FICTION August THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE ZOE WHITTALL

In the tradition of Lauren Groff and Jonathan Franzen comes a stunning domestic drama about the unravelling of an all-American family.

To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is left to pick up the pieces. His wife, Joan, a trauma nurse, is unable to tri- age her emotional reactions, and vaults between rage and denial. Daughter Sadie, the consummate overachiever, finds herself paralyzed on her boy- friend’s couch with a bong, while a local author attempts to exploit her story. Their son, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, assists in his father’s defense while wrestling with the unhappy memories of his own years in high school. Unfolding over a one-year period, the novel focuses on the Woodbury family as they struggle to support George while privately grappling with the possibility of his guilt. With exquisite emotional precision, Whittall explores issues of loyalty, truth, and the meaning of happiness through the lens of an all-American family on the brink of collapse.

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2 ZOE WHITTALL is the author ALSO AVAILABLE of The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (2001), The Emily Valentine HOLDING STILL FOR AS LONG AS Poems (2006), and Precordial POSSIBLE Thump (2008), and the edi- Zoe Whittall tor of Geeks, Misfits, & Outlaws (2003). Her debut novel Bottle 978-1-77089-807-3 Paperback • $14.95 Rocket Hearts (2007) made the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year and CBC Canada Reads’ Top 978-0-88784-301-3 Ten Essential Novels of the Decade. Her second ePub • $14.95 novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (2009) won a Lambda Literary Award and was an American WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS: TRANS - Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her GENDER FICTION writing has appeared in the Walrus, the Believer, the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION STONEWALL HON - Globe and Mail, the National Post, Fashion, and more. OUR BOOK She has also worked as a writer and story editor on “With Holding Still, Whittall has established herself as the TV shows Degrassi and Schitt’s Creek. Born in a writer of immense vitality and courage; she stands as the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she has an MFA the voice of a lost, but thanks to her not forgotten, gen- from the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto. eration: the boys and girls who will inherit the earth.” — National Post

“Whittall is a dexterous puppeteer, and the book is unputdownable.” — Globe and Mail

MARKETING NOTES “An unforgettable depiction of growing up in the new • National author tour millennium.” — Booklist • National publicity coverage “In , the awareness of • National advertising Holding Still for as Long as Possible mortality intersects with the romantic restlessness of • ARCs available youth. It makes for a story whose vital signs are fully • Co-op available present and robust.” — Toronto Star • Open Book Writer in Residence (October) • zoewhittall.com • Twitter: @zoewhittall

3 September INTO THE SUN DENI ELLIS BÉCHARD

War is a collision of fictions.

Kabul — 10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers were acquaintances — three fellow ex-pats who had formed an unlikely love triangle. Alexandra was a Canadian human rights lawyer for imprisoned Afghan women. Justin was a born-again Christian from Louisiana who taught at a local school. Clay was an ex-soldier who worked as a private contractor. The car’s driver, Idris, one of Justin’s most promising pupils, is missing. Convinced the events that led to the fatal explo- sion weren’t random, and curious to know more about what led each of them to Afghanistan, the journalist follows a trail from Kabul to Louisiana, Maine, Québec, and Dubai, determined to uncover why they were targeted and who is responsible. In this monumental novel, Deni Ellis Béchard explores the personal impact of America’s imperial misadventures and draws an unsentimental portrait of the journalists, mercenaries, messianic idealists, and aid workers who flock to war zones. In vivid and evocative prose, Béchard brings to life the city of Kabul itself, along with the people who live there: FICTION / Literary the hungry, determined, and resourceful locals who 978-1-4870-0139-1 are just as willing as their occupiers to reinvent 5.25 x 8 • 456 pages themselves to survive. Trade paperback • $22.95

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4 DENI ELLIS BÉCHARD is PRAISE FOR THE LAST BONOBO: A the author of the novel Vandal JOURNEY INTO THE CONGO Love, winner of the 2007 Com- monwealth Writers’ Prize; “A brilliant book, exactly the kind of intellectually Cures for Hunger, a memoir powerful, clear, and compassionate account that about growing up with a father could — literally — help save the world.” — Mon- who robbed banks; and The treal Review of Books Last Bonobo: A Journey into the Congo. His work has appeared in the LA Times, Salon, and Foreign Policy, “Béchard has done a masterful job.” — Quill & and he has reported from Afghanistan, India, the Quire Congo, and Iraq. PRAISE FOR CURES FOR HUNGER

“You haven’t read a story like this one . . . Béchard is the rare writer who knows the secret to telling the true story. Just because the end is clear doesn’t mean the bets are off.” — Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

“A poignant but rigorously unsentimental account of hard-won maturity.” — Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR VANDAL LOVE

MARKETING NOTES WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE: • National author tour BEST FIRST BOOK • National publicity coverage “Béchard surpasses Kerouac in his consciousness • ARCs available of the French as part of a larger people, how their • Co-op available struggle is socially and politically situated rather • denibechard.com than strictly personal.” — Globe and Mail • Twitter: @denibechard

“Though Béchard has a journalism background, this fiction debut, unfolding in punchy prose, recalls Márquez with a French-Canadian twist.” — Publishers Weekly

5 September THE BREAK KATHERENA VERMETTE

A stunning and heartbreaking debut novel by Governor General’s Literary Award– winning Métis poet Katherena Vermette about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots some- one in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim — police, family, and friends — tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg’s North End is exposed. A powerful intergenerational family saga, The Break showcases Vermette’s abundant writing talent and positions her as an exciting new voice in Cana- dian literature.

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6 KATHERENA VERMETTE is a Métis writer of PRAISE FOR NORTH END LOVE SONGS poetry, fiction, and children’s literature. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY General’s Literary Award for Poetry and was the AWARD FOR POETRY, “ON THE SAME PAGE” 2015 selection for Manitoba’s provincial book club, SELECTION (MANITOBA’S PROVINCIAL BOOK CLUB) On the Same Page. Vermette has recently been shortlisted for the inaugural Beatrice Mosionier “In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award. Her work uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. across the globe. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and in Creative Writing from the University of British imminent, an examination and a celebration of Columbia, and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.” — Joanne Arnott

“From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Menno- nite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty, and ugli- ness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city MARKETING NOTES throws at you.” — Duncan Mercredi • National author tour • National publicity coverage • National advertising • ARCs available • Co-op available • Winnipeg Thin Air Festival appearance • katherenavermette.com • Twitter: @katherenav

7 September NEW IN PAPERBACK

UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR PATRICK DEWITT

A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a mor- al, and an ink-black comedy of manners, international bestsell- ing author Patrick deWitt’s latest novel is about a young man named Lucien (Lucy) Minor, who accepts employment at the foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux.

Anansi Book Club edition, featuring a Reader’s Guide.

PRAISE FOR PATRICK DEWITT AND UNDER­ MAJORDOMO MINOR:

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“Vividly imagined . . . This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering pre- cariously between the two World Wars . . . Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, universal strokes.” — Booklist

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10 NONFICTION September THE RETURN OF HISTORY The 2016 CBC Massey Lectures JENNIFER WELSH

A timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geo- politics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh.

