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Anansi_F12_cover.indd 1-2 12-05-25 11:40 AM Stil l Counting the Dead Stories from Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields By Frances Harrison Scott Griffin Chair 6” x 9.2126” 272 pages Sarah MacLachlan President & Publisher Allan Ibarra VP Finance October 2012 Trade paperback $24.95 Matt Williams VP Publishing Operations 978-1-77089-304-7 Janie Yoon Senior Editor, Nonfiction, Crime Fiction & International
July 2012 jared bland Senior Editor, Poetry & Canadian Ficition EPUB $13.95 Kelly Joseph Managing Editor 978-1-77089-305-4 meredith Dees Editor Erin Mallory Manager, Cross-Media Group “An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account Alysia Shewchuk Designer & Digital Assets Coordinator of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone.” — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito Lonny knapp Print Production Manager Laura Repas Publicity Director
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it Kate McQuaid Senior Publicist became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger Fred Horler Marketing Manager guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, Trish Osuch Web Content Manager and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout Barbara Howson VP Sales & Rights that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Allison Charles International Sales Manager Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail. Emily Mockler Sales Associate, National Accounts Eva O’brien Sales Assistant About the Contributor Gillian Fizet Rights Manager Frances Harrison was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as well as the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Imperial College in London. For many Amanda Lee Data Asset Administrator years she worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC posted in South Asia, South East Asia, and Iran. From 2000–4 she was the resident BBC Correspondent Mark Luk Operations Manager in Sri Lanka. She has worked at Amnesty International as Head of News and while writing Still Counting the Dead was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University.
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September 22, 2012 Working the Dead Beat 50 Lives that Changed Canada
By Sandra Martin
Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin offers an extraordinary collection of obituaries of Canada’s most legendary and infamous political figures, activists, celebrities, theorists, and cultural icons, as well as an intimate portrait of the life of the obit writer.
Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada’s famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Here are builders
such as feminist and editor Doris Anderson, and businessman and famed art
collector Ken Thomson. Here are our rogues, rascals, and romantics; our • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / service men and women; and here are those private citizens whose lives have General had an undeniable public impact. Finally, Martin interweaves these elegant • 978-0-88784-246-7 and eloquent biographies with the autobiography of the obit writer, offering an • $29.95 exclusive and intimate view of life on the dead beat. • Hardcover Beautifully written, compelling, and vivid, Working the Dead Beat is a tribute • 6" x 9" to those individuals who, each on their own and as a collective, tell the story • 352 pages of our country, and to the life of the obit writer who chronicles their extraordinary lives. • For sale with exclusive rights in CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Sandra Martin is the obituary columnist at the Globe and Mail. She has won Other Formats the Atkinson and Canadian Journalism Fellowships and multiple National EPUB $24.95 Magazine Awards. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed collection The 978-1-77089-049-7 First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, and was also the co-editor of the annual Oberon Best Short Stories and Coming Attractions anthologies, and is the co-author of three books, including Rupert Brooke in ALSO AVAILABLE Canada and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers, and the Explosion of Plastic
The Secret of the Credit, which was shortlisted for the Canadian Business Book Award. A past Crown president of PEN Canada, she lives in Toronto with her husband and her cat,
John Fraser Alice.
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September 29, 2012 The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011 New and Updated Edition
By Misha Glenny
"The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkans people." — San Francisco Chronicle From the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket comes this unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century which gives readers the essential historical background to more than one • HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire • 978-1-77089-273-6 region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or • $24.95 explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, • Trade paperback Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Now updated to include the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the capture of all indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav wars and ’ • 5.5" x 8.4375" each state s quest for legitimacy in the European Union, The Balkans • 792 pages explores the often catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Misha Glenny is the international bestselling author of McMafia: A Journey Other Formats Through the Global Criminal Underworld; DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, EPUB $20.95 Cybercops and You, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and named a 978-1-77089-274-3 Globe and Mail Top 100 Book;The Rebirth of History; The Fall of Yugoslavia , which won the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Book on Foreign Affairs; and The Balkans: 1804-1999. He was an International Scholar at the ALSO AVAILABLE Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the
London School of Economics. He has worked as a political consultant in
McMafia southeastern Europe, and is regularly consulted by U.S. and European Misha Glenny governments on Balkan issues. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and $19.95 magazines such as the Guardian, London Review of Books, the Globe and Mail, the New Statesman, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times. He lives in London, U.K.
