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Anansi Fall 2011 Titles Nonfiction...2 Poetry...10 Fiction...11 Anansi International...25 Spiderline...33 New in Paperback...37 Granta and Portobello...45 Stocking Stuffers...64 Books for Giving...66

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 1 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthSeptember WinterTITLE FiveSubtitle Windows on the Season TAuthorhe 2011 CBC Na meMassey Lectures: Celebrating 50 Years Adam Gopnik

LeadInternational quote — bestselling credit author and New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik delivers the 50th anniversary edition of the CBC Massey Lectures.

This year’s CBC Massey Lectures cele­ brates fifty years with bestselling author, es­ sayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter — the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik’s kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture. A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, Winter is at once an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the S OCIAL SCIENCE/ESSAYS modern imagination. This deluxe 50th anni­ 978-0-88784-974-9 versary edition includes full-colour images eISBN: 978-1-77089-045-9 printed on two 8-page inserts. 5.75 x 8.25 • 288 pages Two 8-page colour inserts Trade paperback • $22.95 BISAC: SOC041000

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ALeadDAM quoteGOPN I—K iscredit the author of the interna­ PRAISE FOR ALNGE S AND AGES: tional bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the A SHORT BOOK ABOUT DARWIN, Children’s Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and LINCOLN AND MODERN LIFE Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Steps Across the Water. He has A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER is a three-time winner of the National Maga­ A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER zine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Report­ “. . . succinct, convincing, and moving . . .” ing. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he — TIME grew up in Montreal, Quebec. From 1995 to 2000, he lived in Paris. He now lives in New “Lively and wide-ranging . . .” — New York Times York City with his wife and their two children. PRAISE FOR THROUGH THE CHILDREN’S GATE

“Gopniks i a wonder of a writer. This book is a rarity, an intelligent meditation that is also a pleasurable time spent with a lively thinker.” marketing notes — Los Angeles Times

• Massey Lectures turn 50 this year “Adam Gopnik . . . is the E. B. White of our • 5-city Massey Lectures Tour: Montreal time.” — Winnipeg Free Press (October 12), Halifax (October 14), Edmonton (October 21), Vancouver PRAISE FOR PAI R S TO THE MOON (October 23), Toronto (October 26) • Broadcast on CBC Radio One’s Ideas: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER November 7–11 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • National review and media attention A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SELECTION • Co-op available “Adam Gopnik is a dazzling talent — hilarious, winning, and deft . . .” — Malcolm Gladwell

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 3 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthSeptember DaTITLErkMarket Cyber SubtitleThieves, Cybercops and You Author Name Misha Glenny

LeadA fascinating, quote — hardcredit-hitting, and revealing look at cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage from the author of the international bestseller McMafia.

We live in a digital, globalized world — a world that has become a law enforcement nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online, shop online, date online, learn online, work online, and live online. But govern­ ments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars a year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, and highly intelligent new breed of criminal — the hacker. In this powerful, pulse-pounding investi­ gation, Misha Glenny, author of the interna­ tional bestseller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats we face in the twenty-first century: cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage. Travelling the world to speak to military and intelligence communi­ ties, police, politicians, lawyers, and, most importantly, the hackers and their victims, Glenny uncovers the fascinating personalities of these twenty-first-century criminals and delves deep beneath the bravado and sheer audacity of their lawless underworld activities to reveal an unlikely solution to cyber crime TRUEC RIME/GENERAL that authorities have — until now — been 978-0-88784-239-9 overlooking. eISBN: 978-1-77089-048-0 Essential, authoritative, and utterly engross­ 6.25 x 10 • 320 pages ing, DarkMarket is the crime book of our times, Hardcover • $29.95 a thrilling and vital call to arms for our gov­ BISAC: TRU000000 ernments, for the private sector, and for you.

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Lead quote —M creditISHA GLENNY is the inter­ PRAISE FOR MISHA GLENNY AND national bestselling author of McMAFIA McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Under- N ational bESTSELLER world; The Rebirth of History; FINALIST, FINANCIAL TIMES / GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD The Fall of Yugoslavia (win­ FINALIST, LIONEL GELBER PRIZE (WORLD’S BEST ner of the Overseas Press Club Award for Best BOOK ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS) Book on Foreign Affairs); and The Balkans: A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK 1804–1999. He was an International Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washing­ “Glenny’s book should be appreciated for the ton, D.C., and a visiting professor at the Lon­ powerful wake-up call it is. Think of it as a don School of Economics. He has worked as Lonely Planet Guide of Organized Crime. a political consultant in southeastern Europe, Don’t leave home without it.” — Globe and Mail and is regularly consulted by U.S. and European governments on Balkan issues. He is a regular “This is the most important nonfiction book of contributor to newspapers and magazines such the year . . . organized crime’s version of Fast as the Guardian, London Review of Books, Global Food Nation.” — Mail on Sunday and Mail, New Statesman, Washington Post, and Financial Times. He lives in London, U.K. “Gripping.” — Economist

marketing notes “A riveting and chilling journey . . . Readers yearning for a deeper understanding of the • National author tour, including appearance real-life, international counterparts to The at the Munk Centre Sopranos need look no further than Glenny’s • ARCs engrossing study.” — Publishers Weekly (starred • National reviews and media attention review) • Co-op available • Online campaign “[A] wildly ambitious tour of organized crime in the era of globalization . . . Glenny sets a Al so aVAilable fast pace as he races from one criminal hot spot to another . . . For sheer enterprise, he is hard McMafia A journey through the global to beat.” — New York Times criminal underground 978-0-88784-818-6 “Smart, serious, and highly readable.” marketinTgrade note paperbacks • $19.95 — Guardian 5 5

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 5 11-04-19 3:50 PM November DOES THE 21ST CENTURY BELONG TO CHINA? The Munk Debate on China KISSINGER AND ZAKARIA VS. FERGUSON AND LI

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria go head to head with leading international historian Niall Ferguson and renowed economist David Daokui Li on the key geopolitical issue of the century: the rise of China.

Is China’s rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a com- paratively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Mid- dle Kingdom also faces a series of challenges. From energy scarcity to environmental degra- dation to political unrest and growing global security burdens, a host of factors could derail China’s global ascent. In this edition of The Munk Debates — Canada’s premier international debate series — former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kiss- inger and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria square off against leading historian Niall Ferguson and world-renowned economist David Daokui Li to debate the biggest geopolitical issue of our time: Does the 21st century belong to China? Highly electrifying and thoroughly engross- ing, the Munk Debate on China is the first for- mal public debate Dr. Kissinger has participated POLITICAL SCIENCE/GLOBALIZATION in on China’s future, and includes interviews 978-1-77089-062-6 with all four of these leading thinkers. eISBN: 978-1-77089-063-3 5 x 8 • 112 pages Trade paperback • $14.95 BISAC: POL033000

RIGHTS HELD: World NIALL FERGUSON is the Laurence A. Tisch DAVID DAOKUI LI is the Director of the Professor of History at Harvard University Center for China in the World Economy at and William Ziegler Professor of Business the Tsinghua University School of Economics Administration at Harvard Business School. and Management in Beijing. He holds a Ph.D. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus in economics from Harvard University, and is College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the one of three academic members of the mon- Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He etary policy committee of the central bank of is the author of numerous bestselling books, China. He is also a delegate to the Beijing Peo- including The Ascent of Money. A prolific com- ple’s Congress and a member of the Chinese mentator on contemporary politics and eco- People’s Political Consultative Committee. nomics, Ferguson is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and senior columnist with FAREED ZAKARIA is host of CNN’s flagship Newsweek. international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and the Editor-at-Large of TIME. He is DR. HENRY KISSINGER was the 56th Sec- the author of the international bestsellers, The retary of State of the United States from 1973 Future of Freedom and The Post American World. to 1977. He is one of the world’s most influ- He was described by Esquire as “the most influ- ential commentators on geopolitics. Among ential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” his many accomplishments as a public servant In 2010, Foreign Policy named him one of the Dr. Kissinger has been credited for normal- top 100 global thinkers. izing relations between the United States and China at a crucial juncture in the history of both countries. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is MARKETING NOTES chairman. Dr. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 and the Presidential Medal • Promotional partnernship with of Freedom (America’s highest civilian award) The Munk Debates in 1977. • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available MonthMarch TTITLEhe Secret of the Crown Canada’sSubtitle Affair with Royalty Author Name Jsohn Fra er

LeadPreeminent quote —journalist, credit author, and monarchical authority John Fraser offers a fascinating account of Canada’s ongoing affair with royalty, set against the backdrop of an historic wedding and a Diamond Jubilee year.

