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Lead“Lawrence quote Hill’s — credit hugely impressive work is completely engrossing and deserves Lead quote — creditLAWRENCE HILL is the PRAISE FOR LAWRENCE HILL AND THE a wide, international readership.” — Washington Post on The Book of author of several novels and BOOK OF NEGROES: Negroes works of nonfiction, including Some Great Thing, Any Known COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD Blood, and the award-winning In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, best- WINNER national bestseller The Book selling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER of Negroes. He also wrote the examination of the scientific and social history of ONTARIO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION EVERGREEN AWARD blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides memoir Black Berry, Sweet WINNER us today. Juice: On Being Black and White CBC RADIO CANADA READS WINNER Blood runs red through every person’s arteries in Canada and co-authored, with Joshua Key, The HURSTON-WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD finalist and fulfills the same functions in every human Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE LONGLIST being. However, as much as the study and use of Walked Away from the War in Iraq. blood has helped advance our understanding of INTERNATional IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD human biology, its cultural and social representa- LONGLIST tions have divided us perennially. Blood pulses “The Book of Negroes is a masterpiece, daring and through religions, literature, and the visual arts, impressive in its geographic, historical, and human and every time it pools or spills, we learn a little reach, convincing in its narrative art and detail, more about what brings human beings together and necessary for imagining the real beyond the traces what divides them. The perceptions of difference in marketing notes left by history.” — Globe and Mail our blood have defined and separated people on the basis of gender, race, and nation. Perceptions about “[A] wonderfully written fictional slave narrative . . . • National tour: the history and purity of one’s blood have spawned populated by vivid characters and rendered in fasci- Montreal – October 15 rules about who gets to belong to a family or cul- nating detail.” — New York Times tural group, who enjoys the rights of citizenship Halifax – October 17 Vancouver – October 23 and nationality, what privileges one can expect to “Aminata is a heroic figure, a little larger than life, Edmonton – October 25 be granted or denied, whether you inherit diseases residing within and outside of history. You can nev- Toronto – November 1 or the right to rule over the masses, what consti- er forget this character. She embeds herself in your • National media coverage tutes fair play in sport, and what, exactly, consti- heart.” — Toronto Star tutes a person’s identity. • National advertising SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General • Major CBC Radio support Blood: The Stuff of Life is a fascinating historical “Stunning, wrenching and inspiring . . . Hill’s book 978-1-77089-322-1 • ARCs available and contemporary interpretation of blood, as a bold is a harrowing, breathtaking tour de force.” 5 x 8 • 272 pages • Co-op available and enduring determinant of identity, gender, race, — Publishers Weekly, starred review Trade paperback • $19.95 culture, citizenship, belonging, privilege, depriva- tion, athletic superiority, and nationhood. 978-1-77089-324-5 ePub • $16.95

marketing notes BISAC: SOC026000 marketing notes 2 2 3 3 MonthSeptember Month MTITLER SELDEN’S MAP OF CHINA TITLE DecodingSubtitle the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer Subtitle Author Name Author Name TIMOTHY BROOK

Lead“Brook quote takes — readers credit on a series of brilliantly circuitous mystery tours that Lead quote — creditTIMOTHY BROOK is the PRAISE FOR TIMOTHY BROOK AND reveal the savagery on which Western civilization was built.” — Sunday award-winning author and edi- VERMEER’S HAT: Times (UK) on Vermeer’s Hat tor of twelve books on China, including Quelling the People: MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER The Military Suppression of the A fascinating work of history, biogra- “Vermeer’s Hat offers us a rich new understanding Beijing Democracy Movement phy, cartography, and literary mystery, Mr Selden’s both of Vermeer’s paintings and of the era they por- and Opium Regimes: China, Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently tray. Effortless and compelling, Brook is a wonder- Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. discovered map of China like no other of its time. ful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this He is the editor of a six-volume In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived year.” — Sunday Telegraph in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed series on China published by Harvard University Press, and held the Shaw Chair in Chinese Studies by John Selden, a London business lawyer, politi- “Elegant and quietly important . . . Brook does more at Oxford. He is Professor of History at the Uni- cal activist, former convict, MP, and the city’s first than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization versity of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained and highlight the forces that brought our modern in the bowels of the library, until called up by an world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in of humanity’s interdependence.” — Seattle Times 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was “a puzzle that had to be solved”: an exceptional artefact so “Spellbinding . . . As a guide to the world behind the unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a pictures, Vermeer’s Hat is mind-expanding.” forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us — Sunday Times is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks “A brilliant attempt to make us understand the of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe — and marketing notes reach and breadth of the first global age.” now power China’s ascent. And it raises as many — Guardian question as it answers: How did John Selden acquire • National media attention it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the • National advertising “Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that world in this way and, most importantly, what can it • National author tour can be spookily intimate.” tell us about the world at that time? • ARCs available — Evening Standard Like a cartographic detective, award-winning • Co-op available HISTORY / Asia / China author and historian Timothy Brook has provided “An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of 978-1-77089-353-5 answers. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, swashbuckling where you’d least expect.” 6 x 9.1875 • 336 pages from Java to Tibet, and into China itself, Brook — Daily Telegraph Hardcover with printed dust jacket • $29.95 uses the map to tease out the varied elements that 16-page full-colour photo insert defined this crucial period in China’s history.

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Lead“Since quote its inception — credit Roots has embodied Canada’s heart in everything the LeadMichael quote Bud —m creditan and Don Green are company manufactures and sells to consumers.” — Dan Aykroyd the co-founders of Roots Canada, a leading lifestyle brand known around the world for its quality leather goods, active athletic wear, yoga wear, accessories, Roots: 40 Years of Style celebrates and home furnishings. Under their leadership, the company’s rich history and brings together Roots has become one of Canada’s most iconic a curated collection of the best and most visually brands, and is also recognized for its support of the arresting photographs from the Roots archives — arts, culture, amateur sports, and other community- many of which have never been seen before. related initiatives. Established in 1973, with one As Canada’s most iconic brand, Roots has a his- tiny store in Toronto, Roots now has more than tory that runs deep into the heart of this country. 200 retail locations in Canada, the United States, Founded in 1973 by Michael Budman and Don and Asia. Budman and Green live in Toronto with Green, with a goal of translating their affinity for their families, and maintain cabins in Ontario’s the Canadian wilderness and sport into a distinctive Algonquin Park. and unique aesthetic, Roots is now an internationally renowned company synonymous with excellent Suzanne Boyd is the editor-in-chief of Zoomer. design, workmanship, and innovative store con- She is also the former editor-in-chief of Suede and cepts. From their revolutionary negative heel shoe Flare, where she was the first person of colour to to their beaver canoe sweatshirts, their celebrated helm a mainstream Canadian publication. She lives Team Canada Olympic hats to their high-quality in Toronto, Ontario. leather goods, groundbreaking interiors, and camp chic, the company has truly defined Canadian style. Dan Aykroyd is a comedian, singer, actor, Celebrating the best and fiercest contribution of and screenwriter. He was an original cast member Roots to the Canadian cultural landscape, Roots: 40 of Saturday Night Live, as well as a creator and star Years of Style chronicles the history of the company of The Blue Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghost- and demonstrates how this exceptional brand con- busters. He lives in California. DESIGN / Fashion tinues to be a global lifestyle leader. 978-1-77089-419-8 Featuring never-before-seen photographs, an 9.5 x 11 • 232 pages Introduction by MICHAEL BUDMAN and DON Hardcover with printed dust jacket • $39.95 marketing notes Full-colour images throughout GREEN, a Foreword by renowned fashion editor SUZANNE BOYD, and an Afterword by Academy • National media attention BISAC: DES005000 Award nominee DAN AYKROYD, all of whom have • High profile launch event in Toronto longstanding relationships with the company found- • National advertising ers, this is a must-have collectable celebrating the • Gift guide placement influence of Roots on fashion, interior design, and • Online contest heritage in Canada. • Blad available marketing notes marketing• Co-op available notes 12 12 13 13 MonthFebruary Month SPTITLEIN TITLE HowSubtitle Politics Has the Power to Turn Marketing On Its Head Subtitle Author Name Author Name CLIVE VERONI

LeadA groundbreaking quote — credit work of nonfiction that merges political strategy with LeadCLIVE quoteVERONI — is credita leading marketing strategist. excerpt consumer marketing. He is a consultant on brand positioning, marketing strategies, new product development, and advertising The consumer marketplace has become a democ- to a wide variety of blue-chip clients across North racy. Everyone’s opinion can be voiced and every In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s America. In 1999, he founded Leap Consulting, and opinion counts. To make themselves heard above Outliers and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and prior to that he had a successful advertising career the din, brands must break through a cacophony of Slow, Clive Veroni’s Spin is a fascinating investigation that included working on the launch of the IBM blogging, chatting, and twittering. Marketers no of how the techniques of political strategists are be- PS2 and the launch of the Apple “Think Different” longer guide the conversation. At best, they get to ing applied to the world of consumer marketing. campaign in Canada. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. have a louder say than anyone else. In the early twentieth century political opera- One consequence of the more public, more tives did their work in the backroom, a shady place entrenched, and more extreme views is that now of secret deals and dark arts. By the middle of the more than ever consumers are not just shopping century, the politicos were heading to Madison for brands, they’re voting for them. Increasingly, Avenue to learn the techniques of mass communica- it’s not enough to know that the product meets our tion and persuasion. Today, they have moved from needs and our price point. We also want to know the dim light of the backroom to the bright lights under what conditions it was made, how the com- of the war room, the central command for political pany treats its employees, what its stand is on the campaigns. And along the way the pupil has sur- environment, and so forth. Our choice of brands, passed the teacher. like our choice of politicians, is not simply a reflec- Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer tion of our needs and wants, it’s also a reflection of modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, our values. political strategists are reshaping the way voters As the marketplace evolves into a noisy public think. And act. Forward-thinking marketers are square, where consumers are waving their flags and now adopting these techniques to convince con- raising their voices, how do marketers get their sumers to buy their products. The strategies being message across? How do they connect with con- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / used to influence our choices at the ballot box will sumers who are demanding not just value but also marketing notes General soon be used to influence our choices in the grocery values? In the world of politics there are well-devel- 978-1-77089-317-7 store. oped techniques for doing just that, techniques that 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages Drawing on political and marketing stories • National media coverage have been forged and tested in the intense heat of Trade paperback • $19.95 from North America, Europe, and beyond, Spin • National author tour election campaigns. The following chapters will gives readers an insider’s view of this stunning • ARCs available illuminate the best of them, all of which are likely 978-1-77089-318-4 turnaround. The book will focus on well-known • Co-op available to change the way marketers connect with you and ePub • $16.95 characters from the worlds of politics and market- me, their target audience.