DarkMarket Misha Glenny $18.95
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September 29, 2012 The Universe Within From Quantum to Cosmos
By Neil Turok
The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.
Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come.
In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores transformative discoveries — from the nature of light, to the evolution of the cosmos, to the bizarre world of the quantum, and the emerging ideas which may yield • SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects tomorrow’s technologies. He explains how we can accelerate the pace of • 978-1-77089-015-2 discovery by creatively re-inventing the way advanced knowledge is developed • $19.95 and shared, and by opening access to the vast untapped pools of intellectual • Trade paperback talent in the developing world.
Drawing from his personal experience, from confronting injustice in apartheid • 5" x 8" South Africa to becoming a renowned international scientist and educator, • 264 pages Turok explains why scientific research, training, and outreach are vital to our future economy as well as powerful forces for peaceful global progress. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Neil Turok is one of the world’s top physicists and founder of the African Other Formats Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a centre for education and EPUB $16.95 research based in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently the Director of the 978-1-77089-225-5 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, he was formerly the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University and Professor of Physics at Princeton. With Stephen Hawking he developed the Hawking-Turok instanton ALSO AVAILABLE solutions, which describe the birth of inflationary universes. He is the co- Winter author, with Paul J. Steinhardt, of the critically acclaimed book Endless Adam Gopnik Universe: Beyond the Big Bang — Rewriting Cosmic History. He was awarded the 1992 James Clerk Maxwell medal of the U.K. Institute of Physics, and was recently honoured with a prestigious TED Prize and a "Most Innovative People" award at the 2008 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE). Born in South Africa, Turok now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
MASSEY LECTURES TOUR
St. John’s (October 10), Montreal (October 12), Vancouver (October 16), Calgary (October 18), Toronto (October 24)
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November 1, 2012 Has the European Experiment Failed? The Munk Debate on Europe
By Niall Ferguson By Daniel Cohn-Bendit By Josef Joffe By Peter Mandelson Lord Edited by Rudyard Griffiths
— National Post "This debate series has earned phenom-status." In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind’s most ambitious endeavors. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion. Modern Europe’s stunning achievements aside, its sovereign debt crisis has shaken the world’s largest political and economic union to its core. Can the federal institutions and shared values of Europeans • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy meet the challenges of debt crisis that are as much political as economic? • 978-1-77089-228-6 Or, are Europe’s current woes indicative of a series of deep structural faults • $14.95 that will doom the European Union to breakup and failure? • Trade paperback In this edition of the Munk Debates — Canada’s premier international debate series — former EU commissioner Lord Peter Mandelson and EU parliament • 5" x 8" leader of the Greens Daniel Cohn-Bendit argue against the motion and • 112 pages bestselling author Josef Joffe and renowned historian Niall Ferguson argue for the motion as they debate one of the most pressing issues of our day: has • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA US the great European experiment failed?
This electrifying debate featuring some of Europe’s most outspoken Other Formats parliamentary figures and academics is guaranteed to be an unforgettable and
EPUB $12.95 riveting verbal sparring match on the question that will determine the future of 978-1-77089-229-3 world’s economy.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Niall Ferguson is the author of numerous bestselling books. A prolific ALSO AVAILABLE commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Ferguson is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and senior columnist with Does the 21st Century Belong to Newsweek. China? Henry Kissinger Daniel Cohn-Bendit is a French-born German politician. He has been co- president of the group European Greens-European Free Alliance in the European Parliament since 2002.