In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History.” Fukuyama argued that the demise of the confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signaled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, the waning of traditional power politics, and the path toward a more peaceful world. At the heart of his thesis was the audaciously optimistic idea of “progress” in history. But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction about transcending the struggles of the past, history has returned. The twenty-first century has not seen unfettered progress toward peace and a single form of government, but the reappearance of trends and practices many believed had been erased: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. The 2016 Massey Lectures will both illustrate POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General and explain this return of history, and it will also 978-1-4870-0130-8 argue how the reappearance of things deemed “bar- 5.25 x 8 • 304 pages baric” or “medieval” has a modern twist. Hardcover with jacket • $24.95

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12 JENNIFER WELSH is Special Advisor to the EXCERPT UN Secretary General for the Responsibility to CHAPTER OUTLINE Protect. She is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somer- Chapter One: The Prophets of Progress ville College. She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of This chapter will argue against Fukuyama’s famous the European University Institute in Florence and claim that the end of the Cold War signalled the was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Plan- “universalization of Western liberal democracy as ning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign the final form of human government,” and as a con- Affairs. She has taught international relations at the sequence we would see the waning of traditional University of Toronto, McGill University, and the power politics and large-scale conflict, and the path Central European University (Prague). She is the toward a more peaceful world. author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on international relations. Chapter Two: The Return of the “Barbarians” This chapter will analyze the rise of ISIL, and how basic principles of international humanitarian law — thought to be unassailable — have been compro- mised in both ISIL’s campaign and in the world’s response to it.

Chapter Three: The Return of Mass Flight This chapter will focus on how the explosion of refugees and asylum seekers challenges the rhetoric of globalization. MARKETING NOTES Chapter Four: The Return of Aggression • 5-city Massey Lecture tour: This chapter will focus on how the Russian • Wed Sept 21: Winnipeg advancement into Ukraine is the greatest challenge • Fri Sept 23: Vancouver to the principles of the UN Charter in the post- • Sat Sept 24: Saskatoon 1945 period. • Wed Oct 5: Halifax • Fri Oct 7: Toronto Chapter Five: The Return of Inequality • National publicity coverage This last chapter looks at the biggest fault line in • CBC Radio promotion the Western liberal democratic model: the gap • National print & broadcast advertising between the rich and the poor. • Pre-publication excerpt in major media outlet • #MasseyLectures • ARCs available • Co-op available 13 Available THE CBC MASSEY

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15 November AS FEARLESS AS POSSIBLE (UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES) DENISE DONLON

Feminist. Social activist. Broadcaster. Corporate leader. One of Canada’s most celebrated and dynamic citizens, Denise Donlon has long been recog- nized as a trailblazer in the Canadian cultural industries.

In this smart, funny, and inspiring memoir, Denise Donlon chronicles her impressive and storied career, which has put her at the forefront of the mas- sive changes in the music industry and media. From her early days as a host on MuchMusic and the cult show The NewMusic she quickly moved up the ranks as director of music programming and VP and general manager, when music became a medium that would change popular culture forever. She became the first female president of Sony Music Canada, where she navigated the biggest crisis in the music industry, and then joined CBC English Radio as General Manager and Executive Director when the corporation ab- sorbed cutbacks on federal funding, leading to mass layoffs, the closure of stations, and a shadow over the future of Canada’s national public broadcaster. Throughout her incredible journey, she shares colourful and entertaining stories of growing up tall, flat, and bullied; interviewing musical icons such as Keith Richards, Ice-T, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Annie Lennox, and Sting; working with talent agent Sam Feldman, media pioneer Moses Znaimer, execu- tive vice-president of CBC Radio Richard Stursberg, and her co-host on the current affairs magazine show BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs TheZoomer, Conrad Black. And finally, she details her 978-1-4870-0002-8 life-changing experiences with WarChild Canada 6 x 9 • 400 pages and her work with other charitable organizations, Hardcover with jacket • $32.95 including Live8 and the Clinton Foundation. Told with humour and honesty, As Fearless as 978-1-4870-0003-5 Possible (Under the Circumstances) is a candid memoir ePub • $24.95 of one woman’s journey, navigating corporate cul- ture with integrity, responsibility, and an irrepress- BISAC: BIO026000 ible passion to be a force for good.

16 DENISE DONLON is one of Canada’s most suc- EXCERPT cessful broadcasters and corporate leaders. She Like it or not, youth, or the appearance of youth, has been a co-host and producer of The NewMusic, was an essential part of the music video culture. Director of Programming and VP/General Man- One minute I felt like the new kid in the candy store ager of MuchMusic/CityTV, President of Sony and the next like someone’s clingy spinster aunt. Music Canada, General Manager and Executive Ridiculous I know, but that’s how I felt. My on-air Director of CBC English Radio, and co-producer presentation certainly needed some work. I’d taken and co-host of The Zoomer. She has also devoted to wearing big baggy shirts — sometimes with sus- herself to numerous charitable initiatives, work- penders — and a lot of lumpy sweatshirts. As I look ing with organization such as WarChild Canada, back, I note that one big blue sweatshirt with Benny the Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton Giustra Goodman on the front seems to have been a favou- Sustainable Growth Initiative. She sits on a number rite. I shouldn’t have worn those outfits to walk the of boards and has been honoured with the Humani- dog, let alone on air. tarian Spirit Award and the Trailblazer Award at In an effort to upgrade my look, Dennis Canadian Music Week, Woman of the Year from “Denno” Saunders — one of the original big- Canadian Women in Communications, Woman of hearted, fun-loving directors at Much — took me Vision from Wired Women, and was inducted in into makeup at CityTV. It was an act of kindness. the Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a Fellow of the He wanted to see what might be done about my Royal Conservatory of Music and a Member of the “heavy-lidded eyes.” The makeup artist peered at Order of Canada. She lives in Toronto with her hus- me over her wing-tipped rhinestone spectacles and band, the musician Murray McLauchlan. suggested plastic surgery. Denno thought that she might find something in her magic makeup bag instead. After that, my new nickname was “Gila” — MARKETING NOTES as in Gila Monster, the heavy-lidded one.

• National author tour • National review & feature attention • Outreach to prominent influencers in Canadian arts & entertainment • ARCs available • Co-op available • Twitter: @donlon

17 April WHAT REMAINS Object Lessons in Love and Loss KAREN VON HAHN

A funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful objets — and how it ultimately proved destructive.

Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her styl- ish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain-and-vodka-soaked narcissist whose search for glamour and fulfillment through the acquisition and collection of beautiful things ultimately proved destructive. A tale of growing up in 1970s Toronto in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jew-ish family that valued panache over pragmatism and loafers worn without socks over substance, von Hahn’s recol- lections alternate between satire and sadness, ulti- mately questioning the value of the things we hold dear — and, after her complicated, yet impossible- to-forget mother is gone — what exactly remains.

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18 KAREN VON HAHN is a columnist with the EXCERPT Toronto Star and the editor of KingWest magazine. Chapter 1: Pearls For more than twenty-five years she has reported The last word I ever heard from my mother was on trends in life and style for publications such as “pearls.” Of course I didn’t actually hear it; P-E- the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, More, Fashion, A-R-L-S was slowly spelled out, with much effort, House & Home, en Route, and Toronto Life. She was by pointing an index finger on a white card printed also the host and producer of a television series with the alphabet and supplied by the nursing staff called The Goods for the Slice network. Her first in the ICU. My mother had a giant clear blue plastic book was Karen von Hahn’s Hip Guide: Toronto. tube stuck down her throat attached to a breathing machine and couldn’t speak. Which didn’t in any way prevent her from mak- ing herself understood. Always one for a grand ges- ture, the sly brow, the dark look, the giant sweep of a hand, the pointing finger — hers now crooked at the joint like a witch and so swollen the skin looked tightly stuffed, like a sausage — our mother made it perfectly clear to the three of us standing around her bed next to the deafening suck-and-whoosh of the ventilator puffing her chest up and down that first, she wanted to die, and that second, I, her eldest, was the one who should get her pearls.

