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From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the David Posen, M.D., is a Praise for The Little Book of definitive guide to treating — and eliminating — excessive stress in the physician, popular speaker, Stress Relief: workplace. and the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress “No matter how good you are at dealing Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker Relief, which has been trans- with stress, I strongly recommend to you and a leading expert on stress mastery, iden- lated into six languages. His Dr. Posen’s The Little Book of Stress Relief. It tifies the three biggest problems that contrib- previous books also include provides an excellent framework for stress ute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Staying Afloat When the Water Gets Rough management and is filled with great tips and Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing an- and the classic, Always Change a Losing Game. insights.” — Peter G. Hanson, author of The ecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the His writing has appeared in Canadian Living, Joy of Stress biology of stress to illustrate how downsiz- Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, USA Weekend, ing, economic uncertainty, and technology and his TV and radio appearances have aired “It’s amazing that such a little book can have made the workplace more toxic than ever. nation-wide. He lives in Oakville, . deliver such a huge impact! This is not just a Most importantly, he offers practical advice stress guide — it’s a life-skills manual, filled and easy techniques for managing the harmful with stories, warmth, and humour. Superb!” symptoms and side effects of stress. — Rita Emmett, author of The Procrastinator’s Witty, engaging, and accessible, Is Work Handbook and The Procrastinating Child Killing You? touches on everything from meet- ings to tweeting, from fake work to face time, from deadlines to dead tired, and more. With this book, Dr. Posen gives us the tools to stop harming our most valuable resource — our- selves.

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2 3 February Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons? The Munk Debate on Iran Amos Yadlin & Charles Krauthammer (pro), Fareed Zakaria & vali nasr (Con)

“[The Munk Debates are] a significant forum for discussing global issues of Amos Yadlin is a former Israeli Air Force Has the European general, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) military Experiment Failed? our age . . . balanced and thoughtful.” — Huffington Post The Munk Debate on Europe attaché to the United States, and head of the Niall Ferguson, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, IDF Military Intelligence Directorate. Josef Joffe, Peter Mandelson With tensions between Iran, Charles Krauthammer is an American 978-1-77089-228-6 Paperback / $14.95 Israel, and Western powers reaching new 978-1-77089-229-3 ePub / $12.95 Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear political commentator, and physician. enrichment program, the tenth edition of the North America’s Lost Decade? The Munk Debate on the North Munk Debates investigates how the world Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN’s flagship American Economy should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria Paul Krugman, David Rosenberg, For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike Lawrence Summers, Ian Bremmer GPS, and the Editor-at-Large of TIME. on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would 978-1-77089-200-2 Paperback / $14.95 flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear Vali Nasr is a leading expert on the Middle 978-1-77089-201-9 ePub / $12.95 weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous East, a bestselling author, Dean of the John insecurity — along with much of the world’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Does the 21st Century oil supply. Others argue that a nuclear Iran Belong to China? Studies, and a member of the U.S. State The Munk Debate on China could be the very stabilizing force that the Department’s influential Policy Planning Dr. Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, region needs. Board. David Daokui Li, Fareed Zakaria In this edition of the Munk Debates — 978-1-77089-062-6 Paperback / $14.95 ’s premier international debate series 978-1-77089-063-3 ePub / $12.95 — former Israel Defense Forces head of military intelligence Amos Yadlin, Pulitzer Hitchens vs. Blair Prize-winning political commentator Charles Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World Krauthammer, CNN host Fareed Zakaria, and Christopher Hitchens, Tony Blair Iranian-born academic Vali Nasr debate the consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran. 978-1-77089-008-4 Paperback / $14.95 978-1-77089-020-6 ePub / $12.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Arms Control 978-1-77089-236-1 The Munk Debates 5 x 8 • 104 pages Volume One Trade paperback • $14.95 Editor: Rudyard Griffiths Introduction by Peter Munk 978-1-77089-237-8 Marketing Notes ePub • $12.95 978-0-88784-248-1 Paperback / $24.95 • National media mailing 978-0-88784-285-6 ePub / $19.95 BISAC: POL001000 • Co-op available 4 5 March The Truth About Luck What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma Iain Reid

“A slyly entertaining encounter with the timeless.” — Ben Ryder Howe, Iain Reid is the author Praise for Iain Reid and author of My Korean Deli of the critically acclaimed One Bird’s Choice: comic memoir One Bird’s Choice, which won the CBC Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Nonfiction In The Truth about Luck, Iain Bookie Award for Best Non- Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of- fiction Book. His writing “A laugh-out-loud comic memoir . . . ​Reid age memoir One Bird’s Choice, accompanies his has appeared in newspapers, finds humour and warmth in unexpected grandmother on a five-day vacation — which magazines, and online in publications such places.” — Maclean’s turns out to be a “staycation” at his basement as , Reader’s Digest, and The apartment in Kingston. While the twenty- Classical. He writes regularly about books and “Reid’s writing is engaging and humorous.” eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of writing for the . His work has also — Free Press his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grand- appeared on CBC Radio and NPR. He lives in mother is nearing the end of hers. Between Kingston, Ontario. “Reid is a genial narrator, and you don’t tire escorting his grandma to local attractions and of his voice . . . ​endearing . . . ​a gently funny restaurants, the two exchange memories and book.” — she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story. Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this Also Available: delightful comic memoir reflects on family connections; how we experience adversity, the One Bird’s Choice passage of time, and aging; and most impor- A Year in the Life of an tantly what it truly means to feel lucky. Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Iain Reid