North America`s Josef Joffe is publisher of the German weekly Die Zeit and the bestselling Lost Decade? author of Überpower: America’s Imperial Temptation. He is_senior Fellow of Paul Krugman Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Lord Peter Mandelson was EU Commissioner for Trade from 2004 to 2008 and was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform in 2008.
Rudyard Griffiths is the co-organizer and moderator of the Munk Debates. He lives in Toronto.
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March 23, 2013
The Truth About Luck A Story about Life, Love, and What It Truly Means to Feel Lucky
By Iain Reid
"Reid’s writing is . . . engaging and humorous." — Winnipeg Free Press • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age • 978-1-77089-241-5 memoir One Bird’s Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day • $22.95 vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in • Trade paperback Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange • 5.25" x 8" memories and she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story. • 288 pages Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this delightful comic memoir reflects on • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA family connections; how we experience adversity, the passage of time, and aging; and most importantly what it truly means to feel lucky.
Other Formats ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
EPUB $18.95 Iain Reid is the author of the critically acclaimed comic memoir One Bird's 978-1-77089-242-2 Choice, which won the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book. His writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and online in publications such as the Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest, and The Classical. He writes ALSO AVAILABLE regularly about books and writing for the National Post. His work has also
One Bird`s Choice appeared on CBC Radio and NPR. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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February 1, 2013 Is Work Killing You? A Doctor's Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress
By Dr. David Posen
A timely, insightful, and essential guide to conquering stress from the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief.
From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating — and eliminating — excessive stress in the workplace. Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology of stress to illustrate how downsizing, economic uncertainty, and technology have made the workplace
• SELF-HELP / Stress Management more toxic than ever. Most importantly, he offers practical advice and easy • 978-1-77089-275-0 techniques for managing the harmful symptoms and side effects of stress. • $18.95 • Trade paperback Witty, engaging, and accessible, Is Work Killing You? touches on everything from meetings 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 • 6" x 8" harming our most valuable resource — ourselves. • 256 pages ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA David Posen, M.D., is a physician, popular speaker, and the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief, which sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into five languages. His previous books also Other Formats include Staying Afloat When the Water Gets Rough and the classic, Always EPUB $15.95 978-1-77089-276-7 Change a Losing Game. His writing has appeared in Canadian Living, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, USA Weekend, and his TV and radio appearances have aired nation-wide. He lives in Oakville, Ontario. ALSO AVAILABLE The Book for Dangerous Women Liz Hoggard
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July 1, 2012 People Park
By Pasha Malla
"Pasha Malla is an impressive young voice that gives hope for a future generation of new Canadian writing talent." — Globe and Mail
It’s the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the • FICTION / Literary illustrationist Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle • 978-0-88784-216-0 its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the • $24.95 event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists • Trade paperback with flaps to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its
• shadow side. And when Raven’s illustration exceeds even the most extreme 5.5" x 8.5" • 484 pages of expectations, the island is plunged into a series of unnatural disasters that force people to confront what they are really made of. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA People Park is a tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious
observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense. Malla writes as Other Formats if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O’Connor were resting on his shoulders. You’ve never read anything quite like People Park. EPUB $20.95 978-1-77089-197-5 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Pasha Malla’s first collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method, a ALSO AVAILABLE Globe and Mail and National Post book of the year, won the Danuta Gleed The Withdrawal Literary Award and the Trillum Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Method Commonwealth Prize (Best First Book, Canada & Caribbean) and longlisted Pasha Malla for the Giller Prize. A frequent contributor to The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and CBC radio, he is also the winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, two National Magazine Awards for humour writing, and has twice had stories included in the Journey Prize anthology. He was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, grew up in London, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
AUTHOR TOUR
Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Kingston, Ottawa, Toronto
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September 15, 2012
Carnival
By Rawi Hage
"A major literary talent." — IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Jury Citation
There are two types of taxi drivers in the Carnival city — the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies are wanderers — they roam the streets, looking for the raised flags of hands.
