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We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. NONFICTION MonthSeptember BELONGINGTITLE TheSubtitle Enigma of Citizenship TheAUTHOR 2014 CBCNAME Massey Lectures ADRIENNE CLARKSON

LeadFrom quoteone of — Canada’s credit most respected public ﬁgures comes a thoughtful look at the future of global citizenship.

Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. Do these changes in population present the possibility of a new model for the structures of society? Does the Canadian model, which emphasizes values, immigration, parliamen- tary democracy, and the rule of law, make a ﬁtting model for countries who still deﬁne themselves by religious difference or racial integrity? Can belonging encompass difference, dependence, and dislike, while upholding fundamental human rights? These timely and controversial subjects are at the very essence of former Governor General and bestselling author Adrienne Clarkson’s 2014 Massey Lectures, Belonging: The Enigma of Citizen- ship. Clarkson masterfully chronicles the evolution POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics of citizenship throughout the ages: from the genesis 978-1-77089-837-0 of the idea of citizenship in pre-history, to Aristotle 5 x 8 • 272 pages and the Greeks, to the medieval structures of guilds Trade paperback • $19.95 and class; from the warring factions of the French

978-1-77089-839-4 revolution, to Icelandic law-making tradition, and ePub • $16.95 present-day modern citizenship based on values, consensus, and pluralism. She concludes by looking BISAC: POL003000 forward, vividly imagining what will happen if we don’t live up to our ideals of democracy, identity, and belonging.

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LeadADRIENNE quote CLARKSON — credit became Canada’s 26th PRAISE FOR ADRIENNE CLARKSON AND governor general in 1999 and served until September EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS: NORMAN 2005. She is the bestselling author of Heart Matters: BETHUNE: A Memoir and Room for All of Us: Surprising Stories of Loss and Transformation. In her multifaceted career “[Clarkson’s] strength is her knowledge of Canadian as an accomplished broadcaster and distinguished social, cultural, and political history, into which she public servant, she has received numerous prestigious inserts Bethune . . . Perhaps the most inspired pairing awards and honorary degrees in Canada and abroad. of author and subject in Penguin’s Extraordinary In 2005, she founded The Institute for Canadian Canadians series to date.” — Globe and Mail Citizenship. A Privy Councillor and Companion of the Order of Canada, she lives in Toronto, Ontario. PRAISE FOR ADRIENNE CLARKSON AND HEART MATTERS:

“Clarkson’s affecting tale is more than a rags-to- riches story. It’s a story of race and assimilation and the ascendency of feminism, with many moving lessons about grit, determination, and never looking MARKETING NOTES back.” — Chatelaine

• National tour “A memoir of Clarkson’s interesting and distin- Montreal - October 8 guished life.” — Globe and Mail Halifax - October 14 Saskatoon - October 20 “Clarkson’s account of her six years at Rideau Hall Vancouver - October 22 is fascinating.” — Books in Canada Toronto - October 28 • Major CBC Radio support • National advertising • Twitter@APClarkson • Adrienneclarkson.com • Co-op available

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MARKETING NOTES 3 3 MonthSeptember BOUNDLESSTITLE TracingSubtitle Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage AUTHOR NAME KATHLEEN WINTER

LeadBestselling quote author— credit Kathleen Winter gives us a highly personal account of her journey across the Northwest Passage and a revealing look into the reality of the North today.

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, ar- chaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Bafﬁn Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the North, where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that ﬁve nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. Throughout the journey she also learns from fellow passengers Aaju Peter and Bernadette Dean, who teach her about Inuit society, past and present. She bonds with Nathan Rogers, son of the late Canadian icon Stan Rogers, who died in a plane crash when Nathan was nearly four years old. Nathan’s quest is to take the route his father never travelled, except in his beloved song “The North- west Passage,” which he performs both as anthem and lament at sea. And she guides us through her BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General own personal odyssey, emigrating from England to 978-1-77089-399-3 Canada as a child and discovering both what was 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages lost and what was gained as a result of that journey. Hardcover with jacket • $29.95 In breathtaking prose charged with vivid descriptions of the land and its people, Kathleen 978-1-77089-400-6 Winter’s Boundless is a haunting and powerful story, ePub • $24.95 and a homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North. BISAC: BIO000000 MARKETING NOTES 4 4 Month BOUNDLESS TITLE Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage Subtitle AUTHOR NAME KATHLEEN WINTER

Lead quote —KATHLEEN credit WINTER is PRAISE FOR KATHLEEN WINTER AND the author of the international ANNABEL: bestseller, Annabel, which was a ﬁnalist for the Scotiabank Giller NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE Prize, the Governor General’s SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST Literary Award, the Rogers GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST Orange Prize for Fiction, and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her ﬁrst collection of stories, boys, won both the ORANGE PRIZE FINALIST Winterset Award and the Metcalf–Rooke Award. A CBC CANADA READS FINALIST long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE YEAR now lives in Montreal, Quebec. AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD QUILL & QUIRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

“What Winter has achieved here is no less a miracle . . . Read it because it’s a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, Winter asks, MARKETING NOTES what are we?” — Globe and Mail

• National author tour “I simply want to tell people: read this book . . . It • National media coverage will open you up. It will change you . . . [A] stunning • ARCs available debut novel.” — Ottawa Citizen • Co-op available • Twitter@supremetronic “A beautiful book, lyrical and compelling . . . Annabel’s strength lies in probing the dilemma of sexuality and self-knowledge. I have never read such ALSO AVAILABLE an intimate portrait of a person struggling to live inside a self that the world sees as a dreadful mis- ANNABEL take.” — National Post 978-1-77089-334-4 Trade Paperback • $14.95 “Dramatic, thematically rich . . . [with] skillful prose

. . . An impressive ﬁrst novel.” — Quill & Quire 978-0-88784-276-4 ePub • $14.95 “[A] compelling novel, rich in character and scene.” New York Times Editors’ Choice — Edmonton Journal MARKETING NOTES 5 5 MonthSeptember SLIMTITLE AND NONE MySubtitle Wild Ride From the WHA to the NHL and All the Way to AUTHORHollywood NAME HOWARD BALDWIN WITH STEVE MILTON

LeadSports quote entrepreneur — credit and Academy Award-nominated ﬁlm producer Howard Baldwin recounts his experiences in the worlds of hockey and Hollywood.

Howard Baldwin has had a wild ride. From his bold start as founder of the New England Whalers in the WHA (“slim” and “none” refers to a Boston sportswriter’s assessment of Howard’s chances when he was first awarded the franchise), to his work overseeing the merger of the WHA with the NHL, to winning the Stanley Cup as owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and then on to his success developing and producing major Hollywood films, Howard’s life story is entertaining, inspiring, and full of hockey and entertainment insight. Starting from the age of twenty-eight when he went from his position in the ticket office of the Philadelphia Flyers to acquiring and building his own WHA franchise in New England and winning the inaugural WHA championship, Howard has built an impressive reputation as a maverick in the world of professional hockey. As President of the WHA, Baldwin led the league’s merger with the NHL. He won the Stanley Cup as owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and then developed an historic partnership with the Russian Red Army team in Moscow, rebranding that team as the Russian Penguins. Along the way Baldwin also established BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports himself in Hollywood, producing a number of out- 978-1-77089-363-4 standing films including Mystery, Alaska and the 6 x 9 • 288 pages Academy Award-winning Ray. 16-page colour photo insert Slim and None is a story of perseverance, persis- Hardcover with jacket • $27.95 CAD tence, and ultimately, personal fulfilment. Baldwin $25.95 US and Milton have crafted an intimate portrait of a life within hockey spanning from the rebellious 978-1-77089-364-1 1970s to the tumultuous 1990s and beyond into the ePub • $19.95 exciting world of the movies. MARKETING NOTES BISAC: BIO016000 6 6 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME

Lead quote —HOWARD credit BALDWIN is a EXCERPT sports entrepreneur and film producer. He was co-founder I’ll argue until the end that the WHA changed of the New England Whalers, hockey forever. The reserve clause was gone and president of the WHA, and salaries had soared, so every player now has Gary chairman of the Pittsburgh Pen- Davidson to thank for that. We brought a wide- guins, and is now CEO of RSVP open, exciting European style into the game. We Entertainment. He lives in Los Angeles, Califor- helped Canada double its number of major league nia with his wife and business partner, Karen, who teams. We introduced a number of new markets to worked closely with him on this book. hockey, including some in the Sunbelt. And, thanks to the efforts of Marcel Aubut, we also introduced STEVE MILTON has thirty-five years’ experience regular-season sudden-death overtime, an element as a sportswriter and writes for The Hamilton Spec- that the NHL adapted into their games as well. tator. He has won numerous Ontario Newspaper Players such as Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Awards and has been both a Gemini and National Mike Liut, the Stastnys, Ulf Nilsson, Anders Hed- Newspaper Award finalist. He is the author of more berg, and many others came into the NHL via the than twenty books, including Tessa and Scott: Our WHA. Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold. He lives in The City of Hartford, thanks to the Whalers, Toronto. was to be the only American city to join the NHL as a result of the war between the two leagues. Hartford beat out cities such as San Diego, Phoe- nix, Denver, Indy, Cincinnati and a few others to be part of the NHL. And when the four teams were introduced by the NHL as new “expansion” members, I looked around and realized that of all the people there, the MARKETING NOTES only one who had also been at that first meeting to officially create the WHA . . . was me. • National and Sports Media • Targeted advertising in hockey publications • Online ad campaign • Extensive Social Media advertising

MARKETING NOTES 7 7 MonthAugust SPINTITLE HowSubtitle Politics Has the Power to Turn Marketing on Its Head AUTHOR NAME CLIVE VERONI

LeadA groundbreaking quote — credit work of nonﬁction that merges political strategy with consumer marketing.

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni’s Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer marketing. In the early twentieth century political operatives did their work in the backroom, a shady place of secret deals and dark arts. By the middle of the century, the politicos were heading to Madison Avenue to learn the techniques of mass communication and persuasion. Today, they have moved from the dim light of the backroom to the bright lights of the war room, the central command for political campaigns. And along the way the pupil has surpassed the teacher. Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Forward-thinking marketers are now adopting these techniques to convince con- sumers to buy their products. The strategies being used to inﬂuence our choices at the ballot box will soon be used to inﬂuence our choices in the grocery store. Drawing on political and marketing stories BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General from North America and Europe, Spin gives read- 978-1-77089-317-7 ers an insider’s view of this stunning turnaround. 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages The book focuses on well-known characters from Trade paperback • $19.95 the worlds of politics and marketing and reveals how all of us will be affected by the surprising new 978-1-77089-318-4 ways in which companies will try to persuade us to ePub • $16.95 vote for their brands.

