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April HEART RESIDENCE Collected Poems 1967–2017 DENNIS LEE FOREWORD BY ROBERT BRINGHURST

A landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press.

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. His first book, Kingdom of Absence, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer. 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. Heart Residence collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.

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2 DENNIS LEE is the author EXCERPT of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, an Officer From the Foreword by Robert Bringhurst of the Order of Canada, and a winner of the Governor Poets are often solitary and socially awkward crea- General’s Literary Award for tures, uncertain or forgetful of what communities Poetry. He was born in Toronto they belong to. You could not say that of Dennis in 1939, wrote the song lyrics for Jim Henson’s Lee, who has a keen sense of social responsibility Fraggle Rock, and in 2001 he was named the city’s and a deadly earnest political sense to go with it. first poet laureate. He initiated the Toronto Legacy This is crucial to the kinds of poet he is — and he is Plaques Program and recently served as a resident several quite different kinds of poet at once. artist with Soulpepper Theatre Company. It isn’t unheard of for several poets to inhabit the same body. During two fervent decades the great poet of modern Lisbon, Fernando Pessoa, wrote four very different bodies of work under four different names, and occasional works under fifty or sixty additional names. T. S. Eliot wrote not only Four Quartets but also some droll musi- cal comedy and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Lee has turned out to be one of the world’s very few truly mature political poets, the city of Toronto’s de facto (and sometimes de jure) poet laureate, a wonderfully zany lyricist and rhymester for adults MARKETING NOTES and children, and Canada’s most articulate poet of full-frontal physical love. But unlike Pessoa, he • April poetry month tour has pursued his various roles under only one name. • National publicity coverage Different though they are, the several poets called • dennislee.ca Dennis Lee have a massive common root — and • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast like the limbs of a big tree, they form a single, inte- tie-ins gral shape. • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access This, I believe, is the first of his many books in • Dedicated poetry month promotion which that integral shape is made clear . . . • Special editions and broadsheets

3 April XIPHOID PROCESS KEVIN CONNOLLY

Among the best of Canada’s contemporary poets, Kevin Connolly returns with his ﬁrst collection in nine years.

Award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity. What is 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 Xiphoid Process interrogate the alleged futility 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 something useful out of the experience? Walt 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, California, 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, a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award; Drift, winner of the Trillium Poetry Prize; and Revolver, a finalist for the Griffin POETRY / Canadian Poetry Prize and Trillium Book Award. He teaches poetry in 978-1-4870-0186-5 the MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber and has 5.5 x 8.5 • 120 pages been poetry faculty at the Banff Centre’s May Writing Studio. Trade paperback • $19.95

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4 April THE CORPSES OF THE FUTURE LYNN CROSBIE

In her ﬁrst poetry collection in more than a decade, celebrated novelist and poet Lynn Crosbie creates a sustained and confessional record of her father’s illness.

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 poems chronologically recount the poet’s conversations and time with her father, and capture his still-astonishing means of communicating. The book’s title is his sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic language and as such, similar to poetry. The author’s attempts to understand her father’s distress, pain, fear, and brave love are assisted by her understanding of the “nega- tive capability” required of readers of poetry. This is a harrowing book, with moments of joy and even levity. It is a collection of poetry about love, and love’s persis- tence, 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 and prose include POETRY / Canadian Liar, Queen Rat, and Dorothy L’Amour. She is also the author of 978-1-4870-0090-5 the controversial book Paul’s Case, and most recently, Life Is About 6 x 8 • 144 pages Losing Everything and the Trillum Book Award–nominated novel Trade paperback • $19.95 Where Did You Sleep Last Night. She is a contributing editor at Fashion and a National Magazine Award winner who has written 978-1-4870-0092-9 PDF • $16.95 about sports, style, art, and music. MARKETING NOTES BISAC POE011000 • April poetry month tour • Goodreads contests and • National review coverage NetGalley access • lynncrosbie.com • Dedicated poetry month • Twitter: @TheForce777 promotion • Instagram: @belle_roland • Special editions and • Social media campaign, blog broadsheets coverage, eBlast tie-ins 5 April THE 2017 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY A Selection of the Shortlist EDITED BY SUE GOYETTE

The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.

Each year, the best books of poetry published in English both internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections. Royalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities. The judges for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize are Sue Goy- ette, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and George Szirtes.

SUE GOYETTE lives in Halifax and has published ﬁve POETRY / Anthologies books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is The Brief 978-1-4870-0232-9 Reincarnation of a Girl. She’s been nominated for several awards, 5.5 x 8.5 • 120 pages including the 2014 Grifﬁn Poetry Prize, and has won the CBC Trade paperback • $19.95 Literary Prize for Poetry, the Bliss Carman Award, the Pat

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6 NONFICTION 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 hollow. A tale of growing up in 1970s and 1980s Toron- to in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jew-ish family that valued panache over pragmatism and making a design statement over substance, von Hahn’s recol- lections of her dramatic and domineering mother are exemplified by the objects she held most dear: from a strand of prized pearls, to a Venetian mir- ror worthy of the palace of Versailles, to the silver satin sofas that were the epitome of her signature style. She also describes the misunderstandings and sometimes hurt and pain that come with being raised by her stunning, larger-than-life mother who in many ways embodied the flash-and-glam, high- flying, wealth-accumulating generation that gave birth to our modern-day material culture. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Alternating between satire and sadness, von 978-1-4870-0039-4 Hahn reconstructs the past through a series of 5.5 x 8.5 • 304 pages exquisitely impressionistic memories, ultimately Trade paperback • $22.95 questioning the value of the things we hold dear Black and white photographs throughout and — after her complicated, yet impossible-to- forget mother is gone — what exactly remains. 978-1-4870-0040-0 ePub • $18.95

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8 KAREN VON HAHN is a columnist with the EXCERPT Toronto Star and the editor of KingWest magazine. For more than twenty-five years she has reported Chapter 1: Pearls on trends in life and style for publications such as The last word I ever heard from my mother was the Globe and Mail, More, Fashion, House & Home, “pearls.” Of course I didn’t actually hear it; P-E- en Route, and Toronto Life. She was also the host A-R-L-S was slowly spelled out, with much effort, and producer of a television series called The Goods by pointing an index finger on a white card printed for the Life network. Her first book was Karen von with the alphabet and supplied by the nursing staff Hahn’s Hip Guide: Toronto. in the ICU. My mother had a giant clear blue plastic tube stuck down her throat attached to a breathing machine and couldn’t speak. Which didn’t in any way prevent her from making 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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9 May SPIRIT BEAR Encounters with the White Bear of the Western Rainforest CHARLES RUSSELL

A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and Afterword by the author.