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THE UNIVERSE WITHIN From Quantum to Cosmos NEIL TUROK “Turok takes you where no physicist has gone before. It’s well worth making the journey with him.” — Time “An excellent book for anyone who wants a general, accesible overview of our best understanding of the universe.” — Globe and Mail

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LeadThe latest quote from — credit Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Cary Fagan is a Lead quote —C creditARY FAGAN is an award- PRAISE FOR CARY FAGAN AND MY LIFE tender coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a Jewish neighbour- winning author who is known AMONG THE APES: for timeless stories that reveal hood in the 1930s. LONGLISTed for the SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE complex and universal themes. With all the wonder of a small-scale The He has written several novels, “The volume’s ten stories are, without exception, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this including Valentine’s Fall, which splendid yarns, told with the practiced ease of a nat- moving and unforgettable novel about childhood, was a finalist for the Toronto ural storyteller.” — Quill & Quire love, and magic. Book Award, The Mermaid of Paris, Felix Roth, as Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the well as several books for children. He has been an PRAISE FOR VALENTINE’S FALL: 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first editor and contributor to several magazines and TORONTO BOOK AWARD FINALIST with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the his new passions from his parents — the long- Montreal Gazette. His books have been published in “Valentine’s Fall has a strong current of humour and suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a the U.S., Canada, and Germany. He was the winner absurdity amid the pensive melancholy.” talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechani- of the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, — Winnipeg Free Press cal devices — Benjamin begins apprenticeships in and most recently, his collection of short stories, My magic and life itself, learning along the way that Life Among the Apes, was longlisted for the Scotia- “[Cary Fagan is] a fine literary craftsman.” everything is more complicated than it seems. bank Giller Prize. — Canadian Jewish News With wit, tenderness, humour, and, startling beauty, Cary Fagan brings a gifted young man’s “The simplicity and directness of Fagan’s writing rise to a peculiar kind of stardom, wonderfully is admirable.” — Quill & Quire alive. marketing notes

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BISAC: FIC043000 marketing notes marketing notes 18 18 19 19 MonthJanuary Month SERATITLE FIM AND CLAIRE TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorMARK LAVORATOName Author Name

TheLead Paris quote Wife —, Thecredit Rules of Civility, and The Cat’s Table all rolled into one novel LeadMARK quoteLAVO RA—TO credit is the author of two novels, PRAISE FOR MARK LAVORATO AND set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal about an unlikely duo who Veracity and Believing Cedric, and a collection of BELIEVING CEDRIC: team up to catapult their artistic careers forward — with unexpected results. poems, Wayworn Wooden Floors. In addition to writing, he is an active musician and a street photogra- “Believing Cedric is a marvelously strange novel that From one of Canada’s brightest emerging pher. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. explores a marvelously normal phenomenon: every- writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and one in our lives has a story. Mark Lavorato writes life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s with great humanity, compassion, and curiousity.” Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, mov- — Todd Babiak, author of Toby: A Man ing, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected. PRAISE FOR VERACITY: Claire Audette is a dancer whose reputation in the vaudeville houses of 1920s Montreal is rapidly “A stunning tale of brainwashing gone mad in on the rise. Serafim Vieria is a photographer and a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies-style world . . . lonely immigrant, wandering the streets of the Veracity is a well-written, thought-provoking paen same city haunted by memories of a lost love in his to the pains of mankind. Lavorato is a new voice native Portugal. Around them, the Twenties are worth watching for.” — Lethbridge Herald roaring, and the metropolis is simmering: corrupt politicians, the burgeoning of jazz, the emerging suffragette movement, trouble in the Red Light, fascism in the Italian community, with the Eng- lish/French divide cleaving through it all. And as marketing notes Serafim and Claire’s lives begin to intertwine, a dangerous plot forms that could boost both their • National media coverage fortunes. Can their naïve yet cunning plan succeed? • National author tour Can they make their own luck? And, if they fail, • ARCs available what will become of their budding love? Serafim and • Co-op available Claire is the unforgettable story of two idealistic yet flawed dreamers being drawn together, and of the FICTION / Literary vibrant city and times in which they live. In lush 978-1-77089-365-8 and beautiful prose, Mark Lavorato brings an entire 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages world vividly to life. Trade paperback • $22.95

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Lead quote — creditBONE AND BREAD SALEEMA NAWAZ “An emotionally complex, riveting story. [It] is a poignant read, but it captivates because it brims with humanity.” — Toronto Star “Nawaz invites her reader into an intimate and devastating history, and holds you right until the end.” — National Post

PEOPLE PARK PASHA MALLA AMAZON.CA first novel award finalist • AMAZON.CA BEST BOOKS: EDITORS’ PICKS

“An ambitious and complex novel, impressively rendered and fantastic to read.” — National Post “Every sentence [is] a thrill . . . [in People Park] we get a frightening picture of ourselves.” — Montreal Gazette Celebrating February short fiction Lisa Moore CBC Radio Canada Reads Winner • M an Booker Prize Longlist and the talented The New Yorker Best Books of the Year • Globe and Mail Top 100 Books Quill & Quire Best Books of the Year writers of this “Moore deftly weaves together the present . . . and the past, evoking memory and grief great genre in pitch-perfect detail.” — The New Yorker “Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.” — Globe and Mail

marketing notes 22 22 MonthJuly Month HELLGTITLE OING TITLE StoriesSubtitle Subtitle Author Name Author Name LYNN COADY

HellgoingLead quote is Scotiabank— credit Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady’s second collection Lead quote —LY creditNN COADY is the author PRAISE FOR LYNN COADY AND THE of short fiction, and one of her fiercest, funniest, and most searching books of the bestselling novel The ANTAGONIST: to date. Antagonist, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST GEORGES BUGNET AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER With astonishing range and depth, as well as the novels Mean GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOKS Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives Boy, Saints of Big Harbour, and us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them Strange Heaven and the short TORONTO STAR REVIEWERS’ TOP 100 BOOKS grabbing our attention from the first line and reso- story collection Play the Monster Blind. She has AMAZON.CA BEST BOOKS: EDITORS’ PICK nating long after the last. been a finalist for the Governor General’s Liter- AMAZON.CA BEST BOOKS: CANADIAN FICTION ary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for A young nun charged with talking an anorexic “Only a writer as wonderfully gifted as Lynn Coady Humour, and has four times made the Globe and out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin could elicit such extraordinary sympathy for a char- Mail’s annual list of Top 100 Books. Originally distance between practicality and blasphemy. A acter as full of self-destructive rage as Rank, her from Cape Breton, she now lives in Edmonton, strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl main character.” — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize– Alberta, where she is a founding and senior editor takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the winning author of Empire Falls years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for of the award-winning magazine Eighteen Bridges. nocturnal bondage can’t seem to stop bashing her- “Coady’s fluency in the language of the college boy self up in the light of day. Equally adept at captur- [is] impressive, [as is] her feel for the camarade- ing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, rie that is inseparable from rivalry and masculine compassionate in her humour yet never missing an aggression.” — The New Yorker opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn marketing notes “By turns angry, funny, tender, and sad . . . The Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures Antagonist is a full-bodied work of fiction.” —Globe what it is to be human at this particular moment in • National media attention and Mail our history. • National advertising • National author tour “A readable, quixotic coming-of-age story, a com- • Online promotion and contests edy of very bad manners, and a thoughtful inquiry (@Lynn_Coady and www.lynncoady.com) into the very nature of self.” — National Post • ARCs available • Co-op available “Sentence for sentence, Lynn Coady is one of the FICTION / Short Stories most dynamic prose stylists in Canadian letters.” 978-1-77089-308-5 — The Walrus 5.25 x 8 • 240 pages Trade paperback • $19.95

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marketing notes BISAC: FIC029000 marketing notes 24 24 25 25 MonthSeptember Month NINTITLEE INCHES TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorTOM PERROTTA Name Author Name