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A fun, informative guide to hosting the perfect party every time. Corey Mintz hosts din- Excerpt: ner parties in his home every week for his popular Toronto Every dinner, every guest, is different, requir- Star column, “Fed.” Before ing and deserving of thoughtful attention. Our We’ve all been there: twenty min- that he was a restaurant crit- task is to make them comfortable. This is why utes before guests arrive, and you’re unsure if ic. And before that he worked we take their coat, get them a drink, introduce you’ve got enough wine, or enough chairs, or for a living, as a cook. In the them to new people, inquire about their work, whether your friend is a vegetarian or a veg- past two years, he has hosted 150 dinner par- their family, their renovations. But the famil- an. Hosting a dinner party is hard, but Corey ties. He began without napkins or stemware, iarity, the mundane predictability of these Mintz can help. For his popular serving wine out of Nutella jars. But after host- topics, should usher us to move as quickly as column, “Fed,” he has presided over 150 din- ing politicians, artists, academics, monkeys, possible past work, the weather, vacation plans. ner parties, every week opening his home to librarians, chefs, sommeliers, cops, lawyers, Dinner has struck gold when guests can argue strangers and friends alike in an effort to per- psychologists, a spy, a forager, a rabbi, a gam- respectfully about politics and race while still fect the craft of hosting. And in How to Host a bler, a drug addict, and a mayor, he’s become reaching for one last spoonful of cassoulet. Dinner Party, he shares everything he’s learned a pro. Most guests, even those who seemed like they in a hilarious handbook that will appeal to ev- only came to appease their spouse will even- Steve Murray is a columnist, cartoonist, eryone — from those throwing their first din- tually relax. You can see this in their posture, and illustrator for the . He has a ner party to seasoned entertainers looking to National Post the openness of their dialogue. It can happen weekly illustrated column called “Extremely enhance their skills. in five minutes or an hour. Our challenge as Bad Advice.” His illustrations have appeared This book guides readers through every- hosts, and talent, if we can find it, is to shorten in the , magazine, thing they need to know about hosting, start- Globe and Mail New York this timeframe. and magazine, as well as on ing with the golden rule — that the goal of a Canadian Business CBC.ca. He lives in Toronto. dinner party is to have fun with our friends, not to show off our cooking skills. It will explain why we like to gather for dinner, when we should host, who we should invite, what Marketing Notes

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Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada by Sandra Martin Globe and Mail Top Nonfiction Charles Taylor Prize longlist “Working the Dead Beat is the most engaging and enlivening book about Canada that I’ve come across this year.” — National Post

“. . . researched energetically and written graciously by one of the country’s leading journalists.” — Globe and Mail

Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos by Neil Turok fiction .ca best books: Editors’ pick charles taylor prize longlist “Turok does an excellent job making accessible some of the most difficult concepts in physics, writing about science with a clar- ity that rivals Brian Greene and James Gleick.” — Quill & Quire, starred review

“. . . Turok takes you where no physicist has gone before. It’s well worth making the journey with him.” — TIME Magazine

Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812 by James Laxer “Laxer proves Canadian history doesn’t have to be dull, particu- larly when told through the lives of people who lived it.” — Toronto Star

The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty by John Fraser “. . . it is Fraser’s personal lifelong romance with the Queen and the monarchy that emerges as the charming heart of this delight- ful book.” — National Post March Bone and Bread Saleema Nawaz

Saleema Nawaz’s debut is a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel in the spirit of Saleema Nawaz is the Praise for Saleema Nawaz and Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. author of the Mother Superior: collection Mother Superior, which was shortlisted for the QWF Best First Book Prize Finalist Beena and Sadhana are sisters who Writers’ Federation share a bond that could only have been shaped Best First Book Prize. Her “Nawaz credits the reader with a collaborative by the most unusual of childhoods — and by story “My Three Girls” won imagination. It’s a treat.” — Globe and Mail shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they the Journey Prize in 2008. She maintains a have grown up under the exasperated watch blog at metaphysicalconceit.blogspot.com. “These stories show real promise and make of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, she cur- Saleema Nawaz . . . well worth paying atten- ’s Hasidic community of Mile End. rently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. tion to.” — Toronto Star Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs “Make room for one wild new writer. Nawaz that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow is going to dazzle you with her style, her towards adulthood, their paths begin to di- remarkable sense of things in this world, her verge. Beena catches the attention of one of plain out-and-out talent.” — Dennis Cooley, the “bagel boys” and finds herself pregnant at author of Bloody Jack sixteen, while Sadhana drives herself to perfec- tionism and anorexia. “Her observations are pitch-perfect, and her When we first meet the adult Beena, she is prose scintillates.” — Warren Cariou, author grappling with a fresh grief: Sadhana has died of Lake of the Prairies suddenly and strangely, her body lying undis- covered for a week before anyone realizes what has happened. Beena is left with a burden of guilt and an unsettled feeling about the cir- cumstances of her sister’s death, which she sets FICTION / Literary about to uncover. Her search stirs memories 978-1-77089-009-1 and opens wounds, threatening to undo the Marketing Notes 5.25 x 8 • 456 pages safe, orderly existence she has painstakingly Trade paperback with flaps • $22.95 created for herself and her son. • National media mailing 978-1-77089-243-9 • National advertising e-Pub • $18.95 • Author tour: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto • ARC available BISAC: FIC019000 • Co-op available

12 13 June Caught Lisa Moore

“Lisa Moore’s style is cool, clear, lethally accurate, and reminiscent of Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of Praise for Lisa Moore and Raymond Carver.” — Independent on Sunday February, which was longlisted for the Man February: , selected as one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year, and was a Globe cbc 2013 finalist Internationally acclaimed au- and Mail Top 100 Book and a CBC Canada The New Yorker Best Books of the Year thor Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new Reads 2013 finalist; andAlligator , which was a Man Booker Prize, Longlist novel about a man who escapes from prison to finalist for the Scotiabank and won A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year embark upon one of the most ambitious pot- the Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Canada and A Quill & Quire Book of the Year smuggling adventures ever attempted. the Caribbean), and was a national bestseller. Here are bravado and betrayal, bad weather Her story collection Open was a finalist for the “Moore never errs on the side of sentimental- and seas, love, undercover agents, the collusion Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national best- ity . . . ​There’s an economy in Moore’s style of governments, unbridled ambition, inno- seller. Her third novel, Caught, will be pub- that shows us how a once vibrant life can be cence and the loss thereof, and many, many lished by in June 2013. whittled down by pain and loneliness.” bales of marijuana. Here, too, is the seeming She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. — National Post invincibility of youth and all the folly that it allows. Also Available “Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the Caught is an exuberant, relentlessly sus- very consciousness of her characters.” penseful, and utterly unique novel, and prom- February — Globe and Mail ises to be the astonishing Lisa Moore’s most Lisa Moore

accomplished work to date. 978-0-88784-202-3 “Lisa Moore’s work is passionate, gritty, lucid Hardcover with jacket / $29.95 and, beautiful. She has a great gift.” — Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author 978-0-88784-962-6 FICTION / Literary Paperback / $19.95 of The Gathering 978-0-88784-245-0 978-0-88784-900-8 5.25 x 8 • 304 pages “Moore deftly weaves together the present . . . ​ ePub / $16.95 Hardcover • $29.95 and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail.” —The New Yorker 978-1-77089-239-2 Marketing Notes e-Pub • $24.95 “This mesmerizing book is full of tears, and is • National media attention a graceful meditation on how to survive life’s • Summer Atlantic Canada tour BISAC: FIC019000 • National author tour in Fall: Vancouver, losses.” — Marie Claire Calgary, Toronto • National and regional advertising “Soaring.” — Chatelaine • ARC available • Co-op available