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19 June DO HUMANKIND’S BEST DAYS LIE AHEAD? The Munk Debates Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley (Pro) VS. Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell (Con)

“It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.” — Steven Pinker

Progress. It is one of the animating con- cepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technolo- gies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics ar- gue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in an- other. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestsell- ing author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind’s best days lie ahead.

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20 STEVEN PINKER is a pioneering cognitive ALSO AVAILABLE scientist who has written a number of bestselling books, including The Sense of Style: The Thinking SHOULD THE WEST ENGAGE PUTIN’S Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, as well RUSSIA? The Munk Debate on Russia as the landmark study on human progress The Bet- Stephen F. Cohen & Vladimir Pozner Vs. ter Angels of Our Nature, which won the New York Anne Applebaum & Garry Kasparov Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. He is 978-1-77089-858-5 Paperback • $14.95 Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Har- 978-1-77089-859-2 ePub • $12.95 vard University.

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21 September NEW IN PAPERBACK

HISTORY’S PEOPLE Personalities and the Past MARGARET MACMILLAN Now available in paperback: bestselling author and internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times — and sometimes with huge consequences.

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22 July NEW IN PAPERBACK

NEMESIS One Man and the Battle for Rio MISHA GLENNY This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or “favela” he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; about Rio, the beautiful but damned city that Rocinha exists in; and about the battle for Brazil. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nem’s individual, astonishing trajectory to the wider story of the country that he exists in. It’s about drugs and gangs and violence and poverty. It’s about a man who made a terribly dangerous and life-altering decision for the best and most understandable of reasons. And it’s about the wider forces at work in a country that is in the world’s spotlight as never before and is set to stay there.

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24 AMBROSIA

Introducing Ambrosia, Anansi’s new lifestyle imprint focused on publishing the best emerging and established voices in food, art, fashion, and design from Canada and around the world. November PARIS UNDRESSED The Secrets of French Lingerie KATHRYN KEMP-GRIFFIN ILLUSTRATED BY PALOMA CASILE

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26 KATHRYN KEMP-GRIFFIN EXCERPT is a journalist and entrepreneur. It could have been the Canadian winters, or the She has been living in Paris and Lycra® crew shorts and racer-back tank top to which working in the lingerie industry I was partial in summer. Whatever the reason, or the since 1990. She started her season, I seem to have missed the conversation about own lingerie company, Soyelle, the importance of garter belts and stockings. The before founding Paris Lingerie purpose of those intimate items remained abstract to Tours. In 2009, she founded Pink Bra Bazaar, a me, and nonessential to the meaning of life. I was charitable organization dedicated to breast health more concerned with my career options and mar- education and supporting women with breast rying my college sweetheart (who hadn’t voiced an cancer. Born in Canada, she lives in an old millhouse objection to growing old with me in pantyhose). outside of Paris with her husband, five children, and Then my husband and I moved to France, and assorted pets. everything changed. We were out at the famed Moulin Rouge with our PALOMA CASILE designs a line of epony- new French friends, Pierre and Armelle. I watched as mous lingerie. She graduated top of her class from the dancers can-canned their way across the stage, all ESMOD Paris and apprenticed in houses such as synchronized hips, their legs in hitched-up stockings. Chantal Thomass and Cadolle, before winning the “To the belle époque!” enthused Pierre as he lingerie prize at the Dinard Festival of Young Fash- refilled our champagne glasses. ion Designers. She lives in Paris. “Amazing,” said my husband, glassy-eyed after the number ended. I looked from one to the other. “I love the cos- tumes,” I admitted, “but I don’t envy the dancers MARKETING NOTES having to lace up those corsets or struggle with those stockings every night. What a hassle, huh?” • National publicity coverage It was then that Armelle dropped the garter guil- • Outreach to Fashion/Lifestyle influencers lotine. “Cherie,” she said, leaning toward me, “any • Advance samplers available woman who truly loves her man wears stockings.” Gulp. After that, I began to notice garter belts and stockings everywhere: soirées, cafés, at the gym, on the street. And, of course, in window displays of the ubiquitous lingerie boutiques throughout Paris. There were a lot of women in love, including moi — and I was going to prove it à la française.

27 November THE JOYFUL LIVING COLOURING BOOK TEVA HARRISON

From the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed graphic memoir In-Between Days comes a splendid new colouring book of original illustrations with a few choice words of hope that will inspire and delight.

When Teva Harrison was first diag- nosed with cancer, she felt lost, cast adrift. In order to pull herself out of depression, to draw herself forward, she started to draw. In the beginning, the drawings were tiny wildflowers photographed on her travels. Something about that act of looking, drawing the edges until flowers emerged, focusing on something so short-lived, resilient, and beautiful changed the nature of her days. It let the joy back in. This colouring book is an expansion on that germ of hope. Having cancer has made the world feel es- pecially precious to Harrison, and she finds magic and delight everywhere: symbol-enriched herald- ry, animals and birds, everyday objects that give her pleasure, foliage and flowers, and a few choice words of inspiration and hope.

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28 TEVA HARRISON is a writer and graphic artist. ALSO AVAILABLE She is the author of the graphic memoir In-Between Days and her graphic series on living with cancer IN-BETWEEN DAYS is published in The Walrus. She has commented on Teva Harrison CBC Radio and in the Globe and Mail about her experience, and numerous health organizations 978-1-4870-0108-7 have invited her to speak publicly on behalf of the Trade paperback • $19.95 metastatic cancer community. She lives in Toronto. 978-1-4870-0109-4 ePub • $16.95

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29 LIFESTYLE HIGHLIGHTS

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30 ASTORIA August THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE RUSSELL WANGERSKY

An amusing and agonizing look at veiled hostility by two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Russell Wangersky

As entertaining as they are insight- ful, the stories in The Path of Most Resistance are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose their will on the uncaring world around them. From a woman who compulsively shops for lug- gage in order to sublimate her desire for a divorce to a senior citizen who tries to force his family to visit by refusing to eat, the characters in this collection try to change their lives through oblique resistance. The stories also humorously show readers how passive aggression is perhaps at its most effective when carried out in smaller, more insidious ways. Uncertain about the state of his relationship, a man obsesses about, but refuses to clean, a spot of mould in the bathroom. When a local veteran continues to park his car illegally at night, his neighbour cal- lously befriends him while repeatedly reporting him to the city. The Path of Most Resistance is an observant and compassionate look at the feelings of powerless- ness that we all share, and will have readers silently cringing and nodding in recognition of their own FICTION / Short Stories bad behaviour. 978-1-4870-0068-4 5.25 x 8 • 240 pages Trade paperback • $19.95

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32 RUSSELL WANGERSKY is the author of five ALSO AVAILABLE books. Most recently, his crime thriller Walt was named one of the top crime books of the year by the WALT National Post. Wangersky has won, or been nomi- Russell Wangersky nated, for numerous awards for his writing, includ- ing the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the B.C. National 978-1-77089-467-9 Award for Non-Fiction, the Edna Staebler Award Paperback with flaps • $22.95 for Creative Non-Fiction, the Thomas Head Rad- 978-1-77089-468-6 dall Award for Fiction, the BMO Winterset Award, ePub • $18.95 and the National Newspaper Awards. He is TC Media’s Atlantic regional columnist and lives in St. WINNER OF THE CBC BOOKIE AWARD John’s, Newfoundland. “One of the most unsettling crime novels I’ve read this year.” — National Post

“A full-on psychological thriller . . . Wangersky does a good job keeping the reader guessing as to whether Walt is a bona fide killer, or just another garden-variety creep.” — Quill & Quire

“A frank, penetrating thriller . . . The wordcraft here is crisp, tight, and evocative.” — St. John’s Telegram

“[Wangersky] and Walt demonstrate the ways the rhythms and music of words can be used to build sensa- MARKETING NOTES tion — and serious unease — on the page.” — London Free Press • National author tour • National publicity coverage • Short story excerpt • ARCs available • Co-op available • russellwangersky.com • Twitter: @wangersky

33 September SEX AND DEATH Stories EDITED BY SARAH HALL AND PETER HOBBS

A provocative and haunting collection of short stories that probe two of the most powerful forces shaping the human experience.