Lead“The Leftoversquote — is,credit simply put, the best Twilight Zone episode you never saw. ” Lead quote —TOM credit PERROTTA is the author PRAISE FOR TOM PERROTTA AND THE — Stephen King on The Leftovers of eight books, most recently LEFTOVERS: The Leftovers. His breakout novel Little Children was fea- New York Times Notable Book tured on numerous “best of The new collection from the New York Washington Post Notable Fiction Book the year” lists, including the Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little USA TODAY 10 Books We Loved Reading This Year New York Times, Newsweek, and Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta’s NPR 10 Best Novels of the Year familiar suburban nuclear families. National Public Radio, and two of his novels — O (The Oprah Magazine) Best Fiction Titles of Tom Perrotta’s first book,Bad Haircut, con- Election and Little Children — have been made into the Year sisted of linked stories featuring a shared protag- acclaimed and award-winning movies. He has Miami Herald 10 Best Books of the Year onist. Now, nineteen years later, he has written also taught creative writing at Yale and Harvard Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of the Year and compiled his first true short story collection. universities. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and This twelve story collection features a group set in now lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts. GQ Best Books of the Year Perrotta’s trademark suburban setting, focusing on San Francisco Chronicle 100 Recommended the fissures in families and unexpected connections Books of the Year among members of typical American communities, Seattle Times Best Books of the Year including “Senior Season” and “Nine Inches.” Other “Leavened with humour and tinged with creepi- offerings showcase Perrotta’s assured, smooth writ- ness, this insightful novel draws us into some very ing, but many may surprise fans with new protago- dark corners of the human psyche.” — Ron Charles, nists and concerns. One of these twistier stories is Washington Post “The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face,” which was the marketing notes Boston Book Festival’s first all-city One City, One “Profoundly entertaining . . . The Leftovers brims Story selection in 2010. • National media attention with joy, hilarity, tenderness, and hope.” — Marie Following up on his dramatic and bestselling • Author tour Claire novel The Leftovers, which is being developed by • ARCs available HBO as a series, Nine Inches is a varied and inter- • Co-op available “Start with what the author calls a Rapture-like esting book from one of our most thoughtful and phenomenon, mix in some suburban angst, and elegant writers. FICTION / Short Stories poof: all other apocalyptic fiction gets blown away.” 978-1-77089-427-3 — O, The Oprah Magazine 5.5 x 8.25 • 256 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 “An engrossing read.” — People

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

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“[this collection] has something for every busy reader . . . these fresh, edgy, unflinching stories about contemporary life on the urban and rural West Coast will resonate with readers at all stages of life.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“An exceptional debut.” — Globe and Mail

“Armstrong’s tales are indeed satisfying; the book is delicious from start to finish.” — Montreal Gazette

“The stories in Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility are marked by a sharp eye (Arm- strong is also a photographer) and vividly described landscapes.” — National Post

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From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other.

“Behrens’s stories are striking snapshots that conjure wispy connections rather than delivering answers and absolutes. Where his flawed, aimless characters are headed often remains unclear, but they are so vividly drawn, in pose both direct and evocative, they haunt the mind long after their tales are told.” — Quill & Quire

marketing notes 28 28 MonthSeptember Month KTITLEOLIA TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorPERRINE Na meLEBLANC Author Name TRANSLATED BY DAVID SCOTT HAMILTON

LeadWinner quote of the — creditGovernor General’s Literary Award and Quebec’s “Canada LeadPERR INquoteE LEBLA — creditNC was born in Montreal excerpt Reads” in the original French. in 1980. Her first novel (published under the title L’homme blanc in Quebec and Kolia in France) won Josef did his best to describe the world he had known the Governor General’s Literary Award for French extra-muros. They would sit beside the coal stove Set against the backdrop of Stalinism Fiction, Quebec’s “Canada Reads” competition, when the temperature dropped and the guards were and then the collapse of the USSR, Kolia is a lumi- and was named a finalist for the Grand prix du livre obligated to light it. They talked and wrote. Josef nous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a de Montréal and Elle magazine’s Grand prix. She recited entire poems he had committed to memory, Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as lives in Montreal, Quebec. in both Russian and French, even clumsily acting a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s. out a few passages from King Lear as best he could. Kolia’s life begins in a labour camp in eastern DAVID SCOTT HAMILTON is the translator Kolia learned to read and write Russian amidst Siberia in 1937. Iosif, a prisoner originally from of Nelly Arcan’s Exit, which was a finalist for the the sounds of machine gun fire, pickaxes, and the Western Europe, teaches him the basic knowledge Governor General’s Award for Translation and anonymous howls and shrieks coming from the for survival in the harsh environment of the Gulag, named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. He lives other side of the wall. But even the hot-blooded but he also teaches him calculus, Russian, and in Vancouver, BC. language rising from his own belly was not enough French, before disappearing like most people who to keep his fingers from turning numb in the cold. have lived in the open-air prison. Looking out of the only window, Kolia could see After Stalin’s death, Kolia is released and he’s dead bodies, sometimes they were the bodies of thrown into Soviet society. He joins a circus in men he knew. Over time, he no longer felt anything Moscow, where he finds the comfort of a family and when confronted with the sight of the dead and the is successful until the collapse of the USSR. But the dying. He simply got used to it. memory of Josef and the Gulag haunt him all his marketing notes life. With all of the intensity and impact of Herta • National media coverage Müller’s The Hunger Angel — and spanning half a • National author tour decade of Soviet history — Kolia is an astonishing • ARCs available and evocative tale of suffering, and ultimately, of • Co-op available survival.

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BISAC: FIC019000 marketing notes marketing notes 30 30 31 31 MonthSeptember Month OCTOTITLE BER 1970 TITLE ASubtitle Novel Subtitle Author Name Author Name LOUIS HAMELIN TRANSLATED BY WAYNE GRADY

OctoberLead quote 1970 — plunges credit readers deep into the events that shaped one of the Lead quote — creditLOUIS HAMELIN is excerpt most volatile periods in Canadian history — the FLQ Crisis in Quebec. a novelist and academic. His novel La Rage won My name is Marcel Duquet and I am going to die in the Governor General’s about five minutes. The sky is blue, the sun is shin- October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. Literary Award for French ing, the crows look like nuns’ veils blown open by A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen Fiction. He is a literary the wind and I like the rumbling sound the tractor — here is the story behind history . . . critic for Le Devoir and Ici Montréal. He lives in makes, the way it fills my ears as another row of hay Thirty years after the October Crisis, Sam Sherbrooke, Quebec. falls before the harvester. I am forty-two years old, I Nihilo, a freelance writer whose career is in a have a round bald spot on the top of my head, which slump, is drawn to the conspiracy theories that WAYNE GRADY is the author of fourteen is so hot I feel like a prisoner who’s been scalped have proliferated in the wake of the events. While books of science and natural history and the edi- by Indians and hung by my feet over a bed of coals investigating the death of one of the FLQ hostages, tor of six anthologies of short stories. His transla- until my brain starts boiling. Nihilo sees his life consumed by an inquiry that tions of Daniel Poliquin’s Black Squirrel and Fran- I can see him walking towards me through the leads him further into a flurry of facts, both known cine D’Amour’s Return from Africa were finalists cut hay. And it’s like my heart stops beating. Then and newly discovered. Soon, secret agents, corrupt for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and it starts again: thoughts, the saliva in my mouth, the police officers, politicians, and former terrorists of he is the winner of the John Glassco Prize and the family of crows. In a way, I already know what he the Front de Libération du Québec form a mysteri- Governor General’s Literary Award for Transla- wants . . . ous constellation around him, and at the centre lies tion. He lives near Kingston, Ontario, with his a complicated and dangerous truth. wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds. In the tradition of Don DeLillo’s Libra, October 1970 is a thrilling fictional account of the events that shaped one of the most volatile moments in recent history. marketing notes

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“[An] infinitely likeable novel . . . Lavoie shares a sensibility with Miriam Toews, where flitty, whimsical kites of characters are tethered to earth with threads of melancholy and darkness.” — National Post

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marketing notes 34 34 MonthAugust Month TTITLEHE BOOK OF FATE TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorPARINOUSH Name SANIEE Author Name TRANSLATED BY SARA KHALILI