Written with vivid detail and passion, Spirit Bear is the story of acclaimed naturalist Charles Russell’s journey to study and learn from the extraordinary spirit bears on the remote Prin- cess Royal Island. In 1991, Russell visited Princess Royal Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of British Columbia. There, amidst the rivers and trees of the western rainforest, he encountered the elusive spirit bear. Known to scientists as the Kermode bear and to the public as the white, ghost, or spirit bear, these extraordinary animals have never been exposed to civilization. In Spirit Bear, Russell recounts his experiences trekking over rocks and through streams; waiting hours for the ghost bear to appear; and ﬁnally coming face-to-face with a spirit bear only inches from his nose. Illustrated with more than 100 stunning colour photographs, Spirit Bear provides beautiful and astonishing insight into the habits and nature of the Ker-

NATURE / Animals / Bears mode bear, and is part of an ongoing effort by conser- 978-1-4870-0209-1 vationists to save Princess Royal Island as a sanctuary 8 x 10 • 152 pages for these remarkable animals. The reissue of Spirit Trade paperback • $24.95 Bear, a classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife, Colour photographs throughout includes an updated design and a new Afterword by the author. 978-1-4870-0210-7 ePub • $19.95

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10 CHARLES RUSSELL was born and raised EXCERPT in southwest Alberta near what is now Waterton The white bear strode into the creek below us and Lakes National Park, in bear country. He is an moved swiftly upstream. Jeff was standing precari- accomplished Canadian wilderness guide, natural- ously in the fast-moving water. When he reposi- ist, photographer, rancher, and pilot. Russell has tioned himself, the bear must have thought his authored several other books on bears, including moving feet were salmon. Before Jeff could roll any Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown film, the animal had poked his head almost under Bears of Kamchatka, Grizzly Seasons, and Learning to the tripod to have a close look at the source of the Be Wild: Raising Orphan Grizzlies. His photographs movement underwater. To his credit, Jeff remained have appeared in magazines such as Canadian Geo- calm. He picked up his feet up slowly and set them graphic, Nature Canada, and Outdoor Life. He lives down, showing the bear that what had splashed was in Alberta. part of the photographer and not a salmon after all. I ran out of slide film and headed downsteam to my pack, which I had left on a flat rock. As I was digging my film out, the white bear scrambled down over the ledges in the stream toward me. I quickly lifted the back of my camera, but before I could change the film, he stood up on his hind legs and looked down into the camera. His nose was only inches from it! I could scarcely believe what I was experiencing. Here was a wild bear, of fearsome lore, examining me and my trappings as though I were a novelty, a cousin from the big city come MARKETING NOTES to visit — an object of curiosity, but definitely not something to fear, or to eat for that matter. • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast tie-ins

11 Now Available THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS: HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND? The Munk Debates LOUISE ARBOUR AND SIMON SCHAMA VS. NIGEL FARAGE AND MARK STEYN

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of about having an emotional response to the suffering of four million Syrian refugees.” — Simon Schama

The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over three hundred thousand are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to ﬂee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa. How should developed nations respond to human suffering on this mass scale? Do the pros- perous societies of the West, including Canada and the U.S., have a moral imperative to assist as many refugees as they reasonably and responsibly can? Or, is this a time for vigilance and restraint in the face of a wave of mass migration that risks upending the tolerance and openness of the West? The eighteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which was held on April 1, 2016, pits former UN High Com- missioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and lead- ing historian Simon Schama against former leader of the U.K. Independence Party Nigel Farage and bestselling author Mark Steyn to debate the West’s response to the global refugee crisis.

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12 LOUISE ARBOUR’s career of public service ALSO AVAILABLE includes sitting on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1999 to 2004, acting as the Chief Prosecutor for DO HUMANKIND’S BEST DAYS LIE the International Criminal Tribunals for the former AHEAD? The Munk Debate on Progress Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and serving as the United Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley vs. Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell From 2009 to 2014 she was CEO of the renowned International Crisis Group. Arbour is a Companion 978-1-4870-0168-1 Paperback / $14.95 of the Order of Canada and the recipient of twenty- 978-1-4870-0169-8 ePub / $9.95 seven honorary degrees. She is currently a jurist in residence at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. SHOULD THE WEST ENGAGE PUTIN’S SIMON SCHAMA is an internationally acclaimed RUSSIA? The Munk Debate on Russia historian, political commentator, and art critic. He is Stephen F. Cohen and Vladimir Pozner vs. University Professor of Art History and History at Anne Applebaum and Garry Kasparov Columbia University, and the award-winning author 978-1-77089-858-5 Paperback • $14.95 of seventeen books, including Rough Crossings and 978-1-77089-859-2 ePub • $9.95 The Story of the Jews. He is also the writer-presenter of fifty documentaries of art, history, and literature for BBC2. He is currently working on Civilizations, a HAS OBAMA MADE THE WORLD A MORE television history of world art. DANGEROUS PLACE? The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy NIGEL FARAGE is the former leader and found- Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan vs. ing member of the U.K. Independence Party Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter (UKIP). Mr. Farage was recently named “Briton of 978-1-77089-996-4 Paperback • $14.95 the Year” by the Times and ranked first in the Daily 978-1-77089-997-1 ePub • $9.95 Telegraph’s Top 100 most influential right-wing pol- iticians. From 1999 to 2016, he was a Member of the DOES STATE SPYING MAKE US SAFER? European Parliament for South East England. The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance MARK STEYN is an internationally acclaimed Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz vs. Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian author, writer, journalist, and conservative political commentator. He has written five books, including 978-1-77089-841-7 Paperback • $14.95 America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, 978-1-77089-842-4 ePub • $9.95 which was a New York Times bestseller. His com- mentaries on politics, arts, and culture appear regu- For a complete list of Munk Debates titles visit larly in the National Post, the Wall Street Journal, houseofanansi.com and the Atlantic.

13 June NEW IN PAPERBACK

STAKING CLAIMS TO A CONTINENT John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America JAMES LAXER

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lin- coln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day. Now available in paperback, the second work of history in James Laxer’s North American trilogy looks at the turbulent 1860s, the decade that deﬁned North America.

PRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND STAKING CLAIMS TO A CONTINENT:

“Smart popular history . . . [Staking Claims to a Continent] adds insight and texture to Laxer’s continuing tale of how a continent of bickering, mutually suspicious European settlers created the remarkably peaceable North America we enjoy HISTORY/North American today.” — Globe and Mail 978-1-4870-0231-2 5.5 x 8.5 • 352 pages “Laxer writes with enthusiasm. [His] contribution to this nar- Trade paperback • $19.95 rative is to situate Canada more ﬁrmly within it . . . A worthy goal and a terriﬁc idea for a book.” — National Post 978-1-77089-431-0 ePub • $16.95 “This book takes a very interesting look at the relations between Canada and the United States during and shortly after the American Civil War . . . For anyone interested in United MARKETING NOTES States–Canadian relationships, this book is a great introduc- • Social media coverage tion to the subject.” — Civil War News • Goodreads contest • Twitter: @jameslaxer

14 January NEW IN PAPERBACK

LET THE ELEPHANTS RUN Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything DAVID USHER

Creativity is in everyone’s DNA, not a select few. Award-winning musician and founder of CloudID Creativity Lab David Usher believes we just need the right tools to help us reconnect with our imaginations in our day-to-day lives, whether in the head ofﬁce, the home ofﬁce, or the artist’s studio. Based on his wildly popular speaking engagements, Let the Elephants Run is the essential guidebook to reigniting and nurturing our creativity in accessible and productive ways.

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“This book is an enthralling exploration of the creative process that will both fascinate and challenge you. David’s insightful SELF-HELP/Creativity take on how to both unleash and control one’s own creativity 978–1-4870-0219-0 is particularly relevant in today’s world, where new ideas and 6.25 x 8.5 • 256 pages innovation are becoming a key part of our everyday lives.” Trade paperback • $22.95 — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Colour images throughout “Usher asks readers to draw, dream, and explore as they read. 978-1-77089-869-1 The entire book is visually stunning, with beautifully chosen ePub • $18.95 photos, typography, and graphics throughout. Combining hard MARKETING NOTES data and personal experience, Usher offers inspiration and a clear map to creativity.” — Publishers Weekly • www.davidusher.com • Social media coverage “David Usher has written a passionate, eclectic, rule-breaking, • Twitter: @davidusher and practical guidebook to ﬁnding your creative side. Unlike • Instagram: @davidusher most such books, however, this isn’t merely arm-waving: it is data-driven and grounded in David’s many years of success as an artist and entrepreneur. I loved it.” — Dr. Paul Kedrosky, venture capitalist and contributing editor to Bloomberg 15 Now Available THE RETURN OF HISTORY Conﬂict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century The 2016 CBC Massey Lectures JENNIFER WELSH

In 1989, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of the confrontation between communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled a path toward a more peaceful world. But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned. The 2016 Massey Lectures both illustrate and explain this return of history.

JENNIFER WELSH was the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary–General for the Responsibility to Protect. She is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. She has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and the Central European University (Prague).

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16 Available THE CBC MASSEY LECTURES

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17 Now Available FEARLESS AS POSSIBLE (UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES) A Memoir DENISE DONLON

“Denise Donlon isn’t just a Canadian media trailblazer, she is a ﬁerce feminist, a sharp intellectual, and one of our country’s brightest beams of light. Reading Fearless as Possible is like sitting at the table of the greatest dinner party Canada’s ever had.” — Joseph Boyden

One of Canada’s most celebrated and dynamic corporate leaders and broadcasters, Denise Donlon has long been recognized as a trailblazer in the Canadian cultural industries. In this smart, funny, and inspiring memoir, Donlon chronicles her impressive and storied career, which has put her at the fore- front of the massive changes in the music industry and media. Told with humour and honesty, Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances) is a candid memoir of one woman’s journey navigating corporate culture with integrity, responsibility, and an irrepressible passion to be a force for good.

DENISE DONLON is one of Canada’s most successful broadcasters and corporate leaders. She has been a co-host and producer of The NewMusic, Director of Programming and VP/General Manager of MuchMusic/CityTV, President of Sony Music Canada, General Manager and Executive Direc- tor of CBC English Radio, and co-producer and co-host of The Zoomer. She has also devoted herself to numerous charitable BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / initiatives, working with organizations such as War Child Can- Personal Memoirs ada, MusiCounts, and the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partner- 978-1-4870-0002-8 ship. She sits on a number of boards and has been honoured 6 x 9 • 352 pages with the Humanitarian Spirit Award and the Trailblazer Award Hardcover with jacket • $32.95 at Canadian Music Week, Woman of the Year from Canadian 978-1-4870-0003-5 Women in Communications, Woman of Vision from Wired ePub • $24.95 Women, and was inducted in the Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Member BISAC: BIO026000 of the Order of Canada. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Murray McLauchlan, and their son, Duncan. MARKETING NOTES

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18 FICTION February MINDS OF WINTER ED O’LOUGHLIN

The latest from Man Booker Prize longlisted author Ed O’Loughlin is a mesmerizing new novel in which the chance meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.

Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the air- port on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a folder left behind by his brother. An image catches Fay’s eye: a clock she has seen before. Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arc- tic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. The secret history of this elusive timepiece, Fay and Nelson will dis- cover, ties them and their families to a journey that echoes across two centuries. In a feat of extraordinary scope and ambition, Ed O’Loughlin moves between a frozen present and an ever-thawing past. Minds of Winter is a novel about ice and time and their ability to preserve or destroy, of mortality and loss and our dreams of FICTION/Literary transcending them. 978-1-4870-0234-3 6 x 9 • 496 pages Trade paperback • $22.95

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20 ED O’LOUGHLIN is an Irish- PRAISE FOR ED O’LOUGHLIN AND Canadian author and journalist. MINDS OF WINTER His ﬁrst novel, Not Untrue and Not Unkind, was longlisted for “There will be few better historical novels published the Man Booker Prize in 2009 this year.” — Sunday Times and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. “The ﬁnal pages seem inevitable, as great endings must; His second novel, Toploader, was published in 2011. the whole novel wondrous in its tone and reach. The As a journalist, Ed reported from Africa for sev- title is from Wallace Stevens’s poem ‘The Snow Man,’ eral papers, including the Irish Times. He was the where we’re asked to behold ‘Nothing that is not there Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning and the nothing that is.’ It takes a good writer to take Herald and The Age of Melbourne. Ed was born in that on. It takes a great one to succeed.” — Irish Times Toronto and raised in Ireland. He now lives in Dub- “[A] marvel of a novel.” — Irish Independent lin with his wife and two children.