“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death. The drive for life — for survival and repro- duction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two dominant, instinctive urges of human behaviour. These con- flicting compulsions, characterized by Freud as Eros and Thanatos, are also the central themes of great literature. In Sex and Death, some of today’s most compelling writers from around the globe — Kevin Barry, Lynn Coady, Robert Drewe, Cerid- wen Dovey, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs, Yiyun Li, Alexander MacLeod, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Guadalupe Nettel, Courttia Newland, Taiye Selassie, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Alan Warner, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clare Wigfall — explore these challenging themes with honesty, psychological acuity, brutality, tenderness, and empathy, in stories that are illuminating, dis- quieting, funny, and utterly dazzling.

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34 SARAH HALL is the author CONTRIBUTORS of the novels Haweswater, The Kevin Barry Electric Michelangelo, Daughters Lynn Coady of the North, How To Paint A Dead Ceridwen Dovey Man, and The Wolf Border. She Robert Drewe has won the Commonwealth Damon Galgut Writers’ Prize among others, Petina Gappah and her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Sarah Hall Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Peter Hobbs longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Yiyun Li IMPAC Award. Her first collection of short stories, Alexander MacLeod The Beautiful Indifference, won the Portico Prize for Ben Marcus Fiction and the Edge Hill Prize, and was also short- Jon McGregor listed for the Frank O’Connor Prize. She lives in Guadalupe Nettel Norwich, U.K. Courttia Newland Taiye Selassie PETER HOBBS is the author Ali Smith of the novels In The Orchard, Wells Tower the Swallows and The Short Day Alan Warner Dying, which was shortlisted Claire Vaye Watkins for the Whitbread First Novel Clare Wigfall Award, the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award. His collection of stories is I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train. He lives in London, U.K.

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35 April JUMP CARY FAGAN

Stirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them.

These forty brief stories — and the found photographs that inspired them — are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, de- lightful and appalling. Fagan has created a mesmer- izing series of narrative tales, giving readers a vivid peek into lives of strangers. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A shop window advertising a sale on blankets hides much more behind it. A lone tombstone on a hill speaks of a years-long feud. The stories — capturing portraits, objects, moments in time — while dizzyingly varied, form a single image that, in the words of the author, “belong to one his- tory, found in an album that might belong to any of us.” Deftly marrying vision and language with memory and imagination, Fagan paints an intimate portrait of forgotten lives that is profound, gener- ous, and highly entertaining.

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36 CARY FAGAN is an award-winning author of ALSO AVAILABLE books for children and adults. He has twice been a Toronto Book Award finalist, and he has won the A BIRD’S EYE Jewish Book Award and the World Storytelling Cary Fagan Award. He has been a finalist for the TD Canadi- an Children’s Literature Award, the Mr. Christie’s 978-1-77089-310-8 Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award, the Rocky Hardcover with jacket • $19.95 Mountain Book Award, the Manitoba Young Read- 978-1-77089-311-5 ers’ Choice Award, the Blue Spruce Award, and the ePub • $16.95 Silver Birch Express Award. Cary lives with his fam- ily in Toronto. ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK

“Fagan captures the long days and delight of youth . . . A Bird’s Eye consumed me like a memory, warm and sweet and sad. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was mag- ic.” — Globe and Mail

“Cary Fagan is the first author to portray so master- fully that inherent in [Kensington Market] . . . is pure and utter magic.” — National Post

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37 January A PLEA FOR CONSTANT MOTION PAUL CARLUCCI

Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new collection of stories by award- winning author Paul Carlucci.

Dexterously divided into two parts — Movement and Paralysis — the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Two couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare. The char- acters in Carlucci’s formidable sophomoric collec- tion are by turns familiar and disquieting, as some achieve their hard-fought escapes, while others fail completely. Penetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, A Plea for Constant Motion is a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.

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38 PAUL CARLUCCI is the author of The Secret PRAISE FOR PAUL CARLUCCI AND THE Life of Fission, which won the Danuta Gleed Liter- SECRET LIFE OF FISSION ary Award. His stories have been widely published, appearing in The Puritan, Little Fiction, The Mala- WINNER OF THE DANUTA GLEED AWARD hat Review, Descant, Carousel, EVENT, Riddle Fence, among others. A recovering transient, he now lives “The Secret Life of Fission delivers the explosiveness in Ottawa after almost ten years of roaming across alluded to in its title — sharp-edged language and a Canada and abroad. kind of flying-apart. Nothing gentle here: families and relationships are either in the midst of blowing apart or else already hopelessly broken, and all is portrayed with a careful, almost dissected language that prevents the reader from glancing away. The work is spare, careful, direct, and fully engrossing. These are stories well told, and unsettling the way only honesty is.” — Danuta Gleed Literary Award jury citation

“Carlucci’s work is fierce and unforgiving.” —Little Fiction

“Sparse and concise . . . a refreshing dip into the dark depths of our Canada.” — Geist

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39 March HIGH KICK EVA CROCKER

Shortlisted for the RBC Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, High Kick is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crash- ing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.

Financial uncertainty leads to interpersonal insecurity as an assortment of youth- ful protagonists navigate the everyday challenges of life — and making a living — on the island. What happens when the man interviewing you for a job takes you on a date to see a hypnotist? How do you get rid of a psychosomatic case of bedbugs? What’s the best way to get rid of a beaver dam? How do you tell someone you just started seeing that you didn’t know you had scabies when you hooked up? In the Cuffer Prize–winning story, “Skin and Mud,” two boys experience a sexual encounter in a rural com- munity. High Kick is packed with unforgettable char- acters, vibrant humour, and acute insight into the overwhelming anxieties of new adults living their lives in the midst of a crumbling, old economy.