14 15 Recent praise for Anansi Fiction

Inside by Alix Ohlin Globe and Mail Top Fiction Quill & Quire Books of the Year Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist amazon.ca best books: editors’ pick oprah’s book club summer reading pick

How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti New York Times Notable Books Huffington Post Best Books

Dr. Brinkley’s Tower by Robert Hough Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist Globe and Mail Top Fiction Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist

Carnival by Rawi Hage Quebec Writers’ Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner Rogers Writers’ Trust fiction prize Finalist Globe and Mail Top Fiction ntroducing Astoria, a new short amazon.ca best books: editors’ pick Ifiction imprint that will celebrate this great genre and Canadian writ- Easy to Like by Edward Riche ers’ talent for the short story. 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist ReLit Awards Finalist March Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Théodora Armstrong

“The writing in this collection boils with meaning, beauty and menace, and Théodora Armstrong Praise for Théodora Armstrong: signals the liftoff of an exciting new literary talent.” — Michael Christie, is a fiction writer and poet. author of The Beggar’s Garden Her work has appeared in “Théodora Armstrong expertly cultivates numerous literary magazines her characters in the rich, dirty-realist soil of Set against the divergent landscape across the country such as Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor.” of British Columbia — from the splendours Event, Prairie Fire, The Fiddle- — Michael Christie, author of The Beggar’s of nature to its immense dangers, from urban head, Descant, The New Quar- Garden grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear terly, and Contemporary Verse 2. In 2008 she Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines hu- won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, “[Théodora Armstrong’s] stories deftly man beings and their many frailties with and her stories have been included in both The address troubled relationships, sisters, fami- breathtaking insight and accuracy. Journey Prize Anthology 20 and Coming Attrac- lies, hormones, west-coast islands, and misty Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories tions 10. Théodora lives in Vancouver, British ferries, as well as motorboats and drunk- with characters as richly various — and as com- Columbia with her husband and daughter. She driving in the oven-hot Okanagan valley.” pelling — as her settings. A soon-to-be father is at work on her first novel. — Mark Anthony Jarman, author of 19 Knives and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his and ’s Eye staff while facing his lack of preparedness for parenthood. A young girl revels in the dark “This haunting story is about the holes we drama of the murder of a girl from her neigh- dig ourselves into and the lies we tell to cover bourhood. A novice air-traffic specialist must them up.” — Neil Smith, author of Bang come to terms with his first loss — the death Crunch of a pilot — on his watch. And the dangers of deep canyons and powerful currents spur on the reckless behaviour of teenagers as they test the limits of bravery, friendship, and sex. With startling intimacy and language stripped bare, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Vis- FICTION / Short Stories ibility announces the arrival of Théodora Arm- 978-1-77089-102-9 strong as a striking new literary voice. Marketing Notes 5.25 x 8 • 304 pages Trade paperback with flaps • $22.95 • National review mailing 978-1-77089-240-8 • National advertising e-Pub $18.95 • Author tour: Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto • ARC available BISAC: FIC029000 • Co-op available

18 19 May Travelling Light Peter Behrens

Astonishing stories reminiscent of Joyce’s Dubliners from the author of the Also Available Praise for Peter Behrens and acclaimed novels and The O’Briens. The O’Briens:

The Law of Dreams New York Times Editors’ Choice Peter Behrens From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the best- 978-0-88784-774-5 “A major accomplishment.” — New York Times Paperback / $18.95 selling and award-winning novels The Law of “[The O’Briens] is impressive in its scope. Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular 978-0-88784-885-8 ePub / $16.95 Behrens’s writing is always tight, and some of collection of riveting stories about growing up his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.” and growing older, falling in and out of love, Governor General’s Literary Award Winner, — Globe and Mail and finding ourselves and losing each other. Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Shortlist Moving from the magisterial streets of CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year Shortlist “[Behrens brings] the O’Brien clan to life on Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist the page.” — Post City to the wide open plains of the west, these stories bring their settings magically alive, and “Moments of grace and romance are rocked within them offer us an incredible array of The O’Briens by cruel words and violence in this epic, a Peter Behrens brilliantly imagined, richly drawn characters. piece of rough beauty itself.” — Publishers If you liked Peter Behrens’ sweeping family 978-0-88784-229-0 Weekly, starred review sagas, then you will love this collection, full Hardcover with jacket / $32.95 of the same ambition, heartache, and wisdom 978-1-77089-033-6 “A monumental story . . . ​Behrens is capable that have made him an essential voice of our Paperback / $18.95 of dazzling shifts from exterior to interior . . . ​ Pitch-perfect.” — National Post times. 978-1-77089-029-9 ePub / $16.95 Peter Behrens is the “Brimming with complex and nuanced char- author of the Governor acters, Behrens’s second novel lives up to the General’s Literary Award- expectations set by his award-winning debut.” FICTION / Short Stories winning novel, The Law of Marketing Notes — Winnipeg Free Press 978-0-88784-827-8 Dreams, published around “Illuminating . . . ​an epic along the lines of 5.25 x 8 • 300 pages the world to wide acclaim, • National review mailing Middlesex.” — Booklist Trade paperback • $18.95 and a collection of short sto- • National advertising ries, Night Driving. His short stories and essays • Promotion on author’s blog: “An absorbing, unsparing and beautifully have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, http://autoliterate.blogspot.ca/ 978-1-77089-238-5 written account of one man’s escape from the Saturday Night, and the National Post. He was and Twitter @phbehrens e-Pub • $16.95 charnel house that Ireland became.” born in Montreal and lives on the coast of • ARC available — New York Times BISAC: FIC029000 Maine with his wife and son. • Co-op available 20 21 Recent Praise for Anansi Short Fiction

Signs and Wonders by Alix Ohlin New York Times Editors’ Choice Quill & Quire Holiday Gift Guide “. . . conversational, irreverent, and stealthily humor- ous . . . ​[Ohlin blends] pathos with acerbic wit . . .” — Quill & Quire, starred review

The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder Globe and Mail Top Fiction Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist “A stream of sensual imagery that grows more sophis- ticated with each page . . . ​”— Walrus Magazine

The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti “. . . hilarious, occasionally Seinfeldesque and fre- quently veer into Grimm Brotherland, fantastic, gruesome and creepy.” — Toronto Star e are pleased to launch Arachnide Life is About Losing Everything Editions, Anansi’s new imprint for by Lynn Crosbie W