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LeadCLIVE quoteVERONI — is credita leading marketing strategist. EXCERPT He is a consultant on brand positioning, marketing strategies, new product development, and adver- In the early twentieth century political operatives tising to a wide variety of blue-chip clients across did their work in the backroom, a shady place of North America. In 1999, he founded Leap Consult- secret deals and dark arts. By the middle of the cen- ing, and prior to that he had a successful advertising tury, the politicos were heading to Madison Avenue career that included working on the launch of the to learn the techniques of mass communication and IBM PS2 and the launch of the Apple “Think Dif- persuasion. Today, they have moved from the dim ferent” campaign in Canada. He lives in Toronto, light of the backroom to the bright lights of the Ontario. war room, the central command for political campaigns. And along the way the pupil has surpassed the teacher. Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. The strategies being used to inﬂu- ence our choices at the ballot box will soon be used to inﬂuence our choices in the grocery store. We are in the midst of a sea change, Veroni says, from the end of mass marketing as we know it to the democ- MARKETING NOTES ratization of communication which means what you say is less important than how you say it. Finally he • National author tour analyzes the inner workings of campaign organi- • National media coverage zations versus marketing departments to show the • ARCs available contrast in how they build and motivate teams, and • Co-op available how they approach strategic and future planning. • Twitter@CliveVeroni Drawing on political and marketing stories from North America and Europe, Spin reveals how all of us will be affected by the surprising new ways in which companies will try to persuade us to vote for their brands.

MARKETING NOTES 9 9 MonthNovember TITLEDOES STATE SURVEILLANCE MAKE USSubtitle SAFER? TheAUTHOR Munk NAMEDebate on the Surveillance State MICHAEL HAYDEN AND ALAN DERSHOWITZ (PRO) VS. GLENN GREENWALD AND ALEXIS OHANIAN (CON)

Lead“The quotemore you— credit know about someone, the more you can control and manipu- late them in all sorts of ways. That is one reasons a surveillance state is so menacing to basic political liberties.” — Glenn Greenwald

Does government surveillance keep us safe? The thirteenth Munk Debate, to be held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pits Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glen Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment. In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconven- tional threats — but is it justified? For some, the threats more than justify the current surveillance system, and the laws and institutions of democracies are more than capable of balancing the needs of individual privacy with collective security. But for others, we are in peril of sacrificing to a vast and unaccountable state surveillance apparatus the civil liberties that guarantee citizens’ basic freedoms and our democratic way of life. In this edition of the Munk Debates, former head of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz square off against journalist Glenn Greenwald and reddit co- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & founder Alexis Ohanian to debate the legitimacy International) of state surveillance. With issues of Internet pri- 978-1-77089-841-7 vacy increasingly gaining prominence, the Munk 5 x 8 • 128 pages Debate on State Surveillance asks: Should govern- Trade paperback • $14.95 ment be able to monitor our activities in order to keep us safe? 978-1-77089-842-4 ePub • $12.95

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LeadMICHAEL quote HAYDEN — credit is a retired four-star general ALSO AVAILABLE who served as director of the CIA, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), and chief of the ARE MEN OBSOLETE? Central Service (CSS). General Hayden has also The Munk Debate on Gender served as the principal deputy director of national Hanna Rosin & Maureen Dowd vs. intelligence, the highest-ranking military intelli- Caitlin Moran & Camille Paglia gence officer in America. 978-1-77089-451-8 Paperback / $14.95 ALAN DERSHOWITZ is considered one of 978-1-77089-452-5 ePub / $12.95 America’s preeminent civil liberties lawyers. Until SHOULD WE TAX THE RICH MORE? his retirement in December 2013, Dershowitz was The Munk Debate on Economic the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Inequality Law School. He has published over one thousand Paul Krugman & George Papandreou vs. Newt Gingrich & Arthur Laffer articles in magazines, newspapers, journals, and blogs, and is the author of thirty fiction and non- 978-1-77089-421-1 Paperback / $14.95 fiction books. 978-1-77089-422-8 ePub / $12.95

CAN THE WORLD TOLERATE AN IRAN GLENN GREENWALD is an award-winning WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS? investigative journalist and columnist for First Look The Munk Debate on Iran Media. Formerly a constitutional and civil lawyer, Amos Yadlin & Charles Krauthammer vs. Fareed Zakaria & Vali Nasr he is he author of three New York Times bestselling books, including How Would a Patriot Act? and With 978-1-77089-236-1 Paperback / $14.95 Liberty and Justice for Some. 978-1-77089-237-8 ePub / $12.95

HAS THE EUROPEAN ALEXIS OHANIAN is a serial Internet entre- EXPERIMENT FAILED? preneur and co-founder of reddit, the social news The Munk Debate on Europe website used by over 100 million people each Niall Ferguson & Josef Joffe vs. Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Peter Mandelson month. He is also the author of the national bestseller Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century 978-1-77089-228-6 Paperback / $14.95 Will Not Be Managed. 978-1-77089-229-3 ePub / $12.95 NORTH AMERICA’S LOST DECADE? The Munk Debate on the North American Economy MARKETING NOTES Paul Krugman & David Rosenberg vs. Lawrence Summers & Ian Bremmer

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THE FOUR WALLS OF MY FREEDOM DONNA THOMSON “A clear-eyed look at the value of a life . . . What if a life was not judged by its monetary worth or possible economic benefits to society, but as a series of complex and rewarding relationships?” — Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe and Mail “A wonderful book which is inspiring, informative, and deeply encouraging.” — Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen LUCKY DOG DR. SARAH BOSTON “What a remarkable book — both howlingly funny and deeply moving. This vet- erinary oncologist’s story of looking after dogs and other animals, and looking after herself after her own cancer diagnosis, taught me volumes about illness, healthcare, and love.” — Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club BEYOND INTELLIGENCE Secrets For Raising Happily Productive Kids DONA MATTHEWS AND JOANNE FOSTER “The text is an enjoyable read: gifted educators and teachers will find this book a valu- able addition to their personal libraries.” — Roeper Review “Here is a book that is rich, real, readable, respectful, researched, refreshing — an excellent resource.” — New Jersey Association for Gifted Children BIRDING WITH YEATS A Memoir LYNN THOMSON “Written with tenderness and deceptive simplicity, this is a memoir that is not just about bird watching but also about how we carve silent places of understanding with the people for whom we care. I loved this book.” — Rachel Joyce, author of The Un- likely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry “This book is a song to the patient and present — bird watchers, booksellers, wise children, and certain rare parents — and to those who aspire to join them, even briefly, as they observe and bear witness.” — Miranda Hill, author of Sleeping Funny

12 FICTION MonthSeptember GIRLTITLE RUNNER ASubtitle Novel AUTHOR NAME CARRIE SNYDER

LeadThe long-awaited quote — credit debut novel by Carrie Snyder and runaway hit of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Girl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete who was famous in the 1920s, but now, at age 104, lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. For Aga- netha, a competitive and ambitious woman, her life remains present and unfinished in her mind. When her quiet life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha begins to reflect on her childhood in rural Ontario and her struggles to make an independent life for herself in the city. Without revealing who they are, or what they may want from her, the visitors take Aganetha on an outing from the nursing home. As ready as ever for adventure, Aganetha’s memories are stirred when the pair return her to the family farm where she was raised. The devastation of WWI and the Span- ish flu epidemic, the optimism of the 1920s and the sacrifices of the 1930s play out in Aganetha’s mind, as she wrestles with the confusion and displacement of the present. Part historical page-turner, part contemporary mystery, Girl Runner is an engaging and endear- ing story about family, ambition, athletics and the FICTION / Literary dedicated pursuit of one’s passions. It is also, ulti- 978-1-77089-432-7 mately, about a woman who follows the singular, 5.25 x 8 • 304 pages heart-breaking and inspiring course of her life till Hardcover with jacket • $29.95 the very end.

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BISAC: FIC019000 MARKETING NOTES 14 14 Month GIRL RUNNER TITLE A Novel Subtitle AUTHOR NAME CARRIE SNYDER

Lead quote —CARRIE credit SNYDER is the PRAISE FOR CARRIE SNYDER AND THE author of two books of short JULIET STORIES: fiction. Her first, Hair Hat was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Award for short fiction, and her A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK second, The Juliet Stories was a finalist for the 2012 Governor “Well-crafted and imaginative . . . Snyder’s tone and General’s Award. Carrie lives in Waterloo, Ontario style is vivid and compelling.” — Globe and Mail with her husband, four children, and two dogs, and blogs as Obscure CanLit Mama. “Fans of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast will love this one.” — Chatelaine

“A stream of sensual imagery that grows more sophisticated with each page . . . The Juliet Stories highlights the lessons we learn in youth and with MARKETING NOTES age, and the conﬂict between the freedom we value and the security we desperately need.” — The Walrus • National author tour • National advertising “Sparkles with nuance and thoughtfulness . . . engag- • Author active online @carriesnyder and ing . . . terriﬁc.” — Edmonton Journal carrieannesnyder.blogspot.ca • Book club promotion “Subtle and deft.” — National Post • ARCs available • Co-op available “Here is as good a capsule explanation for what happened in Nicaragua as you’ll get from any more con- ventional historical source . . . mature and powerful.” — Montreal Gazette ALSO AVAILABLE

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Globe and Mail Top 100 Book MARKETING NOTES 15 15 MonthNovember THETITLE LEGACY OF GRAZIA DEI Subtitle AUTHORROSSI NAME Book 2 JACQUELINE PARK

TheLead Legacy quote of — Grazia credit dei Rossi is the long-awaited sequel to the sensational international bestseller, The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi.