LeadThe banned quote — book credit that became the bestselling novel in Iran — ever. Lead quote — creditPARINOUSH SANIEE is a PRAISE FOR PARINOUSH SANIEE AND sociologist and psychologist. THE BOOK OF FATE: She was formerly manager of the research department at WINNER OF THE BOCCACCIO PRIZE IN ITALY The bestselling novel in Iran, de- the Supreme Coordination “Delightful and frank. A bold and sincere portrayal spite being banned twice by the government, The Council for Technical and Vocational Education of injustices so masterful that no oppressive court Book of Fate follows a teenage girl in pre-revolu- in Iran. She has written several novels, of which can logically or openly ban its publication. From tionary Iran through five turbulent decades, from The Book of Fate is the first;The Father of the Other start to finish, it is a privation tale of Iranian women before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Re- One, her second novel, has also been published to who will not give up and continue to strive for their public, and up to the present in this powerful story great acclaim in Iran. Her other books are await- rights.” — Bukhara Magazine (Iran) of friendship, passion, and hope. ing approval by the censorship board. A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, “A sensation from Iran.” — Dagbladet (Norway) Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of learning. On her way to school she meets a local contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations “[Saniee] pushes through the personality of her man and falls in love, but when her family discovers include The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, Cen- characters through time and historical events that his letters they accuse her of bringing them dishon- soring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Manda- many storytellers often do not dare to mention. Not our. She is badly beaten by her brother, and her par- nipour, and Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by content with tribulations during the revolution, ents hastily arrange for her to marry a man she’s Shahrnush Parsipur. She lives in New York City. she takes the fate of her heroine’s spouse through never met. Facing a life without love, and the pros- barbed wires and to today’s political slaughter- pect of no education, Massoumeh is distraught, but house.” — Hemlock Magazine (Iran) a female neighbour urges her to comply: “We each marketing notes have a destiny, and you can’t fight yours.” “Saniee gives a voice to all the Iranian women who The years that follow Massoumeh’s wedding are victims and prisoners of domestic violence, tra- • National media coverage prove transformative for Iran. Hamid, Massoumeh’s dition, and men’s abuses . . . Saniee’s women are con- • National author tour husband, is a political dissident and a threat to the temporary heroines who fight to obtain civil rights • ARCs available Shah’s regime. When the secret service arrive to even if that can cost them their lives.” — Cultura • Co-op available arrest him, it is the start of a terrifying period for (Italy) FICTION / Contemporary Women Massoumeh. Her fate, so long dictated by family 978-1-77089-383-2 loyalty and tradition, is now tied to the changing “A gripping tale.” — Verdens Gang (Norway) 5.5 x 8.5 • 464 pages fortunes of her country. Trade paperback • $16.95 A brave novel about fifty years of one woman’s “A critical viewpoint of the Islamic revolution that life, The Book of Fate gives us a rare insider’s view of sheds light on distortions, deviations, and gross vio- 978-1-77089-384-9 Iranian society. lations of human rights committed in the name of ePub • $14.95 God. A brave novel about love, hate, and suffering

BISAC: FIC044000 but also hope of the return of an ancient civilization.” — Aldo Scissors, head judge, excerpted from the 2010 Boccaccio Award speech (Italy) marketing notes marketing notes 36 36 37 37 MonthSeptember Month HATITLENNS AND RUDOLF TITLE TheSubtitle True Story of the German Jew who Caught the Subtitle KommandantAuthor Na meof Auschwitz Author Name THOMAS HARDING

Lead“In this quote electrifying — credit account of how a morally driven British Jewish soldier LeadTHOM ASquote HARD — INcreditG is a former documentary PRAISE FOR THOMAS HARDING AND pursues and captures and brings to trial the Kommandant of Auschwitz, filmmaker and journalist who has written for the HANNS AND RUDOLF: Harding commemorates . . . a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice, justice, shalt Financial Times and the Guardian, among other publications. He founded a television station in thou pursue.” — Cynthia Ozick “Thomas Harding has written a book of two inter- Oxford, England, and for many years was an award- secting lives: his uncle, a German Jew and potential winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. Part history, part biography, part true Nazi victim, and Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Aus- He lives in Hampshire, England. chwitz. In a neat historical irony, his uncle became crime, Hanns and Rudolf chronicles the untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and cap- a British officer who tracked down war criminals, tured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war including one of the worst mass murderers. A fas- criminals. cinating account, with chunks of new information, May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second about one of history’s darkest chapters.” World War, the first British War Crimes Investi- — Richard Breitman, author of The Architect of gation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Genocide: Himmler and The Final Solution and editor- Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities in-chief of the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Holocaust the world has ever seen. One of the lead investiga- and Genocide Studies tors is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his “Well-researched and grippingly written, Hanns most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, and Rudolf provides a unique insight into the fate Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than two of Germany under National Socialism.” — Antony million men, women, and children, but he perfected Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Hitler’s programme of mass extermination. On the Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University run across a continent in ruins, Höss is the one man marketing notes whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time • National media attention the full, exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an • National advertising HISTORY / Holocaust encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. • National tour: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver 978-1-77089-315-3 Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the • Online promotion and photo essay 6 x 9 • 416 pages First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to (@ThomasHarding and www.thomasharding.com) Hardcover with printed dust jacket • $29.95 the horror of the concentration camps and the trials • ARCs available Black-and-white photographs throughout; in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two • Co-op available 8-page black-and-white photo insert German men — one Jewish, one Catholic — whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing 978-1-77089-316-0 way. ePub • $24.95

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UnderLead quote the Hawthorn — credit Tree meets Memoirs of a Geisha in this debut novel set in Lead quote — creditBEN BYRNE was born in excerpt post-WWII Japan. London in 1977 and studied Drama at the University of I heard yelling up ahead and realized I was hear- Manchester. He lived in San ing English being spoken for the first time in my A vivid and powerful novel set in post- Francisco for several years life. Just then, big bright searchlights burst on and WWII Japan, Fireflies chronicles the lives of four and worked as an interna- flooded the road with light. We huddled behind the interweaving characters navigating the war-torn tional market researcher and back of the truck, but the President ordered us to streets of Tokyo during the American occupation. ethnographic filmmaker. This job took him to walk slowly forward and to remember to smile. I “It was all over, I told myself. It was all over. And Japan, where he spent considerable time explor- practiced a cheery expression in the darkness, feel- we were alive.” ing its history and culture. He returned to London ing my cheeks tighten beneath the powder. Told in four first-person narratives,Fireflies to dedicate his time more fully to writing, and his We walked carefully out to the rough stony takes as its starting point the moment of the Japa- short fiction has appeared inLitro magazine. Fire- road. An American soldier, tall and bony, was nese surrender at the end of the Second World War. flies is his first novel. He lives in East London. standing up ahead of us, shouting through a loud- Satsuko and Hiroshi, teenage brother and sister, hailer. Beside him was a line of silhouettes, stand- have lost their parents, and each other, after the ing behind coils of barbed wire. Their guns were firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. all raised and pointing at us. The President urged Hal Lynch, a US reconnaissance photographer us forward and we started to shuffle slowly towards turned photojournalist, has ambitions to bring the them. I could make out some of their faces. They hidden story of the aftermath of war to light. And were all very young — no more than boys. As we Osamu Maruki is a writer who has returned from came closer, the President strode up boldly behind Manchuria a broken, changed man. us, his arms raised, and in a loud, rousing voice As these characters’ stories spin out and then called out in strangled English: “A gift to America! marketing notes converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive From Recreation and Amusement Association!” in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, bru- This was our cue to start giggling, calling out • National media mailing tal, yet beautiful, Fireflies powerfully portrays the “Welcome” while waving our hands and fluttering • National advertising shock, the devastation, and the opportunities that our eyelashes. The Americans lowered their rifles. • Blog tour arise from the destruction of war. They put their hands on their hips and scratched at • ARCs available their heads, smirking at each other. Our faces had • Co-op available turned chalk-white in the searchlight. As we started FICTION / Literary to make our way toward the soldiers in our kimo- 978-1-77089-391-7 nos, we must have looked like ghosts crawling out 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages of the ruins. Trade paperback • $19.95

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LeadErlend quote Loe —is back credit with another hilarious commentary on the hazards of Lead quote —ERLE creditND LOE was born in PRAISE FOR ERLEND LOE AND modern life — this time he tackles our fascination with celebrity. 1969 in Trondheim, Norway. DOPPLER: He studied folklore, film studies, and literature before work- INDIGO SPOTLIGHT FEATURE GUARDIAN BEST BOOK From the bestselling author of ing as a newspaper critic, in a huffington post top BOOK Doppler, comes a wry and very funny look at the psychiatric hospital, and as a pitfalls of human existence . . . and the charms of schoolteacher. He is the author “A darkly comic fable which makes some astringent celebrity chef Nigella Lawson. of eight novels, including Doppler, which was points about the way we live today.” — Independent Aspiring playwright Bror Telemann loves all named a Guardian Best Book, and six children’s

things British. His wife, Nina, loves everything books, which have been translated and published “Wonderfully subversive, funny, and original.” German. So a family holiday at the foot of the Alps, in thirty-four countries. He lives in Norway. — Observer south of Munich — which Bror believes to be the birthplace of Nazism — is bound to cause tension. DON BARTLETT is the translator of, among “Funny and dark . . . like a Nordic Obi-Wan.” Especially when Bror spends the whole time virtu- others, Jo Nesbo and Jakob Ejersbo. — Big Issue ally stalking (and constantly fantasizing about) his greatest obsession, British chef Nigella Lawson. “A distinctive and original book, Doppler has clearly Can Telemann continue to bear the pressure of his hit a nerve in Norway and is sure to ring equally empty existence? Or will his long-suffering family numerous bells here.” — Red Magazine be the first to snap?