“. . . a finely carved, blood-stained shiv of a book, French-to-English translation. Arachnide beautiful and brutal . . .” — National Post will continue our strong tradition of pub- “ Provocative, entertaining and poignant, Life is About Losing Everything makes us sweat for the answers.” lishing the best works in translation, and — Vancouver Sun

“Imagine Courtney Love with the benefits of a showcase the best voices from Canada’s graduate education, or Kathy Acker slightly gentled by CanLit prettiness and politesse.” — Globe and Mail French-speaking regions. June For Sure MORE FROM ARACHNIDE France Daigle Translated by Robert Majzels

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, For Dirty Feet Edem Awumey | Translated by Lazer Lederhendler Sure is a clever exploration of the relationship between place, language, and culture. 978-0-88784-244-3 Paperback with flaps / $22.95 978-1-77089-044-2 ePub / $18.95 For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a de- Governor General’s Literary Award Translation Shortlist fense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written ReLit Awards Longlist in dazzling prose — which is occasionally interrupted by “Dirty Feet is rich in wisdom and allusion . . .” — Globe and Mail surprising bits of information, biography, and definitions “Awumey adorns his book with short, vivid phrases that, at times, read like poems . . . that appear on the page — Daigle perfectly captures the reveal[ing] . . .” — Montreal Review of Books essence of a place and offers us a reflection on minority cultures and their obsession with language.

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C C the Babar, the local bar in Moncton — the Zablonskis, finalist finaliste Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation Winner Zed, Pomme — artists and ordinary people who ques- tion their place in the world from a distinct point of view “. . . [a] hallucinatory and poetic story, ripe for underlining and rereading . . . Mai at the that is informed by their geography, and by their history, Predators’ Ball will reward you.” — Globe and Mail politics, and culture. Masterfully translated from French by award-winning Thunder and Light FICTION / Literary translator Robert Majzels, For Sure is the moving story Marie-Claire Blais | Translated by Nigel Spencer 978-1-77089-204-0 of a family and a surprising, staggeringly original work. 6 x 9 • 400 pages 978-0-88784-176-7 Hardcover with jacket / $24.95 Trade paperback • $24.95 France Daigle is the author of eleven novels, includ- Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation Winner 978-1-77089-205-7 ing Real Life, 1953, A Fine Passage, Life’s Little Difficulties, e-Pub • $20.95 and Just Fine, which won the France Acadie Prize, the BISAC: FIC019000 Prix Éloize, and the Prix Antonnie-Maillet-Acadie Vie. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction She lives in Moncton New Brunswick. Marie-Claire Blais | Translated by Nigel Spencer 978-0-88784-752-3 Paperback / $21.95 Marketing Notes Robert Majzels is a novelist, poet, playwright, Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation Winner • National review mailing and translator. He won the Governor General’s Liter- • National advertising ary Award for French to English translation for Just Fine, “Blais’ writing is . . . challenging but highly skilled . . . the complexity of which only a sea- • Author tour from the French Pas Pire, by France Daigle (2000). Robert soned writer could pull off . . .” — Globe and Mail • Launch of Arachnide lives in Calgary. • Co-op available 24 25 Available Swimming Home Deborah Levy

“Deborah Levy’s storytelling is allusive, elliptical, and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny, and always acute . . . ​This is a prize winner.” — Independent

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Swim- ming Home is a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer. Poet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter and another couple to a rented villa in the south of France to discover a body floating face down in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a sexy, mysteri- ous young woman who walks naked out of the water and straight into the heart of their holiday. But why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe’s enigmatic wife invite her to stay? Taking place over a single week, Swimming Home reveals how a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. FICTION / Literary Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. She 978-1-77089-332-0 5.375 x 8.25 • 168 pages is the author of highly praised novels, including Beautiful Trade paperback • $18.95 Mutants, Swallowing Geography, and Billy and Girl. Swim- ming Home, her most recent novel, was serialized on BBC 978-1-77089-333-7 Radio 4 as a Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the e-Pub • $16.95 Man Booker Prize.

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27 May On Sal Mal Lane Ru Freeman

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32 33 March Under the Keel Michael Crummey

“Michael Crummey is without a doubt one of Canada’s finest writers.” — Steven Galloway, Globe and Mail

The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, the bestselling author of Galore. Under the Keel has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a New- foundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpre- dictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. This collection affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.

Michael Crummey is the author of four books of poetry, and a book of short stories, Flesh and Blood. His first novel,River Thieves, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, his second, The Wreckage, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fic- POETRY / Canadian tion Prize. His most recent novel, the bestselling Galore, 978-1-77089-269-9 5.5 x 8.5 • 96 pages won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Trade paperback • $19.95 Under the Keel is his first collection in a decade. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. 978-1-77089-270-5 e-Pub • $16.95 Marketing Notes BISAC: POE011000

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35 April April The Polymers 1996 Adam Dickinson Sara Peters

A bold and inventive new collection of poems, structured as an imaginary “It is a pleasure to discover Sara Peters’ way of combining imagination with science project, from the author of the Trillium Award–finalistKingdom , purpose, wit with heart, toughness with vision, sex with intelligence, and Phylum. precision with mystery.” — Robert Pinsky, former United States Poet Laureate

The Polymers is a brilliant new work from one of Sara Peters’ visionary debut collection is our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imagi- a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, nary science project, the varied pieces in this collection beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, spe- days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of cifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters en- role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, during unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they ap- elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the har- pear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as argu- rowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. 1996 marks ments, anxieties, and trends. the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. A wildly experimental and chemically reactive work, The Polymers thrills and provokes. You’ll never look at the Sara Peters was born in Antigonish, . world of a poem — or the world itself — in the same way She completed an MFA at Boston University, and was again. a Stegner Fellow in poetry at from Adam Dickinson’s poems have appeared in liter- 2010 to 2012. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Dai- ary journals in Canada and internationally. His poetry ly, The Threepenny Review, and The Walrus. She lives in has been translated into Chinese and Polish. His work Toronto. POETRY / Canadian has also been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s POETRY / Canadian 978-1-77089-217-0 New Poets, Post Prairie, The Echoing Years: An Anthology 978-1-77089-271-2 5.5 x 8.5 • 96 pages of Poetry from Canada and Ireland, The Shape of Content: 5.5 x 8.5 • 88 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science, and in Open Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-218-7 Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems. His first book 978-1-77089-272-9 e-Pub • $16.95 of poetry, Cartography and Walking, was shortlisted for an e-Pub • $16.95 BISAC: POE011000 Alberta Book Award. His second collection, Kingdom, BISAC: POE011000 Phylum, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Marketing Notes Poetry. Adam is currently Associate Professor of poetics Marketing Notes at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he • National review mailing • National review mailing • National advertising teaches poetry, creative writing, and literary theory. • National advertising • Tour: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal • Tour: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal • National Poetry Month promo- • National Poetry Month promo- tions in April tions in April • Co-op Available • Co-op Available 36 37 May June Metaphysical Dog The 2013 Frank Bidart Anthology A Selection of the Shortlist