“With each novel, O’Loughlin is expanding his interests and his imaginative grasp — the ﬁrst sign of a gen- uinely talented writer. He is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting novelists currently at work.” — Sunday Business Post

“The writing is stupendously good . . . O’Loughlin manages beautifully.” — Australian

“A compelling and hugely ambitious novel.” — Mail on MARKETING NOTES Sunday

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21 February NEW IN PAPERBACK

CARRY ME PETER BEHRENS

Set during the decades between the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about war, love, and escape from Peter Behrens, the Governor Gen- eral’s Literary Award–winning author of The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens.

PRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND CARRY ME:

“Behrens captures his narrator’s naïveté and the casual anti- Semitism of the times with great skill and intelligence . . . as true an observation about human nature as there is.” — Dennis Bock, New York Times Book Review

“Vividly imagined . . . This ambitious novel provides a pan- oramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two indi- viduals hovering precariously between the two World Wars . . . Moving seamlessly back and forth between times and coun- FICTION/Literary tries, Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, 978-1-4870-0229-9 universal strokes.” — Booklist 6 x 9 • 448 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 “Carry Me is another meditation on history and destiny . . . that make[s] the past feel stunningly close at hand.” — Vogue 978-1-4870-0000-4 ePub • $16.95 “[A] staggeringly epic new novel about love and loss, identity and salvation in a society in the midst of a nervous collapse. MARKETING NOTES It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of • peterbehrens.org a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the ﬁnal pages. • Social media coverage The fate that befalls the young lovers at the centre of Carry Me • Goodreads contest is heartbreaking — and mesmerizing.” — Toronto Star • Twitter: @phbehrens

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“Into the Sun is the sort of book I’m always hungry for — the serious novel in which the guns literally go off. Béchard makes me think of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, which is heady company, indeed.” — Richard Ford

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24 ASTORIA April THIS ACCIDENT OF BEING LOST Songs and Stories LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

These visionary pieces build upon Simpson’s powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; 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 ele- ments of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.

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26 LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE PRAISE FOR LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON is a Michi Saagiig SIMPSON AND ISLANDS OF Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, DECOLONIAL LOVE musician, activist, and is a member of Alderville First Nation. “Islands of Decolonial Love is the sort of book I have She holds a Ph.D. from the been looking for all my life — the kind of book that University of Manitoba and has is going to make me a good writer, a good listener, lectured at universities across Canada. She is the and good citizen — it is going to wake up everything author of three previous books, including Islands that is brilliant in everyone that reads it.” — Lee of Decolonial Love, and the editor of three antholo- Maracle, author of Ravensong and Celia’s Song gies. She has released two albums, including f(l)ight, which is a companion piece to this collection. “How many lives, Leanne Simpson, have you lived to create this most incredible collection? Astound- ing storytelling. Wondrous prose. Islands of Decolo- nial Love is a constellation of galaxies that I never want to leave. Wow!” — Richard Van Camp

“A dazzling collection of stories of beauty and resilience, ﬁercely illustrating how Indigenous communities continue to grow.” — Globe and Mail

“Well-written, poetic prose has special power — and the pages of Islands of Decolonial Love read like a salve for wounds from colonial hurts.” — CBC News

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27 March THE OLD WORLD and Other Stories CARY FAGAN

A dazzling work of vision and imagination by award-winning author Cary Fagan.

Many years ago the photographs in this book became sep- arated from their original owners, faces unrecognized, settings a mystery. They ﬂoated through this world, as if on a sorrowful wind . . . I have given them stories to replace the ones they have lost.

So begins the bewitching new collection from acclaimed author Cary Fagan, and a journey into a world that is both achingly familiar and wonderfully strange. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A child sparks a revolution. These stories, each inspired by a found photograph, are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Here are stories that playfully vary in technique and form: monologues, dialogues, interviews, letters, transcripts, tall tales, and capsule histories form a single portrait, belonging — in the words of the author — “to one history, found in an album that might belong to any of us.” Fagan paints a portrait of re-imagined lives that is comic and tragic, profound and unforgettable. The beauty, humour, and the horror of days gone by haunt these pages and resonate in the world we ﬁnd ourselves in today.

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28 CARY FAGAN is an award- ALSO AVAILABLE winning author known for timeless stories that reveal com- A BIRD’S EYE plex and universal themes. He Cary Fagan has written several critically acclaimed books, including A 978-1-77089-310-8 Bird’s Eye, ﬁnalist for the Rog- Hardcover with jacket • $19.95 ers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; My Life Among the 978-1-77089-311-5 Apes, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and ePub • $16.95 Valentine’s Fall, ﬁnalist for the Toronto Book Award. He has also written many popular books for children, for which he has won the Vicki Metcalf Award ROGER WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST For Children’s Literature and the Marilyn Baillie AMAZON.CA BEST BOOKS EDITOR’S PICKS SELECTION Picture Book Award. He lives in Toronto. “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 magic.” — Globe and Mail

“Fagan’s book is a tiny gem, entertaining, funny, and scrumptiously written.” — Toronto Star

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29 March BARRELLING FORWARD Stories EVA CROCKER

Shortlisted for the RBC Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from Newfoundland’s newest literary star.

Eva Crocker sees life in sharper focus than the rest of us. The objects, rituals, and scenes of everyday life take on an almost mythic quality in these stories, even while remaining intimately recognizable to us all. Crocker peers at the under- belly of poverty and work, ambition and apathy, loneliness and love, to ﬁnd the sliver of beauty in each spot. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems: the boundaries between friendship and sex dissolve; power relationships are turned on their heads, if only long enough to examine them from all angles; transgressions and escapes become new kinds of traps. In “Auditioning,” a young twin makes a desperate attempt to reclaim her individuality. In “Serving,” a father and a son give parallel accounts of what it looks like when you let life eat you from the inside out. In “Star of the Sea,” a man watches his past get literally torn down before his eyes. And in the Cuffer Prize−winning “Skin and Mud,” an after-school walk through the barrens leaves two boys forever changed. In stories that ache with longing even as they pulse with new possibilities, Crocker gives us an unforgettable array of ordinary people, sometimes FICTION / Short Stories soaring, sometimes sinking, but always, ultimately, 978-1-4870-0143-8 barrelling forward towards what’s next. Vivid, sexy, 5.25 x 8 • 256 pages funny, and raw, this is a marvel of a debut from one Trade paperback • $19.95 of Canada’s most thrilling new writers.