Fly is a wanderer. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man from the East, he was born to wander, to watch, and to know. From the seat of his taxi we see the world in all of its
carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. We meet ordinary people going to • FICTION / Literary extraordinary places, and revolutionaries just trying to find something to eat. • 978-0-88784-235-1 Hunger and injustice claw at the city, and books provide the only true shelter. •.$29.95 And when the Carnival starts, all limits dissolve, and a gunshot goes off... • Hardback with printed dust jacket
September 15, 2012 With all of the beauty, truth, rage, and peripatetic storytelling that have made • 5.25" x 8" Cockroach and De Niro’s Game international publishing sensations, Carnival
• 272 pages gives us Rawi Hage at his searing best. Alternately laughing at absurdity and crying out at oppression, this is a book with the revolutionary power of Camus’
• For sale with exclusive rights in: CA The Stranger and the storytelling prowess of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. By turns outrageous, hilarious, sorrowful, and stirring, Carnival is a tour de force that will make all of life’s passengers squirm in their comfortable, Other Formats complacent backseats. EPUB $24.95 978-1-77089-226-2 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the ALSO AVAILABLE Lebanese civil war. His debut novel, De Niro's Game, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was a finalist for numerous prestigious national and De Niro's Game international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor Rawi Hage General's Literary Award, and has been translated into several languages and
published around the world. His second novel, Cockroach, won the Hugh
MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Rawi Hage lives in Montreal. Cockroach Rawi Hage
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September 29, 2012
Mister Roger and Me
By Marie-Renee Lavoie Translated by Wayne Grady
Set against the backdrop of a working-class neighbourhood during the 1980s, this stunning debut won Radio-Canada’s Battle of the Books (Canada Reads) competition in its original French. Mister Roger and Me is a heartbreaking and hilarious story about the unlikely friendship between a spirited eight-year-old and her neighbour, a disgruntled old man.
• FICTION / Literary Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like • 978-1-77089-202-6 Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in • $22.95 another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering • Trade paperback with flaps newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight years old, even though she claims to be ten.
• 5.25" x 8" When Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor, and • 224 pages dreams about dying, moves into the working-class neighbourhood where Helen lives with her family, the two make uneasy acquaintances. But, after a • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA series of scary and disturbing events, an unlikely friendship develops — one that changes them both forever. This stunning debut novel in the spirit of Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans Other Formats and Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English won Quebec’s Prix Archambault and EPUB $18.95 won Radio-Canada’s Battle of the Books (Canada Reads) competition in its 978-1-77089-203-3 original French. Mister Roger and Me perfectly captures the irony, innocence, heartbreak, and humour of childhood. ALSO AVAILABLE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Pigeon English Marie-Renée Lavoie was born in 1974 in the Limoilou near Quebec City. She Stephen Kelman holds an MA in literature from Laval University. La petite et le vieux, her debut novel, was published in Quebec in 2010 and won Radio-Canada's "Battle of
the Books" and the Archambault prize. She currently teaches literature at Maisonneuve College in Montreal.
Wayne Grady is the author of fourteen books of science and natural history and the editor of six anthologies of short stories. His translations of Daniel Poliquin's Black Squirrel and Francine D'Amour's Return from Africa were shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, and he is the winner of the John Glassco Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. He lives near Kingston, Ontario, with his wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds.
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Bone and Bread
By Saleema Nawaz
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods — and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal’s Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. Beena catches the attention of one of the "bagel boys" and finds herself pregnant at sixteen, while Sadhana drives herself to perfectionism and anorexia.