“Frank Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work “The world’s premier international poetry prize.” — Maclean’s as any now being written in this country.” — Louise Glück, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former U.S. Poet Laureate

In “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We The highly anticipated annual anthology of who could get / somewhere through / words through / the best Canadian and international poetry. sex could not.” Words and sex, art and flesh: inMetaphysi - Each year, the best books of poetry published in Eng- cal Dog, Bidart explores their . The result stands lish internationally and in Canada are honoured with the among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recogni- journey through many of the central axes, the central tion of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the for- conflicts of his life, and ours. midable talent of poets writing in English. And each year Near the end of the book, Bidart writes: “In adoles- the editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology gathers cence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the at last human beings’ relation to God. Decipher love. awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in To make what was once whole whole again: or to their collections. see why it never should have been thought whole. ” This “ancient work” reflects what the poet sees as fundamen- about the judges: POETRY / American / General tal in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have POETRY / Anthologies 978-1-77089-362-7 called the “hunger for the Absolute” — a hunger as fun- 978-1-77089-330-6 Breyten Breytenbach, poet, painter, novelist, 5.5 x 8.25 / 112 pages damental as any physical hunger. This hunger must con- 5.5 x 8.5, 128 pages Trade paperback / $19.95 front the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, Trade paperback $19.95 playwright, essayist, and human rights activist, was born BISAC: POE005010 failed glimpses of it. 978-1-77089-331-3 in South Africa in 1939. His most recent poetry collection The result is one of the most fascinating and ambi- e-Pub • / $16.95 is The Principle of Dust. tious books of poetry in many years. BISAC: POE001000 Suzanne Buffam’s first collection of poetry,Past Frank Bidart’s most recent full-length collections Imperfect, won the Gerald Lampert Award. Her second of poetry are Watching the Spring Festival, Star Dust, collection of poetry, The Irrationalist, was named a finalist Desire and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90. Marketing Notes for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize. She teaches Creative He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Writing at the University of Chicago. • National review mailing Award, and, most recently, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for • National advertising Mark Doty is the author of eight books of poems, American Poetry. He teaches at Wellesley College. • Griffin shortlist announced in April, Prize awarded in June including Fire to Fire, which won the National Book Award Marketing Notes • Promotion on Griffin site griffin- for Poetry, and five volumes of nonfiction prose. He has poetryprize.com and Twitter @ been awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize and the National Book • National review mailing griffinpoetry Critics Circle Award. • Co-op available • Co-op available 38 39 April Annabel Kathleen Winter

“Utterly original . . . ​a haunting story of family, identity, and the universal yearning to belong.” — O, The Oprah Magazine

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a #1 national bestseller, Kathleen Winter’s spectacular debut novel is now available in a new new in book club edition at a lower price point. In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both paperback at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neigh- bour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows into adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as “Annabel” — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Haunting and sweeping in scope, Annabel is an unfor- FICTION / Literary gettable novel about a one person’s struggle to discover 978-1-77089-334-4 the truth in a culture that shuns contradiction. 5 x 7.75 • 504 pages Trade paperback • $14.95 Kathleen Winter has written dramatic and docu- mentary scripts for CBC Television. Her first collection 978-0-88784-276-4 of short stories, boYs (Biblioasis, 2007) was the winner of e-Pub • $14.95 both the Winterset Award and the 2006 Metcalfe-Rooke BISAC: FIC019000 Award, and her first novel,Annabel , was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and the Orange Prize. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Marketing Notes Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.

• National review mailing • National advertising • Co-op available 41 April April Under the Hawthorn Tree Ai Mi Patrick DeWitt

“The stuff of Romeo and Juliet . . . ​This book should be read.” With more than 150,000 copies sold, the #1 bestseller and award-winning — Globe and Mail novel is now available in a new book club edition at a lower price point.

China with more than 1 million is going to die: Eli Now a major film from Zhang Yimou, A bestseller in Hermann Kermit Warm director of Raise the Red Lantern & Hero copies sold and adapted for film by internationally ac- and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though claimed director Zhang Yimou, Under the Hawthorn Tree Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey is a story of first love and forbidden love, set against the and killing, he’s never known anything else. On the road backdrop of the final days of the Cultural Revolution — to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San Francisco — now available in a new book club edition at a lower price and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse Ai Mi point. — Eli struggles to make sense of his life without aban- Under the Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early doning the job he’s sworn to do. 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Pat- Hawthorn educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be “re- rick deWitt doffs his hat to the classic Western, and then educated” under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing’s transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unfor- Tree father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and gettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, her mother, a former teacher branded as a capitalist, is melancholy, and grit of the West — and of these two now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love. younger siblings. When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in the Yangtze River’s Three Gorges region, she meets 1975. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel FICTION / Literary The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General’s FICTION / Literary geology student Jianxin, nicknamed “Old Three,” who 978-1-77089-335-1 Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers’ Trust 978-1-77089-350-4 is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose 5 x 7.75 • 424 pages 5 x 7.75 • 368 pages mother committed suicide after being branded a “right- Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize Trade paperback • $14.95 Trade paperback • $14.95 ist.” Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son. political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu 978-1-77089-027-5 978-1-77089-050-3 and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding e-Pub • $14.95 e-Pub • $14.95 romance is cut short by fate . . . ​ BISAC: FIC019000 BISAC: FIC019000 A sensitive and searing love story, Under the Hawthorn Tree is sure to become an instant classic.