“Doppler is witty, sly, and surprising. And it’s slender enough, once you begin, you might never have to marketing notes put it down.” — January Magazine

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LeadA sober, quote deeply — creditmoving story of a father and son living on the fringe of society Lead quote — creditJONAS T. BENGTSSON PRAISE FOR JONAS T. BENGTSSON in 1980s–1990s Copenhagen. was born in 1976. He is the AND A FAIRY TALE: author of the critically acclaimed and prize-winning “A grand novel!” — WDR (Germany) From one of Denmark’s rising stars, a pow- debut Amina’s Letters, which erful and profound novel about a young boy and his won the BG Bank First Book “A generational novel, dense and ambitious.” father who live at the margins of society, until one Award and was a finalist for the Weekendavisens — Livres Hébdo (France) day their adventure takes an unpredictable turn. Litterature Prize. His second novel, Submarino, 1986. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has was awarded the PO Enquist Literary Prize. House “Jonas T. Bengtsson’s new novel plays with the clas- been assassinated, and a young boy and his father of Anansi Press will be debuting Bengtsson’s sic theme of the coming-of-age novel. The young are on the move again. Travelling from Sweden remarkable work to the English-language market Danish writer creates a convincing portrait of a to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of with his third novel, A Fairy Tale, which was a son: fleeing like his father, fleeing because of his Copenhagen, the two live an unconventional life, finalist for the Danish Radio Literature Prize for father.” — Le Monde des livres (France) constantly on the move and living on the margins Best Novel of the Year. He lives in Denmark. of society. The father, an eccentric, restless man, “A beautifully original novel with a lot of charm. takes a series of odd jobs, from making antique fur- CHARLOTTE BARSLUND is a Scandinavian Absolutely recommended.” niture, to landscaping, to working as a bouncer at a translator. She has translated novels by Karin — La Quinzaine littéraire (France) strip club. By day he home-schools his young son. Fossum, Per Petterson, Carsten Jensen, Sissel-Jo At night he weaves a fairy tale about a prince and a Gazan, Thomas Enger, and Mikkel Birkegaard as “A brilliant novel about survival, love, and legacy.” king who are on a mission to kill the wicked White well as a wide range of classic and contemporary — Libération Dimanche, Champagne (France) Queen, while running from the White Men who plays. She translated Peter Adolphsen’s Machine in hide in plain sight. 2008. She lives in the UK. One day, their adventure takes a dark, unpredictable turn. Ten years later, when the boy is just entering adulthood, questions about his father’s murky past can no longer remain unanswered. An unforgettable novel about the profound love between a father and son. marketing notes FICTION / Literary 978-1-77089-306-1 • National media mailing 5.25 x 8 • 352 pages • National tour (pending Danish funding) or blog Trade paperback • $19.95 tour • Online contest 978-1-77089-307-8 • ARCs available ePub • $16.95 • Co-op available BISAC: FIC019000 marketing notes marketing notes 44 44 45 45 RECENT PRAISE FOR ANANSI INTERNATIONAL

THE BLUE BOOK A. L. KENNEDY

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction

“[Kennedy’s] writing really dazzles, her prose is precise and crafted, and her eye for detail and her sense of what’s important in people’s lives and minds is as sharp as a scalpel.” — Toronto Star “A moving story, worth reading.” — Globe and Mail “An interesting, ambitious work.” — Montreal Gazette

SWIMMING HOME DEBORAH LEVY SPIDERLINE

Man Booker Prize finalist New York Times Notable Book Huffington Post Best Book Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors’ Pick

“A lot of fun to read.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “Spare, disturbing and frequently funny . . . unlike anything but itself . . . [a] wry, accom- plished novel.” — New York Times “Dark and erotic . . . elegant language and subtle, uncanny plot . . . the seductive pleasure of Levy’s prose stems from its layered brilliance.” — Washington Post

NICE WEATHER FREDERICK SEIDEL “[Nice Weather] is bubbling over with invention and wit and chutzpah and grace . . . there is writing here of a very high, very screwy order.” — Chicago Tribune “A poet of wonderful fearlessness and daring.” — Tablet Magazine

46 47 MonthOctober Month sTITLEoon TITLE Subtitle Subtitle Authorcharlotte Name grimshaw Author Name

Lead“A thriller quote with — credit real ethical weight. [Soon] sets up . . . one hell of a cliff- LeadCharl quoteotte — Gr creditimshaw is the author of PRAISE FOR Charlotte grimshaw hanger ending.” — Metro (New Zealand) four critically acclaimed novels, Provocation, Guilt, AND soon: Foreign City, and Soon. She has won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for Literature, the #1 bestseller in new zealand During the long summer holiday, the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award, the Montana Medal (New Zealand’s premier award Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large “Grimshaw’s writing never stands still. The nar- for fiction), and has been a finalist for the Frank beach house belonging to Prime Minister David rative belts along, pausing just long enough for O’Connor International Story Prize. She lives in Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is per- characters to tie themselves into another bunch Auckland, New Zealand. fect and outwardly all is well, but tension is brewing of knots. Definitely a novel that puts your coffee underneath the surface. in danger of cooling while you read.” — Weekend There is an unusual bond uniting the two Herald (New Zealand) families — one that forced their meeting and sus- tains their relationship. And one that threatens to “[Soon has] an ending that both surprises and pro- destroy it. You see, the Lamptons and Hallwrights vides a wonderful circularity to round out the theme share something, but it’s something neither family of the past’s persistence in the present.” — North and is willing to give up. As the vacation progresses, South (New Zealand) it becomes increasingly clear that there are some important secrets that need to be kept quiet; “Opening the pages of Charlotte Grimshaw’s new secrets that could ruin them all if they became novel Soon is akin to tilting the blinds in a dim public; and secrets that might impinge their moral room; the razor-like precision of her words flood sensibilities . . . marketing notes your mind with crisp, searing light, such is the In Soon, Charlotte Grimshaw takes readers on a vivid clarity of her prose . . . [Charlotte Grimshaw journey through the world of privilege, power, and • National tour October 14–30: is] one writer whose books I always look forward politics, exposing the dark side of human nature. WordFest (Calgary) to . . . Soon did not let me down.” — TVNZ (New This is an exhilarating and thought-provoking Vancouver International Writers Festival Zealand) novel, in the vein of The Dinner and Gone Girl, that IFOA (Toronto) questions how far people will go to protect them- • National advertising “Soon is a brilliant, chilling, and timely read.” selves and all they hold dear. • ARCs available — Hamish Keith • Co-op available FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense 978-1-77089-434-1 5.25 x 8 • 320 pages Trade paperback • $19.95

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marketing notes BISAC: FIC030000 marketing notes 48 48 49 49 MonthOctober Month WETITLEIRDO TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorCATHI UNSWORTHName Author Name

TheLead Craft quote meets — credit The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in this absorbing crime novel Lead quote — creditCATHI UNSWORTH PRAISE FOR CATHI UNSWORTH AND from London’s “Queen of Noir.” began a career in journal- WEIRDO: ism at nineteen and has since worked for many A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR Named one of the Best Crime Books of music, arts, film, and alternative lifestyle jour- the Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric “An absorbing mystery, an extraordinarily powerful nals. She has been called thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in evocation of time and place and a cast of characters “the Queen of Noir” in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator whose every breath feels real.” the United Kingdom and who reopens the case to discover that she may not — Guardian have acted alone . . . is the author of four novels, including The Singer Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was and Bad Penny Blues, and the editor of the award- “She has brilliantly and vividly captured the des- convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a winning crime compendium London Noir. She lives perate sense of teenage boredom, isolation, danger, summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenag- in London, England. and mayhem — An unusually gifted writer of heart- ers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and felt noir.” — Mirror staying out all night, listening to music that terri- fied their parents. “Unsworth’s ability to render the period so vividly Twenty years later, new forensic evidence sug- makes for an immersive reading experience, and gests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private inves- there can scarcely be a better writer of this sort of tigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as stuff in the land.” — Independent on Sunday a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut “To her brilliant evocation of time and place, short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens marketing notes the case, and discovers a town full of secrets, and Unsworth adds astonishing and disturbing insight a community that has always looked after its own. into the minds of disaffected youth who cannot find • National media mailing love and acceptance. Terrific.” —Times • National advertising • National tour (pending British Council funding) “Unsworth’s plotting is superb but it is her ability to or blog tour convey a sense of time and place that stands out, and • Online promotion at www.cathiunsworth.co.uk she writes wonderfully about music, too.” — Daily and contest Telegraph • ARCs available FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General • Co-op available 978-1-77089-387-0 “Unsworth’s best yet, as sharp as vinegar on chips.” 5.25 x 8.5 • 408 pages — Financial Times Trade paperback • $19.95 “A writer of rare talent. Demonstrating once again a 978-1-77089-388-7 fine sense of place and period.”— Sunday Telegraph ePub • $16.95

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LeadJohn Lequote Carré — creditmeets Alan Furst in this gripping political thriller set in Lead quote —ALE creditN MATTICH is the author PRAISE FOR ALEN MATTICH AND war-torn Yugoslavia. of Zagreb Cowboy, the first novel ZAGREB COWBOY: in the Marko della Torre series. Born in Zagreb, Croatia, he “Zagreb Cowboy is invigorating Euro noir, dark, and The second novel in the Marko della grew up in Libya, Canada, and energizing as good coffee. Alen Mattich’s series is Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political the United States. A financial off like a shot.” — Andrew Pyper, author of The thriller following a complex plot hatched by mem- journalist and columnist, he’s Demonologist bers of the CIA and set against the backdrop of war- now based in London, UK, and writes for Dow Jones torn Yugoslavia. and the Wall Street Journal. “Alen Mattich has done an uncanny job in recreat- Early autumn, 1991. Croatia and Slovenia offi- ing the surreal sense of menace which pervaded the cially declared independence from Yugoslavia, and Croatian capital, Zagreb, on the eve of the devastat- war is imminent between the Croats and the Serbs. ing war in Yugoslavia. But Mattich’s real genius lies Department VI of the UDBA has been dismantled, in his ability to inject moments of high comedy into while the Yugoslav government scrambles to pro- this gripping thriller so that he reads like a Euro- tect the State. In the midst of the political mael- pean Carl Hiassen.” — Misha Glenny, author of strom, secret policeman Marko della Torre gets McMafia and DarkMarket caught in an intricate web woven by the CIA and members of the Croat nationalist movement. They “A kamikaze-paced ride . . . Zagreb Cowboy sets things enlist della Torre to make contact with a man liv- up well for the next book, and for Mattich to look ing in the shadows: the ex-UDBA agent who assas- deep into the black heart of the Balkan conflict.” sinated Olof Palme, the former prime minister of marketing notes — National Post Sweden . . . • National media coverage • National author tour also available in the marko della • ARCs available torre series • Co-op available zagreb cowboy 978-1-77089-108-1 FICTION / Crime 978-1-77089-109-8 Trade paperback • $19.95 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages 978-1-77089-227-9 Trade paperback • $19.95 ePub • $16.95