For all of its recorded history, Canada has been presided over by some form of royalty: First Nations chiefs, French monarchs, British kings and queens. Preeminent journalist, author, and royal authority John Fraser explores the endurance and allure of the Crown in Canada. With his trademark wit and artful agility, he explores the “royal Canadians” — both the royals who come to Canada and the Canadians who support the Crown; examines the differences between “tribal monarchy” and “constitutional monar­ chy”; considers the insatiable media appetite for the royal family; and assesses the chances of two very different gentlemen becoming king: King Charles III or King William V. An erudite and highly entertaining work of popular history, The Secret of the Crown offers a captivating appraisal of Canada’s long-standing affair with royalty.

H ISTORY/SOCIAL HISTORY 978-1-77089-035-0 eISBN: 978-1-77089-055-8 5.75 x 8.25 • 288 pages Hardcover • $29.95 BISAC: HIS054000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 6 11-04-19 3:50 PM Month The Secret of the Crown TITLE Canada’s Affair with Royalty Subtitle Author Name John Fraser

Lead quote —J creditOHN FRASER is a Cana­ PRAISE FOR JOHN FRASER AND dian journalist, author, and EMINENT CANADIANS: CANDID academic, who has served as TALES OF THEN AND NOW Master of Massey College at University of Toronto since “Fullf o mordant, highly amusing gossip and 1995. As a journalist, he has surprising connections between past and pres­ received multiple national awards, and his ent, Eminent Canadians is eminently readable work has been published in many of the lead­ popular history.” — Maclean’s ing international newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, “Insightful, thoughtful, intelligent, and humor­ Christian Science Monitor, Maclean’s, Guardian, ous.” — London Free Press Daily Telegraph, Paris Match, and New Republic. He is the author of six works of nonfiction, and “Fraser writes beautifully, knows a good story one novel. He lives in Toronto. when he finds one, and loves to gossip.” — Quill & Quire

PRAISE FOR JOHN FRASER AND PIAER V T VIEW: INSIDE BARYSHNIKOV’S AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE marketing notes “Guiding readers through rehearsals, new • National author tour productions, and a national tour, Fraser offers • National reviews and media attention a tantalizing glimpse of the difficulties of a • ARCs dancer’s day, and astutely assesses the politics • Co-op available of artistic decision-making.” • Excerpt in Maclean’s — Publishers Weekly • Publishing to coincide with the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II “This is a perceptive behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one major ballet company. Fraser’s writing style is clear and witty and as good as his reportorial abilities.” — Library Journal

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 7 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthMarch TTITLEhe Thrifty Gardener H Subtitleow to Get Started, Upgrade to a Bigger Place, DownsizeAuthor toNa ame Smaller Space, and Do It All on a Budget Marjorie Harris

LeadWhether quote you’re — credit moving in, moving up, or moving out, bestselling author and gardener extraordinaire Marjorie Harris gives you the best tips and trade secrets on creating that perfect natural oasis the thrifty way.

Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you’re moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space — all on a budget. The highly anticipated sequel to her popu­ lar book Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style, The Thrifty Gardener marries Harris’s passion for gardening with her thrifty lifestyle savvy. With this book in hand, everyone can create a natural oasis whatever their living situation is — and without breaking the bank.

GARDENING/GENERAL 978-0-88784-271-9 eISBN: 978-1-77089-054-1 5.75 x 7.75 • 272 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: GAR000000

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MLeadARJ OquoteRIE H —ARRI creditS is Canada’s best-known PRAISE FOR MARJORIE HARRIS AND gardener. She is the national gardening colum­ THRIY FT : LIVING THE FRUGAL LIFE nist for the Globe and Mail and the author of WITH STYLE several bestselling gardening books. She lives in Toronto with her husband, writer Jack B “satten.Thrifty i an entertaining read, thanks to the author’s witty style and practical anecdotes.” — Calgary Herald

“Harris reminds us that the word thrifty is derived from the word thrive. If we do it right, she promises, living thriftily will make us feel good — not deprived.” — Montreal Gazette

“It’s a solid guide to the virtues of non- consumerism, yet — big relief — doesn’t come across as preachy or reeking of environmental marketing notes goody-goodyism.” — Toronto Star

• Author appearances at gardening shows PRAISE FOR MARJORIE HARRIS • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available “I like a book that makes me feel the writer is talking directly to me, perhaps from across the back fence. Harris has a wonderfully readable style and dispenses down-to-earth advice.” Also available — Globe and Mail

thrifty “This is the kind of garden writer Canada Living the frugal life with style needs — hardy, practical, and colourful.” 978-0-88784-832-2 — Calgary Herald Trade paperback • $19.95

“A force of nature . . . a survivor with a will of iron and a heart of gold.” — Toronto Life

“Harris’s honest, straightforward style makes marketing notes good reading.” — Toronto Gardens 9 9

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 9 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthFebruary TTITLEhe Unmemntioable Subtitle AuthorErín M Noureame

“A new book by Erín Moure is always an exciting event in Canadian literary history.” — Prairie Fire

The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure’s poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saska­ toon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemn- tioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can ex­ perience still be spoken?

ERÍN MOURE is one of Canada’s preeminent poets and a celebrated translator from French, Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese. She is the author of thirteen books of POETR Y/CANADIAN poetry, has received the Governor General’s Award, the 978-1-77089-004-6 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the A. M. Klein Prize, 6 x 8 • 120 pages and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Trade paperback • $22.95 Prize. Her book Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person has been BISAC: POE011000 selected as a finalist for Canada Reads Poetry. She lives RIGHTS HELD: World in Montreal. marketing notes • Anansi Poetry Bash in April in Toronto • Author tour, including Ukrainian community events • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available 10

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 11 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthSeptember TTITLEhe Antagonist Subtitle AuthorLynn Co Naadmey

LeadFrom quotebestselling — credit novelist Lynn Coady comes an unforgettable, unflinching story of a life gone wrong.

Against his will and his nature, the hulking Gordon Rankin (“Rank”) is cast as an enforcer, a goon — by his classmates, his hockey coaches, and especially his own “tiny, angry” father, Gordon Senior. Rank gamely lives up to his role — until tragedy strikes, us­ ing Rank as its blunt instrument. Escaping the only way he can, Rank disappears. But almost twenty years later he discovers that an old, trusted friend — the only person to whom he has ever confessed his sins — has published a novel mirroring Rank’s life. The betrayal cuts to the deepest heart of him, and Rank will finally have to confront the tragic true story from which he’s spent his whole life running away. With the deep compassion, deft touch, and irreverent humour that have made her one of Canada’s best-loved novelists, Lynn Coady delves deeply into the ways we sanction and FIC TION/LITERARY stoke male violence, giving us a large-hearted, 978-0-88784-296-2 often hilarious portrait of a man tearing him­ eISBN: 978-0-88784-296-2 self apart in order to put himself back together. 5.25 x 8 • 352 pages Hardcover • $32.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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LeadLYNN quoteCOADY — is creditan award-winning author, PRAISE FOR LYNN COADY AND editor, and journalist. Her previous novels MEAN BOY include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top WINNER, ALBERTA WRITER’S GUILD GEORGE BUGNET 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail AWARD FOR FICTION Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, “Mean Boy is a tour de force.” — Globe and Mail “Group Therapy,” runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton PRAISE FOR LYNN COADY AND Island, Nova Scotia, and is now living in SA IntS OF BIG HARBOUR Edmonton, Alberta. A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“. . . sharply written, intelligently layered.” — Guardian

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A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK marketing notes FINALIST, STEPHEN LEACOCK AWARD FOR HUMOUR NATIONAL BESTSELLER

• National author tour “[Coady’s] work is among the most noteworthy • ARCs in the country.” — National Post • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available PRAISE FOR LYNN COADY AND SRT ANGE HEAVEN

FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER, DARTMOUTH BOOKSELLER’S AWARD WINNER, ATLANTIC WRITING AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER, CAA/AIR CANADA AWARD FOR WRITERS UNDER THIRTY

“Both hilarious and heartbreaking . . . [an] astonishing fictional debut.” — Globe and Mail marketing notes 13 13

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 13 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthSeptember Eas TITLEy to Like Subtitle AuthorEdwar Nda meRiche

LeadA bitingly quote hilarious — credit satire of the making of wine, television, and taste from one of Canada’s most accomplished comic writers.

From award-winning author Edward Riche comes an immensely readable and sharp novel about “C”-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. With his life growing more ruinous by the day — his writing career is on the rocks, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the feds, and his son, a former child star, is in prison — Elliot decides to do what any self-respecting wine lover would do: escape to France. Alas, fate has other things in store. Strand­ ed in Canada by an expired passport, he is strongly encouraged to remain there due to his bit part in a growing Hollywood scandal. Deciding that Toronto may just be the perfect­ ly engineered city in which to lay low, Elliot kills time by bluffing his way to the top of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A brilliant work of searing satire, Easy to Like showcases one of our most original authors at his comic best.