Set in sixteenth-century Istanbul during the illustrious Ottoman Empire, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi chronicles the fate of Grazia’s son, Danilo, and his forbidden love affair with Princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. Judah del Medigo, Jewish physician to the Sul- tan at the Ottoman court and husband of Grazia dei Rossi, has been misinformed that his son, Danilo, perished at sea on the way to Istanbul. When the two are eventually reunited, the Sultan offers the boy a place in the harem school for royal children, plus the services of his own mother as guardian while the doctor is absent during campaign season in Baghdad. It is an opportunity that Judah cannot deny his son. Danilo is assigned as his tutor the princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. At ﬁrst the two resent each other deeply. But as Danilo and Saida approach adulthood they fall in love and begin a forbidden romance. For a princess preparing for marriage, a dalliance with an unrelated male would cast a stain on the Sultan’s honour that could only

FICTION / Historical be avenged by death . . . 978-1-77089-892-9 A tantalizing look at life in the Ottoman court, 5.5 x 8.5 • 600 pages The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi is a sweeping histori- Trade paperback • $19.95 cal romance and the long-awaited follow-up to the international sensation The Secret Book of Grazia 978-1-77089-893-6 dei Rossi. ePub • $16.95

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LeadJACQUELINE quote — PARK credit is the founding chairman EXCERPT of the Dramatic Writing Program and professor emerita at New York University’s Tisch School of The trip to the island of Kinali was made in perfect the Arts. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. silence. Coming ashore that ﬁrst time since he left the prince’s school, Danilo hardly recognized the little island that served as a childhood playground for him and his princess. Months had passed since he said goodbye to everything it symbolized. But, once ashore, his feet found their way through the underbrush to the familiar clearing and there stood the ruined mosque, rooﬂess but with its walls still intact, the rusty portal, the half-hinged gate. “Is that my paladin, returned from the foreign MARKETING NOTES wars and come to rescue me from this cave?” a sweet voice crooned in the dark. • National media coverage He pushed through the gate into the moonlit • ARCs available mosque and found his princess reclining on a bed • Co-op available of dried leaves, supported all around by pillows, her • Online promotion long, black hair loose, her eyes blazing, an ethereal • Book club promotion vision in some diaphanous stuff that made her seem to be suspended in a cloud. This is a side of his princess he had never seen before. “Are you still my paladin?” Her voice emerged low and husky from the cloud. “I am, Princess.” He slid easily into the old familiar game. “And will you love me faithfully as long as we live?” “I will, Princess.” Then, in a move quite new to the game, she emerged from her bed of leaves like one of Rapha- ello’s angels rising up to heaven, held out her arms, and commanded him, “Embrace me.”

MARKETING NOTES 17 17 MonthNovember THETITLE SECRET BOOK OF GRAZIA Subtitle AUTHORDEI ROSSI NAME Book 1 JACQUELINE PARK

LeadFirst publishedquote — credit in 1997, The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi was a national bestseller and sold internationally to great acclaim.

Grazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d’Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope’s Jew- ish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a “secret book,” written as a legacy for her son, she records her struggles to choose between the se- ductions of the Christian world and a return to the family, traditions, and duties to her Jewish roots. As she re-creates Renaissance Italy in captivating detail, Jacqueline Park gives us a timeless portrait of a brave and brilliant woman trapped in an unforgiv- ing, inﬂexible society. A sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi is an unforgetable tale, told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance and who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of love.

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LeadJACQUELINE quote — PARK credit is the founding chairman PRAISE FOR JACQUELINE PARK AND THE of the Dramatic Writing Program and professor SECRET BOOK OF GRAZIA DEI ROSSI: emerita at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She lives in Toronto. “Park has fashioned a dense, sweeping narrative of Renaissance Italy.” — New York Times

“A sprawling historical novel that boasts its research on every page.” — Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe and Mail

“It is a rich Italian tapestry of human vices and vir- tues . . . in fact, all the irresistible elements of a fairy tale.” — Toronto Star MARKETING NOTES “Possessing a precise eye for detail and a superb sense of time and place, Park has produced a remarkable • National media coverage saga about life during the Renaissance . . . An imagi- • Co-op available native work deserving a wide audience.” — Winnipeg • Online promotion Free Press • Book club promotion “Subtle and seductive . . . Park has created a lively, courageous, and introspective heroine.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A historical novel with a Renaissance Jewish heroine as captivating as Scarlett O’Hara. Simply irresistible.” — Newsday

“One is reluctant to close this window on a dramatic chapter of the distant past, or to part company with a woman so full of grace and gumption.” — San Francisco Chronicle

“Wonderful. An absolutely fascinating, compulsively readable novel about a sixteenth-century woman who would be considered outstanding in any era.” — Miami Herald MARKETING NOTES 19 19 MonthJanuary THETITLE GALLERY OF LOST SPECIES ASubtitle Novel AUTHOR NAME NINA BERKHOUT

LeadThe debut quote novel — credit by award-winning poet Nina Berkhout is the compelling story of a fractured family looking for beauty in all the wrong places.

Just as thirteen year-old Edith Walker is about to leave childhood behind, she thinks she spots a unicorn high on a slope while hiking. Edith’s sighting of the fabled creature — and her unfailing belief that the imaginary creature will eventually be found — sets in motion a series of events that impact the next decade of her life. Edith grows up in her big sister Vivienne’s shadow. While the beautiful Viv is forced by the girls’ overbearing mother Constance to compete in child beauty pageants, plain-looking Edith follows in her father’s footsteps, collecting oddities, studying coins and reading from moldy books that only serve to exacerbate her asthma. A chance encounter with a handsome geology student named Liam changes the course of the sisters’ relationship forever. As Viv rebels against her mother and pageantry to become a painter, she embarks on a downward spiral into addiction. Edith then finds herself torn between her desire to save her sister and pursuing her own love for Liam. Fulfilling her father’s wish for her to work in a museum, Edith takes a job cataloguing artwork at the National Gallery of Canada, where she meets an FICTION / Literary elderly cryptozoologist named Theo. Edith devel- 978-1-77089-483-9 ops an unlikely friendship with Theo when she 5.25 x 8 • 312 pages realizes they might have more in common than she Trade paperback with flaps • $19.95 imagined: they are both trying to retrieve some- 978-1-77089-484-6 thing that may be impossible to bring back to life. ePub • $16.95 The Gallery of Lost Species is about finding solace in unexpected places — in works of art, in people BISAC: FIC019000 and in animals that the world has forgotten. MARKETING NOTES 20 20 Month THE GALLERY OF LOST SPECIES TITLE A Novel Subtitle AUTHOR NAME NINA BERKHOUT

Lead quote —NINA credit BERKHOUT is origi- PRAISE FOR NINA BERKHOUT AND THE nally from Calgary. She is the GALLERY OF LOST SPECIES: author of five poetry collections, most recently Elseworlds, which “Nina Berkhout brings a poet’s eye to her first novel, won the 2013 Archibald Lamp- The Gallery of Lost Species, a fast-paced tour through man Award, and Arrivals and Canadian landscape, art, and literature.” — Suzanne Departures, which was a final- Desrochers, author of Bride of New France ist for the same award in 2011. Her work has also been shortlisted for THIS Magazine’s Great Cana- “This artful, multi-layered novel describes a love dian Literary Hunt and the John Hirsch Award for between two sisters that idealizes and mytholo- most promising Manitoba writer. Berkhout holds gizes in an attempt to stave off loss. Nina Berkhout a degree in Classical Studies from the University is a master at showing how we trick ourselves into of Calgary and a Master’s in Museum Studies from believing that we can hunt down and hold the elu- the University of Toronto. She now lives in Ottawa. sive other.” — Claire Holden Rothman, author of The Heart Specialist

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MARKETING NOTES 21 21 Month RECENTTITLE PRAISE FOR Subtitle ANANSIAUTHOR NAME FICTION

Lead quote — creditEL NIÑO NADIA BOZAK

“Nadia Bozak’s characters are ﬁerce, brave, and haunting. Stylistically brazen and wildly suspenseful, this novel charges and snaps, sinks its teeth in, and doesn’t let go.” — Lisa Moore, author of Caught

“Breathtaking and widescreen in scope, El Niño acutely renders characters drawn to a ﬂashpoint in culture and history.” — Emily Schultz, author of The Blondes

“Nadia Bozak is a tremendous talent.” — Zoe Whittall, author of Holding Still for as Long as Possible

BASED ON A TRUE STORY ELIZABETH RENZETTI

“Based on a True Story is a wry and daring debut, serving up razor-sharp wit that cuts through the tangled webs (and cobwebs) of human desire, friendship, and mother- hood.” — Kim Izzo, author of The Jane Austen Marriage Manual

“Elizabeth Renzetti writes like an angel, but her characters are deﬁnitely the other side of cherubic. I laughed my way through Renzetti’s transatlantic tour of the absur- dities of television, publishing, and journalism, and I also connected with her all-too- human characters.” — Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Dirt on Clean and The Mourner’s Dance

SERAFIM AND CLAIRE MARK LAVORATO

“While his characters drive the action, Lavorato’s unwavering eye is at its best when observing and describing the city itself, which continues to grapple with many of the tensions that form the backbone of the novel.” — National Post

“Set mostly in Montreal in the 1920s and early ’30s, Seraﬁm and Claire is an evocative, dramatic, and poetic page-turner whose ﬂavour can be indicated by the sharply contrasting back-stories of its title protagonists.” — The Gazette

MARKETING NOTES 22 22 ASTORIA MonthAugust CHEZTITLE L’ARABE StoriesSubtitle AUTHOR NAME MIREILLE SILCOFF

LeadA dazzling quote debut — credit collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.

Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait of chronic illness in a series of linked stories about a woman in her mid-thirties, who is trapped in her elegantly accoutered Montreal townhouse — and in her own mind and body. As she struggles with her health, amongst an increasingly indifferent husband and volatile mother, she encounters unimaginable depths of loneliness and realizes that, even after she recovers, her life will never be the same. As the collection progresses, it picks up the threads of other people’s lives that have also been abruptly upended — through death, divorce, illness, and estrangements — leaving them shocked and disoriented as they try to navigate their lives in new directions. A Montreal cookbook author remembers her stepmother’s exquisite taste in dinner parties, and her failed marriage — both of which she seemed to inherit. An abandoned wife catches her glamorous author friend stealing from an old, billionaire widower. A woman loses her daughter to suicide while her architect husband, in the grips of Alzheimer’s years later, sits on a subway platform FICTION / Short Stories day after day, drawing hearts for all the young 978-1-77089-469-3 women he sees. 5.25 x 8 • 224 pages Silcoff’s stories are sophisticated, detailed, and Trade paperback • $18.95 infused with humour, intelligence, and touching emotional insights into the human condition. 978-1-77089-470-9 ePub • 16.95

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LeadMIREILLE quote SILCOFF — credit is the founding editor of EXCERPT Guilt & Pleasure Quarterly, a magazine of new Jew- ish writing and ideas, and the author of three books “[The taxi company] hadn’t heard from me in a year. about drug and youth culture. She is a lead columnist Then I returned to them last winter. Always 10 a.m., with the National Post and a frequent contributor to always Mondays and Thursdays, in a worn green New York Times Magazine and other publications. canvas coat with a corduroy collar and a sensible She lives in Montreal. hood, a knee-skimming jacket that was a country- weekend thing when I was well and now made me feel like a retarded school-bus kid who had to dress with easy snaps. I used a tripod cane and carried with me a Paddington Bear cushion, an item that had been forgotten at our house by some friend’s child and presently provided both a nice size and density for my automotive needs. I’d lie face down along the back seat, my nose in Paddington’s taut belly. “I have had a severe neurological injury,” I’d say — at this muffled juncture it was always neurological, the scariest word I could pull out of my hat — “please be very careful on the potholes.” For even the most relaxed drivers, the city became like a minefield. The ones with shit shocks MARKETING NOTES tried it only once. Then the same driver started coming every time. I checked the laminated photo • National author tour ID displayed in the felted space between the car’s • National media coverage side windows. Mohammed Zandi. “What injury?” • ARCs available asked Mohammed, and I said, “Something like • Co-op available whiplash,” a lie much easier than explaining that • Regional advertising the skin of my spinal cord had decided to imitate Swiss cheese, that the operations had only made the holes bigger, that I was leaking spinal fluid until I had none, no cushion around my brain, soft brain knocking against hard skull, no buffer, and every car ride felt like a prelude to an aneurysm.”