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Lead“Ava Lee,quote that — wily,credit wonderful hunter of nasty business brutes, is back in her LeadIAN HA quoteMILTON — is credit the author of the wildly popu- also available in the AVA LEE series best adventure ever . . . If you haven’t yet discovered Ava Lee, start here.” lar Ava Lee novels. The first book in the series,The — Globe and Mail on The Red Pole of Macau Water Rat of Wanchai, was the winner of the Arthur The Water Rat of Wanchai Ellis Award for Best First Novel, an Amazon.ca Top 978-0-88784-251-1 100 Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Edi- The sixth installment in the wildly Trade paperback • $19.95 popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award tors’ Pick, an Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an Ama- winner, Ian Hamilton. zon.ca Mysteries and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star 978-0-88784-335-8 Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year, and a Quill & Quire ePub • $16.95 She has also set up an investment company with Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year. The seventh book May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda Yee. in the Ava Lee series, The King of Shanghai, will be The Disciple of Las Vegas One of their first investments — a furniture compa- published in February 2015. 978-0-88784-252-8 ny owned by two sisters in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo Trade paperback • $19.95 — runs into immediate problems with a Dutch cus- tomer. Ava goes to the Netherlands to investigate, 978-1-77089-030-5 but her life is threatened when she is confronted by ePub • $16.95 a gang of local thugs in Borneo. Out of the shadows comes a mysterious man from Shanghai . . . The Wild Beasts of Wuhan 978-0-88784-253-5 THE LATEST PRAISE FOR IAN HAMILTON Trade paperback • $19.95 AND THE AVA LEE SERIES: 978-1-77089-053-4 ePub • $16.95 “Slick, fast-moving escapism reminiscent of Ian Fleming.” — Booklist The Red Pole of Macau FICTION / Mystery & Detective / “A hugely original creation.” — Irish Independent 978-0-88784-254-2 Women Sleuths Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-244-6 “Don’t ever, ever, mess with Ava Lee. She’s not your 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages 978-1-77089-059-6 marketing notes average accountant.” — Terry Fallis, author of The Trade paperback • $19.95 ePub • $16.95 Best Laid Plans

978-1-77089-245-3 • National media coverage “Ava Lee returns as one of crime fiction’s most The Scottish Banker of ePub • $16.95 • National author tour Surabaya • Author available for book clubs intriguing characters. The Red Pole of Macau is the 978-1-77089-234-7 BISAC: FIC022040 • ARCs available best page-turner of the season from the hottest • Co-op available writer in the business!” — John Reynolds, author Trade paperback • $19.95 of Beach Strip 978-1-77089-235-4 ePub • $16.95 marketing notes marketing notes 54 54 55 55 August A SERIES OF beautiful NEW EDITIONS OF ANANSI CLASSICS

Launched to mark our forty-fifth anniversary, the A List is a series of ROCH CARRIER TRILOGY beautiful new editions of classic Anansi titles. Encompassing fiction, ROCH CARRIER nonfiction, and poetry, this collection includes some of the finest books TRANSLATED BY SHEILA FISCHMAN we’ve published. The redesigned A List books will feature new cover by notable Canadian illustrators, and each edition begins with a new FICTION / Humorous • 978-1-77089-373-3 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 336 pages Introduction by a notable writer. Readers who want to rediscover their old Paperback • $14.95 • BISAC: FIC16000 • ePub • 978-1-77089-378-8 • $14.95 favourites or those looking for the perfect introduction to the world of One of the major achievements in recent Quebec literature — Roch Carrier’s Canadian literature will love the A List. La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec. “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 ANA HISTORIC DAPHNE MARLATT NO PAIN LIKE THIS BODY

FICTION / Literary • 978-1-77089-370-2 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 168 pages HAROLD SONNY LADOO Paperback • $14.95 • BISAC: FIC019000 • ePub • 978-1-77089-375-7 • $14.95 FICTION / Literary • 978-1-77089-374-0 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 160 pages A classic of Canadian literature, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s Paperback • $14.95 • BISAC: FIC019000 • ePub • 978-1-77089-379-5 • $14.95 utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity. Fea- The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsen- turing a new Introduction by celebrated author Lynn Crosbie. timental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new “Ana Historic is an unsettling novel — fierce in its disillusion and honesty, Introduction by David Chariandy. poetic in language, and deeply familiar all at once.” — Toronto Star “[Ladoo] has skillfully revealed new territory which if explored can only enrich fiction in Canada.” —Globe and Mail ALDEN NOWLAN SELECTED POEMS ALDEN NOWLAN THIS ALL HAPPENED A Fictional Memoir POETRY / Canadian • 978-1-77089-371-9 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 174 pages Paperback • $14.95 • BISAC: POE011000 • ePub • 978-1-77089-376-4 • $14.95 MICHAEL WINTER

The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan’s explicitly honest, direct, and FICTION / Literary • 978-1-77089-372-6 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages insightful poetry. Featuring a new Introduction by Susan Musgrave. Paperback • $14.95 • BISAC: FIC019000 • ePub • 978-1-77089-377-1 • $14.95

“Nowlan reaches toward pure poetry, what might be called unmediated Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir depicts one man’s descent from speech. Its simplicity is that of truth, the poet’s own truth, as purely stated love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an Introduction by Lisa Moore. as it can be.” — Robert Gibbs, poet, editor, and critic “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 56 57 N A N S N A N S A I A I

B B O B Book club editions O B Book club editions O U O U K C L K C L

Introducing Anansi Book Club Editions — some of our favourite recent carnival titles in a new format with a new low price, and featuring brand new addi- rawi hage tional content. Perfect for any book club. In the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers — the spiders and the flies. The spiders patiently sit in their cars and wait for the calls to come. But alligator the flies are wanderers — they roam the streets, looking for the raised hands lisa moore of passengers among life’s perpetual flux. FROM THE AUTHOR OF FEBRUARY, THE 2013 WINNER OF With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have CANADA READS. made Cockroach and De Niro’s Game international publishing sensations, Carnival gives us Rawi Hage at his searing best. Lisa Moore’s Alligator gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack Quebec Writers’ Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in con- Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist temporary St. John’s, Newfoundland — a city whose spiritual location is “Rawi Hage is, quite simply, a brilliant writer.” — Toronto Star somewhere in the heart of Flannery O’Connor country. OCTOBER FICTION / Literary “Carnival is a rich and compelling read, a testament to a daring and talented COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ prize for fiction winner 978-1-77089-329-0 novelist.” — National Post 5 x 7.75 • 304 pages JUNE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE finalist FICTION / Literary Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-416-7 man booker prize longlist 978-1-77089-226-2 5 x 7.75 • 288 pages ePub • $14.95 BISAC: FIC019000 Trade paperback • $14.95 “Superb.” — 978-0-88784-844-5 Entertainment Weekly ePub • $14.95 BISAC: FIC019000 “Reads like the literary version of some artfully arranged visual collage.” Also available in book club editions — Globe and Mail

in the orchard, the swallows peter hobbs Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan, a tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power. This is a heart- breaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR CHAPTERS/INDIGO BEST BOOKS annabel THE SISTERS BROTHERS UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE AUGUST “Exquisite . . . this is simple yet breathtaking storytelling.” — Globe and Mail FICTION / Literary KATHLEEN WINTER PATRICK DeWITT AI MI 978-1-77089-417-4 “A honed, elegant work of casual audacity . . . perfect.” — Maclean’s 5 x 7.75 • 152 pages 978-1-77089-334-4 978-1-77089-335-1 978-1-77089-350-4 Trade paperback • $14.95 “A perfectly cut jewel of a book.” — Financial Times Trade paperback • $14.95 Trade paperback • $14.95 Trade paperback • $14.95 978-1-77089-211-8 978-0-88784-276-4 • ePub • $14.95 978-1-77089-027-5 • ePub • $14.95 978-1-77089-050-3 • ePub • $14.95 ePub • $14.95 BISAC: FIC019000 58 59 June SUGAR IN THE BLOOD A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire ANDREA STUART

An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples — and determined the destiny of one family over four centuries.

In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known ma- ternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby’s first crop, the cane revolution was underway and would go on to transform the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing a thriving worldwide industry that bound together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers. As it grew, this sweet colonial trade fuelled the Enlightenment and financed the Industrial Revolution, but it also had more direct, less palatable consequences for the individuals caught up in it, consequences that still haunt the author’s past. In this unique personal history, Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own family’s involvement with sugar through successive generations, telling a story of insatiable greed and forbidden love, of abuse and liberation.