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30 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. Barrelling For-ward was shortlisted for the for your new place.” Walt’s father had arrived unan- 2015 RBC Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. nounced, holding a set of pressed curtains in a gro- Crocker recently completed a Master’s Degree in cery bag. English Literature at Memorial University. “You’re cooking,” his father said. Walt realized he’d brought the spatula to the door with him. “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 • 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.” • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast Trent took three steps down the hall and held tie-ins out his hand, his feet leaving wet smudges on the • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access 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.”

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“Wangersky is adept at creating crystalline moments “Exquisite . . . Truly remarkable . . . Each piece is in which events or lives change or reorganize them- a carefully crafted world unto itself . . . Together, selves.” — Globe and Mail they provide a glimpse of what it looks like when we come undone.” — Toronto Star

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“Bozak’s interwoven stories most obviously paral- “A marvel of style and substance.” — Vancouver lel [Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women] . . . Both Sun authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrases worth revisit- ing.” — National Post 32

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 ages only one out of every four years.

Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there’s something else about Thomas 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 age only 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, frag- ile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteri- ously extended.

FICTION / Literary 978-1-4870-0153-7 5.25 x 8 • 400 pages MARKETING NOTES Trade paperback with flaps • $22.95 • National review attention • Author tour 978-1-4870-0154-4 • ARCs available, co-op available ePub • $18.95 • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast tie-ins • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access BISAC: FIC019000 • Twitter: @Saint_Henri 34 DANIEL GRENIER was born EXCERPT in Brossard, Quebec, in 1980. His debut short story collection, One fact of Thomas Langlois’s life we need to Malgré tout on rit à Saint-Henri know from the outset is this: He was born in a was published in 2012, and he leap year. We mentioned it a bit earlier, in more has translated Anna Leventhal’s abstract terms. To us it may not mean a thing, but Sweet Affliction, Arjun Basu’s throughout Thomas’s childhood it meant a great Waiting for the Man, and Mireille Silcoff’s Chez deal to him. It’s important for us, then, to consider L’arabe. The Longest Year, his first novel, won the this fact now, not to assimilate or be inspired by it, Prix littéraire des collégiens and was a finalist for but because it weighed on Thomas’s life and shaped the Governor General’s Literary Award for French his worldview. We’re not saying he was obsessed Fiction, the Prix des libraires, and the Prix littéraire by stars, planetary movements, the moon’s pull on France-Québec. He lives in Quebec City. Lake Chickamauga and Lake Nickajack, though he was; we’re saying his birth date made him feel PABLO STRAUSS grew up in Victoria, Brit- apart from the others, at once younger and older ish Columbia, and has lived in Quebec City for a than everyone else, whiter than the white prai- decade. His translations of Quebec authors have rie trash and blacker than the worshippers at the appeared in various online and print publications. Union Avenue Baptist Church and redder than the first Cherokee to settle the valley. Another reason he felt apart from everyone else was the foreign way his name was pronounced in his own home. To-ma: that’s how his father said PRAISE FOR DANIEL GRENIER AND it. He understood, his father didn’t speak the same THE LONGEST YEAR language as him and everyone around him, and this was unusual, wonderful. At home his name was PRIX LITTÉRAIRE DES COLLÉGIENS WINNER To-ma and outside it was Taw-mass, with a crisply GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR rendered final “s.” That “s” disappeared when he FRENCH FICTION FINALIST crossed the threshold of his home. Even his mother, PRIX DES LIBRAIRES FINALIST who spoke the same language he did, and whose PRIX LITTÉRAIRE FRANCE-QUÉBEC FINALIST every word he understood perfectly, called him To- A LE DEVOIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ma, and it sounded even stranger coming from her, as if she’d found a laborious method of cleaving the “Ambitious. An epic with dense, controlled writ- word “tomahawk” in two. When his mother said it ing. Large in scope yet intimate . . . A tour de force Thomas’s name sounded somehow undecided, not that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and quite finished. doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy.” — Le Devoir

“A solid work . . . magical.” — La Presse

35 July HUNTING HOUSES FANNY BRITT TRANSLATED BY SUSAN OURIOU AND CHRISTELLE MORELLI

Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of inﬁdelity.

Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in the suburbs of Montreal. She adores her husband and three young sons, but she’s deeply unhappy and questioning the set of choices that have led to her present life. After a surprising run-in with Francis, her ex- boyfriend and ﬁrst love, Tessa arranges to see him. During the three days before their meeting, she goes about her daily life — there’s swimming lessons, science projects, and dirty dishes. As the day of her meeting with Francis draws closer, she has to decide if she is willing to disrupt her stable, loving family life for an uncertain future with him. With startling clarity and emotional force, Fanny Britt gives us a complex portrait of a woman and a marriage from the inside out.

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36 FANNY BRITT is a playwright, author, and trans- EXCERPT lator. She has written a dozen plays and translated Évelyne is crying in earnest now. I take her hand. I say more than fifteen. Jane, the Fox and Me, her first yes, her house is fabulous. I myself would buy it if I graphic novel, won a Governor General’s Literary could. It will make some family very happy just as hers Award and a Libris Award, and was on the New York was for several years. Times Best Illustrated Books list. My client nods, I know she finds the idea comforting — all my clients do. There must be some solace in SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning writer thinking your house will go on living apart from you, and literary translator working from French and like an extension, a promise renewed no matter the Spanish into English with more than thirty liter- hardships or failures, bestowing sudden meaning on ary translations to her credit. She has won the Gov- sorrow. Personally, it’s all a mystery to me since I have ernor General’s Literary Award for Translation no desire to see others blossom where I once withered and been part of the Banff International Literary away — but then I’m not a very nice person. Translation Centre since its creation. Évelyne shows me the rest of her house: two children’s bedrooms. In the first room, a cream- CHRISTELLE MORELLI is a literary translator coloured quilt in a delicate pattern of pink and pale- and French immersion teacher. She has translated green buttercups and peonies. A number of lively several works of fiction for publication, including drawings on the walls, all signed SOLENE. In the Jane, the Fox and Me and Stolen Sisters. Having lived second bedroom, blue and green stripes, dinosaur in Quebec and France, she now makes her home figurines, wood letters painted red hanging on the with her family in Western Canada. door: MATTEO. Évelyne was astute enough to keep the walls white. It won’t be as difficult for potential buyers to project their own lives onto them — noth- MARKETING NOTES ing is less helpful than a pink bedroom covered in princess decals for the morale of a mother with two • National review attention sons who longs for the daughter she never had and • Author tour hopes to find in her new abode the secret formula • ARCs available that will at last guarantee her the perfect family she’s • Co-op available dreamt of since childhood. I respond to the client • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast with all the solicitude I can muster, Who knows, this tie-ins house could be a lucky charm, but when, guilt-ridden • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access at having downplayed the worth of the children she • Twitter: @fannybritiche does have, she grabs hold of my arm, My boys are won- • Instagram: @fannybritiche derful, I love them so much, after all, what counts is that they’re healthy, no? Do you have children? and I answer, Yes, three boys, for the space of a second, she’s caught between wanting to be me and relief that she isn’t.