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40 EVA CROCKER’s stories have been published in EXCERPT Riddle Fence, The Overcast, and The Telegram’s Cuffer “Your mother thought you might like to have these Anthology. This collection was shortlisted for the for your new place.” Walt’s father had arrived unan- 2015 RBC Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writ- nounced, holding a set of pressed curtains in a gro- ers. Crocker recently completed a Master’s Degree cery bag. in English Literature at Memorial University. She “You’re cooking,” his father said. Walt realized is currently the communications coordinator at the he’d brought the spatula to the door with him. St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. “Just breakfast.” Walt heard the shower shut off, the pipes stuttering in the wall. “There’s someone here?” “A friend. He’s helping me move.” His father passed him the package, little beads of rain still on the bag. Walt’s father edged his way into the apartment as Walt stepped backwards to make room for him. “New windows?” His father looked around in the living room. “It’s renovated.” Walt skimmed a hand along the sharp hairs growing on his jawbone. He was aware of the heat spreading across his face. “Good, it’s easier to keep a new place clean. We drove by and saw you didn’t have any curtains up and your mother thought you might like to have some.” MARKETING NOTES The door to the bathroom opened, the hall flooding with warm damp air and the smell of • National Author Tour shampoo. Trent was wearing jeans and a t-shirt but • National Media Coverage his feet were bare. His hair was dripping, making • ARCs available dark circles on his shirt. • Co-op available “Trent, this is my Dad.” Trent took three steps down the hall and held out his hand. His feet leaving wet smudges on the floor. Walt’s back was against the closet door, which was made of thin strips of wood held together with a rubbery plastic. The door creaked against the weight of his body. “I’m Trent.” Trent extended his hand. He was taller and broader than Walt’s father. 41 RECENT PRAISE FOR ASTORIA

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“Thirteen Shells is a smart, tender story of growing “What a mind-blowingly rich cast of characters up. Our lives come back to us in stories like these, appears in these pages. Rooted in reality but tinged polished shells strung on a cord, the whole as mean- with the fantastic, these stories mesmerize and ingful as all its parts.” — Lynn Thomson, author of haunt. Double Dutch is doubleplusgood.” — Neil Birding With Yeats Smith, author of Boo

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“Hollingshead’s stories are admirable in their refusal to offer their reader a conventional experience.” — Globe and Mail

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April THE CORPSES OF THE FUTURE LYNN CROSBIE

“Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunder- stood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world.” — Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness

The Corpses of the Future is a sustained, confessional new collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie. It tells the story of her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness, following a stroke. The book’s title is his, sar- donic, remark. Crosbie considers, strategically, dementia to be a symbolic language and as such, similar to poetry. The poems chronologically recount the poet’s conversations and time with her father, and capture his still-astonishing means of communi- cating. But the author’s attempts to understand her father’s dis- tress, pain, fear, and brave love are assisted by her understand- ing of the “negative capability” required of readers of poetry. This is a harrowing book, with moments of joy and even levity. It is a collection about love, and love’s persistence, even under the most unspeakable circumstances.

LYNN CROSBIE was born in Montreal and is a cultural critic, author, and poet. A Ph.D. in English literature with a background in visual studies, she teaches at the University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her books (of poetry POETRY / Canadian and prose) include Pearl, Queen Rat, and Dorothy L’Amour. She 978-1-4870-0090-5 is also the author of the controversial book Paul’s Case and most 5.5 x 8.5 • 144 pages recently, Life Is About Losing Everything and the novel Where Did Trade paperback • $19.95 You Sleep Last Night. She is a contributing editor at Fashion and a 978-1-4870-0092-9 National Magazine Award Winner who has written about sports, PDF • $16.95 style, art, and music.

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44 April XIPHOID PROCESS KEVIN CONNOLLY

Nine years (ahem…) in the making, award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention and authenticity.

What is a public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s Xiphoid Process interrogate the alleged fu- tility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make some- thing useful out of the experience? Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, CA and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.

KEVIN CONNOLLY’s previous collections include Asphalt Cigar (finalist Gerald Lampert Award),Drift (winner, Trillium Poetry Prize), and Revolver (finalist, Griffin Poetry Prize, Tril- lium Book Award). He teaches poetry in the MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber and has been poetry faculty POETRY / Canadian at the Banff Centre’s May Writing Studio. Connolly was poetry 978-1-4870-0186-5 editor at Toronto’s Coach House Books 2008–2013, and cur- 5.5 x 8.5 • 120 pages rently selects and edits poetry for McClelland and Stewart. Trade paperback • $19.95

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45 April THIS ACCIDENT OF BEING LOST LEANNE SIMPSON

The knife-sharp new collection of short fiction and poetry from award- winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Leanne Simpson is both provocateur and poet, at once unapologetic and compassionate as her characters cast off the judgement of others while they pursue decolonial futures on their own terms. Building upon her powerful use of the frag- ment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed col- lection Islands of Decolonial Love, these visionary pieces argue for the value of getting lost as a way to discover an inner strength more important than being found. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt, Lake Ontario considers flooding Toronto to remake the world, lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest, three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood, and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg sto- rytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, that challenges you to recon- sider the world you thought you knew.

LEANNE SIMPSON is the author of three books: Dancing POETRY / Canadian on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is In the Making, and Islands of 978-1-4870-0127-8 Decolonial Love. She is also the editor of Lighting the Eighth Fire, 5.5 x 8.5 • 152 pages This Is An Honour Song (with Kiera Ladner), and The Winter Trade paperback • $19.95 We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More 978-1-4870-0129-2 Movement (Kino-nda-niimi collective). Leanne holds a Ph.D. PDF • $16.95 from the University of Manitoba and has lectured at universi- ties across Canada. She is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ances- BISAC POE011000 try and a member of Alderville First Nation.

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46 April THE DENNIS LEE OMNIBUS DENNIS LEE

The definitive collected poetry of literary icon Dennis Lee.

This book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee. Jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years, working across the spectrum from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer. This Omnibus represents them all, and it will make your head spin. There are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. The Dennis Lee Omnibus collects for the first time work from all corners of this extraordinary career, from his searing early breakthroughs to his beloved children’s verse to his visions of environmental apocalypse.

DENNIS LEE is the author of more than thirty books of poet- ry and prose, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He was POETRY / Canadian born in Toronto in 1939, wrote the song lyrics for Jim Henson’s 978-1-4870-0149-0 Fraggle Rock, and in 2001 was named the city’s first poet laure- 6 x 9 • 352 pages ate. He initiated the programme of Legacy plaques in Toronto, Trade paperback • $29.95 and recently served as a resident artist with Soulpepper Theatre 978-1-4870-0151-3 Company. PDF • $24.95

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“Heighton works (and plays) with words in wondrous ways “Buffam’s poetry is full of heavy thought and dark few contemporary poets even dream of attempting, let humour. Buffam writes with the conviction that every- alone conquering.” — Globe and Mail thing is worth observing.” — Publishers Weekly

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“Singular and beautiful. [Box Kite] is a meditation on “Crummey does not sentimentalize or exploit his sub- time and place, a book about China (sort of), a book about jects; he treats them with a quiet attentiveness that is Toronto (sort of), a book about trees, light, stones bridges, not exactly detachment but has the cleanness of detach- gardens, the writer Lu Hsun . . . It’s a work that grows in ment.” — National Post the imagination.” — André Alexis in the Writers’ Trust Best Books of the Year

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ANANSI INTERNATIONAL August I HID MY VOICE PARINOUSH SANIEE TRANSLATED BY SANAM KALANTARI

From the international bestselling author of The Book of Fate comes the story, based on real events, of a four-year-old Iranian boy who cannot speak and struggles against the shame it brings upon his family in modern day Iran.

Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridi- culed by others who call him “dumb.” Young Sha- haab doesn’t understand what the word means and thinks it is a compliment, until one day his cousin plays a trick on him to prove to everyone that the boy truly is the neighbourhood idiot. When his mother recounts the incident to her husband, Shahaab is crushed to learn that his father also thinks the boy’s speech impediment indicates that his son is an idiot and thus brings shame on the family. Shahaab soon recognizes that his father’s love and esteem is concentrated on his older broth- er, Arash, and his younger sister, Shadee. In his innocent and deeply hurt child’s mind, he begins to believe that the “good” and “intelligent” children like his older brother are their fathers’ sons. On the other hand, children like him who are “clumsy” and “problematic” are their mothers’ sons. From that moment on, his world, which he thought was filled with beauty and kindness, suddenly turns harsh, full of anger and insult. He begins to lash out, tak- ing childish revenge on those around him, encour- aged by his two imaginary friends, Esi and Bibi. FICTION / Literary No one in the family can understand Shahaab’s 978-1-4870-0083-7 wild behaviour except his maternal grandmother, who 5.5 x 8.5 • 304 pages seems to possess the understanding and the kindness Trade paperback • $18.95 he so desperately craves. Their growing bond leads to a deep friendship in which Shahaab is able to experi- 978-1-4870-0084-4 ence some happiness and finally find his voice. ePub • $16.95 BISAC: FIC019000

50 PARINOUSH SANIEE is a ALSO AVAILABLE sociologist and psychologist. She was formerly manager of THE BOOK OF FATE the research department at the Parinoush Saniee Supreme Coordination Council for Technical and Vocational 978-1-77089-383-2 Education in Iran. Her first Trade paperback • $16.95 novel, The Book of Fate, won the Boccaccio Prize in 978-1-77089-384-9 Italy, Euskadi de Plata Prize in the Basque Country, ePub • $14.95 and was selected as one of World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2013. I Hid My Voice is WINNER OF THE BOCCACCIO PRIZE IN ITALY her second novel that has been translated into Eng- WINNER OF THE EUSKADI DE PLATA PRIZE IN THE lish. Her other books are awaiting approval by the BASQUE COUNTRY censorship board. SELECTED AS ONE OF WORLD LITERATURE TODAY’S 75 NOTABLE TRANSLATIONS OF 2013 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER CANADIAN BESTSELLER

“Rarely can a novel have sustained such levels of emotion over so many gut-wrenching pages. It’s a memor­able and nuanced dissection of a patriarchal society.” — Guardian

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51 October THE TOBACCONIST ROBERT SEETHALER TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE COLLINS

Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Hu­ chel­ leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers. Over time, an unlikely friendship develops between the two very different men. When Franz falls desper- ately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As the political and social conditions dramati- cally worsen with the annexation of Austria by Hitler’s Germany and the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the mael- strom of events. And each has to make a big deci- sion: to stay or to flee? Blending moments of gentle humour with pro- found tragedy, The Tobacconist is a tender, heart- breaking story about the pitfalls of first love set against the backdrop of looming war.

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52 ROBERT SEETHALER is an Austrian living ALSO AVAILABLE in Berlin. He is the bestselling author of four nov- els, including The Tobacconist, which has sold more A WHOLE LIFE than 200,000 copies in Germany, and A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler which has sold more than 100,000 copies in Ger- many. He also works as an actor, most recently in 978-1-4870-0074-5 Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth. Trade paperback • $19.95

978-1-4870-0075-2 CHARLOTTE COLLINS studied English at ePub • $16.95 Cambridge University. She worked as an actor and radio journalist in both Germany and the U.K. MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE LONGLIST before becoming a literary translator. She also “The Austrian writer Robert Seethaler’s A Whole translated Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life, and is Life is a lovely contemplation of a life in solitude in co-translating The Eighth Life, the award-winning a remote valley, into which the modern world slowly novel by Nino Haratischwili. intrudes.” — Ian McEwen, Sunday Times

“What is perhaps most remarkable about this remark- able novel is the way that it continually weaves past, present, and future into a single fabric. A deeply mov- ing book.” — Sunday Times

“The story of Andreas Egger is both heartbreaking and uplifting . . . the beauty of this slim volume makes the reader pause and think about what it means to be alive.” MARKETING NOTES — Toronto Star

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53 September IF VENICE DIES SALVATORE SETTIS TRANSLATED BY ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? Interna- tionally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these ques- tions and is igniting a new debate about Venice.

Venetians are increasingly aban- doning their hometown — there’s now only one resident for every 600 visitors — and Venice’s frag- ile fate has become emblematic of the future of his- toric cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, renowned art historian Salvatore Settis argues that “hit-and-run” visitors are turning landmark urban settings into shopping malls and theme parks. He warns that Western civilization’s prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenization. This is a passionate plea to secure Venice’s future, written with consummate authority, wide- ranging erudition and élan.

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54 SALVATORE SETTIS is an art historian and PRAISE FOR SALVATORE SETTIS AND IF archaeologist who has served as director of the Get- VENICE DIES: ty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Scuo- la Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He currently “A lament for the day-by-day destruction of great heads the Louvre Museum’s scientific council and beauty . . . full of anger and disappointment at what has written several books of art history. the author sees as the moral bankruptcy of Italy today.” — The Art Newspaper ANDRE NAFFIS-SAHELY is a translator and poet who was born in Venice and grew up in Abu “Salvatore Settis wants to curb the sellout of cities Dhabi. He lives in Hudson, N.Y. . . . Balancing sharp intellect and moral indigna- tion, lucid writing, and impassioned argument, his polemic makes for captivating reading.” — Frank- furter Allgemeine Zeitung

“The vision of Settis is particularly gloomy and pessimistic, but there is still hope.” — Corriere della Sera

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55 September I SWEAR The Surprising Science of Our Dirtiest Words DR. EMMA BYRNE

In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and funny look at the science behind swearing.

Did you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller? Swearing is something that can be used to amuse or abuse, something that we do consciously for effect or as a reflex out of pain or frustration. Swearing fascinates scientists be- cause of the things it tells us about our brains and our societies. In delightfully fun and accessible language, Dr. Emma Byrne mounts a spirited defence of swearing, backed up by riveting historical case stud- ies and the latest cutting-edge research. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, pre- vent violence, help stroke victims recover their lan- guage, and help people work together as a team. I Swear explores the science behind bad lan- guage and explains why swear words might actually be good for us.

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56 DR. EMMA BYRNE is a research scientist at EXCERPT Queen Mary, University of London. She has a Even the most linguistically chaste of us is tempted Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and an MRes in to let slip an expletive or two when the hammer hits Visualization, Imaging, and Virtual Environments. the thumb. But is this sort of outburst a simple case Her research has been published in Science and the of losing control or is there more to swearing than BMJ and has been covered by the BBC, the Daily meets the ear? Mail, and the Scottish Daily Record. She has also In 2009, psychologist Dr Richard Stephens’ written popular science articles for Forbes and the curiosity got the better of him. His colleagues Financial Times. Dr. Byrne appears regularly on Sky kept insisting that swearing was a “maladaptive” News and the BBC as an expert on swearing and response to pain — that swearing increases our artificial intelligence.I Swear is her first book. stress levels and actually makes the agony worse. If that was the case, Stephens reasoned, why do we still do it? So he set out to test the theory, by hav- ing groups of his students keep their hands in ice water as long as possible. Dr Stephens discovered that those students who were instructed to swear could bear the cold for over one and a half times as long as the ones who were given a “neutral” word like “flat” or “stable” to say instead. However, like any analgesic, we need to be careful not to reach for swearing too often, or it starts to lose its effect. Dr Richard Stevens carried out another study, this time with student Claire MARKETING NOTES Umland, which showed that the people who swear the most are the ones who found the least relief • National publicity attention from swearing when subjected to the same ice water • ARCs available task. • Co-op available • emmabyrne.net • Twitter: @SciWriBy

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“Like other writers of fictionalised memoir — Karl “Stunning writing from the opening page, this book is Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante come to mind captivating, unpredictable, and often blackly comic. — Gárdos’s novel gains an extra dimension when Janet Ellis depicts not only eighteenth century London the narrative reverts into the present tense, and he in wonderful detail but also the creation of a one-of-a- movingly considers the words his parents don’t write kind psychopath. This isn’t a cosy period book but one to each other in their letters . . . Gárdos’s fascinating in which the author throws firecrackers at the reader.” novel is sure to become a staple in book clubs.” — Rosamund Lupton, author of Afterwards — The Australian

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“Claudia Hammond is the ideal tour guide for this hugely enjoyable (if sometimes alarming) journey through the strange psychology of spending and saving.” — Oliver Burkeman 58 SPIDERLINE January THE COUTURIER OF MILAN An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years IAN HAMILTON

In the ninth installment of the bestselling and Arthur Ellis Award–winning Ava Lee series, Ava investigates the dark side of the glamorous world of fash- ion.

Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters — May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee — have made during the last year. With the exponential ex- pansion of the luxury-brand market in China, Ava and her part- ners are determined to see a young Chinese designer break out in Europe and North America and they go full out in London. The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal part- ner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. The women are invited to Milan to meet with Ventola and senior executives in his company. VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in PÖ. Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base is pressured by VLG to abandon them. Ava decides to strike back and turns to Xu for assistance, leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest global crime syndicates: the Camorra and the Triad.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women IAN HAMILTON is the author of ten novels in the Ava Lee Sleuths • BISAC: FIC022040 978-1-77089-856-8 • 5.25 x 8 • 408 pages series. The books have been shortlisted for numerous prizes, Trade paperback • $19.95 including the Arthur Ellis Award, the Barry Award, and the Lambda Literary Prize, and are national bestsellers. The Water 978-1-77089-857-5 • ePub $16.95 Rat of Wanchai was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for MARKETING NOTES Best First Novel and was named a best book of the year by • National author tour Amazon.ca, the Toronto Star, and Quill & Quire. BBC Culture • National publicity campaign named Hamilton one of the ten mystery/crime writers from the • Mystery blogger outreach last thirty years that should be on your bookshelf. The series is • Online promotion being adapted for television. • ARCs available • Co-op available • ianhamiltonbooks.com • Twitter: @avaleebooks 60 ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE AVA LEE SERIES

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61 November THE NINTH GRAVE A Fabian Risk Novel STEFAN AHNHEM TRANSLATED BY PAUL NORLEN

The prequel to Victim Without a Face has Fabian Risk on the hunt for a serial killer who is stealing body parts from his victims.

Would you kill for the one you love?

On a cold winter evening, the Swedish min- ister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator FabianRisk and Danish coun- terpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces to- gether, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine. The Ninth Grave is a spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face. It is the second stand-alone novel about detective Fabian Risk.

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62 STEFAN AHNHEM is the author of the Fabian ALSO AVAILABLE Risk series. He is also an established screenwriter for both TV and film and has worked on a variety VICTIM WITHOUT A FACE of projects, including adaptations of Henning Stefan Ahnhem Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, and serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. He lives in 978-1-77089-913-1 Stockholm. Trade paperback • $19.95

978-1-77089-914-8 PAUL NORLEN has translated crime novels from ePub • $16.95 Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. He lives with his family in Seattle. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER CRIMETIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR

“It’s clear from the opening that Ahnhem knows how to take the reader away . . . A truly auspicious debut.” — Globe and Mail

“More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson, and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.” — Tony Parsons, author of The Murder Bag

“It’s a better class of murder in Sweden . . . Epic in scale and ambition, this announces a new arrival in the Swedish crime galaxy.” — Daily Mail MARKETING NOTES “Recalls Mankell at his best in its whip-smart obser- • Review attention vations, flawed but endearing characters, and grue- • Mystery blogger outreach some appeal.” — Sunday Times • ARCs available • Co-op available “Finally we have a true heir to Stieg Larsson. Ahn- • FaceBook ahnhem.stefan hem knows how to write, has a feeling for pacing • @StefanAhnhem and dialogue, and masters everything perfectly.” — NDR (Germany)

“This Scandinavian page turner is sure to keep you up late into the night . . . [and] reveals Ahnhem to be a talent to watch.” — Waterloo Region Record

63 February THE BORROWED CHAN HO-KEI TRANSLATED BY JEREMY TIANG

A sweeping, ambitious crime drama that offers startling insight into one of the most dazzling cities of the Far East.

The year is 2013, and Inspector Kwan, one of Hong Kong’s greatest detectives, is dying. His friend and protégé, Detective Lok, has come to Kwan’s hospital bed to solve one last case together — the murder of a local billionaire. What follows is a brilliantly constructed novel of six interconnected stories, each featuring a dif- ferent murder case solved by Kwan and Lok over the last fifty years, and covering pivotal moments in Hong Kong history. Eventually, in the final story, we revisit the case in which Kwan meets Lok, then a rookie cop, for the first time when he accidentally stops a bombing plot and saves the life of a British inspector. Clever, gripping, and original, The Borrowed is the moving story of two men, told through the conventions of detective fiction, and set against the shifting landscape of Hong Kong. It shines as a sweeping, ambitious crime drama that offers star- tling insight into one of the most dazzling cities of the Far East.

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64 CHAN HO-KEI was raised in Hong Kong. He has EXCERPT won the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award for his short stories, and in 2011, his debut novel, The Man Kwan Chun-dok steps out of the elevator and into a Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery dark corridor. A light bulb dyed grey by dust hangs Award, the most prestigious mystery award in the from the ceiling. It flickers over a patchy stone-tile Chinese-speaking world. It has been published in floor and once-white walls marked by stains and five countries. graffiti. There is no window on this side of the cor- ridor. Footsteps and radio conversations reverber- JEREMY TIANG has translated seven books ate between the walls like tinnitus. Standing in the from Chinese, including novels by Zhang Yueran, twists and turns of this corridor are successions of Yeng Pway Ngon, and Su Wei-chen. He also writes lifeless doorways, shut behind chilling metal gates. plays and short stories. He lives in New York City. These gates seem to be commenting on how unsafe the building is: whoever chooses not to install anti- theft measures would be inviting thieves and rob- bers to try their luck. And this is the truth. The residents of this floor were evacuated in an orderly fashion a few minutes ago, following police instructions to leave by the stairs. Kwan knows that the most dangerous moment has already passed. The evacuation was an empty gesture, the opera- tion commander simply following protocol. Of course, if some yet-to-be-detected items explode now and cause casualties, the police will have to face MARKETING NOTES further backlash. If I was him, I’d probably have given the same order, • Review attention Kwan thinks. • Mystery blogger outreach Though Kwan is the most senior officer on site, • ARCs available he is not in charge of the operation. He is an out- • Co-op available sider who happens to be around. • Twitter: @Chan_HoKei He could have stayed in the operation centre or gone back to Headquarters with Tso. But he decides to walk around the site, following his colleagues into the building. This, he thinks, probably is the instinctual reaction of someone who has been on the frontline for more than twenty years.

65 October EVERY MAN A MENACE PATRICK HOFFMAN

Hailed as an “emerging writer of the crime genre” (McSweeney’s), Patrick Hoffman’s Every Man a Menace is a heart-stopping novel about the high- stakes world of Ecstasy-smuggling.