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Lead quote —CLEAR credit SKIES, NO WIND, 100% VISIBILITY THÉODORA ARMSTRONG

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“Théodora Armstrong[’s] ﬁrst collection of striking, realist stories, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, is an exceptional debut.” — Globe and Mail TRAVELLING LIGHT PETER BEHRENS

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“The writing is graceful, the subject matter stimulating and best of all it offers an Anglo version of life in Montreal prior to the Quiet Revolution and the separatist movement. It is a Montreal worth getting to know.” — Toronto Star

UP UP UP JULIE BOOKER

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“Up Up Up is a stunning, fresh debut collection from an author who is worth watching.” — Walrus Magazine

HELLGOING: STORIES LYNN COADY

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“Coady is a muscular writer, who drives us right smack into the situation her characters are experiencing . . . Coady’s stories are not about commonalities as such. They are MARKETING NOTESunique.” — Toronto Star 26 26 Month TITLEMORE FROM ASTORIA Subtitle AUTHOR NAME

Lead quote — creditGARGOYLES BILL GASTON

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“Funny, distressing, scary, deeply human.” — Globe and Mail

THE MIDDLE STORIES SHEILA HETI

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“Hilarious, occasionally Seinfeldesque and frequently veer[s] into Grimm Brotherland, fantastic, gruesome, and creepy.” — Toronto Star

19 KNIVES MARK JARMAN

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“19 Knives is a sinuous, heartbreaking book that probes the fragility of human identity in a fresh, elemental way.” — Globe and Mail

WHAT BECOMES A. L. KENNEDY

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“[A] harrowing collection . . . [A. L. Kennedy] can go from darkness to humour in a heart- beat.” — New York Times

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Lead quote —THE credit WITHDRAWAL METHOD PASHA MALLA 978-0-88784-817-9 • Paperback • $18.95 978-0-88784-899-5 • ePub • $16.95 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD WINNER “Dazzling debut . . . written in a language that is fresh and imbued with great feeling.” — Globe and Mail DEGREES OF NAKEDNESS LISA MOORE 978-0-88784-702-8 • Paperback • $18.95 978-0-88784-853-7 • ePub • $16.95

In Lisa Moore’s ﬁrst story collection the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current.

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SIGNS AND WONDERS ALIX OHLIN 978-1-77089-208-8 • Paperback • $18.95 978-1-77089-209-5 • ePub • $16.95 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

“Wise and whimsical.” — Oprah Magazine

NINE INCHES: STORIES TOM PERROTTA 978-1-77089-427-3 • Paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-428-0 • ePub • $16.95 “Perrotta’s best asset is his great, big heart: You ﬁnd yourself rooting for vulnerable anti- MARKETING NOTESheroes and heroines . . .” — Washington Post 28 28 ARACHNIDE MonthJanuary RAVENSCRAGTITLE ASubtitle Novel ALAINAUTHOR NAMEFARAH TRANSLATED BY LAZER LEDERHENDLER

LeadA playful, quote semi-autobiographical, — credit retro science ﬁction novel about mind control, memory, and madness — based on historical events.

The writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is conducting dangerous and unethical experiments on his patients. The writer’s uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it, but soon he won’t be around to tell his story. And so begins an investigation in which time, place, memory, and people collide. A mother in the Lebanese ghetto bets her son in a game of dice to settle her debts. Dinosaurs are resurrected. An odd gun will be used to determine the outcome for those who truly believe. A torn old photo and a gothic swimming pool lead to the disturbing depths of Ravenscrag, a mournful manor with thirty-six chambers . . . FICTION / Literary Ravenscrag is an intriguing and truly original 978-1-77089-895-0 blend of retro science fiction and auto biography. It’s 5.25 x 8 • 200 pages about resilience, literature as remedy, and ultimate- Trade paperback with flaps • $22.95 ly, it’s a novel about survival through storytelling.

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LeadALAIN quote FARAH — was credit born in Montreal in 1979 to PRAISE FOR ALAIN FARAH AND Egyptian-Lebanese parents. In 2004, he published RAVENSCRAG: a book of poems, Quelque chose se détache du port, which was shortlised for the Prix Émile-Nelligan. GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTRÉAL FINALIST In 2005, he set up temporary residence in France LA PRESSE BEST OF 2013 to pursue his PhD studies at the École Normale LE DEVOIR BEST OF 2013 Supérieure. After returning to Quebec in 2008, he published his ﬁrst novel, Matamore no 29. He is “A feat in itself, a winding story that never loses assistant professor at McGill University, where he momentum and keeps the reader constantly enter- teaches contemporary French literature. tained.” — L’actualité (Quebec)

LAZER LEDERHENDLER is a translator and “A brilliant autobiographical project . . . Along with teacher. In 2008, he won the Governor General’s the multiple pop culture references (Lady Gaga, Literary Award for French to English translation of Francis Ford Coppola), you’ll get a rare treat: the Nikolski. He is also the translator of Gaètan Soucy’s discovery of a great author.” — Montréal Centre-Ville novel, The Immaculate Conception, which was a ﬁnal- ist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Gover- “The agility with which Alain Farah moves between nor General’s Literary Award for French to English genres . . . is evidence of his undeniable talent, and translation, and won the French-to-English Trans- also of the vitality of literature by young writers in lation Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Quebec.” — Liberté Lederhendler lives in Montreal, Quebec. “The most audacious and original novel of the year.” — La Presse

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Lead quote — creditMIRRORS AND MIRAGES MONIA MAZIGH TRANSLATED BY FRED A. REED

TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST

“Mazigh achieves a tour de force in this novel: showing us the true faces of individual Muslim women . . . she makes it impossible to shunt them into the category of ‘the Other.’” — Trillium Award Jury Citation

NOTHING FOR YOU HERE, YOUNG MAN MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS TRANSLATED BY NIGEL SPENCER

GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTRÉAL WINNER

“Resilience and memory are at the heart of this ‘saga’ where voices intermingle . . . driven by powerful prose.” — Hufﬁngton Post (Quebec)

“The powerful, lyrical, and unclassiﬁable prose of this great writer will not leave you untouched.” — La Librarie (Quebec)

“One of the strongest books [in the series]. Every time, every book is an experience in itself.”— Montreal Gazette

“A powerful novel. Dense and charged.” — Voir (Quebec)

“Long spiraling sentences are carried by grandiose prose.” — Chatelaine (Quebec)

MARKETING NOTES 32 32 ANANSI INTERNATIONAL MonthAugust CURIOUSTITLE TheSubtitle Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It AUTHOR NAME IAN LESLIE

Lead“Persuasive quote —and credit wide-ranging . . . [Ian] Leslie brings intelligence and a wealth of thought-provoking research to his topic.” — Globe and Mail

The latest from Ian Leslie, the author of Born Liars, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, is a fascinating look at the human characteristic of curiosity — our extraordinary capacity to take pleasure in discovering, learning, and understanding. Curious shows how the practice of “deep curiosity” — persistent, self-reﬂective seeking of knowledge and insight — is key to the success of our careers, the happiness of our children, the strength of our relationships, and the progress of societies. But it also argues that it is a fragile quality, which waxes and wanes over time, and that we take it for granted at our peril. Ian Leslie proposes that the Internet is opening up a “curiosity gap,” by exacerbating the divide between those with a large cognitive appetite, and those happy knowing no more than they have to know — between the curious and the incurious. He draws on many sources and stories to illustrate his points: Benjamin Franklin studying the effect of oil on choppy waters; a bored Galileo distracting himself in a Pisa cathedral by observing the swing- ing of a recently lit lamp; Google co-founder Larry Page’s thoughts on the perfect search engine; the PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology advantages of your local bookseller over Amazon’s 978-1-77089-403-7 algorithms; a reassessment of Donald Rumsfeld’s 5.25 x 8.5 • 400 pages defense strategy, and many more. Trade paperback • $21.95 Rich, textured, and exciting, Curious is a new take on the most absorbing human trait of all. 978-1-77089-404-4 ePub • $18.95

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Lead quote —IAN credit LESLIE is the critically PRAISE FOR IAN LESLIE AND BORN acclaimed author of Born Liars. LIARS: He has written about politics, culture, marketing, and psy- A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK chology for the Guardian, The Times, Prospect, and the BBC. He “Ian Leslie uncovers the truth of the matter: Lying lives in London, England. of all kinds is woven into our makeup . . . by tying lying into culture, Leslie gets near the core of what it means to be human.” — Chatelaine

“A lucid and entertaining celebration of our capacity for self-deception.” — Sunday Times

“Fascinating. Born Liars examines how deception, of others and ourselves, is built into human con- MARKETING NOTES sciousness. We lie — a nicer word is ‘confabulate’ — to maintain a stable sense of self and to regulate • National media coverage its relations with other people. Of interest to every- • ARCs available one, but should be read particularly by politicians.” • Co-op available — Independent on Sunday • Author active on Twitter @mrianleslie “Born Liars is in quite a different league [than other pop psychology books]. It’s erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of terriﬁc stories. It will ALSO AVAILABLE also make you see yourself, and the world around you, in a new light.” — Daily Mail BORN LIARS WHY WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT DECEIT

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“Persuasive and wide-ranging . . . [Ian] Leslie brings intelligence and a wealth of thought-provoking research to his topic.” — Globe and Mail MARKETING NOTES 35 35 MonthSeptember ONTITLE WRITING Subtitle AUTHORA. L. KENNEDY NAME

Lead“These quote memorable, — credit often very funny snapshots of Kennedy’s life also contain much better advice for would-be writers than more overtly practical guides.” — Sunday Times

After six novels, five story collections, and two books of nonfiction, and countless international prizes, A. L. Kennedy certainly has the author- ity to talk about the craft of writing books — it’s just a wonder she’s found the time. On Writing features writing from the authorial front line — urgent and vivid, full of the excitement, fury, and frustration of trying to make thousands of words into a publish- able book. At the core of On Writing is the hugely popular blog that Kennedy writes for the Guardian — and we follow her during a three-year period when she finished one collection of stories and started another, and wrote a novel in between. Alongside the blogs are brilliant essays on character, voice, writers’ workshops, and writers’ health. The book ends with the transcript of Kennedy’s celebrated one-person show about writing and language that she has per- formed around the world to huge acclaim. Read together, all these pieces add up to the most intimate master-class imaginable from one of the finest — and most humane — writers in our language. REFERENCE / Writing Skills 978-1-77089-461-7 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages Trade paperback • $19.95

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Lead quote —A. credit L. KENNEDY is the author PRAISE FOR A. L. KENNEDY AND ON of six novels, three books of WRITING: nonﬁction, and ﬁve collections of short stories. Her last novel, “It’s a pleasure to gain access to the thoughts of some- The Blue Book, was longlisted for one so unashamedly committed to the importance the Orange Prize for Fiction, of stories. Written largely as blogs, these memo- and her novel Day was the 2007 rable, often very funny snapshots of Kennedy’s life Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected also contain much better advice for would-be writers as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists than more overtly practical guides.” — Sunday Times and has won a host of other awards. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writ- “Observations, both lucid and passionate, on the ing at Warwick University. general state of the book trade and literary culture . . . Yet it’s the manoeuvres she uses and the structures she creates in order to let art happen in her own life that form the kernel of the book.” — Daily Telegraph MARKETING NOTES “The life-saving blog is the jam in the sandwich of • Author tour her book, the sweetener before her revealing stand- • National media coverage up comic routine/memoir and more considered • ARCs available essays that give it professional literary substance.” • Co-op available — The Times

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A dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love.