37 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

A bracing and vividly told story set against the backdrops of the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside revolution from the perspectives of two women, Nadia and Lila, a mother and daughter who take active roles during pivotal moments in history.

MONIA MAZIGH was born and raised in Tuni- sia and immigrated to Canada in 1991. She was catapulted onto the public stage in 2002 when her husband, Maher Arar, was deported to Syria where he was tortured and held without charge. She cam- paigned tirelessly for his release. Mazigh holds a Ph.D. in ﬁnance from McGill University. She has published a memoir, Hope and Despair, and her novel Mirrors and Mirages was a ﬁnalist for the Trillium Book Award in the original French.

FRED A. REED is an international journalist and award-winning literary translator, as well as a respected specialist on politics and religion in the Middle East. He has reported extensively on Middle Eastern affairs for La Presse, CBC Radio-Canada, FICTION / Literary and Le Devoir. A three-time winner of the Governor 978-1-4870-0180-3 General’s Literary Award for Translation, Reed has 5.25 x 8 • 284 pages translated many works, including Monia Mazigh’s Trade paperback with ﬂaps • $22.95 debut novel, Mirrors and Mirages. Fred A. Reed lives in Montreal. 978-1-4870-0181-0 ePub • $18.95

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38 SPIDERLINE June THE SUBSTITUTE NICOLE LUNDRIGAN

The Girl on the Train meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this ﬁnely crafted page-turner about a middle-school science teacher who innocently befriends one of his students.

Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, ﬂees the scene. As the small community slowly turns against him, an anonymous narrator, a person of extreme intelligence and emotional detachment, offers insight into events past and present. As the tension builds, we gain an intimate understanding of the power of secrets, illusions, and memories. Nicole Lundrigan uses her prodigious talent to deliciously creepy effect, producing a ﬁnely crafted page-turner and a chilling look into the mind of a psychopath.

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40 NICOLE LUNDRIGAN is the author of ﬁve criti- PRAISE FOR NICOLE LUNDRIGAN AND cally acclaimed novels, including Glass Boys and The THE WIDOW TREE: Widow Tree. Her work has appeared on best of the year selections of the Globe and Mail and NOW “Lundrigan’s incantation of a Balkan village rubbed Magazine and she has been longlisted for the ReLit raw by history is sensual and powerful, a coming-of- Award. Born in Ottawa and raised in Newfound- age story set in a world that eats its young.” — Peter land, she now lives in Toronto. Behrens, author of Carry Me

“A carefully crafted story that layers suspense and succeeds in rendering each betrayal, small or large, as a painful shock . . . As a writer, Lundrigan is sleek and spare with the gift of rendering small details in vivid strokes that leave them lingering long after we have turned the page.” — Toronto Star

“Horrifying but fascinating, the story is enthralling.” — Publishers Weekly

“An emotionally intense study of strained relationships . . . [Lundrigan has] embedded the mysteries of the human heart in a solid mystery.” — Evening Telegram

“A wrenching tale of betrayal and loss . . . The Widow Tree deftly dramatizes the ways family tragedies play MARKETING NOTES out against the larger backdrop of national and ethnic interests.” — Quill & Quire • National review attention • Author tour • ARCs available • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast tie-ins • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access

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

“This is an ambitious narrative brilliantly executed. It hands us the living history of Hong Kong through the gripping prism of crime and politics . . . What an achievement!” — John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8

The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective whose career spans fifty years of the ter- ritory’s history. A deductive powerhouse, Kwan becomes a legend on the force, nicknamed “the Eye of Heaven” by his awestruck colleagues. Divided into six sections told in reverse chronologi- cal order — each of which covers an important case in Kwan’s career and takes place at a pivotal moment in Hong Kong history — The Borrowed follows Kwan from his experiences during the Leftist Riot in 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Indepen- dent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; to the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist riot- ers, ultraviolent gangsters, stallholders at the city’s many covered markets, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General A gripping and brilliantly constructed novel from a talented 978-1-4870-0060-8 new voice in crime fiction, The Borrowed paints a dynamic por- 5.5 x 8.5 • 496 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 trait of Hong Kong and reveals just how closely the past and present are connected in this fascinating city. 978-1-4870-0061-5 CHAN HO-KEI ePub • $16.95 was raised in Hong Kong. He has won the Mys- tery Writers of Taiwan Award for his short stories, and in 2011, BISAC: FIC022020 his debut novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shi- mada Mystery Award, the most prestigious mystery award in the Chinese-speaking world. It has been published in five countries.

MARKETING NOTES JEREMY TIANG has translated seven books from Chinese, including novels by Zhang Yueran, Yeng Pway Ngon, and Su • Co-op available Wei-chen. He also writes plays and short stories. He lives in • Twitter: @Chan_HoKei New York City. 42 Now Available THE NINTH GRAVE 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.

The Swedish minister of justice disappears at the same time that the wife of a famous Danish TV star is found brutally murdered. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine.

STEFAN AHNHEM is the author of the Fabian Risk series. He is also an established screenwriter for both TV and ﬁlm and has worked on a variety of projects, including adaptations of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series. He serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. He lives in Stockholm.