San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar, just out of prison, is sent to the city by his criminal boss — still locked up on the inside — to check in on the testy Filipina who buys the product and the increasingly erratic dealer expected to take care of distribution. Down in Miami, the club owner responsible for shipping the drugs from Southeast Asia to the Bay Area has just met the girl of his dreams, but there’s something about her past that’s troubling him. And thousands of miles away, in Bangkok, a former conscript of the Israeli army who is farther up the production chain swipes right on a male dating app, taking a chance on the wrong pretty face — and one that threatens to unravel the whole operation. These players are fighting to stay ahead in a sys- tem that threatens to swallow them whole: an inter- national drug trafficking network that offers them great rewards at even greater risk. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Gold- en Gate of San Francisco, Every Man a Menace is a gritty and propulsive novel about the making, mov- ing, and selling of the drug known as Molly — pure FICTION / Thrillers/Crime happiness in powder form, brought to market by 978-1-4870-0198-8 bloodshed and betrayal. 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages Trade paperback • $19.95

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66 PATRICK HOFFMAN is the PRAISE FOR PATRICK HOFFMAN AND author of two novels: The White THE WHITE VAN: Van, which was a finalist for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD FINALIST Award, and Every Man a Menace. A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST MYSTERY He is also a private investigator BUZZFEED’S 22 MOST EXCITING LITERARY DEBUTS based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in San Francisco and lived there “[An] exhilarating crime debut . . . Hoffman’s crime for half his life, working as an investigator, both plot doesn’t just thicken, it boils with surprise after privately and at the San Francisco Public Defenders surprise and suspense as tight as a noose.” — San Office, investigating homicide, attempted murder, Francisco Chronicle rape, child molestation, kidnapping, gang cases, arson, assault, and domestic violence. “My favourite debut of 2015 . . . A caperish delight, channelling Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake to exhilarating and unexpected effect.” — Guardian

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January HOPE HAS TWO DAUGHTERS MONIA MAZIGH TRANSLATED BY FRED A. REED

“Mazigh has added a dimension to Canadian literature that will, no doubt, continue to deepen and grow.” — Montreal Gazette

Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to begin her life. More than twenty-five years later, Nadia’s daughter Lila reluctantly travels to Tunisia to learn about her mother’s birth country. While she’s there, she connects with Nadia’s childhood friends, Neila and Mounir. She uncovers agonizing truths about her mother’s life as a teenager and imagines what it might have been like to grow up in fear of politi- cal instability and social unrest. As she is making these discoveries, protests over poor economic con- ditions and lack of political freedom are increasing, and soon, Lila finds herself in the midst of another revolution — one that will inflame the country and change the Arab world, and her, forever. Weaving together the voices of two women at two pivotal moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters is a bracing, vivid story that perfectly captures life inside revolution.

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70 MONIA MAZIGH was born and raised in Tuni- ALSO AVAILABLE sia and immigrated to Canada in 1991. She was catapulted onto the public stage in 2002 when her MIRRORS AND MIRAGES husband, Maher Arar, was deported to Syria where Monia Mazigh he was tortured and held without charge. She cam- Translated by Fred A. Reed paigned tirelessly for his release. Mazigh holds a 978-1-77089-359-7 Ph.D. in finance from McGill University. She is Trade paperback • $22.95 the National Coordinator of the International Civil 978-1-77009-360-3 Liberties Monitoring Group. She has published a ePub • $16.95 memoir, Hope and Despair, and her novel Mirrors and Mirages was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST in the original French. “Mirrors and Mirages will appeal to those who will find in it a reflection of their lives, and it will reward International journalist and award-winning liter- the curious, who will discover in it portraits of lives ary translator FRED A. REED is also a respected that are both fascinating and surprisingly familiar.” specialist on politics and religion in the Middle — National Post East. He has reported extensively on Middle East- ern affairs for La Presse, CBC Radio-Canada, and “A fascinating, multifaceted portrait of independent Le Devoir. A three-time winner of the Governor Muslim women.” — Toronto Star General’s Literary Award for Translation, Reed has translated many works, including Monia Mazigh’s “Mirrors and Mirages offers a refreshing glimpse memoir Hope and Despair with Patricia Claxton, and into the inner lives of a cohort not yet well repre- her debut novel, Mirrors and Mirages. Fred A. Reed sented in Canadian fiction.” —Montreal Review of lives in Montreal. Books

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71 March THE LONGEST YEAR DANIEL GRENIER TRANSLATED BY PABLO STRAUSS

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who only ages one year out of every four.

There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.

Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian fa- ther, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there’s something else about Thom- as that sets him apart: he was born on February 29. Before Albert goes on a strange quest to find out more about their mysterious relative, Aimé Bolduc, he explains to Thomas that he will only age one year out of every four and he will outlive all of his loved ones. Thomas’s loneliness grows and the years pass until a terrible accident involving a young girl sets in motion a series of events that link the young girl and Thomas to Aimé Bolduc — a Civil War–era soldier and perhaps their contemporary. Spanning three centuries and set against the backdrop of the Appalachians from Quebec to Ten- nessee, The Longest Year is a magical and poignant story about family history, fateful dates, fragile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteriously extended.

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72 DANIEL GRENIER was born in Brossard, Que- PRAISE FOR DANIEL GRENIER AND THE bec, in 1980. His debut short story collection, Mal- LONGEST YEAR: gré tout on rit à Saint-Henri was published in 2012, and he has published French translations of Anna PRIX DES LIBRAIRES FINALIST Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction, Arjun Basu’s Waiting PRIX LITTÉRAIRE DES COLLÉGIENS FINALIST for the Man, and a translation of Mireille Silcoff’s PRIX LITTÉRAIRE FRANCE-QUÉBEC FINALIST Chez L’arabe is forthcoming. The Longest Year, his A LE DEVOIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR first novel, was a finalist for the Prix des libraires, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, and the Prix lit- “Ambitious. An epic with dense, controlled writing. téraire des collégiens. He lives in Quebec City. Large in scope yet intimate . . . A tour de force that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and PABLO STRAUSS grew up in Victoria, Brit- doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy.” —Le Devoir ish Columbia, and has lived in Quebec City for a decade. His translations of Quebec authors have “A solid work . . . magical.” — La Presse appeared online and in print.

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“Blais is the greatest living Quebec writer at present, “This slim novel, which deftly blends murder, mystery, she will certainly leave an incredible and inexhaustible romance, and a coming-of-age story, is a testament legacy for scholars of her work.” — La Presse to the talent of the author.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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“An exhilarating read . . . The suspense and physical action is relentless until the bombshell ending.”— Metro

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February THE BIG WHY MICHAEL WINTER

Featuring a new introduction by Patrick deWitt, award-winning author of The Sisters Brothers and Undermajordomo Minor

In 1914, the American artist Rockwell Kent escapes his bustling life in New York City for the quaint, rural town of Bri- gus, Newfoundland. He has been drawn north by the pictur- esque landscape of the Atlantic, seeking a simpler, quieter life. Always fascinated and inspired by cold climates, Kent imagines his new home to be a utopia and the perfect place to work on his art and marriage. Notorious for his flighty relationships with various women and his radical, socialist thinking, the artist’s beliefs and way of life run drastically against those of the community. And on the cusp of the First World War, tensions and suspicions run high; a newcomer could be anyone, including a German spy. In this fictionalized memoir, Winter explores the life of an artist who was not fully understood or accepted in his time and place. Funny, surprising, and thoroughly honest about our desires and contradictions, The Big Why bares all.

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76 August THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS TOO FOND OF MATCHES GAÉTAN SOUCY TRANSLATED BY SHEILA FISCHMAN

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