epistolary
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Business J.P. Meyboom ISBN: 9781459748576 paper $21.99 978-1-4597-4705-0
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In a series of interviews, seven hotel employees — all, it turns out, sleeper agents — puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt. Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, front desk, management. Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as they know them.
The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being Jacintha debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts Lorraine Davies of these interviews. What they reveal is not just the intricate mechanism of paper $21.99 an international assassination, but the yearnings inside each of its pawns, 978-1-4597-4455-4 the desperation and secret rage that might cause anyone of us to sign up, sell out, and take a plunge into darkness. Both sinister and absurd, this set of interview transcripts is a puzzle to be solved, a comedy, and a panorama of life. At once sociological, satirical, and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind geopolitical machinations.
David Whitton is the author of The Reverse Cowgirl, a story collection. His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Darwin’s Bastards, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize Stories. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program. He lives in Toronto.
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Dundurn Press Fall 2021 19 Kids & Teens
The Underground Railroad Next Stop, Toronto! Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, and Karolyn Smardz Frost OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4896-5 8 x 8 | 136 pages Illustrations, black & white
Canada October 5, 2021 | $19.99 U.S. November 2, 2021 | $16.99
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
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Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home. The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! is a richly illustrated book that explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom- seekers before the American Civil War. This newly revised edition traces Talking About pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made Freedom the trip north in search of liberty, and offers new biographies, images, Natasha L. Henry and information based on a 2015 archaeological dig in downtown paper $19.99 Toronto. Within its pages are stories of courageous men, women, and 978-1-4597-0048-2 children who overcame barriers of prejudice and racism to create homes, institutions, and a rich and vibrant community life in Canada’s largest city. These brave individuals established organizations not only to help newcomers but to also oppose the ongoing slavery in the United States. Based entirely on original research, this book offers fresh insights into the rich heritage of African Americans who became African Canadians and helped to build Toronto as we know the city today. This exciting new edition will be of interest to readers young and old who want to learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto’s history.
Adrienne Shadd is a researcher, writer, curator, and editor. She is co-author of We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History. Adrienne lives in Toronto.
Afua Cooper is a poet, performer, scholar, historian, and a professor at Dalhousie University and is co-author of We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History.
Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, historian, and award-winning author who teaches at Acadia and Dalhousie. Her book I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
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“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.” —Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Illegal
20 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Kids & Teens
Lost Shadow Song Dog Adventure #2 Claire Gilchrist OF RELATED INTEREST
Paperback 978-1-4597-4825-5 5 x 8 | 216 pages
Canada September 21, 2021 | $13.99 U.S. October 19, 2021 | $9.99
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Wolves, Coyotes & Wild Dogs
Rights World, All Languages Ages 9-12 Also available as an ebook Street Shadows Song Dog Adventure #1
ISBN: 9781459748255 Claire Gilchrist paper $13.99 978-1-4597-4471-4
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In the sequel to Street Shadows, city coyote Pica is carried far away, into the land of wolves. Will she survive and make it back to Scruff? Winter is here, and coyotes Pica and Scruff are having trouble finding enough food to survive. Their only option may be to steal food from humans: Scruff thinks it’s a necessary risk, but Pica thinks it’s too dangerous. After a bitter fight, the unthinkable happens: Pica gets locked into a delivery truck and driven far away from the city, into the land of the wolves. The Lost Scroll Pica knows that she must call on all of her strength and courage to survive of the Physician in this new landscape. She has to get back to Scruff, who has no idea what Alisha Sevigny happened to her. The clock is ticking, and leg traps, wolves, and a giant, icy paper $12.99 mountain range stand between Pica and her home. 978-1-4597-4429-5
Claire Gilchrist is an author and middle school teacher. She loves all canids, and has done extensive research on urban coyotes as well as worked as an educator for the Co-Existing with Coyotes Program in Vancouver, B.C. She currently splits her time between White Salmon, Washington, and Victoria, B.C.
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“Fans of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan will greatly enjoy this book, as will all animal lovers.” —CM Magazine, for Street Shadows
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 21 Recent Highlights
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After Elias The Canadian Constitution Eddy Boudel Tan Adam Dodek
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