MARKETING NOTES 37 37 MonthOctober THETITLE THUG KITCHEN Subtitle COOKBOOKAUTHOR NAME Eat Like You Give a F***

SaveurLead quote named — itcredit the Best New Food Blog of 2013, and HuffPost, GQ, Cosmo, and even Fox News sang their praises — Thug Kitchen is one of the most anticipated cookbooks of 2014.

A clean-eating manifesto packed with 100+ easy plant-based recipes and vibrant pho- tography that will prove that you can eat healthy and still be a bad mother****er in the kitchen. Everyone wants to eat better and nobody wants to spend a fortune doing it. Everyone’s desperate for real recipes and real advice, but wary of the lentil pushers. People want some real talk about some real f***ing food. Here’s a road map for people cooking for the ﬁrst time, people who want to start being kinder to their waistlines and their wallets, and people who just need a little help cooking up some tasty as f*** plant-based eating. No lectures. No bullshit. Just well-loved recipes with a shit ton of cursing and health advice. This one’s for the fast-growing com- munity of well-informed, healthy-eating sons of bitches out there, no matter who are you or where you’re from. Structured by meal (Breakfast; Salads, Sam- COOKING / Vegetarian & Vegan mies, and Mini Meals; The Munchies; Soups and 978-1-77089-465-5 Stews; The Main Event; and Sweet Talk), Thug has 7.5 x 9.125 • 240 pages your back all day long. It’s also got plenty for new- Hardcover • $29.95 bies, like basic tools, knife skillz, pantry staples, and

978-1-77089-466-2 how to cook beans and grains. ePub • $24.95 Rooted in the mad popular blog’s voice and aes- thetic, but going way beyond what a blog can offer BISAC: CKB086000 with bolder visuals and deeper information, Thug Kitchen will get you to take back your plate and eat like you give a f***.

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LeadThe THUG quote KITCHEN — credit CREW is an L.A.–based PRAISE FOR THUGKITCHEN.COM: duo. SAVEUR’S BEST NEW FOOD BLOG OF 2013 WINNER

“This might be my favourite thing ever.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

“If Martha Stewart, Dr. Dre, and Tony Soprano wrote a blog it might look a lot like Thug Kitchen . . . Thug Kitchen’s clear, innovative recipes, enticing photog- raphy, and insistence on fresh, local ingredients are oh-so-Martha.” — Fox News

“We f***ing love Thug Kitchen. The straight-talk- ing food blog (tagline: Eat Like You Give a F***) dishes meals and drinks that are healthy as f***, but really f***ing delicious.” — Cosmopolitan

“Like most superheroes, Dr. Thug of Thug Kitchen goes by an alias to protect his true identity. From what, we are not sure, since his aggressively pro- vegetables stance seems to be loved, if not uni- versally by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and . . . well . . . us.” — Hufﬁngton Post

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MARKETING NOTES 39 39 MonthJanuary THETITLE OTHER JOSEPH ASubtitle Novel AUTHOR NAME SKIP HORACK

LeadIn the quote tradition — credit of Russell Banks and Jim Harrison, Skip Horack masterfully depicts a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin.

For years, Roy Joseph, a thirty-year-old oil rig worker and convicted felon has been haunted by the disappearance of his older brother Tommy in the ﬁrst Gulf War, the tragic death of his parents, and the crime from his past that has branded him — has spent years in self-imposed exile, rotating between offshore rigs and the Airstream trailer in Grand Isle, Louisiana he shares with his dog Sam. For nearly a decade Roy endures this isolated half-life until, on the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, he is contacted by Joni, a teenage girl living in San Francisco who claims to be Tommy’s biological daughter. Emboldened, Roy soon ﬁnds himself on a cross-country journey through America and his own troubled history, seeking to form some bond with this niece even as he is beset by complications and distractions: A former Navy SEAL he suspects might hold answers about what actually happened to Tommy. A potential Russian bride. The mysteri- FICTION / Literary ous “tall man” who haunts Golden Gate Park and 978-1-77089-425-9 may be up to something nefarious. 5.25 x 8 • 280 pages The Other Joseph is a spellbinding, explosive Trade paperback • $19.95 tale of a man nearly defeated by life given one last chance to alter the course of his heartbreaking and 978-1-77089-426-6 solitary existence. ePub • $16.95

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LeadSKIP HORACKquote — iscredit a former Jones Lecturer at PRAISE FOR SKIP HORACK AND THE Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace OTHER JOSEPH: Stegner Fellow. His short story collection The Southern Cross won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Confer- “The scope of Horack’s imagination, knowledge, ence 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize and his novel The and empathy astounds, and there are innumerable Eden Hunter was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. things to be both learned and felt within the pages of His work has also appeared in Oxford American, the this remarkable book. My highest recommendation.” Southern Review, Narrative, Epoch, and other note- — Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son worthy literary journals and magazines. A native of Louisiana and a graduate of Florida State Univer- sity, he is currently an assistant professor of creative PRAISE FOR SKIP HORACK AND THE writing at Auburn University. EDEN HUNTER:

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“Reading his novel, I thought more than once of Cormac McCarthy — not just of the calmly depict- ed frontier slaughter of Blood Meridian but also of the scoured post-apocalyptic vision of The Road. What a pair of bookends The Road and The Eden Hunter would make.” — New York Times

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“[An] engrossing collection of short stories.” — Boston Globe

MARKETING NOTES 41 41 MonthFebruary FIRETITLE AIR ASubtitle Novel AUTHOR NAME ERIK VLAMINCK TRANSLATED BY PAUL VINCENT

Lead“Vlaminck quote is— one credit of the greatest talents among the new generation of Flem- ish writers.” — DE STEM (Netherlands)

Told from the points of view of a mother and daughter, Fire Air tells the story of a Belgian and Dutch family who flee to Canada to escape the Second World War, only to have the past catch up to them. Ten-year-old Elly Verkest is a first-generation immigrant to Canada. Her father, Gaston, is one of the many Belgians who moved to the country after the Second World War, and her mother, Mina, is from Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands. When Gaston goes on one of his trips to his home- town of Flanders, he doesn’t come back. As each struggles with the sudden disappearance of Gaston, mother and daughter grow farther apart. When she is a young adult, Elly decides to search for her father in Belgium. There, she discovers that Gaston has a secret life. When Elly returns to Canada, she finds out she is pregnant by a man she met in Atwerp. Several years later, Elly’s daughter, Linda, develops a close relationship with her grandmother. Slowly, she discovers all of the family secrets . . .

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MARKETING NOTES 42 42 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME

LeadERIK VLAMINCKquote — credit is an author and playwright. PRAISE FOR ERIK VLAMINCK AND He gained prominence as a novelist with a six-part FIRE AIR: cycle of novels about the unusual life of ordinary people in Flanders in the twentieth century. In 2011, LIBRIS LITERATURE AWARD, LONGLIST Fire Air was longlisted for the prestigious Libris and AKO LITERATURE AWARD, LONGLIST AKO Literature Award. He lives in Belgium. “The Flemish author Erik Vlaminck has never built PAUL VINCENT taught Dutch at London Univer- cathedrals. This heir to Willem Elsschot erects sity from 1967 to 1989 and since then has translated beautiful small chapels in the Flemish countryside.” a wide variety of Dutch-language authors, includ- — NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands) ing Louis Couperus, Willem Elsschot and Harry Mulisch. He lives in London, U.K. “One of the greatest talents among the new generation of Flemish writers.” — DE STEM (Netherlands)

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MARKETING NOTES 43 43 MonthSeptember HANNSTITLE AND RUDOLF TheSubtitle True Story of the German Jew Who Caught the Kommandant ofAUTHOR Auschwitz NAME THOMAS HARDING

LeadIn the quote Garden — creditof Beasts meets The Hare with the Amber Eyes in this gripping real-life account of the hunt for one of the most infamous Nazis.

Part history, part biography, part true crime, Hanns and Rudolf chronicles the untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and cap- tured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals. May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investi- gation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investiga- tors is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children, but he perfected Hitler’s programme of mass extermination. On the run across a continent in ruins, Höss is the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials HISTORY / Holocaust in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two 978-1-77089-861-5 German men — one Jewish, one Catholic — whose 6 x 9 • 384 pages lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing Trade paperback • $18.95 way.

