Fall 2018 Contents CONNECT Click below to navigate Subscribe to NeWest Press video, audio, news, and more by clicking on these links: FRONTLIST THE EAVESDROPPERS 3 FRONTLIST LEFT 4 ITUNES PODCAST FRONTLIST PAPER CASKETS 5 FACEBOOK FRONTLIST SEA OF CORTEZ 6 FRONTLIST THE MIGHTY CARLINS AND TWITTER OTHER PLAYS 7 COMPLETE LIST 8 DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION 12 CONTENTS | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 2 The Eavesdroppers by Rosie Chard When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for ‘listeners’ to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover previously A creepy ambush of a untapped insights into public opinion. “novel, unsettling and But as five eager listeners begin eavesdropping in the cafes, dentist profound in its ideas waiting rooms, public toilets, tube trains and launderettes of London, and fears. One feels discreetly noting the details of unguarded conversations, Bill starts the weight of history to notice subtle changes in their behaviour and realises he has underestimated the compulsive nature of his group. His anxiety is and of the future; one compounded after he receives a series of anonymous letters warning hears a warning.” him of the dangers of his experiment. - Michelle Butler Hallett, author of This As the group becomes increasingly intertwined in their subjects’ lives, eavesdropping descends into obsession and Bill has to find a way to Marlowe rein in his increasingly unruly team before they are beyond help. Part spy-thriller Informed by conversations collected over three years, The Eavesdroppers, by award-winning author Rosie Chard, is a dark, yet “in miniature, part wryly humorous tale of present-day Londoners, living in a constant fable for our state of noise and crowds and eavesdroppers. disconcerting times, The Eavesdroppers is funny and haunting FICTION Award-winning novelist Rosie Chard grew up on and achingly human.” ISBN 13 978-1-988732-44-2 the edge of the North Downs, a range of low hills - Ian Weir, author of BISAC: FIC019000, south of London, UK. She worked as a landscape Will Starling and The FIC069000 architect at the University of Greenwich and 320 pp || 6 x 9” pb practiced for several years in England, Denmark, Death and Life of September 2018 || $20.95 and Canada. She and her family emigrated to Strother Purcell Winnipeg in 2005 where she worked as an English Language teacher at the University of Manitoba. She is now based in Brighton. She has two previous novels: Seal Intestine Raincoat (2009) and The Insistent Garden (2013). FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 3 Left by Theanna Bischoff Twenty-nine-year-old Natasha Bell went for an evening jog, just like any other night – except now no one knows where she is. Not her sister, Abby – eighteen, eight months In Left, Theanna pregnant, and without a game plan. Not her childhood “Bischoff deftly sweetheart, now ex-boyfriend, Greg, an introverted academic navigates a dense who could never bring himself to commit. Not her best friend tangle of family, Josie, a newlywed, born-again Christian, with whom Natasha friendships, and affairs recently had a falling out. And not detective Reuben Blake, that comes loose at the centre with the who thought this case would be open ’n shut – a quick way baffling disappearance to prove himself and move up the ranks. Missing person’s of the seemingly statistics suggest Natasha’s ex is the primary suspect, but irreproachable woman what about the possibility of a stranger abduction? Or the everyone depended possibility that Natasha left voluntarily or took her own life? on.” What about Natasha’s mother, who took off eighteen years ~ Naomi K. Lewis, before her daughter’s disappearance? As days stretch into author of I Know Who months and months stretch into years, the evidence that You Remind Me Of emerges seems only to complicate the picture more. What secrets might Natasha have been keeping? – and, for that matter, her friends and family. FICTION Theanna Bischoff is a novelist from Calgary, ISBN 13 978-1-988732-43-5 Alberta. Her first novel, Cleavage, was BISAC: FIC019000, shortlisted for both the 2009 Commonwealth FIC045000, FIC031100 Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada/ 300 pp || 6 x 9” pb the Caribbean), and the 2009 Re-Lit Awards. September 2018 || $19.95 Her second novel, Swallow, was published by NeWest Press in Fall 2012. Theanna holds a Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary (2006) and a PhD in Educational Psychology (2012). FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 4 Paper Caskets by Emilia Danielewska Emilia Danielewska’s debut book of poetry reveals the dead. Divided into four parts, Paper Caskets proposes In Paper Caskets, a poetics of the box — as coffin, as prose parameters “‘still-life’ photography of the page, as photograph, and as state of mind and bears witness to body