Marketing Notes Ai Mi is a pseudonym. She lives in the United States, and Marketing Notes grew up in China. • National review mailing • National review mailing • National advertising • National advertising • Co-op available • Co-op available 42 43 April The Secret of the Crown Canada’s Affair With Royalty John Fraser

“An entertaining account of this country’s evolving tango with the British monarchy, and a persuasive argument for keeping the Queen and her heirs as our symbolic head of state.” — Toronto Star

Now available in paperback, award-winning jour- nalist, author, and monarchical authority John Fraser offers a fascinating account of Canada’s ongoing affair with royalty. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown’s evolution from the Age of Deference to the era of celebrity to the present popular revival. He examines the differences between tribal monarchy and constitutional monarchy, the key roles of the governor general and the lieutenant governor, and the media’s insa- ntroducing Anansi Digital, a wide- tiable appetite for the Royal Family. Finally, he speculates on the future reign of Charles, Prince of Wales, and pays Iranging and innovative new imprint homage to Queen Elizabeth II. Erudite and highly entertaining, The Secret of the that will give readers access to rare Crown includes a lavish 32-page photo insert to create a spectacular visual history of the once and future crown. and out of print editions from literary HISTORY / Social History John Fraser, CM, is a Canadian journalist, author, greats, as well as new enhanced inter- 978-1-77089-107-4 and academic, who has served as Master of Massey Col- 5.75 x 8.25 • 304 pages lege at since 1995. As a journalist, Trade paperback • $19.95 active content and cross-platform proj- he has received multiple national awards, and his work 978-1-77089-055-8 has been published in many of the leading international ects — all in an attractive and affordable e-Pub • $16.95 newspapers and magazines, including , Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Maclean’s, the digital package! BISAC: HIS054000 Guardian, , Paris Match, and The New Republic. He is the author of six works of nonfiction and one novel. In 2011, he was appointed as a member of the Marketing Notes . John lives in Toronto.

• National review mailing • National advertising • Co-op available 44 Available Available Communion Speeches for Graeme Gibson Doctor Frankenstein margaret atwood

Exclusively available from Anansi Digital, Communion is a long out of print In 1966, before they were international sensations, Margaret Atwood and work by a Canadian literary titan. Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now available for the first time as an enhanced eBook.

Originally published in 1971, Communion In this imaginative work, only existing as an art- continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in Five ist book of fifteen copies until recently, Charles Pachter Legs. We meet Felix Oswald again, a self-mocking and set the poetry of Margaret Atwood to his beautiful and obsessed hero, a voyeur, and all-time loser, after he grad- whimsical artwork. Produced originally on handmade uates from school and accepts a job as a part-time veteri- paper made with materials found around his house, this is narian’s assistant. a rare piece of Canadiana that should be read by anyone A groundbreaking work of experimental fiction,Com - interested in the origins of these two great artists. This munion is a must-read for lovers of . work is now exclusively available for the iPad as an en- hanced eBook, and features an introduction by Margaret Graeme Gibson is the acclaimed author of Five Legs, Atwood, video interviews with Charles Pachter, and an Communion, Perpetual Motion, and Gentleman Death. He audio narration of Margaret Atwood reading the poems. is a long-time cultural activist, and co-founder of the When you load this enhanced eBook in iBooks, you Writer’s Union of Canada and the Writers’ Trust. He is will find a speaker icon in the info bar at the top of the a past president of PEN Canada and the recipient of both screen, which is where you can access the enhanced fea- the Harbourfront Festival Prize and the Toronto Arts tures of this eBook. For the optimal reading experience, Award, and is a Member of the Order of Canada. He lives turn on these features by tapping on the speaker. This in Toronto. will trigger the pages to start turning automatically, and POETRY initiate the soundtrack and Margaret Atwood’s narration. FICTION / Literary 978-1-77089-345-0 For a more traditional reading experience, turn these 978-1-77089-346-7 e-book • $9.99 e-book • $4.99 BISAC: FIC000000 elements off and change the settings to turn the pages BISAC: FIC019000 manually.

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January April Granta 122 Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists 1 Betrayal edited by Bill Buford Edited by John Freeman 9780140140828 | Trade Paperback | $19.95 Originally published in 1983. Features the work of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Feel the sting of betrayal via new writing by Ben Marcus, Janine di Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. Giovanni, Samantha Harvey, Colin Robinson, Jennifer Vanderbes, Callan Wink, John Burnside, Andre Aciman, Karen Russell and more. In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 evacuations, and one man’s rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A edited by Bill Buford firespotter knows all too well that where there’s smoke, there’s fire — but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there’s the Custer 9780140140583 | Trade Paperback | $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS impersonator who takes his role in a re-enactment too literally, and too far. / General Originally published in 1993. Features the work of Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo 978-1-90588-165-9 And the massage therapist struggling to help a veteran whose biggest regret Ishiguro, Will Self and Jeanette Winterson. 5.8 x 8.2 • 256 pages is tattooed across his back. Trade paperback • $19.95 BISAC: LCO000000 Best of Young British Novelists 3 April Granta 81: Granta 123 edited by Bill Buford 9780903141581 | Trade Paperback | $19.95 Best of Young British Novelists 4 Originally published in 2003. Features the work of Monica Ali, A.L. Kennedy, Edited by John Freeman Andrew O’Hagan and Zadie Smith.

Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith, Tremain, Winterson . . . ​Long before they were household names, they were Bill Buford was for sixteen years the editor of Granta magazine, which Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young Novelist list — in he relaunched in 1979. Previously he was the fiction editor atThe New 1983, 1993, and 2003 — came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions Yorker, where he now works as a staff writer. to unforgettable characters and mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thir- ty years after the first collection, the magazine asked once again: which writ- ers are setting the bar for a new decade in British literature? Marketing Notes LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General • National review mailing 978-1-90588-167-3 John Freeman’s criticism has appeared in more than two hundred 5.8 x 8.2 • 256 pages • Author tour to Toronto and Vancouver Trade paperback • $19.95 newspapers around the world, including , the Independent, • Co-op available BISAC: LCO000000 The Times and . His first book,The Tyranny of E-Mail, is published by Scribner in the US and Text in Australia.

50 51 April May Orkney Convictions Amy Sackville My Life with a Good Communist Jo Langer

From the prize-winning author of The Still Point, a bewitching, brilliant new A searingly honest and moving memoir of a young woman’s political story which dances the fine line between reality and fantasy to explore the awakening and disillusionment, and a gripping first-person account of life in dark edges of desire. Communist Czechoslovakia.