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Lead quote —THOMAS credit HARDING is a PRAISE FOR THOMAS HARDING AND journalist who has written for HANNS AND RUDOLF: the Financial Times, Sunday Times, and the Guardian, among COSTA BOOK AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY FINALIST other publications. He co- founded a television station in “A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essen- Oxford, England, and for many tial history, a scrupulously dispassionate narrator.” years was an award-winning publisher of a news- — John le Carré paper in West Virginia. He lives in Hampshire, England. “The result is an enthralling, thoughtful book — part history, part biography, part thriller. The story Mr. Harding tells is of two parallel lives — two opposite worlds — that in the chaos of the war’s end converge and then collide . . . he depicts not a battle of conﬂicting moral values or ideas but a gripping human drama, and he refuses to dodge any trou- bling questions raised along the way.” — Wall Street Journal

“In this electrifying account of how a morally driven British Jewish soldier pursues and captures and brings to trial the turntail Kommandant of Auschwitz, Thomas Harding commemorates (and, for the tired, reviviﬁes) a ringing Biblical injunc- tion: Justice, justice, shalt thou pursue.” — Cynthia MARKETING NOTES Ozick

• National media coverage “A remarkable book: thoughtful, compelling and • Co-op available quite devastating in its humanity. Thomas Hard- ing’s account of these two extraordinary men goes straight to the dark heart of Nazi Germany.” — Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

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Lead quote — creditTHE FULL RIDICULOUS MARK LAMPRELL

“The intelligent, grounded, ultimately forgiving comic ode to the overstressed urban family is not only balm to the weary — it’s a wicked laugh.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“[The Full Ridiculous] reminds us that sometimes, to really appreciate the beautiful highs of life, you need to hit rock bottom ﬁrst.” — Bookseller & Publisher

THE MARRYING OF CHANI KAUFMAN EVE HARRIS

BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST

“Harris’ eye for suburban social mores is wickedly acute, as is her evident relish in describing both the sensual life and its absence. Her book has the potential to be that rare thing — a crowd-pleaser about Orthodox Judaism.” — Guardian

“Harris writes of this closed world with knowledge and understanding, and highly observant, slightly acidic humour. Deservedly longlisted for the Booker.” — The Times

A FAIRY TALE JONAS T. BENGTSSON

“Grandly conceived, simply told, A Fairy Tale is an artistic triumph.” — Globe and Mail

“This father is one of the best characters I’ve ever read in ﬁction, and the story is beau- tifully told.” — David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island

“A Fairy Tale is a profound and penetrating novel about the unbreakable bond between a father and son.” — Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes

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47 MonthSeptember WATITLE LT ASubtitle Novel AUTHOR NAME RUSSELL WANGERSKY

LeadFrom quotecritically — credit acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, new psy- chological thriller.

At the heart of Russell Wangersky’s latest novel is Walt, a grocery store janitor, who collects the discarded shopping lists that customers leave behind or toss away without thought. Almost invisible to the people who pass him every day, the grocery lists he collects — written on everything from cancelled cheques to mort- gage statements to office stationary — give him a personal hold over those who both ignore him and unwittingly disclose facets of their lives to him. In his fifties, abandoned, he says, by his now- missing wife Mary, Walt is pursued by police detec- tives unsatisfied with the answers he’s given about her disappearance. When a new cold case squad is formed in St. John’s to look into Mary’s disappearance, detec- tives Dean Hill and Jim Scoville begin to realize that Walt may be involved in more than just his wife’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Walt has begun to insert himself directly into the lives of the people whose grocery notes he’s collected. Set in modern-day Newfoundland, after read-

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MARKETING NOTES 48 48 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME

LeadRUSSELL quote WANGERSKY — credit is a writer, editor, PRAISE FOR RUSSELL WANGERSKY AND and columnist from St. John’s, Newfoundland. His WHIRL AWAY: five books include Whirl Away, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Thomas SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST Head Raddall Award for Fiction; Burning Down the THOMAS HEAD RADDALL AWARD WINNER House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself, a memoir BMO WINTERSET AWARD FINALIST of his years as a volunteer firefighter, which was a A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, won the BC National Award for Nonfiction, the Edna Staebler Non- “Brutal and gentle. Funny and cruel. Timely and Fiction Award; and The Glass Harmonica, winner timeless.” — Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day of the BMO Winterset Award. He works at the St. Road and Through Black Spruce John’s Telegram as the news editor.

PRAISE FOR RUSSELL WANGERSKY AND THE GLASS HARMONICA:

BMO WINTERSET AWARD WINNER

“Wangersky is a terriﬁc writer. His prose is crisp and lyrical, and the book is full of acute observations of all that surrounds us.” — Globe and Mail

PRAISE FOR RUSSELL WANGERSKY AND BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE:

BRITISH COLUMBIA NATIONAL PRIZE WINNER NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARD WINNER MARKETING NOTES EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION WINNER • National author tour HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR • National media coverage NONFICTION FINALIST • ARCs available • Co-op available “Burning Down the House is such a raw book, one that lays bare both terrible moments in time and the author’s own unravelling . . . In this haunting meditation on fate and chance, he literally takes you MARKETING NOTES there.” — Globe and Mail 49 49 MonthJanuary THETITLE KING OF SHANGHAI AnSubtitle Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years AUTHOR NAME IAN HAMILTON

Lead“Hamilton quote deepens— credit Ava’s character, and imbues her with greater mettle and emotional ﬁre.” — National Post

The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava getting caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies. Ava steps into her new business with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda. On a trip to Shanghai, Ava meets with Xu, a young man Uncle had been mentoring and who is also the head of the Triad in Shanghai. Xu makes an audacious business proposal that she and May are compelled to consider. Meanwhile, separately and privately, he confides to Ava that he intends to run for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies and attempts to recruit her as his adviser and confidante. Against her will, Ava becomes enmeshed in Triad warfare and her future is threatened . . .

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LeadIAN HAMILTON quote — iscredit the author of seven novels in ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE AVA LEE SERIES the Ava Lee series: The Dragon Head of Hong Kong: The Ava Lee Prequel, The Water Rat of Wanchai, The THE WATER RAT OF WANCHAI + Disciple of Las Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, The THE DRAGON HEAD OF HONG KONG Red Pole of Macau, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya, THE AVA LEE PREQUEL and The Two Sisters of Borneo. The Water Rat of Wan- 978-1-77089-811-0 chai was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Trade paperback • $21.95 Best First Novel, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of 978-1-77089-812-7 • ePub • $18.95 the Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors’ Pick, an THE DRAGON HEAD OF HONG KONG Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an Amazon.ca Myster- THE AVA LEE PREQUEL ies and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star Top 5 Fiction 978-1-77089-813-4 • ePub • $2.99 Book of the Year, and a Quill & Quire Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year. THE TWO SISTERS OF BORNEO 978-1-77089-244-6 Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-245-3 • ePub • $16.95 PRAISE FOR IAN HAMILTON AND THE THE DISCIPLE OF LAS VEGAS TWO SISTERS OF BORNEO: 978-0-88784-252-8 Trade paperback • $19.95 GLOBE AND MAIL CANADIAN BESTSELLER 978-1-77089-030-5 • ePub • $16.95 “Ian Hamilton’s great new Ava Lee mystery has the same wow factor as its ﬁve predecessors. The plot is THE WILD BEASTS OF WUHAN complex and fast-paced, the writing tight, and its pro- 978-0-88784-253-5 tagonist is one of the most interesting female aveng- Trade paperback • $19.95 ers to come along in a while.” — NOW Magazine 978-1-77089-053-4 • ePub • $16.95

“Hamilton has a unique gift for concocting sizzling THE RED POLE OF MACAU thrillers out of ﬁnancial misdoing.” — Edmonton 978-0-88784-254-2 Journal Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-059-6 • ePub • $16.95 “There are plenty of surprises waiting for Ava, and for the reader, all uncovered with great satisfaction.” THE SCOTTISH BANKER OF SURABAYA — National Post 978-1-77089-234-7 Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-235-4 • ePub • $16.95 MARKETING NOTES 51 51 MonthFebruary THETITLE HEART OF HELL ASubtitle Marko della Torre Novel AUTHOR NAME ALEN MATTICH

Lead“Quentin quote Tarantino — credit had better watch his back. Alen Mattich is smart, dark, and killingly funny.” — Alan Bradley, author of Speaking from along the Bones

Autumn 1991. Yugoslavia’s civil war is underway and former secret policeman Marko della Torre waits nervously in Zagreb for the repercussions of both the war and the murders of three American agents. The American agents were sent to target the Montenegrin, an old Yugoslav secret police operative who is accused of organizing the assassination of Yugoslav citizens on American soil. The main suspect is della Torre’s erstwhile and corrupt partner Julius Strumbić. Della Torre enlists the help of an old flame — the beautiful, sexy, reck- less Englishwoman Harry Martingale — to help della Torre rescue Strumbić and find out why the Americans want the Montenegrin dead. The third installment in Alen Mattich’s highly addictive Marko della Torre series, The Heart of Hell is a pulse-pounding political thriller in the tradition of John le Carré and Alan Furst.

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Lead quote —ALEN credit MATTICH is the author PRAISE FOR ALEN MATTICH AND of Zagreb Cowboy and Killing Pil- KILLING PILGRIM: grim, the ﬁrst two novels in the Marko della Torre series. Born “Quentin Tarantino had better watch his back. in Zagreb, Croatia, he grew up Alen Mattich is smart, dark, and killingly funny.” in Libya, Canada, and the Unit- — Alan Bradley, author of Speaking from along the ed States. A ﬁnancial journalist Bones and columnist, he’s now based in London, U.K., and writes for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. “Killing Pilgrim boasts a high suspense quotient, but it’s also strong in character — beginning with its engagingly sardonic and reluctantly heroic central character, della Torre.” — Calgary Herald

MARKETING NOTES PRAISE FOR ALEN MATTICH AND ZAGREB COWBOY: • National media coverage • ARCs available A CHATELAINE TOP 5 FICTION • Co-op available “A kamikaze-paced ride . . . Zagreb Cowboy sets things up well for the next book, and for Mattich to look deep into the black heart of the Balkan con- ALSO AVAILABLE ﬂict.” — National Post

KILLING PILGRIM “Della Torre is one of a number of dark, witty

characters trying to survive amid desperate times 978-1-77089-109-8 Paperback • $19.95 . . . Mattich mines Yugoslavia’s past — secret police misdeeds, regional divisions, and simmering old 978-1-77089-418-1 scores — and the country’s shaky reality in the early ePub • $16.95 ’90s.” — Chronicle Herald

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MONA DAN T. SEHLBERG TRANSLATED BY RACHEL WILLSON-BROYLES

“A grounded, character-driven thriller and sci-ﬁ tour-de-force, Dan T. Sehlberg’s Mona is as breathtakingly visionary as it is poignantly human. The best kind of spec- ulative ﬁction, the story takes its wildest leaps only to cut more closely to the quick of the world we live in every day.” — Max Borenstein, American screenwriter of Mona

“A well-written and pacy techno thriller.” — Femina (Sweden) *Four Stars*

KILLING PILGRIM ALEN MATTICH

“The book’s plot is twisty, the suspense is intense, but what’s most appealing is Della Torre, a secret agent who’s funny, far from hapless but not a guy who takes secrecy all that seriously.” — Toronto Star

“Killing Pilgrim boasts a high suspense quotient, but it’s also strong in character — beginning with its engagingly sardonic and reluctantly heroic central character, della Torre.” — Calgary Herald

THE TWO SISTERS OF BORNEO IAN HAMILTON

“. . . there are plenty of surprises waiting for Ava, and for the reader, all uncovered with great satisfaction.” — National Post

“[Hamilton] has a unique gift for concocting sizzling thrillers out of ﬁnancial misdoing. And he has created a unique heroine in the diminutive ﬁve-foot-three, 115-pound Ava Lee.” — The Gazette

August A LIST

ELEVEN CANADIAN NOVELISTS INTERVIEWED BY GRAEME GIBSON NEW INTRODUCTION BY GRAEME GIBSON

LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian • 978-1-77089-814-1 5.5 x 8.5 • 312 pages • Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-816-5 • ePub • $14.95 BISAC: LIT004080

Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Matt Cohen, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, Dave Godfrey, Margaret Laurence, Jack Ludwig, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and Scott Symons.