FIC TION/LITERARY 978-0-88784-231-3 eISBN: 978-1-77089-042-8 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages Hardcover • $29.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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Lead quote —EDwa creditrd RICHE is an award- PRAISE FOR EDward RICHE AND winning author, screenwriter, THE NINE PLANETS and playwright. His previ­ ous novels include Rare Birds, WINNER, THOMAS HEAD RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD which was adapted into a major motion picture starring “Savagely funny . . . One can only imagine William Hurt and Molly Parker, and a second what he will attempt in his third novel.” novel, The Nine Planets, which won the Thomas — Globe and Mail Head Raddall Award. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and the Tele- “Riche’s prose — cynical, bellicose — is simply gram. He is a frequent contributor to CBC hilarious . . . The Nine Planets is everything it Radio’s “Talking Books.” Edward Riche lives in should be: funny, erudite, and damning.” St. John’s, Newfoundland. — The Independent

“Darkly comic . . . laugh-out-loud funny.” — Maclean’s

PRAISE FOR EDward RICHE AND REAR BIRDS marketing notes “Uproarious . . . Comedy is replacing cod as • Launch at Writers at Woody Point, NL the number one export of the Atlantic prov­ • National author tour inces.” — Globe and Mail • ARCs • National reviews and media attention “Readers will be hooting out loud . . . Riche • Co-op available displays a flair for hip urban social comedy.” — Maclean’s

“Rare Birds is a rare treat. Nasty and delicious, boiling with caustic wit, it will stay with you for a long time.” — Rick Mercer

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 15 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthSeptember DTITLEirty Feet Subtitle AuthorEdem A Nwameumey Translated by Lazer Lederhendler

Lead“This quote is a book — credit about wandering, about identity, about the traces we leave. Mysterious and meaningful.” — Manon Trépanier, Radio-Canada 95.1 FM

A finalist forFrance’s prestigious Prix Goncourt, Dirty Feet is a remarkable, inven­ tive, and darkly compelling novel that tells the story of a man’s search for the mysterious, no­ madic father who abandoned him years earlier. As a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curse. First driven from their home by drought and hunger, they were then kept from the villages they passed through by the fear and suspicion of others, who did not want to see their “dirty feet” stay for too long. Years later, it seems Askia is destined to relive his family’s curse night after night as he roams the streets of Paris in his taxi. One eve­ ning, he picks up Olia, a young woman who claims to recognize his face, telling him that his features are similar to those of a man she photographed years ago. Had it been his father, the enigmatic Sidi Ben Sylla Mohammed? The father who migrated north long before he did; the father he has so often dreamt about; the FIC TION/LITERARY father whom he aches to meet? 978-0-88784-244-3 With Olia’s help, Askia sets out to retrace eISBN: 978-1-77089-044-2 Sidi’s steps. But before he can embark on this 5.25 x 8 • 208 pages new journey, he must first confront his violent Trade paperback w/ flaps • $19.95 past. A brutal, indelibly powerful look at the BISAC: FIC019000 harrowing, often violent lives of those who are RIGHTS HELD: English North America condemned to wander. RIGHT SOLD: France (Éditions du Seuil), the maNetherlandsrketing note (Querido),s Spain (Baile del Sol) 16 16

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ELeadDEM quoteAWUMEY — creditwas born in Togo in 1975. PRAISE FOR EDEM AWUMEY AND His first novel, Port-Mélo, won the Grand Prix DIRTY FEET Littéraire de L’Afrique Noire, one of the most distinguished literary prizes in Africa, and his PRIX GONCOURT SELECTION second novel, Les pieds sales, was a finalist for one of France’s most prestigious literary prizes, “Some are wet, just barely escaping from the the Prix Goncourt. Awumey now lives in Can­ sea; others have dirty feet because they flee, ada where he is a teacher. treading upon the earth in search of refuge, a land where they can rebuild their lives. Edem LAZER LEDERHENDLER has recreated a world where we find characters is a translator and teacher. who belong to the world of pain. Whether they In 2008, he won the Gover­ are in Africa or Europe, these cursed souls nor General’s Literary Award roam under the novelist’s complicit gaze. This for French to English trans­ novel, whose scope is universal, concerns us lation of Nikolski. He is also all.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun, author of The Rising the translator of Gaétan Soucy’s novel, The of the Ashes Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Gov­ ernor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation, and won the French-to- English Translation Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Lederhendler lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 17 11-04-19 3:50 PM MonthNovember TTITLEhe Blue Dragon Subtitle AuthorRobert Na Lepme age and Marie Michaud Illustrated by Fred Jourdain

LeadAn evocative, quote — beautifully credit illustrated tale of a Canadian expatriate in China from legendary theatre director and visionary Robert Lepage.

In this stunning graphic -novel adap­ tation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud’s play, the personal meets the political, East meets West, and old meets new. Claire, a Québécoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits her ex-husband, Pierre, who after fifteen years in China has begun to question the new directions his adopted coun­ try is going in. Claire and Pierre’s lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, The Blue Dragon examines aging, cultural confu­ sion, fertility, and creativity, and emerges as a fascinating examination of some of modern China’s most intriguing paradoxes. Fred Jourdain’s gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to the story’s genesis as one of Robert Lepage’s most daz­ zling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as the senses, The Blue Dragon is an extraordinary graphic novel for grownups. CM O ICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS/ GRAPHIC NOVELS/GENERAL 978-1-77089-037-4 9 x 12 • 176 pages Hardcover • $25.00 BISAC: CGN004000

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DLeadirector, quote writer, — actorcredit ROBERT LEPAGE is one of Canada’s most renowned figures in the performing arts. His astonishing oeuvre includes epic plays (The Dragons’ Trilogy, Nee- dles and Opium), award-winning films (Le Con- fessional, Far Side of the Moon), and even rock shows. A Quebec native, Lepage has received many prestigious awards and honours, includ­ ing the Ordre national du Québec, the Denise Pelletier Prize, the Prix Europe, France’s Légion d’honneur, and the Governor General’s Per­ forming Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

MARIE MICHAUD is a leading Québécoise theatre actress. She has performed over fifty roles with top directors including Robert Lepage and Denis Marleau. She is currently starring in the role of Claire Forest in the the­ atrical version of The Blue Dragon, which she co-wrote with Robert Lepage.

FRED JOURDAIN is an artist and designer, best known for his portraits of great jazz, rock, and film figures. His work is currently on dis­ play at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 19 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthJanuary DTITLEoctor Brinkley’s Subtitle TAuthorow Nerame Robert Hough

LeadFrom quotemaster — novelist credit Robert Hough comes a passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of a war-torn Mexican border town.

Equal parts Mark Twain and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Robert Hough’s wildly imagi­ native fourth novel takes us to 1926 and Cora­ zon de la Fuente, a tiny Mexican border town where the only industry is a run-down brothel. When a rich American doctor decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower in the town, for­ tunes change overnight. Yet not all for the good — word of the new prosperity spreads, and Corazon is overrun by the impoverished, the desperate, and the criminal-minded. The tower’s frequencies are so powerful the town glows green, and the signal is soon broadcast­ ing through every bit of metal it can find: fenc­ ing wire, toasters, even a young woman’s new braces. Worst of all, the rich doctor has at­ tracted the affections of Corazon’s most beau­ tiful resident. Her spurned fiancé decides to fight back — but is it possible to turn back the tide of change? Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is a rollicking, romantic masterwork that transports us to another time FIC TION/LITERARY and way of life, yet makes us reflect on injus­ 978-0-88784-319-8 tices all too relevant to our world today. eISBN: 978-1-77089-052-7 5.25 x 8 • 424 pages Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 20 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month Doctor Brinkley’s TITLE Subtitle Tower Author Name Robert Hough

ROBERTLead quote HO U—G Hcredit’s debut novel, The Final PRAISE FOR ROBERT HOUGH AND Confession of Mabel Stark, was shortlisted for THEL CU PRITS the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. His second novel, The Stowaway, FINALIST, COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE: BEST BOOK (CARIBBEAN AND CANADA) was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Award FINALIST, ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE and chosen by the Boston Globe as one of the FINALIST, TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD top ten fiction titles of 2004. His third novel, The Culprits, was shortlisted for the Trillium “[Hough’s] prose is funny and warm and won­ Book Prize, the Commonwealth Award for derfully extravagant.” — Charles Foran, Globe Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean), and and Mail the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in Toronto. PRAISE FOR ROBERT HOUGH AND THESO T WAWAY

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION BOOK A BARNES AND NOBLE DISCOVER PICK

“A moving, haunting novel, full of deeply sym­ pathetic portraits of common people being uncommonly brave.” — Publishers Weekly marketing notes PRAISE FOR ROBERT HOUGH AND THE FINAL CONFESSION OF MABEL STARK • National author tour • ARCs FINALIST, COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE: BEST • National reviews and media attention BOOK (CARIBBEAN AND CANADA) • Co-op available FINALIST, TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD A GLOBE AND MAIL EDITOR’S CHOICE A BOOK SENSE TOP TEN SELECTION A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK

“A marvelous debut . . . One of the most enter­ taining novels in many a year.” — Kirkus, (starred review)

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 21 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthMarch TTITLEhe Juliet Stories Subtitle AuthorCarrie N aSmenyder

LeadA rising quote literary — credit star brings us a powerful new novel-in-stories about family, memory, and freedom.

Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua’s post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of tumult, Juliet’s family lives outside the bound­ aries of ordinary life. They’ve escaped, and the usual rules don’t apply. Threat is pervasive, dan­ ger is real, but the extremity of the situation also produces a kind of euphoria, protecting Juliet’s family from its own cracks and conflicts. When Juliet’s younger brother becomes sick with cancer, their adventure ends abrupt­ ly. The Friesens return to Canada only to find that their lives beyond Nicaragua have become the war zone. One by one, they drift from one another; Juliet grows to adulthood pulled between her desire to live a life as free as the one she remembers in Nicaragua and her desire to build for her own children a life more FICTION/SHORT STORIES settled than her parents could provide. 978-1-77089-002-2 With laser-sharp prose and breathtaking eISBN: 978-1-77089-057-2 insight, these stories herald Carrie Snyder as one 5.25 x 8 • 266 pages of Canada’s most prodigiously talented writers. Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC029000

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CLeadARRIE quote SNYDER — credit was born in Hamilton and PRAISE FOR CARRIE SNYDER AND grew up in Ohio, Nicaragua, and Ayr, Ontario. HRAI HAT Her first book, Hair Hat, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction. FINALIST, DANUTA GLEED AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION She lives in Waterloo with her husband and four children. “The prose is unadorned, yet rich with precision and compression. Snyder’s small epiphanies grow naturally from her fluid blend of insight and expression.” — Globe and Mail

“Truly original . . . On finishing the last story in this book, I did something very few short- story collections have ever prompted me to do: I turned back to the beginning and started reading again.” — Montreal Gazette

“A potent work of original imagination.” — Edmonton Journal

marketing notes “The narrative structure of the book is as con­ fident as the prose. Like the movie Pulp Fiction, • National author tour the seemingly discrete stories eventually turn • ARCs out to be interlocking and recursive. With its • National reviews and media attention sharp-edged prose and daring plot turns, Hair • Co-op available Hat is an unusual first book.” — National Post • Snyder maintains a popular online presence at her blog “Obscure Canlit Mama” “There is a peculiarly challenging and, finally, at carrieannesnyder.blogspot.com. moving bathos in these stories, an equivocal irony and earnestness. I look forward to read­ ing [Snyder’s first novel].” — Vancouver Sun

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 23 11-04-19 3:51 PM July T he O’Briens Peter Behrens

“A vital, engrossing novel by a writer ferocious in his love for his characters. Behrens’ men and women brush against sorrow and death and grab onto life with their teeth.” — Catherine Bush

The O’Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O’Brien is com­ ing of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a busi­ ness and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls “Canada’s Century.” Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, The O’Briens is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.

PETER BEHRENS is the author of the Governor Gen­ eral’s Literary Award-winning novel The Law of Dreams, FICTION/LITERARY 978-0-88784-229-0 published around the world to wide acclaim, and a collec­ 5.25 x 8 • 432 pages tion of short stories, Night Driving. His short stories and Hardcover • $32.95 essays have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Satur- BISAC: FIC019000 day Night, and the National Post. He was born in Montreal RIGHTS HELD: Canada and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son. OTHER RIGHTS: Sarah Burnes, The Gernert Company marketing notes • National author tour: • Confirmed appearances Also available Vancouver, Toronto, at Calgary WORDfest The Law of Dreams and Kingston Writers 978-0-88784-774-5 Montreal, Ottawa $18.95 • National review Festival coverage and media • National advertising attention • Co-op available 24

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 25 11-04-19 3:51 PM August T he Emperor of Lies Steve Sem-Sandberg

“I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me. A stunning achievement.” — Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Łód´z. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director — and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. From one of Sweden’s most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski’s monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four and a half years. Driven by a titanic ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a pro­ ductive industrial complex and strove to make it — and himself — indispensable to the Nazi regime. Drawing on the detailed records of life in the Łód´z ghetto, Steve Sem- Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience and probes deeply into the nature of evil. He asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportun­ ist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for FICTION/LITERARY power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to 978-0-88784-259-7 eISBN: 978-1-77089-041-1 save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? 6 x 9 • 672 pages Hardcover • $34.95 STEVE SEM-SANDBERG is an award-winning author BISAC: FIC019000 of twelve novels and four works of nonfiction. He has won the August Prize, the Aftonbladet Literary Award, and RIGHTS HELD: Canada the De Nios Grand Award, and was a finalist for the pres­ OTHER RIGHTS: Nordin Agency tigious Nordic Council Literary Award on two occasions. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 26 11-04-19 3:51 PM August N otorious Roberta Lowing

“This is a daring, headstrong, and supremely confident first novel, as commanding and mesmerizing as the desert that lies at its centre.” — Overland

She came walking outf o the desert, just as the famous poet Rimbaud had centuries before. Now the nameless woman lies horribly scarred and close to death in an asylum deep in the North African desert. An Aus­ tralian official, a man code-named John Devlin, has come to question her. It is clear that the woman and Devlin share some kind of past, and all kinds of secrets. As the wind calls up a deadly sandstorm, the inhab­ itants of the asylum discover they are linked by a diary written by Rimbaud. Over the next 120 years, everyone who sees the diary will want it. Most will do anything to possess it. For the ruthless Polish aristocrat Alek­ sander Walenska, the diary holds secrets that will bring him wealth and power; for his troubled and religious son Czeslaw, it is a book of death, a penance to be fulfilled by sacrifice; for Czeslaw’s sister, it is a book of the desert that will redeem her family’s name; for Devlin, the diary is worthless and the desert is not a place of revelation but FICTION/LITERARY of modern terrorism. 978-1-77089-000-8 Only the nameless woman, whose dark past is entwined eISBN: 978-1-77089-040-4 with those who would possess Rimbaud’s diary at any 5.5 x 8.5 • 504 pages Trade paperback w/ flaps • $24.95 cost, knows the true worth of the book . . . BISAC: FIC019000 ROBERTA LOWING is a poet, author, and film critic. Her RIGHTS HELD: Canada poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Meanjin, Blue Dog, and Overland, and her first collection, Ruin, was marketing notes published in 2010. She lives in Sydney, Australia. • ARCs • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available 27

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 27 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthOctober TITLEIs land of Wings SubtitleKarin Altenberg Author Name

“With scrupulous attention to place, history, and the natural world, [Island of Wings] tells a story washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow.” — Anne Enright

July, 1830. nO the ten-hour sail west from the Heb­ rides to the islands of St. Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and subsist on a diet of seabirds, and babies perish mys- teriously in their first week, their marriage — and their sanity — is threatened. Is Lizzie a wilful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Chris­ tianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops? Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people strug­ gling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty.

FICTION/LITERARY Born and brought up in southern Sweden, KARIN 978-1-77089-012-1 ALTENBERG moved to Britain in 1996. She is currently eISBN: 978-1-77089-051-0 senior advisor to the Swedish National Heritage Board 6 x 9.25 • 304 pages Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Island BISAC: FIC019000 of Wings is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second. RIGHTS HELD: Canada “Island of Wings is a precise, subtle, spiritually alive debut.” marketing notes — Andrew O’Hagan • ARCs • National reviews and media “[Altenberg’s] literary achievement is astounding . . . ele­ attention gantly written . . . brilliantly captures the sublime, terrible • Co-op available beauty of the islands . . .” — Scotsman 28

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 28 11-04-19 3:51 PM October T he Great Leader Jim Harrison

A sly, supremely assured picaresque from literary legend Jim Harrison, the acclaimed author of Legends of the Fall, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter.

Literary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The Great Leader is the story of Detective Sunderson, a northern Michigan police detective who has recently retired and has one case he can’t quite shake — the inves­ tigation of a cult leader whom he eventually pursues to Arizona and further afield. Harrison gives readers a unique take on the culture of “Yoopers” (what folks from the rest of Michigan and the Midwest call people from the Upper Peninsula) and cops, in a novel that is wonder­ fully clever, powerful, and slyly redemptive.