ANDREA STUART was born and raised in the Caribbean and the U.S. She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. She is writer in Residence at Kingston University and teaches at the Faber Academy. History / Caribbean & West Indies / General 978-1-84627-072-7 PRAISE FOR ANDREA STUART AND SUGAR IN 5 x 7.8 • 448 pages THE BLOOD: Trade paperback • $17.95 BISAC: HIS0441000 Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

“Stuart spins this rich material into a colourful and com- marketing notes plicated narrative.” — New York Times • National media mailing • Co-op available

60 61 July & October August & September granta magazines GOSSIP FROM THE FOREST EDITED BY JOHN FREEMAN CRUEL BRITANNIA

GRANTA 124: Travel GOSSIP FROM THE FOREST EDITED BY JOHN FREEMAN The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the SARA MAITLAND phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned- Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us — Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone underworld beneath connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by aftermath of the 1995 earthquake. In this issue — which includes poems by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov and non- This is a magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole and Hector Abad —Granta presents a ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence. july for exploring it. august LITERARY COLLECTIONS / TRAVEL / General SARA MAITLAND is the author of numerous works of fiction, and sev- General 978-1-84708-430-9 978-1-90588-169-7 marketing notes 5 x 7.8 • 368 pages eral nonfiction books about religion. Born in 1950, she studied at Oxford 5.7 x 8.2 • 256 pages • National media mailing • Co-op available Trade paperback • $19.95 Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: TRV000000 University and currently tutors on the MA in creative writing at Lancaster BISAC: LCO000000 University. GRANTA 125: After the War marketing notes EDITED BY JOHN FREEMAN • National media mailing • Co-op available It is not just nations that are made and destroyed by war — families are scattered, boundaries of loyalty redrawn. The autumn issue of Granta CRUEL BRITANNIA explores the aftermath of conflict. Patrick French writes of a great uncle A Secret History of Torture whose death in the Second World War transformed the family line. IAN COBAIN A powerful new story by Thomas McGuane tells of fraternal rivalry A hard-hitting book from an award-winning investigative journalist, Cruel and the truth of a mother’s past. A new essay by Aleksandar Hemon Britannia tells the hidden story of Britain’s secretive and shameful record of recounts a friend’s separation from his father during the Balkan Wars. torture, for the first time. From the familial to the global, here is what happens when the weapons Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of are set down, brought to life in fiction, poetry, reportage, and memoir. witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian JOHN FREEMAN’S criticism has appeared in more than two hundred Cobain looks beyond the cover-ups and the equivocations, to get to the truth. newspapers around the world, including the Guardian, the Independent, the october IAN COBAIN was born in Liverpool in 1960. He has been a journalist LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His first book,The Tyranny of E-Mail, is General since the early 1980s and is currently an investigative reporter with the 978-1-90588-171-0 published by Scribner in the U.S. and Text in Australia. september 5.7 x 8.2 • 256 pages HISTORY / Military / General Guardian. Cobain lives in London with his wife and two children. Trade paperback • $19.95 marketing notes 978-1-84627-334-6 BISAC: LCO000000 5 x 7.8 • 368 pages marketing notes • National media mailing • Co-op available Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: HIS027000 • National media mailing • Co-op available

62 63 MonthAugust Month HAWTITLE THORN AND CHILD TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorKEITH RIDGWAYName Author Name

LeadTwo mid-rankingquote — credit North London detectives, tasked with connecting a series Lead quote —KE creditITH RIDGWAY is a Dub- PRAISE FOR KEITH RIDGWAY AND of scattered and gruesome events, come to suspect the only certainty is that liner and the author of the novels HAWTHORN AND CHILD: we’ve all misunderstood everything. The Long Falling, The Parts and Animals, as well as the collection “An idiosyncratic and fascinating novel . . . refresh- Hawthorn and his partner, Child, of stories Standard Time and the ingly contemporary in language and style.” are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting novella Horses. His books have — Zadie Smith in North London. The only witness is unreliable, won awards and acclaim in Ireland the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man and internationally and are translated widely. He “Breathtakingly unpredictable . . . the writing is who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. lived in North London for eleven years. He now perfectly assured and elegant” — Scarlett Thomas, While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange lives somewhere else. Guardian dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: “He turns people inside out, detailing their quirks a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an EXCERPT: and vulnerabilities with engaging perceptiveness.” editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a — Times teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Mod- He dreamed he was sleeping, and Child was driving. ern; and a madman who has been infected by for- Driving but not moving. He was sleeping on the “Vibrant, wonderfully written, funny, and deeply mer Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Haunting these passenger seat and Child wrestled with the wheel, troubled.” — Eileen Battersby, Irish Times disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, but the car was still. It was the city that was moving. an elusive crime magnate who may be running the It was dark. The city rushed past them like words “Ridgway writes with the keen sense of place and city, or may not exist at all. on a screen, and he would have read them but they the lucid, pared-down prose of a good crime novel, went too fast. He was filled with sorrow. It trick- which makes the more outlandish deviations even led through him and filled his eyes. He wept and he more arresting.” — Killian Fox, Observer didn’t know why, and he was embarrassed by it but he could not stop. He cried so much that his face “Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien come regularly disappeared. He dreamed that the siren was on, and to mind, although Ridgway’s blend of the grotesque it was so loud that it woke him. and the absurd is all his own . . . An admirably con- He awoke. Child was driving. The city was still ceived work of fiction.” — Erik Martiny,Times Lit- and they rushed through it. That was the difference. erary Supplement FICTION / General A finger across a page, taking corners not turning 978-1-84708-527-6 marketing notes them, hopping little hills, drawing zigzag ciphers “Cool, and brisk, and oblique, pulsing with intrinsic 5 x 7.8 • 288 pages on the wide, empty intersections. His shoulder was energy, fresh, and vital . . . Really, what more can Trade paperback • $16.95 • National media mailing pressed into the door and pulled away from it and you ask of a novel?” — Darragh McManus, Irish BISAC: FIC000000 • Co-op available he touched his seat belt. He had an erection. He Independent wiped at his eyes. Child was smiling at the road. He wouldn’t drive like this at any other time of the day. He wouldn’t be able to.

marketing notes marketing notes 64 64 65 65 MonthAugust Month SETITLECRECY TITLE Subtitle Subtitle AuthorRUPERT Na THOMSONme Author Name

LeadA novel quote of intrigue, — credit love, and murder set in seventeenth-century Florence, Lead quote —RUPER creditT THOMSON is the PRAISE FOR RUPERT THOMSON AND from one of the UK’s greatest writers. author of eight highly acclaimed SECRECY: novels: Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air & Fire, The “Intellectually intriguing, viscerally gripping, and It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is Insult, Soft, The Book of Revela- emotionally engaging . . . So subtle and so right, you long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, tion, Divided Kingdom and most feel like breaking into applause . . . The only reason where everything is forbidden and anything is pos- recently, Death of a Murderer, you’ll put this book down is to postpone the dread- sible. The Enlightenment may be just around the which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the ful moment when you finish it.” —Independent corner, but knowledge is still the property of the Year Award and by World Book Day for the Book few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex, and power — to Talk About 2008. He lives in Barcelona with his “A powerful creative talent . . . the writing, as ever, is these, as always, are the obsessions. Facing serious wife and daughter. wonderful.” — Guardian criminal charges, Gaetano Zummo is forced to flee his native Siracusa at the age of twenty, first to Pal- “Stunning . . . Rupert Thomson is in the front rank ermo, then Naples, but always has the feeling that EXCERPT: of English authors.” — Observer he is being pursued by his past, and that he will never be free of it. Zummo works an artist in wax. He is It ought to have been one of the most exciting fascinated by the plague, and makes small wooden moments of my life. There I was, high on a ridge, cabinets in which he places graphic, tortured mod- looking down on Florence for the first time. Late els of the dead and dying. But Cosimo III, Tuscany’s afternoon. April the eighteenth, 1691. A burnt- penultimate Medici ruler, gives Zummo his most orange sun dropped, trembling, from behind a bank marketing notes challenging commission yet, and as he tackles it his of cloud, like something being born. No more than path entwines with that of the apothecary’s daugh- an hour of daylight left. Gazing at the buildings ter Faustina, whose secret is even more explosive clustered below me, the jutting, crenellated towers • National media mailing than his. Poignant but paranoid, sensual yet chill- veiled by the mist rising off the river, I felt a piece • Co-op available ing, Secrecy is a novel that buzzes with intrigue and of paper crackle in my pocket, a letter of invitation • National media mailing ideas. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a portrait from Cosimo III, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and • National tour (pending British Council funding) of a famous city in an age of austerity, an exercise yet — and yet what? • ARCs available in concealment and revelation, but above all it is a Even as my eye was caught by the tilt and swirl • Co-op available of birds above the rooftops, I couldn’t help but FICTION / General trapdoor narrative, one story dropping unexpect- glance over my shoulder. Nothing there, of course. 978-1-84708-765-2 edly into another, the ground always slippery and Nothing there. Only the quiet grass, and the pines, 6 x 9.2 • 320 pages uncertain. austere and dense, and the mauve vault of the sky, Trade paperback • $19.95 soaring, vast . . . More than fifteen years had passed, BISAC: FIC000000 and still I couldn’t forget what lay behind me, what followed in my tracks.

marketing notes marketing notes 66 66 67 67 September September MELISANDE! WHAT ARE DREAMS? NAMES FOR THE SEA HILLEL HALKIN Strangers in Iceland SARAH MOSS

An older man writes to and about his wife in this moving debut novel by the Novelist Sarah Moss’s compelling account of living in Iceland with two illustrious translator and political commentator. small children, in the wake of the financial crisis and in the year the volcano erupted.