THE HONEYMAN FESTIVAL BY MARIAN ENGEL / NEW INTRODUCTION BY CAROLINE ADDERSON

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First published in 1970, The Honeyman Festival chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once again ﬁnd play.

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LIKE THIS BY LEO MCKAY / NEW INTRODUCTION BY LYNN COADY

FICTION / Short Stories • 978-1-77089-833-2 5.5 x 8.5 • 160 pages • Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-849-3 • ePub • $14.95 BISAC: FIC029000

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Like This takes you inside small- town Nova Scotia to expose the troubles that lie at its heart.

QUEEN RAT BY LYNN CROSBIE / NEW INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL TURNER

POETRY / Canadian • 978-1-77089-832-5 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 160 pages Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-846-2 • PDF • $14.95 BISAC: POE011000

Originally published in 1998, Lynn Crosbie brought her unique voice to the forefront of Canadian poetry with this important collection of verse.

TICKNOR BY SHEILA HETI / NEW INTRODUCTION BY BEN LERNER

FICTION / Literary • 978-1-77089-855-4 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-856-1 • ePub • $14.95 BISAC: FIC041000

The ﬁrst novel by Sheila Heti, the author of How Should a Person Be?, is a brilliantly nuanced tale about friendship, envy, and solitude.

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ANA HISTORIC DAPHNE MARLATT 978-1-77089-370-2 • Paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-375-7 • e-Pub • $14.95

“Ana Historic is an unsettling novel — ﬁerce in its disillusion and honesty, poetic in language, and deeply familiar all at once.” — Toronto Star ALDEN NOWLAN SELECTED POEMS ALDEN NOWLAN 978-1-77089-371-9 • Paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-376-4 • e-Pub • $14.95

“Nowlan reaches toward pure poetry, what might be called unmediated speech. Its simplicity is that of truth, the poet’s own truth, as purely stated as it can be.” — Robert Gibbs, poet, editor, and critic THIS ALL HAPPENED A Fictional Memoir MICHAEL WINTER 978-1-77089-372-6 • Paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-377-1 • e-Pub • $14.95

“This book reads like a prose poem, a beat novel, a pseudo-memoir, a post-modern joke, and a screenplay that will make a cool, all-Canadian art ﬁlm.” — Globe and Mail ROCH CARRIER TRILOGY ROCH CARRIER TRANSLATED BY SHEILA FISCHMAN 978-1-77089-373-3 • Paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-378-8 • e-Pub • $14.95

“Nothing you can say about La Guerre, Yes Sir! is as good as the thing itself. Most of all, it is joyous reading.” — Maclean’s NO PAIN LIKE THIS BODY HAROLD SONNY LADOO 978-1-77089-374-0 • Paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-379-5 • e-Pub • $14.95

“[Ladoo] has skillfully revealed new territory which if explored can only enrich ﬁction in Canada.” — Globe and Mail 58 POETRY September CONGOTRONIC SHANE BOOK

The second collection of poems by Shane Book, whose debut, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.

At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism. Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. The book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the “aural truths.” POETRY / Canadian 978-1-77089-874-5 SHANE BOOK 6 x 8 • 104 pages is the author of Ceiling of Sticks, winner of the Trade paperback • $19.95 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He is also a ﬁlm- 978-1-77089-875-2 maker whose award-winning work has screened around the epub • $16.95 world. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario; the University of Victoria; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and BISAC: POE0011000 Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His writing has appeared in many journals and in more than twenty anthologies, including Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets MARKETING NOTES and The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.

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60 October TEARS OF SILENCE JEAN VANIER PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONATHAN BOULET-GROULX

Acclaimed as a man “who inspires the world” (Maclean’s) and a “nation builder” (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people — including those with disabilities and the many people who have been moved by his life’s work.

Re-released to commemorate the 50th anni- versary of L’Arche Internationale, Tears of Silence is an inspiring book of poems on the topics of alienation and belonging, featuring intimate, never-before-published black and white photographs from L’Arche communities around the world. This edition includes a new introduction by Jean Vanier and a foreword by author and education activist Parker Palmer.

JEAN VANIER is the son of former governor general Georges Vanier, and founder of L’Arche, an international network of communities for people with developmental disabilities. He has written a number of books, including Becoming Human (the 1999 CBC Massey Lectures), Finding Peace, Made for Happiness, Encountering the Other, and Befriending the Stranger. He lives in Trosly-Breuil, France.

JONATHAN BOULET-GROULX is a photographer based POETRY / General in Montreal, Quebec. Visit his website at www.mwenpafou.org. 978-1-77089-834-9 6 x 8 • 80 pages Hardcover with jacket • $19.95

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PROLOGUE FOR THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCE GARTH MARTENS 978-1-77089-319-1 • Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-320-7 • PDF • $16.95

“The book is as character-crammed as the Inferno.” — Tim Lilburn

FOR TAMARA SARAH LANG 978-1-77089-367-2 • Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-368-9 • PDF • $16.95

“At her best, Lang’s disjunctive syntax and taut, oblique episodes can be hauntingly moving.” — Quill & Quire

THE QUIET ANNE-MARIE TURZA 978-1-77089-443-3 • Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-444-0 • PDF • $16.95

“A conﬁdent and serene narrative voice evokes vibrant, imaginative, and astonishing images . . .” — Jury citation, RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

SUN BEAR MATTHEW ZAPRUDER 978-1-77089-459-4 • Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-460-0 • PDF • $16.95

“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.” — New York Times DIRECTING HERBERT WHITE JAMES FRANCO 978-1-77089-457-0 • Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-458-7 • PDF • $16.95

“Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry

July & October GRANTA MAGAZINES EDITED BY SIGRID RAUSING

GRANTA 128: American Wild When every inch of land has been conquered, when every place has been mapped, what is left to explore? This issue of Granta goes into the Ameri- can wild, metaphorical and real. Includes contributions by David Treuer, Anne Carson, Anthony Doerr, Thomas McGuane, Martin Amis, Andrew AMERICAN Motion, Callan Wink, Claire Vaye Watkins, Melinda Moustakis, and Mona WILD Simpson.

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GRANTA 129: Fate Includes contributions by Anjan Sundaram, Andrea Stuart, Fatima Bhutto, Sam Coll, Joanna Kavenna, Joseph Roth, Michael Cunningham, and Will Self.

FATE SIGRID RAUSING is Acting Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything Is Wonderful, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in the US and UK, and translated into four different languages.

OCTOBER LITERARY COLECTIONS/GENERAL MARKETING NOTES 978-1-90588-183-3 • National media mailing • Co-op available 5.7 X 8.2 • 256 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK • $19.95 BISAC: LCO000000

64 NEW FICTION

NOONTIDE TOLL ROMESH GUNESEKERA

Vasantha is a van driver in Sri Lanka. After nearly three decades of conﬂict, the civil war is over and the country is moving tentatively into the future — though at times the recent past seems too close for comfort. Pretty, entrepreneurial hoteliers have mysterious scars under their collars; Chinese businessmen looking to invest in scrap metal are led to gigantic scrapyards of abandoned bicycles; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers, in another time, died by their hands. In this collection of linked stories, Vasantha drives across the beautiful but scarred landscape of his home island, lingering on the periphery of his passengers’ varied stories.

ROMESH GUNESEKERA grew up in Sri Lanka and now lives in Lon- don. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the JULY FICTION / SHORT STORIES Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994. He is the author of numerous novels and 978-1-78378-015-0 story collections, including Monkﬁsh Moon and The Sandglass. 5.3 X 8.5 • 256 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK • $19.95 MARKETING NOTES BISAC: FIC029000 • National media mailing • Co-op available

THE BANNER OF THE PASSING CLOUDS ANTHEA NICHOLSON Iosif Dzhugashvili is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name by a zealous hospital ofﬁcial. Young Iosif grows up haunted by his great namesake, convinced that the dictator has found a new dwelling place within his chest, behind his heart. But when Iosif unwittingly destroys his family’s happiness he is forced to question his lifelong loyalties to Stalin’s ghost.

ANTHEA NICHOLSON is a writer and visual artist who lives between England and Tbilisi, Georgia. She gained an MA with distinction in creative writing at Bath Spa University in 2005. The Banner of the Passing Clouds is her ﬁrst novel. MARKETING NOTES AUGUST FICTION / LITERARY • National media mailing • Co-op available 978-1-84708-743-0 5 X 7.7 • 216 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK • $19.95 BISAC: FIC019000

65 MonthAugust DRUGSTITLE 2.0 TheSubtitle Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High AUTHOR NAME MIKE POWER

LeadAn eye-opening quote — credit investigation of the new and constantly-mutating global drug culture that is driven by social networking and rogue chemistry.

A few years ago, deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today, you can order every conceivable pill or pow- der with the click of a mouse. But the online market in narcotics isn’t just changing the way drugs are bought and sold; it’s changing the nature of drugs themselves. Enterprising dealers are using the web to engage highly skilled foreign chemists to tweak the chemical structures of banned drugs — just enough to create a similar effect, just enough to render them legal in most parts of the world. Drugs such as mephedrone (aka meow meow) are market- ed as “not for human consumption,” but everyone knows exactly how they’re going to be used — what they can’t know is whether their use might prove fatal. From UK dance ﬂoors to a department of toxi- cology, via social networking sites and underground labs, Mike Power explores this agile, international, virtual subculture that will always be one step ahead of the law.

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MARKETING NOTES 66 66 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME

LeadBorn in quote1971, MIKE — creditPOWER has worked as a free- PRAISE FOR MIKE POWER AND DRUGS lance journalist for British newspapers including 2.0: the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Her- ald, DrugScope, and the Big Issue for the last sixteen “An authoritative and compellingly lucid account years, producing news, features, and investigations. of one of the most important topics drug prohibi- Between 2004 and 2009 he worked as a freelance tion has created. Very few books have ever managed correspondent in Latin America, specializing in to convince me that the author truly understands conﬂict, human rights, and drugs issues. Assign- this topic as well as Mike does. Remember to buy ments for Reuters in Panama and later in Colombia two and give one to your local politician.” — Dread brought him into intimate contact with the tradi- Pirate Roberts, founder of the Silk Road tional drugs trade as he investigated the Colombian cocaine industry. Since 2009 he has been based in “A crucial primer for anyone who wants to under- London. This is his ﬁrst book. stand contemporary drug culture. Mike Power uses hardcore research to map the chemical, social, political, and economic landscape of today’s nar- cotic underground and its impact on those who consume the drugs that it generates.” — Matthew Collin, author of Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House MARKETING NOTES “An informed and thoroughly hip intervention into a public debate that is too often evidence-hostile • National media mailing and tabloid-panderingly disingenuous . . . Fascinat- • Co-op available ing and vividly written.” — Steven Poole, Guardian

“An informed, entertaining, and sobering explanation of the state of play in the modern-day global narcotics trade . . . Power delves into the minutiae and oddities of the trade’s development in illuminating detail . . . Profoundly compelling.” — Metro

MARKETING NOTES 67 67 September THE GOOD BOOK How to Read the Bible RICHARD HOLLOWAY

A brilliant and perceptive reading of a beloved, contentious, and remarkable holy book.