JIM HARRISON is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggen­ heim Fellowship, he has had work published in twenty- two languages. He divides his time between Michigan, FICTION/LITERARY 978-1-77089-036-7 Montana, and Arizona. eISBN: 978-1-77089-046-6 6 x 9 • 324 pages “Jim Harrison is that rarest of literary breeds: a true- Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 blooded man’s man of a writer.” — Boston Globe BISAC: FIC019000 “Harrison’s fiction [is] always as exhilarating as a breath RIGHTS HELD: Canada of fresh air.” — NPR

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 29 11-04-19 3:51 PM October MIDSUMMER NIGHT IN THE WORKHOUSE DIANA ATHILL

“[Diana Athill] ranks among the very best writers of the late twentieth century.” — The Times

“I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958.” So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fic- tion, originally published in the 1950s to the 1970s. In unsentimental though often touching prose, Athill’s young women anticipate, enjoy, or just miss out on brief sexual encounters with men met on trains, at parties — just about anywhere they can. A cheating wife, back with her boring husband, is wracked with agonizing love for the unavailable partner of her brief fling; a writer seeks inspiration at a writers’ retreat whilst avoiding the group seducer’s invitation; a wife’s party flirtations propel her possessive husband into another woman’s bed; a teenager experiences enraptured detachment during her first kiss. Beautifully written, touching, and funny, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse is Diana Athill at her best. FICTION/SHORT STORIES 978-1-77089-061-9 DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. Her distinguished eISBN: 978-1-77089-064-0 career as an editor at André Deutsch Limited is the sub- 5.375 x 7.625 • 208 pages ject of her acclaimed memoir Stet. She is the author of Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 five other volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After BISAC: FIC029000 a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere RIGHTS HELD: North America Towards the End (winner of the Costa Biography Award), and a novel, Don’t Look at Me Like That. Her short fic- tion was first published between the 1950s to the 1970s MARKETING NOTES in Observer, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and Gentleman’s • National reviews Quarterly. In January 2009 she was awarded an OBE. She • National radio and print features lives in London, U.K. (including Zoomer Magazine) • Co-op available November U nder the Hawthorn Tree Ai Mi Translated by Anna Holmwood

With more than 1 million copies sold in China and adapted for film by inter­ nationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou, Under the Hawthorn Tree is a love story set against the backdrop of the final days of the Cultural Revolution.

Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be “re- educated” under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing’s father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a “capitalist,” is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings. When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River’s Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed “Old Three,” who is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose mother committed suicide after being branded a “right­ ist.” Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding romance is cut short by fate . . . A sensitive and searing love story, Under the Hawthorn FICTION/LITERARY Tree is sure to become an instant classic. 978-0-88784-291-7 eISBN: 978-1-77089-050-3 AI MI is a pseudonym. She lives in the United States, and 5.25 x 8 • 304 pages grew up in China. Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 30 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthJanuary W TITLEaiting for the Monsoon TSubtitlehrees Anna TAuthorranslate Nda meby Barbara Fasting

Set in Rampur, India, in 1995, Waiting for the Monsoon tells the unlikely story of friendship and burgeoning love between an English lady and an Indian tailor on the eve of the monsoon.

India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father and just one loyal servant in an old, dilapidated villa in the little town of Rampur. Madan, a talented local tailor who cannot speak, rents a room in Charlotte’s house and sews beautiful garments for the local ladies. Charlotte and Madan soon discover that they can communicate without using words. And as the extreme heat before the impending monsoon paralyzes the town, we learn about both of their lives: Charlotte’s frigid youth and the early death of her husband, Madan’s hard life on the streets and the discovery of his talent, and how their paths have crossed before . . .

THREES ANNA is a writer and director of film and the­ atre. She is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, and her debut film, The Birds Can’t Fly, premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. She is current­ FICTION/LITERARY ly working on the film adaptation of her novel The Silent 978-0-88784-257-3 City. She lives in the Netherlands. eISBN: 978-1-77089-047-3 5.25 x 8 • 400 pages Trade paperback w/flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC019000 RIGHTS HELD: English Canada RIGHTS SOLD: Italy, Spain, and Germany

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 31 11-04-19 3:51 PM March Pup p y Love Frauke Scheunemann Translated by Shelley Frisch

“Original, hilariously funny, and moving; in short, this is top entertainment.” — Für Sie

Hercules is a dachshund, rescued from the animal shelter by the sweet and loving Caroline. Life for this little dog would be perfect if it weren’t for Caroline’s new boyfriend, Thomas. Hercules and his new friend, Mr. Beck — a tomcat and a good judge of human nature — devise a shrewd plot to get rid of Thomas and to find a new companion for Caroline. But when things don’t work out with the men who make the dachshund’s shortlist — no matter how many romantic moonlight strolls he gets Caroline to take with them — it comes down to just one man they both might agree on . . .

FRAUKE SCHEUNEMANN was born in Düsseldorf in 1969. She received her doctorate in law, then com­ pleted her training at North German Broadcasting and worked as a journalist and press spokesperson. She has been writing full time since 2002, and has published a FICTION/HUMOROUS series of highly successful novels with her sister under the 978-1-77089-018-3 collective pseudonym “Anne Hertz.” She lives with her eISBN: 978-1-77089-056-5 husband and their four children in Hamburg, Germany. 5.43 x 8.5 • 288 pages Trade paperback w/ flaps • $22.95 BISAC: FIC016000 SHELLEY FRISCH has translated numerous books, including biographies of Nietzsche, Kafka, and Einstein. RIGHTS HELD: Canada She serves on the PEN American Center Translation marketing notes Committee, and is the recipient of the Modern Language • ARCs Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize. • National reviews and media attention • Co-op available • Online promotions 32

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 33 11-04-19 3:51 PM February T he Wild Beasts of Wuhan An Ava Lee Novel Ian Hamilton

“[Ian] Hamilton has created a marvellous character in Ava Lee.” — Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

In The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Uncle and Ava are summoned by Wong Changxing, “The Emperor of Hubei” and one of the most powerful men in China, when he discovers that the Fauvist paintings he recently acquired are in fact forgeries. Ava uncovers a ring of fraudulent art dealers and fol­ lows their twisted trail to the Netherlands, the Faroe Islands, Dublin, London, and New York. But the job is further complicated by Wong’s second wife, the cunning and seductive May Ling, who threatens to interfere in Ava’s investigation. Will Ava find the perpetrators and get the Wongs’ money back? Or will May Ling get to them first . . .

IAN HAMILTON is the author of The Water Rat of Wan- chai and The Disciple of Las Vegas, the first two Ava Lee novels. He has worked as a journalist, a senior executive with the federal government, a diplomat, and a business­ FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ man with international links. WOMEN SLEUTHS 978-0-88784-253-5 Also available

eISBN: 978-1-77089-053-4 The Water Rat of Wanchai The Disciple of Las Vegas 5.25 x 8 • 400 pages 978-0-88784-251-1 978-0-88784-252-8 Trade paperback • $19.95 eISBN: 978-0-88784-335-8 • $19.95 eISBN: 978-1-77089-030-5 • $19.95 BISAC: FIC022040 Coming in July The Red Pole of Macau RIGHTS HELD: World 978-0-88784-254-2 eISBN: 978-1-77089-059-6 • $19.95 RIGHTS SOLD: English UK and Com- monwealth, excl. Canada (Sphere, marketing notes Little Brown), The Netherlands (Mouria), France (Editions 10/18, • Author appearances • ARCs Univers Poche), Spain (Umbriel), • National reviews and • Co-op available and Germany (Kein + Aber) media attention • Online promotions 34

Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 34 11-04-19 3:51 PM February T he Water Rat of Wanchai An Ava Lee Novel Ian Hamilton

Now in mass market paperback with a new series look, the critically acclaimed debut novel in Ian Hamilton’s exciting crime fiction series, starring Ava Lee.

Forensic accountant sAva Lee i hot on the trail of $5 million in a seafood deal gone bad. At 5’3” and 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat, but her razor-sharp intelligence and mastery of a deadly martial art make her an unlikely enforcer. Travelling across continents, she lands in Guyana where she meets her match in Captain Robbins, a godfather-like figure who wants a piece of Ava’s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . . .

“[A] globe-hopping crime thriller. [Ava Lee’s] lethal knowledge . . . torques up her sex appeal to the approxi­ mate level of a female lead in a Quentin Tarantino film.” — National Post

“A tomb-raiding Dragon Lady Lisbeth . . .” — Winnipeg Free Press

FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ “If the other novels [in the series] are half as good as this WOMEN SLEUTHS debut by Ian Hamilton, then readers are going to cele­ 978-0-88784-265-8 brate.” — Globe and Mail eISBN: 978-0-88784-335-8 4.375 x 7 • 424 pages Mass market paperback • $11.99 BISAC: FIC022040

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 35 11-04-19 3:51 PM August Ev il in Return A Mark Tartaglia Mystery Elena Forbes

Now available in mass market paperback, the third instalment in Elena Forbes’ highly acclaimed Mark Tartaglia mystery series.

Bestselling novelist Joe Logan’s body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt at the Bromp­ ton Cemetery in London. He has been tied up, shot, and castrated. Detective Mark Tartaglia is convinced that Logan’s personal life holds the key to his violent death. But when the body of a second man is found in an old boathouse on the Thames — killed in an identical fashion — Tartaglia and the murder squad must find the link between the two dead men before the killer strikes again.