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched Jo Langer and her husband Oscar were committed couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent lit- communists; she Hungarian, he Slovakian. During the erature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Second World War the couple, both Jewish, escaped to Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered land- America. Most members of their extended family were scape, the professor realises how little he knows about his murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, they returned new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns to Czechoslovakia to help build communism. She worked obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, for state exports in Bratislava; he was an economist work- she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. ing for the Central Committee. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to In 1951 Oscar Langer was arrested and detained as bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to part of the anti-Semitic purge of the Communist Party the sea? that culminated in the infamous Slánksk? trials. He was subjected to solitary confinement, threats against his Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English family, unbearable cold and hunger, anti-Semitic abuse and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to an MPhil and beatings. In the end, he submitted. In a statement in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Cre- dictated by his interrogators he said, ’I confess that I am ative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel,The an important link in the anti-state conspiracy of Zionists Still Point, won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and and Jewish bourgeois nationalists’. was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. FICTION / General Jo Langer lost her job, and was exiled to the coun- 978-1-84708-665-5 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / tryside. In Convictions, she vividly describes trying to her 5.2 x 7.9 • 224 pages General protect her two daughters and scrape a living, surviv- 978-1-84708-338-8 Trade paperback • $19.95 praise for Amy Sackville: ing the loss of her husband, her place in society and her BISAC: FIC000000 5.3 x 8.5 • 208 pages Trade paperback • $21.95 faith in communism. Oscar Langer died shortly after his “The Still Point has an Eliotic calm that seems almost BISAC: BIO000000 release from prison. Jo Langer left Czechoslovakia during uncanny in a debut writer, and a narrative voice that’s the Prague Spring in 1968, and went into exile in Sweden. subtle and original.” — Ali Smith, TLS Books of the Year Jo Langer was born in Budapest in 1912. After the Soviet invasion in 1968, Jo Langer emigrated with her family to Sweden. She died in 1990. Marketing Notes Marketing Notes

• National review mailing • National review mailing • Co-op available • Co-op available 52 53 May Middle Age A Natural History David Bainbridge

A vet turns forty and discovers sound — and surprising — zoological David Bainbridge was Praise for David Bainbridge and evidence that he’s about to experience the best years of his life. trained in veterinary surgery Middle Age: and zoology at Cambridge University, where he now “A welcome corrective to the widely held David Bainbridge is a vet with a par- teaches Clinical Veterinary notion that being middle aged is ghastly.” ticular interest in evolutionary zoology — and Anatomy. He is the author of — India Knight, Sunday Times he has just turned forty. As well as the usual four previous books: on preg- concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight nancy, on the biology of sex and sexuality, on “David Bainbridge is the best kind of writer on and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds the brain, and most recently Teenagers. this subject; reassuring without being woolly himself pondering some bigger questions: and articulate without being incomprehen- have I come to the end of my productive life sible. You won’t get any less middle-aged read- as a human being? And what am I now for? ing this book, but you’ll feel better about it.” By looking afresh at the latest research from — David Quantick the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, psy- chology, and reproductive biology, it seems “Bainbridge’s zoological examination of the that the answers are surprisingly, reassuringly human animal results in a study that is full of encouraging. In clear, engaging and amiable surprises . . . ​Heartenin.” — James McCon- prose, Bainbridge explains the science behind nachie, Sunday Times the physical, mental and emotional changes men and women experience between the ages “Thought-provoking. [It] should certainly of 40 and 60, and reveals the evolutionary — shed some new light on one’s own potbellied and personal — benefits of middle age, which or menopausal mid-life crisis . . . ​Fascinating.” is unique to human beings and helps to explain — Katie Law, Evening Standard the extraordinary success of our species. Middle Age will change the way you think about mid-life, and help turn the ’crisis’ into a cause for celebration. SCIENCE / General 978-1-84627-268-4 5.3 x 7.9 • 336 pages Trade paperback • $18.95 Marketing Notes BISAC: SCI000000

• National review mailing • Author radio and blog tour • Co-op available 54 55 July Running with the Pack Thoughts From the Road on Meaning and Mortality Mark Rowlands

Mark Rowlands explores the intimate relationship between running and Mark Rowlands is a excerpt: thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life, in this brilliant Professor of Philosophy at follow-up to The Philosopher and the Wolf. the University of Miami. I sometimes think that running may be a place He is the author of a dozen where I channel my history. Running is a place ‘Most of the serious thinking I have done books, translated into fifteen where I really do stand on the shoulders of over the past twenty years has been done while languages. His books of pop- giants – or, more appositely, run in the con- running.’ Mark Rowlands has run for most of ular philosophy include The ceptual slipstream of thinkers older and better his life. He has also been a professional phi- Philosopher at the End of the Universe and Every- than I, a place where things that I have read and losopher. And for him the two — running and thing I know I Learned From TV. seemingly forgot- ten, things that have become philosophising — are inextricably connected. buried long, long years in the trivialities of In Running with the Pack he tells us about the life and the life of the trivial, once again have most significant runs of his life — from the en- their moment on the conscious stage, to strut tire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, and pout and remonstrate: why did you forget to the runs along French beaches and up Irish me? This stage they enter and exit, changing mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and nothing or changing everything, and I have through Florida swamps more recently with Also Available: little say in any of it. Running is a place where his dog Nina. Intertwined with this honest, I remember. Most importantly, it is a place

passionate and witty memoir are the fascinat- Philosopher and the Wolf where I remember not the thoughts of others, ing meditations that those runs triggered. He Mark Rowlands but something that I once knew, a lifetime ago, ends by describing running a mid-life mara- 978-1-84708-102-5 but was forced to forget in the process of grow- Trade paperback • $17.95 thon with absolutely no training. Woven ing up and becoming someone. I knew this throughout the book are profound meditations although I did not know that I knew it; and in on mortailty, midlife and the meaning of life. this I was just like everyone else. Running is a This is a highly original and moving book that place for remembering. It is in this place that will make the philosophically inclined want to we find the meaning of running. run, and those who love running become in- toxicated by philosophical ideas.

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July July The Devil’s Workshop Gargling with Tar Jáchym Topol Jáchym Topol

A powerful and disturbing novel about the horrors of history, about who A dark and shocking coming-of-age story - of both a boy and a country — owns the past, and about the human cost of preserving it. from the most acclaimed of contemporary Czech writers.

‘The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That’s where Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops the deepest graves are. But no one knows about it.’ have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is A young man grows up in a town with a sinister his- suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that tory. The concentration camp may have been liberated the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been years ago, but its walls still cast their long shadows and driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to some of the inhabitants are quite determined to not to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way allow anyone to forget. When the camp is marked for to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into demolition, one of the survivors begins a campaign to the violence. When the troops return, the orphans are preserve it, quickly attracting donations from wealthy given military training and, with his first-hand knowl- benefactors, a cult-like following of young travellers, and edge of the local terrain, Ilya becomes guide to a Soviet a steady stream of tourists buying souvenir t-shirts. But tank battalion, leading him ever deeper into a macabre before long, the authorities impose a brutal crack-down, world of random cruelty, moral compromise and lasting leaving only an ’official’ memorial and three young col- shame. laborators whose commitment to the act of remember- ing will drive them ever closer to the evils they hoped to escape. Bold, brilliant and blackly comic, The Devil’s Praise for Gargling with Tar: Workshop paints a deeply troubling portrait of a country dealing with its ghosts and asks: at what point do we con- FICTION / General “Gargling with Tar is a crashing, free-wheeling tank ride FICTION / General sign the past to history? 978-1-84627-162-5 of a book . . . Few Czech novelists have tackled 1968 978-1-84627-417-6 5.3 x 7.9 • 320 pages head-on. Topol does so with bracing irreverence as well 5.3 x 8.5 • 160 pages Jáchym Topol is an award-winning writer, famous Trade paperback • $14.95 Trade paperback • $18.95 as pity.” — Maya Jaggi, Independent in his youth (in the dog days of the Communist era) as an BISAC: FIC000000 BISAC: FIC000000 underground poet and songwriter, and now for writing “A rich satire that lashes out at a number of targets.” books that have successfully and imaginatively captured — Big Issue the dislocation brought about by the fall of Communism. His novels include Nightwork and The Devil’s Workshop.