PAUL NORLEN has translated crime novels from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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May HARD CORE LOGO Portrait of a Thousand Punks NICK CRAINE INTRODUCTION BY LYNN CROSBIE

The 20th anniversary edition of Nick Craine’s searing graphic novel about a legendary Canadian punk band, based on the feature ﬁlm by Bruce McDon- ald and the novel by Michael Turner.

Joe Dick coaxes his former bandmates to overcome personal differences and reunite for a benefit concert for their ageing punk mentor, Bucky Haight, who has been shot. But the concert’s not enough for Joe; he wants the band to hit the road again. For the Hard Cores this means the beginning of the end, and they come to realize that they can neither relive nor alter the past. From the pen of the hugely talented Canadian comic artist and illustrator Nick Craine comes a searing rendition of those Hard Core days and nights. In this graphic take on the story originally conceived by Michael Turner and made into a critically acclaimed film by Bruce McDonald, Craine pits the legendary Hard Cores against a collage- like backdrop of bars, hotel rooms, the road, and the Canadian Prairies. Featuring a new introduction by Lynn Cros- bie and a tear-out guitar chord book, Hard Core Logo: Portrait of a Thousand Punks weaves together a patchwork narrative of found art, dialogue, songs, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General and incidental bystanders. Craine skillfully renders 978-1-4870-0192-6 his own unique cover-version of this cult film clas- 7.25 x 9.5 • 152 pages sic in the graphic novel form. Trade paperback • $19.95

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46 NICK CRAINE is a painter, PRAISE FOR NICK CRAINE AND animation artist, illustrator, and PORTRAIT OF A THOUSAND PUNKS musician from Guelph, Ontario. (1997): His illustrations have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New IGNATZ AWARD FINALIST (OUTSTANDING York Times, and the Washington ARTIST CATEGORY) Post. Hard Core Logo, originally published as Portrait of a Thousand Punks in 1997, “Craine’s adaptations are more akin to contempo- was his second ﬁlm adaptation; his ﬁrst of Bruce rary non-genre comic books like Art Spiegelman’s McDonald’s Dance Me Outside was highly acclaimed Maus (1986) than they are to comic book versions of by both critics and illustrators. Hollywood blockbusters.” — Bart Beaty, Canadian Journal of Film Studies

“Nick Craine is one of the fastest developing talents today.” — Matt Wagner, author/illustrator of Grendel

“Craine wisely injects his own voice, through his brush, into the story much in the same way that David Mazzuchelli did in his wildly successful adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass . . . Craine is a cartoonist to keep your eye on.” — Eric Reynolds, Comics Journal

“Extremely pure, original work. [Craine] has a unique style, vibrating raw energy . . . There’s noth- MARKETING NOTES ing more exciting than the execution of story and art brought together in one clear vision . . . These are • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast the kind of comics I want to see more of.” — Michael tie-ins Allred, author/illustrator of Madman • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access • Inclusion in Anansi’s Canada Day campaign

47 Now Available DEATH GOES BETTER WITH COCA-COLA DAVE GODFREY INTRODUCTION BY LEE HENDERSON

Originally published in 1967, Dave Godfrey’s debut collection features stories about hunting — in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario. They are about the interplay of gun and subway, decoy and stock market, guide and draft dodger. But they are more than just stories about hunting. Death Goes Better with Coca-Cola is a powerful example of the idiosyncratic imagination of a writer who broke new ground in fiction. It is a seminal collection by one of Canada’s most influential literary figures and cofounder of House of Anansi Press; it is a must-read for those who want to understand Canada’s literary landscape, past and present.

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February THE BIG WHY MICHAEL WINTER INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK DEWITT

In this ﬁctionalized memoir, Michael 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 con- tradictions, The Big Why bares all.

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48 ANANSI INTERNATIONAL January SWIMMING LESSONS CLAIRE FULLER

How well can anyone outside a marriage ever know what’s really going on? From Desmond Elliot Prize winner Claire Fuller comes a family mystery about a woman’s disappearance and her daughter’s search for answers.

In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her husband has collected. After she writes her ﬁnal letter, Ingrid disappears. Twelve years later, her adult daughter, Flora, comes home to look after her injured father. Secretly, Flora has never believed her mother is dead, and she starts asking questions without realizing that the answers she’s looking for are hidden in the books that surround her.

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50 CLAIRE FULLER is the criti- ALSO AVAILABLE cally acclaimed author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS won the Desmond Elliot Prize, Claire Fuller was a ﬁnalist for the ABA Adult Debut Novel Award and the 978-1-77089-824-0 Edinburgh International Book Trade paperback • $19.95 Festival Award and was a 2016 Richard and Judy 978-1-77089-825-7 Book Club Pick in the U.K. She has an MA in Cre- ePub • $16.95 ative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her hus- WINNER, DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL band and two children. FINALIST, ABA DEBUT NOVEL AWARD AMAZON RISING STAR 2015 (UK)

“Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.” — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury “You don’t really know what’s going on in this surreal psychological thriller until the OMG-worthy denouement. . . . Prepare yourself.” — Flare “I ﬁnished this book and turned right back to the ﬁrst page to start it again. Like the wilderness into MARKETING NOTES which Claire Fuller’s characters disappear, Our End- less Numbered Days is rigged with barbs and poisons, • clairefuller.co.uk tricks and tragedies. It’s weird and wild and some- • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast times terrifying, but it’s also beautiful and heart- tie-ins breaking and breathlessly alive.” — Amy Stewart, • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access author of the New York Times bestseller The Drunken • Twitter: @ClaireFuller2 Botanist • Facebook: www.facebook.com/clairefullerwriter “Graciously written and capriciously imagined, Our • Instagram: @writerclairefuller Endless Numbered Days holds up a magnifying lens to the human spirit and deftly captures both its fragility and its resilience. The brilliant ending, like the best endings do, casts new light on all that comes before it.” — Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls

51 March THE ACCUSATION BANDI TRANSLATED BY DEBORAH SMITH

Already a major publishing phenomenon with rights sold to seventeen territories, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the ﬁrst piece of ﬁction to come out of North Korea.

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il- sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window into this most secretive of countries. Bandi’s profound, deeply moving, vividly charac- terized stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the theatre that is their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare. The Accusation is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in North Korea. It is also a reminder that humanity can sustain hope even in the most desperate of circumstances — and that the courage of free thought has a power far beyond those who seek to suppress it.