ELENA FORBES is the author of the Mark Tartaglia Mystery Series. The first novel in the series, Die with Me, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award; and the second nov­ el, Our Lady of Pain, was a Globe and Mail Top 10 Crime Book and a National Post pick for Best Crime Fiction. She lives in London, England, with her husband and children. FICTION/MYSTERY & DETECTIVE/ GENERAL “. . . superb . . . the third instalment in the excellent Mark 978-0-88784-264-1 Tartaglia series [is] the best to date.” eISBN: 978-0-88784-281-8 — Globe and Mail 4.375 x 7 • 416 pages Mass market paperback • $11.99 “. . . tautly written, with the race against time expertly BISAC: FIC022000 handled . . . compelling.” — Guardian RIGHTS HELD: Canada OTHER RIGHTS: Lutyens and Also available Rubenstein Die With Me Our Lady of Pain 978-0-88784-262-7 978-0-88784-263-4 eISBN: 978-1-77089-025-1 eISBN: 978-1-77089-026-8 marketing notes $11.99 $11.99 • National media mailing • Co-op available 36

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 37 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthSeptember FTITLEar to Go Subtitle AuthorAlison N aPicmek

Lead“Pick quotespins a— mesmerizing credit story, threading the personal with the political, the mysterious with the factual. It’s a page-turner.” — Toronto Star

Far to Go is the powerful and profoundly moving story of Pavel and Anneliese Bauer, affluent, secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia in 1939. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his be­ loved nanny, Marta. Pepik manages to secure a place on a Kindertransport, but he never sees his parents or Marta again. It is only through a mysterious present-day narrator that the un­ expected fates of each of the Bauers are slowly revealed. Inspired by Alison Pick’s own grand­ parents, who fled their native Czechoslovakia for Canada during the Second World War, Far to Go is a deeply personal and beautifully written story about one ordinary family’s extraordi­ nary journey.

FIC TION/LITERARY 978-0-88784-295-5 eISBN: 978-0-88784-277-1 RGTI H S HELD: North America 5.25 x 8 • 328 pages RIGHTS SOLD: U.S. (HarperCollins), U.K. Trade paperback • $18.95 (Headline), The Netherlands (A.W. Bruna), BISAC: FIC019000 Italy (Sperling & Kupfer)

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 38 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month TITLE Subtitle Author Name

Lead quote —A creditLISON PICK was the 2002 PRAISE FOR ALISON PICK AND Bronwen Wallace Award FAR TO GO winner for the most promis­ ing writer under thirty-five WINNER, WORDS WORTHY AWARD in Canada. She has published FINALIST, ONTARIO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD two acclaimed volumes of FINALIST, CBC BOOKIES: BEST OVERALL BOOK poetry, and her writing has appeared widely in magazines, including The Walrus, e , nRoute“Clean, crisp, and unencumbered . . . deftly and Toronto Life. Her 2005 novel, The Sweet structured . . . the storytelling is seamless.” Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and — Steven Galloway, Globe and Mail was optioned for film. Currently on faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts Wired Writing “[A] fast-paced, suspenseful, moving, unique Studio, Alison Pick lives in Toronto with her . . . complex, multi-dimensional, and memor­ family. able.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“A poignant work that brims with feeling . . . compelling . . . Pick’s gorgeous writing is to be savoured.” — Quill & Quire

marketing notes “Weaving Czech history with a contempo­ rary mystery, Far to Go shows terrific craft and • Author appearances emotional intelligence. A winner.” • Book club outreach at www.anansi.ca — NOW Magazine • Book club questions available in the book • National media mailing “Alison Pick has crafted a powerful story.” • Co-op available — Guelph Mercury

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 39 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthSeptember T TITLEesSA and Scott O Subtitleur Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold Author Name T esSA Virtue and Scott Moir As told to Steve Milton

Lead“A must quote-have — for credit fans of all ages . . . Virtue and Moir’s honesty and vulnerability elevate this biography to a collectible.” — International Figure Skating Magazine

Now available in a stunning new paper­ back edition, world champion ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir share the incredible and inspiring story that led to their history-making gold-medal performance at the 2010 Winter Games. From the pair’s first meeting in 1995 to their rapid rise on the international circuit, to their spellbinding performance at Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum on February, 22, 2010, which established them as icons of the sport, this lav­ ishly illustrated book is as much a spectacular visual history as it is a behind-the-scenes look at the ascent of two of the world’s premier athletes.

BIH OGRAP Y & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/SPORTS 978-0-88784-297-9 8.3 x 10.75 • 192 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: BIO016000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 40 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month TITLE Subtitle Author Name

Lead quote —T EcreditSSA VIRTUE AND SCOTT PRAISE FOR TE SSA AND SCOTT MOIR won the 2010 Olympic gold medal in ice dancing. “Richly illustrated . . . Skating fans won’t be They are also the 2010 World disappointed.” — Detroit Free Press champions, the 2008 Four Continents champions, the “A fitting and visually beautiful tribute.” 2006 World Junior champi­ — Winnipeg Free Press ons, and the 2008–10 Cana­ dian National champions. “Boasting plentiful colour photos of the two­ They received the first per­ some — many from their families’ own collec­ fect score for ice dancing tions — Tessa and Scott reads like the perfect under the International Skat­ road map for anyone remotely interested in ing Union (ISU) Judging System, and are the knowing just what it takes for an ice dance current world record score holders for the team to make it to the top . . . Tessa and Scott is original dance. As of September 2010, they are sure to be appreciated by skating fans world­ ranked fourth in the world by the ISU. wide, but I imagine it will cause Canadian readers to rejoice most of all.” ­— Skate of the STEVE MILTON is a sportswriter who has Skate covered six Winter Olympics and more than a dozen World Figure Skating Championships. He is the author of nine figure skating books, including Figure Skating’s Greatest Stars and Figure Skating Now.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 41 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthOctober OTITLEne Bird’s Choice ASubtitle Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed TAuthorwenty-Something Name Who Moves Back Home Iain Reid

Lead“A laugh quote-out —-loud credit comic memoir . . . [Iain] Reid finds humour and warmth in unexpected places.” — Maclean’s

Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, un­ deremployed twenty-something who moves back in with his lovable but eccentric parents on their hobby farm. But what starts out as a temporary arrangement turns into a year-long extended stay, in which Iain finds himself fight­ ing with the farm fowl, taking fashion advice from the elderly, fattening up on home-cooked food, and ultimately easing (perhaps a little too comfortably) into the semi-retired lifestyle. Hilarious and heartwarming, One Bird’s Choice is an endearingly funny comic memoir that bridges the divide between the Boomer and Boomerang generations.

BIH OGRAP Y & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ PERSONAL MEMOIRS 978-0-88784-298-6 eISBN: 978-0-88784-283-2 5.25 x 8 • 288 pages Trade paperback • $18.95 BISAC: BIO026000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 42 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month TITLE Subtitle Author Name

Lead quote —I AcreditIN REID has written for PRAISE FOR IAIN REID AND several CBC Radio shows. His ONE BIRD’S CHOICE work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, WINNER, CBC BOOKIE AWARD FOR NONFICTION the Iceland Review Online, and Atlantica magazine. H l “[A]n eives entertaining memoir that will keep read­ in Kingston. ers engaged and laughing. Reid’s writing is both memorable and humbling . . . Readers will be glad to have read this book. One Bird’s Choice is something each generation can relate to.” — San Francisco Book Review

“Reid’s writing is engaging and humorous, particularly in his well-drawn portraits of his parents and a hideous and possessive guinea fowl named Lucius . . . [Reid] examines the ebb and flow of his parents’ lives with the eye of a social psychologist.” — Winnipeg Free Press

marketing notes “Reid sends [his parents] — and himself — up on virtually every page with gentle but hilari­ • Author appearances ous humour that had me chortling without a • National media mailing break . . . It’s hard to write humour, and it’s not • Co-op available easy to sum it up, either. But Reid might yet be to Lilac Hill what one Stephen Leacock was to Orillia.” — Montreal Gazette

“[A] funny, poignant memoir . . . hilarious, absurd, and sweet.” — Kingstonist

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 43 11-04-19 3:51 PM March Pi geon English Stephen Kelman

“It seems hard to believe this is the author’s first book. Filled with energy, humour, and compassion, Pigeon English is a gut-wrenchingly sad novel that makes you laugh out loud.” — Guardian

Now available in paperback, the critically ac­ claimed international sensation that follows a year in the life of eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investiga­ tion of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try to keep them safe.

STEPHEN KELMAN was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local gov­ ernment administration. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is currently working on his second. He lives in Bed­ fordshire, England. FICTION/LITERARY 978-1-77089-031-2 “. . . a tour de force . . . Funny and poignant, Pigeon Eng- eISBN: 978-1-77089-023-7 lish is fired with an uncontainable spirit, a rare distillate of 6 x 9.25 • 288 pages boyhood optimism and adult wisdom.” — Maclean’s Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: FIC019000 “. . . horrifying, tender, and funny . . . Pigeon English will be read by millions.” — Telegraph

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 45 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthOctober ITITLEnstead of a Book LettersSubtitle to a Friend Author Name Diana Athill

LeadThirty quote years — of credit wit, wisdom, gossip, and intimacy from Diana Athill, one of the UK’s bestselling and best-loved authors, in the first collection of her letters ever to be published.