in the face of death. From the act of photo- all that gets left graphing the dead, to mourning the dead, and to pre- out, textual gaps paring for death that is coming, here is work startling unbury ‘departed’ in its clarity, which exposes, as a photograph does, the words on the page, complicated relationship humans have with mortality. and a grief-stricken father contemplates Paper Caskets looks beyond grief to see the dead his daughter as as dynamic places where memory and body collide, gemstone. In these where flesh rots and fluid seeps and we de/compose sweet laments of grief, poetry. Emilia Danielewska unboxes praline cookie tins, insect suicides, and titanium bones, as each POETRY Emilia Danielewska was born Poland and marvellous story- ISBN 13 978-1-988732-36-7 grew up in Windsor, ON. She holds a poem brings to life BISAC: POE011000, Masters in English, Language, Literature, the intimate joy of POE023010 76 pp || 6 x 9” pb and Creative Writing from the University memento mori.” September 2018 || $18.95 of Windsor. She currently lives and works ~ Nicole Markotić, in London, England. Her debut poetry author of Rough Patch book, Paper Caskets, is part of the Crow and Whelmed Said Poetry series. FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 5 Sea of Cortez by Garry Ryan After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary’s underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with Praise for Matanzas: his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connection and The writing, particularly stop the violence. “Lane’s inner narrative, sparkles.” As tensions mount back in Canada and outright war ~ Publishers Weekly on the streets seems imminent, the laconic detective Strong characters and his allies must use some unorthodox tactics to “and far-flung settings avert disaster in the Gulf of California and dismantle propel Matanzas, the the cartel. ninth novel in Garry Ryan’s groundbreaking Inspector Lane series. Ryan takes Lane and his cast of well-drawn supporting characters from Cuba to Calgary, in a breakneck chase to stop a malicious and truly memorable villain. MYSTERY In 2004, Garry Ryan published his first Matanzas is Ryan’s best ISBN 13 978-1-988732-39-8 Detective Lane novel, Queen’s Park. The to date!” BISAC: FIC022000, second, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, FIC0022020, FIC068000 ~ Sam Wiebe, author of 208 pp || 5 x 8” pb won a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. He Last of the Independents October 2018 || $18.95 has since published eight more titles in and Cut You Down the series. In 2009, Ryan was awarded Calgary’s Freedom of Expression Award. He currently lives in Calgary. FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 6 The Mighty Carlins and Other Plays by Collin Doyle Award-winning playwright Collin Doyle has crafted three gripping plays that display a keen understanding Praise for The Mighty of human relationships, both functional and Carlins: dysfunctional. Collin Doyle’s outrageously “funny black suburban In The Mighty Carlins, an irascible father reunites comedy, restores with his two sons – one a naïve idealist, the other a dysfunction and chronic underachievement to its compulsive manipulative liar – to commemorate the multi-generational glory on anniversary of their mother’s death. In the dynamic the Canadian Stage.” Let the Light of Day Through, a couple in their thirties ~Liz Nicholls, Edmonton reimage their relationship and their future, in order to Journal leave behind the memory of their dead teenage son. Praise for Let the Light of And in Routes, a lonely teenager rides the Mill Woods Day Through: bus almost every night to escape the violence of his ...an honest study of a loving home life, only to find that violence cannot be avoided couple searching for what with the purchase of a bus ticket. “remains possible in the most impossible of situations.” ~Colin Maclean, Edmonton Sun DRAMA Collin Doyle is an Edmonton-based writer. Praise for Routes: ISBN 13 978-1-988732-42-8 Collin’s plays have received Sterling Awards BISAC: DRA013000, for Outstanding Production, Outstanding The play’s last five minutes, DRA000000 Production for Young Audiences, and as Tom tries on different 168 pp || 5.5 x 9” pb “scenarios to change the Outstanding Fringe Production. He is a October 2018 || $19.95 three-time winner of the Alberta Playwriting cycle of abuse and bullying Competition. Collin is a graduate of the in his life, is riveting.” National Theatre School of Canada. ~Jon Kaplan, Now Toronto FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Fall 2018 | 7 Complete List FICTION CLEAVAGE THE HOME FOR WAYWARD PARROTS OPEN PIT Theanna Bischoff Darusha Wehm Marguerite Pigeon 59 GLASS BRIDGES 978-1-897126-25-7 I $17.95 978-1-988732-27-5 | $19.95 978-1-927063-32-3 I $19.95 Steven Peters 978-1-926455-78-5 $19.95 CRISP HOUSE OF SPELLS THE ORCHARD KEEPERS R.