Sacred to millions across the world, translated into countless languages, and with estimated annual sales of 25 million, the Bible is one of the most inﬂuential books of all time. But how, in the twenty-ﬁrst century, should believers and non- believers alike approach the Book of Books? Here, acclaimed writer, respected thinker, and former bishop Richard Holloway takes us from “Genesis” to “Revelation”, illuminating key pas- sages and helping us to a deeper understanding of the Bible’s message.

RICHARD HOLLOWAY is a former Bishop of Edinburgh and Professor of Divinity at Gresham College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Chairman of the Scot- tish Arts Council. His books include Godless Morality, Doubts and Loves, Looking in the Distance, and Leaving Alexandria, which won a PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography.

“Offers some surprisingly pertinent new interpretations of the Bible that will engage believers and non-believers alike.” RELIGION / Biblical Studies — Scotland on Sunday 978-1-78378-026-6 5 x 7.7 • 144 pages “I don’t agree with everything Richard Holloway says . . . but Trade paperback • $14.95 BISAC: REL006700 I can’t avoid someone whose writing is so honest.” — Peter Howson, Sunday Herald

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HOW TO READ HITLER NEIL GREGOR

978-1-78378-028-0 • 5 x 7.7 • 128 pages • Paperback • $14.95

A lucid introduction to the crude but clear system of thought of one of the most notorious men in history.

NEIL GREGOR is the Reader in Modern German History at the Univer- sity of Southampton and editor of Nazism: A Reader.

HOW TO READ SHAKESPEARE NICHOLAS ROYLE

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A richly detailed, intelligent, and engaging study of the most celebrated English writer ever to have lived.

NICHOLAS ROYLE is Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

HOW TO READ THE QUR’AN MONA SIDDIQUI

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In this thought-provoking, considered study of the scripture of Islam, Mona Siddiqui explores the “big themes” of prophecy, law, sin, and salvation from her dual position as a believer and a scholar.

MONA SIDDIQUI is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

69 November THE MEMORY PALACE A Book of Lost Interiors EDWARD HOLLIS

A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from great architectural constructions to the now-vanished chambers they once contained.

The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. In this dazzling work of imaginative re-construction, Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces together the fragments he finds there to re-create their vanished chambers. From Rome’s Palatine to the old Palace of Westminster and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, and from the sets of the MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal Palace and his own grandmother’s sit- ting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the people who, for a short time, made them their home.

Born in London in 1970, EDWARD HOLLIS studied Archi- tecture at Cambridge and Edinburgh before joining a practice. HISTORY / Social History He teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and his first book, The 978-1-84627-326-1 Secret Lives of Buildings, was longlisted for the Guardian First 5 x 7.7 • 368 pages Book Award and the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Paperback • $21.95 BISAC: HIS054000 “Rich and poetic, this is the kind of non-fiction that makes fiction seem predictable, thin, and uncurious.” — Stuart Kelly, Scotsman

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70 November SEVERED A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found DR. FRANCES LARSON

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the Western world’s dark obsession with decapitated heads and skulls.

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and it connects our inner selves to the outer world more intensely than any other part of the body. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s pre-eminence, one that has, in the course of West- ern history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. Over the centuries, human heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums. Long-regarded as objects of fascination and repulsion, they have been props for portrait artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers, and items of barter. From the western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred brutal massacres, to the Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of Japanese opponents home to their girlfriends; from the memento mori in Romantic por- traits to Damien Hirst’s platinum skull set with diamonds; from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, fantastical, and confounding history of the severed head, and offers us a new perspective on our macabre HISTORY / World preoccupations. 978-1-78378-055-6 6.1 x 9.2 • 336 pages Hardcover • $29.95 DR. FRANCES LARSON was, until recently, a curator at the BISAC: HIS037000 Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford. She is the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things. Dr. Larson now teaches anthropology at the University of Durham.

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71 GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM GROUNDWOOD BOOKS

May THIS ONE SUMMER BY MARIKO TAMAKI AND JILLIAN TAMAKI

A unique story of friendship from the creators of the award-winning graphic novel Skim.

Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visitied Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, and they soon ﬁnd themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis. Rose and Windy are spending a lot of their time renting scary movies and spying on the teenagers who work at the local corner store, as well as learning stuff about sex no one mentioned in health class. Pretty soon everything is messed up. Rose’s father leaves the cottage and returns to the city, and her mother becomes more and more withdrawn. While her family is falling to pieces, Rose focuses her attention on Dunc, a teenager working at the corner store. When Jenny, Dunc’s girlfriend, claims to be pregnant, the girls realize that the teenagers are keeping just as many secrets as the adults in their lives.

MARIKO TAMAKI is a writer and performer. Her stories have been broadcast on national radio and she has appeared on stages, in various incarna- tions of herself, across North America. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship Young adult JILLIAN TAMAKI has made illustrations for 978-1-55498-152-6 some of the world’s top publications, including the 6 x 8.5 • 320 pages New York Times and the Guardian, and her work has Trade paperback with ﬂaps been included in the Library of Congress. Black-and-white illustrations • $18.95

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73 NOTES Good Book, The ...... 68 Perrotta, Tom ...... 28 Granta 128: American Wild ...... 64 Power, Mike ...... 66 Granta 129: Fate ...... 64 Queen Rat ...... 57 INDEX Gregor, Neil ...... 69 Rausing, Sigrid ...... 64 Gunesekera, Romesh ...... 65 Ravenscrag ...... 30 Hamilton, Ian ...... 50, 51 Red Pole of Macau, The ...... 51 Hanns and Rudolf ...... 38 Royle, Nicholas ...... 69 Harding, Thomas ...... 38 Scottish Banker of Surabaya, The ...... 51 Harvey ...... 73 Secret Book Of Grazia dei Rossi, The .... 18 19 Knives ...... 27 Heart of Hell, The ...... 52 Severed ...... 71 Adderson, Caroline ...... 56 Hellgoing: Stories ...... 26 Siddiqui, Mona ...... 69 All the Rage ...... 37 Heti, Sheila ...... 27, 57 Signs and Wonders ...... 28 Annabel ...... 5 Hollis, Edward ...... 70 Silcoff, Mireille ...... 24 Armstrong, Théodora ...... 26 Holloway, Richard ...... 68 Skim ...... 73 Arsenault, Isabelle ...... 73 Honeyman Festival, The ...... 56 Slim and None ...... 6 Baldwin, Howard ...... 6 Horack, Skip ...... 42 Snyder, Carrie ...... 14, 15 Banner of the Passing Clouds, The ...... 65 How to Read Hitler ...... 69 Spin ...... 8 Behrens, Peter ...... 26 How to Read Shakespeare ...... 69 Tamaki, Jillian ...... 72, 73 Belonging ...... 2 How to Read The Qur’an ...... 69 Tamaki, Mariko ...... 72, 73 Berkhout, Nina ...... 20 I See the Promised Land ...... 73 Tears of Silence ...... 61 Book, Shane ...... 60 Jane, the Fox and Me ...... 73 This One Summer ...... 72 Booker, Julie ...... 26 Jarman, Mark ...... 27 Thug Kitchen Cookbook, The ...... 40 Born Liars ...... 35 Juliet Stories, The ...... 15 Ticknor ...... 57 Bouchard, Herve ...... 73 Kennedy, A. L...... 27, 36, 37 Travelling Light ...... 26 Boulet-Groulx, Jonathan ...... 61 Killing Pilgrim ...... 53 Turner, Michael ...... 57 Boundless ...... 4 King of Shanghai, The ...... 50 Two Sisters of Borneo, The ...... 51 Britt, Fanny ...... 73 Larson, Frances ...... 71 Up Up Up ...... 26 Chez L’arabe ...... 24 Lederhendler, Lazer ...... 30 Vanier, Jean ...... 61 Chitrakar, Manu ...... 73 Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi, The ...... 16 Veroni, Clive ...... 8 Clarkson, Adrienne ...... 2 Lerner, Ben ...... 57 Vincent, Paul ...... 44 Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility ....26 Leslie, Ian ...... 34, 35 Vlaminck, Erik ...... 44 Coady, Lynn ...... 26, 57 Like This ...... 57 Walt ...... 48 Congotronic ...... 60 Malla, Pasha ...... 28 Wangersky, Russell ...... 48 Crosbie, Lynn ...... 57 Mattich, Alen ...... 52, 53 Water Rat of Wanchai, The ...... 51 Curious ...... 34 Mckay, Leo ...... 57 What Becomes ...... 27 Degrees of Nakedness ...... 28 Memory Palace, The ...... 70 Wild Beast of Wuhan, The ...... 51 Disciple of Las Vegas, The ...... 51 Middle Stories, The ...... 27 Winter, Kathleen ...... 4, 5 Does State Surveillance Make Us Safer? .. 10 Milton, Steve ...... 6 Withdrawal Method, The ...... 28 Dragon Head of Hong Kong, The ...... 51 Mixter, Helen ...... 73 Zagreb Cowboy ...... 53 Drugs 2.0 ...... 66 Moore, Lisa ...... 28 Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed Morelli, Christine ...... 73 by Graeme Gibson ...... 56 Nadeau, Janice ...... 73 Engel, Marian ...... 56 Nicholson, Anthea ...... 65 Farah, Alain ...... 30 Nine Inches: Stories ...... 28 Fire Air ...... 44 Noontide Toll ...... 65 Flowers, Arthur ...... 73 Ohlin, Alix ...... 28 Gallery of Lost Species, The ...... 20 On Writing ...... 36 Gargoyles ...... 27 Open ...... 28 Gaston, Bill ...... 27 Other Joseph, The ...... 42 Gibson, Graeme ...... 56 Ouriou, Susan ...... 73 Girl Runner ...... 14 Park, Jacqueline ...... 16, 18 CANADIAN ORDERS HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS, GRANTA, AND PORTOBELLO BOOKS ARE DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY:

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