Written in an even more vivid and di­ rect style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill’s letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty, and a passionate zest for life. This intimate correspondence spanning thirty years covers her final years as an editor at Andre Deutsch, her retirement and immer­ sion in her own writing, her growing fame and encroaching old age, and gives a fascinating insight into a life fully lived. Edited, selected, and introduced by Diana Athill, and annotated with her own delight­ ful notes, this funny, revealing and immensely readable collection will bring enormous plea­ sure to her readers.

BIH OGRAP Y & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ PERSONAL MEMOIRS 978-1-84708-412-5 6.25 x 9.25 • 304 pages Hardcover • $29.95 BISAC: BIO026000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 46 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month TITLE Subtitle Author Name

Lead quote —D creditIANA ATHILL was born PRAISE FOR DIANA ATHILL AND in 1917. She helped Andre S OmeWHere TOWARDS THE END Deutsch establish the pub­ lishing company that b h “Athill oreis has rendered her entire life via stories name and worked as an editor as compelling as the best fiction.” — Maclean’s for Deutsch for four decades. Athill’s distinguished career as an editor is the “[A] literary star.” — Globe and Mail subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five “Somewhere Towards the End is restorative. And volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a it makes one wish to live as long as Athill, if at Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Some- 89 one possesses her clarity, wry humour, and where Towards the End, and a novel, Don’t Look pluck.” — Montreal Gazette at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards “[S]mart, funny and joyous.” — Geist the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London. Also available IN OCTOBER

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• National media mailing Instead of a Letter • Co-op available 978-1-84708-428-6 Trade paperback • $19.95

Yesterday Morning 978-1-84708-426-2 Trade paperback • $19.95

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 47 11-04-19 3:51 PM September Finding George Orwell in Burma Emma Larkin

“Larkin’s reportage on Burma is every bit as fascinating as Orwell’s Burmese essays of the 1930s . . . a superb account of life in Burma’s exotic tragi-comedy.” — Observer

In this intrepid and brilliant memoir, Emma Lar­ kin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma’s underground teahouse intellectu­ als call simply “the prophet.” In stirring, insightful prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world’s least free countries. Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world’s grimmest and most shuttered dictator­ ships, where the term “Orwellian” aptly describes the life endured by the country’s people. First released in 2005, this book is regarded as a classic of reportage and travel and a crucial book for anyone interested in Burma and George Orwell.

EMMA LARKIN is an American writer who was born, raised, and still lives in Asia. She studied the Burmese langauge at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has been visiting Burma for more than 15 TRAVEL/ESSAYS & TRAVELOGUES years. She is also the author of Everything is Broken. 978-1-84708-402-6 5 x 8 • 240 pages “This is one of those rare books, a beautifully crafted Trade paperback • $21.95 account of a journey which actually takes the reader BISAC: TRV010000 somewhere new and unusual. Emma Larkin did not just go searching for Orwell, she found him.” — Jon Lee Anderson

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 48 11-04-19 3:51 PM September T intin And The Secret Of Literature Tom McCarthy

“Entertaining insights into one of the most celebrated of all comic strips.” — Independent

Hergé’s Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a simple question: is Tintin literature? What emerges is a remarkable story of hushed-up royal descent in both Hergé’s work and his own family history. McCarthy shows how the themes this story gener­ ates — expulsion from home, violation of the sacred, the host-guest relationship turned sour, and anxieties around questions of forgery and fakeness — are the same that have fuelled and troubled writers from the classical era to the present day. His startling conclusion is that Tintin’s ultimate “secret” is that of literature itself. Appearing on the eve of the release of a major Steven Spielberg Tintin film, Tintin and the Secret of Literature should be avidly devoured by not only Tintin lovers but also by anyone with an interest in literature, philosophy, or art. LITERARY CRITICISM/ CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TOM MCCARTHY is a prolific artist and writer. His lat­ 978-1-84708-422-4 est novel, C, was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker 5 x 8 • 240 pages Prize. Tom McCarthy lives in London. Trade paperback • $21.95 BISAC: LIT009000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 49 11-04-19 3:51 PM September Scp a egoat Why We Are Failing Disabled People Katharine Quarmby

A groundbreaking portrait of the way our society treats some of its most disadvantaged members.

Every few months there’s a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby looks behind the headlines to trace the history of disability and our discomfort with disabled people, from Greek and Roman culture through the Industrial Revolution, the Holocaust, and the modern disability rights movement. Combining fascinating examples from history with tenacious investigation and powerful first person inter­ views, Scapegoat will change the way we think about disability — and about the changes we must make as a society to ensure that disabled people are seen as equal citizens, worthy of respect, not targets for taunting, tor­ ture and attack.

KATHARINE QUARMBY is a campaigning journalist and an award-winning filmmaker, as well as an associate editor at Prospect magazine. She has written for the Econo- mist, Sunday Times, Telegraph, and Guardian and was the SOCIAL SCIENCE/ first British journalist to investigate disability hate crime. PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES This is her first book for adults. 978-1-84627-321-6 6.25 x 9.25 • 288 pages Trade paperback • $24.95 BISAC: SOC029000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 50 11-04-19 3:51 PM February T he Sky Wept Fire M y Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter Mikail Eldin Translated by Anna Gunin

A lyrical and searing account of life on the front-line of the wars between the Russian state and the Chechen people.

On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naïve arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war report­ er and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a concentration camp. Eldin was fated to witness key events in Chechnya’s history: from the first day of the attack on Grozny, and the full-scale Russian invasion that followed it, to the siege of Grozny five years later that razed the city to the ground. Yet it is not merely the story of the battle for Chechnya: this is the story of the battle within the heart, the struggle to conquer fear, hold on to faith and preserve one’s humanity.

MIKAIL ELDIN worked as a journalist, before taking up arms himself in the conflict with Russia. He eventually left Chechnya in fear for his life and secured political asy­ lum in Norway, where he now lives.

ANNA GUNIN has translated plays for the Royal Court, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ co-translated a film, and her translations of short stories PERSONAL MEMOIRS and poems have appeared in various journals and antholo­ 978-1-84627-318-6 gies. She is also the translator of German Sadulaev’s novel 6.25 x 9.25 • 304 pages I am a Chechen!. Trade paperback • $24.95 BISAC: BIO026000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 51 11-04-19 3:51 PM MonthAugust CaaTITLEes rion Subtitle AuthorTommy N aWmeieringa Translated by Sam Garrett

LeadWith quotecelebrity — creditparents and a prodigious gift for music, Ludwig seemed destined for greatness. So how come he’s still living with his mother and watching his life — and his talent — ebb away?

In the port of Alexandria, a very long time ago, Julius Caesar impregnated and then abandoned Cleopatra. The child of their union — groomed for greatness by his devoted mother but destined for tragedy — was called Caesa­ rion. Little Caesar. In our time, another boy, Ludwig, is born in Alexandria and again the father flees the scene of the birth. His mother, Marthe, is stormy, impetuous, and vain. She will not rest until she finds their ideal home — which needs to be both dramatic and cheap. And so Ludwig and his mother end up on a clifftop in Suffolk in a house being eaten by woodworm and erod­ ed by waves. A page-turning exploration of the power of the absent parent versus the power of the too-present parent, Caesarion is a beautiful, strong, and brave novel. It confirms Tommy Wieringa as a storyteller of great range and real distinction.

FIC TION/LITERARY 978-1-84627-253-0 6 x 8.5 • 336 pages Trade paperback • $24.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 52 11-04-19 3:51 PM Month TITLE Subtitle Author Name

Lead quote —T OMMYcredit WIERINGA was PRAISE FOR TOMMY WIERINGA born in 1967 and grew up AND JESPO EEDBOAT partly in the Netherlands, partly in the tropics. H b “. eegan . . a brilliant coming-of-age story with an his writing career with travel outlandish twist . . . this wonderfully weird stories and journalism and is novel is not one to miss.” — Publishers Weekly the author of three previous novels, includ­ ing Joe Speedboat. He lives in Watergang, “A wonderfully eccentric and uproariously Netherlands. funny novel.” — Books Quarterly

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Joe Speedboat 978-1-84627-104-5 Trade paperback • $16.95

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 53 11-04-19 3:51 PM August C hattering Stories Louise Stern

“Louise Stern writes stories about young men and women on the edge, stories that stay in your head long after you have finished reading them . . . Chattering is utterly compelling.” — Observer

Louise Stern’s stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communi­ cate with the outside world via a complicated mixture of sign language, lip-reading, note-scribbling, guesswork, and instinct. Yet they are full of daring, ready for adven­ tures that take them into unfamiliar places and strange, cock-eyed relationships with people whose actions they observe but never wholly understand. It is this sense of dislocation from common experience that marks out Louise Stern’s original voice. Her eyes are keen; she notices things we would never see; she is quick to judge, wary, suspicious and vulnerable. She experienc­ es the world like a voyeur, always watching, yet able to retreat to an interior silence that nobody from the outside can ever reach.