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• National review mailing • Co-op available 58 59 July April What to Eat? Instead of a Book 10 Chewy Questions About Food Letters to a Friend Hattie Ellis Diana Athill

A practical, compelling and entertaining book full of unexpected angles, Thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy from Diana Athill, in the revelations, and facts about the food we eat. first collection of her letters ever to be published, now available in paperback.

Every choice we make about the food we put on Diana Athill has corresponded with the Ameri- our plates is complicated. Is meat good or bad for me? can poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely shar- Is buying local always best? Is organic worth it? What to ing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and Eat? asks all these questions and more: some are specific, writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more re- going back to the nature of particular foods such as milk, vealing than the candour of her celebrated memoirs. meat, and fish. Some are more general and challenging, Edited, selected and introduced by Athill, and anno- examining the green and the good at a time when money tated with her own delightful notes, this collection of is short and choices matter. those letters reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a The book also offers answers. This is a refreshingly keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase and a practical guide to the stuff of every day living. Journeying wicked sense of humour. Covering her career as an edi- through science, nature and the dark arts of the food indus- tor, the adventure of her retirement, her immersion in her try, Hattie Ellis exposes the myths and unveils the truth own writing and her reactions to becoming unexpectedly about how food is produced, what gives us most value for famous in her old-age, and including gossip about mutual money, what it does to us, and what we have done to it. friends, sharp pen portraits, and uninhibited accounts her relationships — and ailments — Instead of a Book gives a Hattie Ellis’ Planet Chicken won the Derek Cooper wonderful description of a woman growing older without Award for investigative writing in 2008. She has also ever losing her zest for life. COOKING / Essays investigated diets of all sorts for TV, and worked for the 978-1-84627-216-5 Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, exploring the connec- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre 5.3 x 7.9 • 448 pages tions between food and health. She writes for newspapers Literary Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore 978-1-84708-414-9 Trade paperback • $19.95 including the Saturday Telegraph, the Guardian’s G2 food his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four 5.2 x 7.9 • 352 pages BISAC: CKB030000 pages, the magazine, , , decades. Athill’s distinguished career as an editor is the Times FT Weekend Time Out Wait- Trade paperback • $19.95 rose Food Illustrated, Kew Gardens magazine and online for BISAC: BIO007000 subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also pub- the BBC and others. lished by Granta Books, as are five volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, and a novel, Don’t Marketing Notes Look at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was • National review mailing presented with an OBE. She lives in . • Author radio and blog tour • Co-op available

60 61 April April Looking for Transwonderland The New Granta Book of Travel Noo Saro-Wiwa Liz Jobey

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were back to Nigeria — a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Cha- to relinquish all her creature comforts. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was twin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely murdered there, and she didn’t return for 10 years. unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the extraordinary and the un- Recently, she decided to come to terms with the country her father loved. She trav- expected. By the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change, as a younger generation of elled from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; writers that appeared in the magazine made journeys for more complex and often person- from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the empty Transwonderland Amusement al reasons. Decca Aitkenhead reported on sex tourism in Thailand, and Wendell Steav- Park. enson moved to Iraq as foreign correspondent. What all these pieces have in common is Looking for Transwonderland is an engaging portrait of a country whose beauty and a sense of engagement with the places they describe, and a belief that whether we are in variety few of us will experience, depicted with wit and insight by a refreshing new voice Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered. in contemporary travel writing. Liz Jobey was the Deputy Editor of Granta 1998-2002 and before that was Editor of Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Nigeria in 1976 and raised in England. She attended the Independent on Sunday Review and Literary Editor of the Guardian. She is the editor of TRAVEL/Africa/West King’s College London and Columbia University in New York and has written travel Are We Related?: The New Granta Book of the Family and The New Granta Book of Travel 978-1-84708-331-9 guides for Rough Guide and Lonely Planet. She currently lives in London. TRAVEL / General and currently works as a freelance journalist. 5.3 x 7.9 • 320 pages 978-1-84708-330-2 Trade paperback • $18.95 5.3 x 7.9 • 448 pages BISAC: TRV002080 Trade paperback • $14.95 BISAC: TRV000000

April April One Day I Will Write About This Place The Granta Book of the African Short Story Binyavanga Wainaina Helon Habila

“Wainaina’s book is not just for Afrophiles or lovers of post­colonial literature. This is a Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Mo- book for anyone who still finds the nourishment of a well-­written tale preferable to the rocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers — empty-­calorie jolt of a celebrity confessional or Swedish mystery.” — Alexandra Fuller, contrasted with some of their older, more established peers — to give a fascinating picture author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the op- In this vivid and compelling debut, which was named a New York Times Notable Book portunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the in 2011, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.The landscape global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: ’If you’re a writer for a specific nation in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political or specific race, then f*** you.” These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is and defiant. his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Reso- Leila Aboulela; Zoë Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu. lutely avoiding stereotype and cliche, Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive and hugely memorable brush. Born in Nigeria, Helon Habila worked there as a lecturer and journalist before mov- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOG- FICTION / General ing to England as the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He has RAPHY / General 978-1-84708-333-3 Binyavanga Wainaina 978-1-84708-332-6 was born in Nakuru, Kenya in 1971. He is the founding 5.3 x 7.9 • 400 pages published three novels, Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007) and Oil on 5.2 x 7.9 • 272 pages editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya. He won the 2002 Trade paperback • $14.95 Water (2010). His writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize 2001, and the Trade paperback • $18.95 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has written for , Virginia Quarterly, BISAC: FIC000000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize 2003. Habila teaches Creative Writing at George Mason BISAC: BIO000000 Granta, and the New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives with his family. Writers and Artists at Bard College in upstate New York.

62 63 Now Available A series of handsome new editions of classic anansi titles

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