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52 BANDI, which means “firefly” in Korean, is a PRAISE FOR BANDI AND pseudonym for a writer who is still living in his THE ACCUSATION: homeland of North Korea, and who wrote these stories in secret. The Accusation is his only published “A collection of short stories written under a pseud- book to date. onym and smuggled out of North Korea is on its way to becoming an international literary sensation, with DEBORAH SMITH is a British translator of its agent fielding offers from around the world for Korean fiction. She translated The Vegetarian by an author who is being labelled the North Korean Korean author Han Kang, for which she and the Solzhenitsyn.” — Alison Flood, Guardian author were co-winners of the Man Booker Inter- “[The Accusation] plunges us into the daily life of fami- national Prize in 2016. After graduating from the lies in North Korea. These stories are the cry of a man University of Cambridge, Smith began learning suffocated by totalitarianism. These are also the cry of Korean in 2010. She founded Tilted Axis Press, a an entire people who have been broken under the yoke non-profit publishing house focusing on contempo- of North Korean communism . . . The author makes rary fiction specifically from Asia. She is currently a use of storytelling, poetry, humour, and even the bur- research fellow at the School of Oriental and Afri- lesque to aid his condemnation of these unbearable can Studies, University of London. injustices. The writing is simple, humble, which gives it its beauty. The seven novellas shine with humanity and tenderness.” — Aleteia

“This collection of novellas that the author managed to extract from his country is of incredible value . . . The classic construction reminds us of Gogol and Chekhov, and for their taste for absurdist satire, Ionesco and MARKETING NOTES Bulgakov.” — Books Magazine

• National review attention “Bandi, a pseudonym that means ‘ﬁreﬂy,’ has achieved • Social media campaign, blog coverage, eBlast the unthinkable — offering a testimony on the dicta- tie-ins torial regime of North Korea while remaining in situ • Goodreads contests and NetGalley access . . . In the same way as the works of Solzhenitsyn in their time, Bandi’s writing reminds us of the perennial necessity of battling censorship, whatever the cost.” — L’amour des livres

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58 Now Available THE JOYFUL LIVING COLOURING BOOK TEVA HARRISON

From the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed and bestselling graphic memoir In-Between Days comes a colouring book full of original, never-before-published drawings meant to delight, inspire, and heal.

When Teva Harrison was first diagnosed with cancer, she felt lost, cast adrift. In order to pull herself out of depression, she started to draw. In the beginning, the drawings were of tiny wildflowers photographed on her travels. Some- thing about that act of looking, 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 of that germ of hope. Here, readers will find magic and delight everywhere: symbol-enriched heraldry, animals and birds, foli- age and flowers, and a few choice words of inspiration and hope.

TEVA HARRISON is a writer and graphic artist. She is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days, which was a ﬁnalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonﬁction. She lives in Toronto.

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60 NOTES NOTES Fagan, Cary ...... 29 Paris Undressed ...... 58 Fearless as Possible ...... 18 Path of Most Resistence, The ..... 32 Fuller, Claire ...... 51 Reed, Fred A...... 38 Girl Runner ...... 24 Return of History, The ...... 16 INDEX Godfrey, Dave ...... 48 Russell, Charles ...... 11 Goyette, Sue ...... 6 Grenier, Daniel ...... 35 Sex and Death Anthology, The .... 32 Simpson, Leanne Betsamosake ... 27 2017 Grifﬁn Poetry Prize Anthology, Hall, Sarah ...... 32 Sisters Brothers, The ...... 24 The ...... 6 Hamilton, Ian ...... 44 Smith, Deborah ...... 53 3 Times a Day ...... 6 Hard Core Logo ...... 46 Snyder, Carrie ...... 24 Harrison, Teva ...... 61 Spirit Bear ...... 10 Accusation, The ...... 52 Heart Residence ...... 2 Staking Claims to a Continent .... 14 Ahnhem, Stefan...... 43 Ho-Kei, Chan ...... 42 Strauss, Pablo ...... 35 Annabel ...... 24 Hobbs, Peter ...... 32 Substitute, The ...... 40 Anansi International Backlist ...... Hope Has Two Daughters ...... 38 Swimming Lessons ...... 50 ...... 54-55 How Should We Respond to the Global Ava Lee Backlist ...... 44 Refugee Crisis? ...... 12 Thirteen Shells ...... 32 Hunting Houses ...... 36 This Accident of Being Lost ...... 26 Bandi ...... 53 Thug Kitchen ...... 60 Barrelling Forward ...... 30 Into the Sun ...... 23 Tiang, Jeremy ...... 42 Béchard, Deni Ellis ...... 23 Trunkey, Laura ...... 32 Behrens, Peter ...... 22 Joyful Living Colouring Book, The ...... 59 Best Kind of People, The ...... 23 Undermajordomo Minor ...... 24 Big Why, The ...... 50 Usher, David ...... 15 Bird’s Eye, A ...... 29 Kemp-Grifﬁn, Kathryn ...... 58 Borrowed, The ...... 42 Vermette, Katherena ...... 23 Laxer, James ...... 14 Bozak, Nadia ...... 32 Von Hahn, Karen ...... 9 Break, The ...... 23 Lee, Dennis ...... 3 Let the Elephants Run ...... 15 Britt, Fanny ...... 37 Wangersky, Russell ...... 32 Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Welsh, Jennifer ...... 16 Matches, The ...... 50 Carry Me ...... 22 What Remains ...... 8 Longest Year, The ...... 34 Casile, Paloma...... 58 Whittall, Zoe ...... 23 Lundrigan, Nicole ...... 41 CBC Massey Lectures Backlist, The . . Winter, Kathleen ...... 24 ...... 17 Winter, Michael ...... 48 Connolly, Kevin ...... 4 Mazigh, Monia ...... 38 Corpses of the Future ...... 5 Minds of Winter ...... 20 Xiphoid Process, The ...... 4 Craine, Nick ...... 47 Morelli, Christelle ...... 37 Crocker, Eva ...... 31 Crosbie, Lynn ...... 5 Ninth Grave, The ...... 43 Norlen, Paul ...... 45 Death Goes Better With Coca Cola ...... 48 O’Loughlin, Ed ...... 21 deWitt, Patrick ...... 24 Old World, The ...... 28 Donlon, Denise ...... 18 Our Endless Numbered Days ..... 55 Double Dutch ...... 32 Ouriou, Susan ...... 37

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