LOUISE STERN grew up in Freemont, California, the FICTION/SHORT STORIES fourth generation deaf in her family. She has lived in 978-1-84708-177-3 London for eight years. She works for Sam Taylor-Wood 5 x 8 • 208 pages and is the founder and publisher of Maurice, a contempo­ Trade paperback • $18.95 rary art magazine for children. BISAC: FIC029000

“Wry, deceptively gauche, and gets better with each piece.” — Guardian

marketing notes “An intriguing, insightful and refreshing debut collection • National media mailing of short stories.” — Big Issue • Co-op available

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 54 11-04-19 3:51 PM August Diamond Star Halo Tiffany Murray

“A beautiful, pitch-perfect harmony of Wuthering Heights and your favourite mix tape.” — Owen Sheers, author of Resistance

Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he’s special. As the golden child grows into the gilded man, she remains dazzled by his ambition and his talent. Up on stage, being screamed at by hundreds of teenage girls, Fred will always turn his spotlight on Halo in the crowd. But that’s the problem with falling in love with your char­ ismatic almost-brother — it can never be a secret. In the end, the whole world has to know.

TIFFANY MURRAY studied at University of East Anglia and has taught Creative Writing there, and at universities of Bath, Manchester, Arvon and, most recently, Wales. Her first novel, Happy Accidents, was also shortlisted for the Bollinger/Wodehouse Prize, and in 2005 she received an Arts Council Award. She lives in the Welsh Marches.

“Heartfelt writing . . . it fizzes. If Murray’s debut was a FICTION/LITERARY psychedelic nod towards Stella Gibbons, in this one she 978-1-84627-208-0 proves herself the glam-rock Dodie Smith.” — Guardian 5 x 8 • 400 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 “A touching family chronicle with an impeccable BISAC: FIC019000 soundtrack, this is Cider With Rosie for rock ‘n’ rollers.” — Mark Radcliffe

“Will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.” marketing notes — Independent • National media mailing • Co-op available

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 55 11-04-19 3:51 PM August M y Friend Jesus Christ Lars Husum Translated by Mette Petersen

“Fearless, funny, life-affirming . . . a startling novel.” — Guardian

Having lost his parents at an early age, Niko has always looked to his older sister for protection. So when she starts wanting a life of her own, Niko tries everything he can think of to keep her attention, taking ever-greater risks with his life and the lives of others — until the day it ends in a tragedy. On returning to his flat after the grim event, Niko finds an uninvited biker sitting on his sofa. Big, bearded, and boldy asserting that he is Jesus, the biker gently but firmly advises Niko to clean up his act. And Niko does what he’s told, with surprising con­ sequences . . .

Born in West Jutland, Denmark in 1974, LARS HUSUM has written for the screen and directed films. This is his first book.

“A remarkable tragicomic tale about trust and friendship and how individual actions dictate the lives around you. Arresting.” — Financial Times FICTION/LITERARY 978-1-84627-210-3 “Effervescent, character-driven, spare of style, occasion­ 5 x 8 • 336 pages ally shocking and often darkly funny.” — List Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: FIC019000

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 56 11-04-19 3:51 PM October T he Tea Lords Hella S. Haasse Translated by INA RILKE

“A graceful, marvellously achieved improvisation that only a novelist of the greatest imagination and sympathy could have written.” — Guardian

Rudolf leaves his comfortable origins in Delft by ship for Java to help run the family’s estates there. He moves from plantation to plantation, attempting to un­ derstand the ways of the local peoples, their version of Islam and their relationship to their land. On a visit to the capital, Jakarta, he falls in love with a teenage girl, Jenny, who he courts and eventually marries. They make a hard colonist-couple’s life theirs and bear, lose, and raise children, before Jenny on her visit to the home country discovers all the comforts of which she has been deprived in Java. Back at the plantation homestead, as the back- breaking work of establishing and maintaining business takes its toll on Rudolf, Jenny becomes estranged from him, and the bitter resentments of relatives eat at her un­ til a terrible solution is achieved.

HELLA S. HAASSE has received several prestigious liter­ ary awards, including the Dutch Literature Prize, and her work has been translated into many languages. The Tea FICTION/LITERARY Lords is her first work translated into English for 15 years. 978-1-84627-171-7 5 x 8 • 352 pages INA RILKE translates Dutch, Flemish, and French litera­ Trade paperback • $19.95 ture. She has won the Vondel Translation Prize, the Scott BISAC: FIC019000 Moncrieff Prize, and the Flemish Culture Prize for liter­ ary translation.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 57 11-04-19 3:51 PM November Mf onk ish Moon Reef Romesh Gunesekera

MONF K ISH MOON Romesh Gunesekera “These sad, spare stories illustrate the shocking fragility of the whole modern world.” — New York Times

This vivid and haunting short story collection flows smoothly together to create a masterful portrait of contemporary Sri Lanka; a country of teeming natural beauty, with a society in turmoil. A married couple living in London finds their marriage strained by fighting in their far- off homeland. A man mourns his brother’s death. A woman regrets the lover she left behind. Between exile and loss, Gunesekera’s characters struggle for the elusive and divided place that they call home.

FICTION/Short Stories 978-1-84708-418-7 5 x 8 • 352 pages Trade paperback • $21.95 BISAC: FIC029000 REEF Romesh Gunesekera “A sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read.” — Times

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father’s home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island’s disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood mem­ ories — a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil — and brings us to understand how he has navigated this brave new world, which once lost will haunt him forever. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Reef is a haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise.

ROMEG SH UNESEKERA pngrew u i Sri Lanka and now lives in FICTION/Literary 978-1-84708-420-0 London. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Man Booker 5 x 8 • 352 pages Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and won the Yorkshire Post First Trade paperback • $21.95 BISAC: FIC019000 Work Prize.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 58 11-04-19 3:51 PM G RANTA MAGAZINE Edited by John Freeman

“Quite simply, the most impressive literary magazine of its time.” — Daily Telegraph

Granta 116: Ten Years Later Ten years later, where are we looking? How do we see things differently? From Ground Zero to Kampala to London to Mumbai, we still feel the impact. The way we interact, the way we travel, our relationship to media and technology — all have been irrevocably changed. Showcasing some of the most insightful essayists, fic­ tion writers, poets, and visual artists working today, Ten Years Later will explore the complexity of our perceptions of 9/11. The world changed — but how?

Granta 117: Horror In Rajesh Parameswaran’s short story, a tiger escapes from the zoo and narrates its adventures as it terrorizes a suburban neighbourhood. Nic Dunlop recounts his meeting with a Cambodian mass-murderer who has con­ Granta 116, August 2011 verted to Christianity and attempts to atone for his sins. 978-1-90588-135-2 Mark Doty ruminates on a close encounter between Walt Granta 117, October 2011 Whitman and Bram Stoker, the grandfather of modern 978-1-90588-136-9 horror. All forms of horror — whether they begin in fright LITERARY COLLECTIONS/GENERAL or disgust — involve an extraordinary confrontation. A 7.2 x 4.7 • 256 pages surprise. This issue of Granta will reveal the many ways Trade paperback • $21.95 32pp plate section, 20 illustrations we can be startled into horror. BISAC: LC0000000 VISIT WWW.GRANTA.COM FOR EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 59 11-04-19 3:51 PM November T he Granta Book of the African Short Story Edited by Helon Habila

One of Africa’s most eminent contemporary writers selects 35 short stories by the best African writers, defined as the “post nationalist generation.”

Introducing a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, Helon Habila has focused on younger, newer writers, interspersed with some of their older, more established peers, to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. Disdaining the narrowly nationalist and political pre­ occupations of previous generations, these writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the Internet, the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement around the world. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global, and expansive. These are the stories of a new Africa: punchy, self-confident, and defiant.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 60 11-04-19 3:51 PM November T he New Granta Book of Travel Edited by Liz Jobey Introduction by jonathan raban

Take a journey in the company of some of the world’s finest authors.

Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson, and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the ex­ traordinary and the unexpected. By the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change, as a younger generation of writers who appeared in the magazine made journeys for more complex and often personal reasons. Decca Aitken­ head reported on sex tourism in Thailand and Wendell Steavenson moved to Iraq as foreign correspondent. What all these pieces have in common is a sense of engage­ ment with the places they describe, and a belief that whether we are in Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered.

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Anansi_F11_int_6th_pp.indd 61 11-04-19 3:51 PM November T he Granta Book of the Irish Short Story Edited by Anne Enright

The Man Booker Prize–winning author’s selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, now available in paperback.

Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate in­ troduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of so­ cial change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. There is no truth so telling as a small truth, or so much fun.

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