An inspiring novel; a philosophical love story; a Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to moving ode to a woman, as joyful and celebratory as it is ele- Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nine- giac. The narrator is a man in his forties, a scholar of ancient teen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the Univer- Greek philosophy known as Hoo. He has been given the nick- sity of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young name by Mellie, the woman he addresses in this book while children and a comfortable life in Kent. The resulting adven- exploring his memories of their years together and apart. The ture was shaped by Iceland’s economic collapse, which halved two of them have known each other since high school in New the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and by York in the 1950s — and perhaps, Hoo thinks, much longer a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only than that. Only as the novel unfolds do his reasons for writing bombs fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who speaks to elves, to her, and the full nature of their relationship, become clear. and a chef who guided Sarah’s family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine. Moss explored hillsides of boiling mud and HILLEL HALKIN is a writer, critic, and translator whose volcanic craters and learned to drive like an Icelander on the essays have regularly appeared in publications like Commen- unsurfaced roads that link remote farms and fishing villages in tary and The New Republic for over thirty years. His non-fiction the far north. She watched the northern lights and the comings books include Letters To An American Jewish Friend, Across The and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months Sabbath River and, most recently, a biography of the medieval went by, she and her family learned new ways to live. poet Yehuda Halevi. Born in New York in 1939, Halkin now lives in Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa. This is his first SARAH MOSS was educated at Oxford University and is novel. currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of two novels: Cold Earth, and Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction FICTION / General TRAVEL / General Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A 978-1-84708-500-9 978-1-84708-416-3 Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the 5 x 7.8 • 224 pages 5 x 7.8 • 368 pages University of Reykjavik. Trade paperback • $16.95 Trade paperback • $18.95 BISAC: FIC000000 BISAC: TRV000000 Also available

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68 69 October October THE ROBBER OF MEMORIES SLAVERY INC. A River Journey Through Colombia The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking MICHAEL JACOBS LYDIA CACHO

A gripping journey up the River Magdalena into the centre of Colombia, and A powerful, brave, and uncompromising investigation into the global under- a deeply personal meditation on memory and loss in the footsteps of Gabriel ground of sex trafficking, from one of the world’s most tireless and influential Garcia Márquez. campaigners against sexual exploitation.

Running through the heart of Colombia is a riv- Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, er emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinis- place in the world, travellers along the river — for centuries the ter network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, only route into the vast South American interior — were at the corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals, and precarious and countless exploited women and children. In this ground- barges. A third of the victims of ‘la violencia’, Colombia’s period breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated jour- of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its wa- nalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their ters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to massacres in South American history. the UK, to expose the trade’s hidden links with the tourist in- In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the riv- dustry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the er’s source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerril- selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. las. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc. is an exceptional book, both — including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious brav- — while uncovering the river’s history of pioneering explora- ery with which Cacho pursues the truth. tions, environmental decline, and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, LYDIA CACHO is an internationally admired Mexican jour- he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and nalist-campaigner. She became a cause célèbre with her book, its loss: not far from the river’s banks lies a group of townships Demons of Eden, which exposed a paedophilia ring involving TRAVEL / General with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer’s in the Mexico’s richest businessman, his friend the governor, and an 978-1-84708-408-8 world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother array of ‘big men.’ She took the ring to trial but was jailed and POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights 5 x 7.8 • 256 pages — sufferers respectively from Alzheimer’s and dementia — as abused herself before winning her argument and her freedom. 978-1-84627-422-0 Trade paperback • $18.95 he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heart- She is a columnist on El Universal, a prominent feminist activist 5 x 7.9 • 320 pages BISAC: TRV000000 land of mystery, magic and darkness. against violence, and teaches workshops on how to help traf- Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: POL035010 ficking victims. She has been named UNESCO World Press also available MICHAEL JACOBS was born in Italy and studied Art His- Freedom Hero and in 2010 received the PEN International tory at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the author of Writer of Courage Prize. http://www.lydiacacho.net/english. Andes several travel books, including Andes (Granta, 2010), and was a 978-1-84708-176-6 finalist for the 2004 Thomas Cook prize. He lives in Spain and London. Trade paperback marketing notes $24.95 • National media mailing marketing notes • Co-op available • National media mailing • Co-op available

70 71 October November THE COMPLETE SMOKING DIARIES THE CREATOR SIMON GRAY GUĐRÚN EVA MÍNERVUDÓTTIR

Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, A provocative and cinematic tale of isolation, friendship, the uses of sex, and exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain’s best writers and the art of finding salvation in the most unexpected of places. heaviest smokers.

When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray When Lóa’s car gets a puncture out in the country- began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with side, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly helpful. cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship, and love. guilt at neglecting her daughter back in Reykjavik, followed Bringing together the four parts of The Smoking Diaries (The by shock at what she finds in her helper’s back room — half- Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and finished, life-size silicone women hanging from hooks. Sveinn, Coda) this beautiful volume is filled with comedy and serious her host, is a craftsman; he makes sex dolls. In his workshop reflection, sharp observation and painful self-disclosure. A bril- Lóa’s is overcome with a surprising reverence, and acting on liant and moving account of life’s unsteady progress, it takes the a mad notion of salvation, she steals one of the dolls for her reader to the heart of one man’s brilliant struggle towards some troubled daughter Margret. For the first time ever, Lóa’s finds kind of personal truth. she is a thief. And worse, when her friends and family greet her plans with incredulity, she finds that there is another more SIMON GRAY was born in England in 1936 and was educated awful theft, beyond her expectations and her understanding. at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the author of over 30 Bereft and adrift, how can Lóa’s save her daughter from herself plays, including Butley, The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates, and and what can she learn from Sveinn’s loneliness? Two people published several volumes of diaries and books about the the- who fear responsibility putting themselves in harm’s way, Sve- atre, including Enter a Fox and Fat Chance, both published by inn and Lóa’s dance a fascinating dance in this striking novel Granta. He was awarded a CBE in 2005 and died in 2008. from Iceland’s most celebrated young novelist.

“There are few things more enjoyable than reading Gray’s GUĐRÚN EVA MÍNERVUDÓTTIR, born in 1976, was diaries.” — Mail on Sunday raised in various villages around Iceland, and spent her youth BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / FICTION / General bartending and studying. A professional writer since the age of Literary 978-1-84627-252-3 twenty-two, she lives in Reykjavik with her husband, film mak- 978-1-84708-848-2 5 x 7.8 • 288 pages er Marteinn Thorsson, and daughter Mínerva Marteinsdóttir. 6 x 9.2 • 448 pages Trade paperback • $16.95 Hardcover with printed dust jacket • BISAC: FIC000000 This is her first book to be translated into English. $39.95 BISAC: BIO007000

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72 73 MonthNovember MonthNovember DEADTITLE INTERVIEWS TITLETHE SKY WEPT FIRE LivingSubtitle Writers Meet Dead Icons SubtitleMy Life As a Chechen Freedom Fighter Author Name AuthorMIKAIL ELDIN Name DAN CROWE TRANSLATED BY ANNA GUNIN

LeadSome quoteof the — greatest credit living writers in the world interview some of the greatest LeadA lyrical quote and — searing credit account of life on the front line of the wars between the dead ones. Russian state and the Chechen people.

These ingenious interviews will amuse, On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of the second the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and moun- sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or tain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a simply indulge in some bookish gossip with a deceased icon. concentration camp. Eldin was fated to witness key events in Pitch-perfect mimesis meets razor sharp literary criticism in Chechnya’s history: from the first day of the attack on Grozny, the book that refuses to let dead writers lie. and the full-scale Russian invasion that followed it, to the siege of Grozny five years later that razed the city to the ground. Yet Contributors include: it is not merely the story of the battle for Chechnya: this is the David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson, Cynthia Ozick on Hen- story of the battle within the heart, the struggle to conquer ry James, AM Homes on Richard Nixon, John Burnside on fear, hold on to faith, and preserve one’s humanity. Rachel Carson, Ian Rankin on Conan Doyle, Geoff Dyer on Nietzsche, Michel Faber on Duchamp, Rick Moody on Jimi MIKAIL ELDIN worked as a journalist before taking up arms Hendrix, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol — plus Sam himself in the conflict with Russia. He eventually left Chech- Leith, Neil Labute, Rebecca Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, ZZ nya in fear for his life and secured political asylum in Norway, Packer, William T. Vollman, and Samantha Morton. where he now lives.

ANNA GUNIN has translated plays for the Royal Court, Also available co-translated a film, and her translations of short stories and poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies. She THE HOUSEHOLD TIPS OF THE GREAT is also the translator of German Sadulaev’s novel I am a Chechen! HUMOUR / General BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / 978-1-84708-827-7 WRITERS General 5 x 7.8 • 208 pages Mark Crick 978-1-84627-318-6 Hardcover with printed dust jacket • $19.95 978-1-84708-252-7 9.2 x 6.1 • 304 pages BISAC: HUM000000 Hardcover with printed dust jacket • $24.95 Trade paperback • $24.95 BISAC: BIO000000 Like Mrs. Beeton, but with metaphors! A bumper omnibus edition of Mark Crick’s three sparklingly funny books of literary pastiche. marketing notes marketing notes • National media mailing • National media mailing • Co-op available • Co-op available marketing notes marketing notes 74 74 75 75 graphic novels from groundwood books

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