• FICTION / Literary When we first meet the adult Beena, she is grappling with a fresh grief: • 978-1-77089-009-1 Sadhana has died suddenly and strangely, her body lying undiscovered for a • $22.95 week before anyone realizes what has happened. Beena is left with a burden • Trade paperback with flaps of guilt and an unsettled feeling about the circumstances of her sister’s death, which she sets about to uncover. Her search stirs memories and opens
March 9, 2013 wounds, threatening to undo the safe, orderly existence she has painstakingly • 5.25" x 8" created for herself and her son. • 286 pages Heralded across Canada for the power and promise of her debut collection, • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Mother Superior, Nawaz proves with Bone and Bread that she is one of our most talented and unique storytellers.
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EPUB $18.95 Saleema Nawaz is the author of the short story collection Mother Superior, 978-1-77089-243-9 which was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers' Federation Best First Book Prize. Her story "My Three Girls" won the Journey Prize in 2008. Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, she currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. ALSO AVAILABLE
Holding Still For As Long As Possible Zoe Whittall
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March 16, 2013 Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
By Théodora Armstrong
"Théodora Armstrong’s stories are brash and brainy." — Mark Anthony Jarman
Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy.
Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various — and as compelling — as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine
chef mercilessly berates his staff while facing his lack of preparedness for • FICTION / Short Stories parenthood. A young girl revels in the dark drama of the murder of a girl from • 978-1-77089-102-9 her neighbourhood, until she begins to suspect that her troubled brother might • $22.95 be the murderer. A novice air-traffic specialist must come to terms with his • Trade paperback with flaps first loss — the death of a pilot — on his watch. And the dangers of deep canyons and powerful currents spur on the reckless behaviour of teenagers as • 5.25" x 8" they test the limits of bravery, friendship, and sex. • 304 pages With startling intimacy and language stripped bare, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility announces the arrival of Théodora Armstrong as a striking new • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA literary voice.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Other Formats Théodora Armstrong is a short-story writer and poet. Her work has appeared EPUB $18.95 978-1-77089-240-8 in numerous literary magazines across the country such as Event, Prairie
Fire, The Fiddlehead, Descant, The New Quarterly, and Contemporary Verse
2. In 2008 she won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, and her stories ALSO AVAILABLE have been included in both The Journey Prize Anthology 20 and Coming The Juliet Stories Attractions 10. Théodora lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her Carrie Snyder husband and daughter. She is at work on her first novel.
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March 30, 2013 For Sure
By France Daigle Translated by Robert Majzels
For Sure is the tender story of a young family living in Moncton, New Brunswick, and a subtle, complex exploration of the relationship between place, language, and culture.
For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose — which is occasionally interrupted by surprising bits of information, biography, and definitions that appear on the page — Daigle perfectly captures the essence of a place and offers us a reflection on minority cultures and their obsession with language.
It is also the continuing story of Terry and Carmen, familiar to us from previous
• FICTION / Literary works, their children Etienne and Marianne, and all those who gravitate around • 978-1-77089-204-0 the Babar, the local bar in Moncton — the Zablonskis, Zed, Pomme — artists • $24.95 and ordinary people who question their place in the world from a distinct point • Trade paperback with flaps of view that is informed by their geography, and by their history, politics, and culture.
Masterfully translated from French by award-winning translator Robert • 5.25" x 8" Majzels, For Sure is the moving story of a family and a surprising, • 400 pages staggeringly original work that represents a corner of our country.
• For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
France Daigle is the author of eleven novels, including Real Life, 1953, A Fine Other Formats Passage, Life's Little Difficulties, and Just Fine, which won the France Acadie Prize, the Prix Éloize, and the Prix Antonnie EPUB $20.95 -Maillet-Acadie Vie. She 978-1-77089-205-7 lives in Moncton New Brunswick.
Robert Majzels is a novelist, poet, playwright, and translator. He won the ALSO AVAILABLE Governor General's Literary Award for French to English translation for Just
Just Fine Fine, from the French Pas Pire, by France Daigle (2000). Robert lives in France Daigle Calgary.
Life's Little Difficulties France Daigle
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September 15, 2012 Time Warped Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
By Claudia Hammond
"A fascinating and at times mind-boggling book that will change the way you think about time." — Financial Times
• SCIENCE / Time We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost • 978-1-77089-212-5 impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how • $22.95 much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and • Trade paperback improve our relationship with it?
Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, • 5.3125" x 8.375" and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our • 352 pages understanding of time, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Along the way, she introduces • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA us to an extraordinary array of colourful characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, such as the French speleologist Michel, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness. Other Formats Time Warped shows us how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time EPUB $18.95 978-1-77089-213-2 up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy, and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.
ALSO AVAILABLE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Born Liars Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and psychology Ian Leslie lecturer. She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster: A Journey through the Science of Feelings, which was published in six territories. She won the 2011 Mind Media's Making a Difference Award (given to those who set the agenda and initiate change) and the British Psychological Society's 2012 Public Engagement and Media Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Professional Publishers Association Magazine Columnist of the Year Award, the International Award for Humanitarian Journalism, and the Medical Journalism Awards.
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The Blue Book
By A.L. Kennedy Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, Long-listed
"A masterful novel, imaginatively crafted, shaped by big, precisely articulated emotion." — The Times
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK — temporarily — Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of crimes. Together they acted as fake mediums, perfecting the arcane skills practiced by effective frauds.
• FICTION / Literary Elizabeth finally rejected what once seemed an intoxicating game. Arthur • 978-1-77089-184-5 continued his search for the right way to do wrong. He now subsidizes free • $22.95 closure for the traumatized and dispossessed by preying on the super-rich. • Trade paperback The pair still meet occasionally, for weekends of sexual oblivion, but their affection lacerates as much as it consoles.
Elizabeth hadn’t, however, expected the other man on the boat. As her • 5.5" x 8.75" voyage progresses, Elizabeth’s past is revealed, and codes slowly form and • 384 pages break as communication deepens. It’s time for her to discover who are the
true deceivers and who are the truly deceived. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA But is the book itself — a fiction which may not always be lying — deceiving the reader? Offering illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive Other Formats humour, this is a novel about what happens when we are misled and when we EPUB $18.95 are true: an extraordinarily intricate and intimate journey into our minds and 978-1-77089-185-2 hearts undertaken by a writer of great gifts — a maker of wonders.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR ALSO AVAILABLE The author of five previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and five collections
of short stories, A. L. Kennedy's last novel, Day, was the 2007 Costa Book of Day the Year. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young A.L. Kennedy British Novelists and has won a host of other awards. She lives in Glasgow
and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.
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September 8, 2012 Nice Weather
By Frederick Seidel
A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (New York Times Book Review).
"Something is going on. Something is wrong."
Frederick Seidel — the "ghoul" (Chicago Review), the "triumphant outsider" (Contemporary Poetry Review) — returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel — and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • POETRY / American / General Frederick Seidel's many books of poems include The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga- • 978-1-77089-262-0 Booga, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and Poems 1959- • $19.95 2009. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the 2002 PEN/Voelker • Trade paperback Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the
Lamont Prize. He lives in New York City.
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June 14, 2012 Doppler
By Erlend Loe Translated by Don Bartlett Translated by Don Shaw
A bestseller in Scandinavia — Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.
This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living.
Hilarious, touching, and poignant in equal measure — you will read it with tear- stained cheeks and sore sides — Doppler is also a deeply subversive novel and a strong criticism of modern consumer culture.
• FICTION / Humorous ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS • 978-1-77089-301-6 Erlend Loe was born in 1969 in Trondheim, Norway. He studied folklore, film • $16.95 studies, and literature before working as a newspaper critic, in a psychiatric • EPUB hospital, and as a schoolteacher. He is the author of six novels, and four
children's books, which have been translated and published in twenty-one • 144 pages countries. He lives in Norway.
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LAUNCHED TO mARK OUR FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY, the A List is a series of handsome new editions of classic Anansi titles. Encompassing fi ction, nonfi ction, and poetry, this collection includes some of the fi nest books we’ve published. We feel that these are great reads, and the series is an excellent introduction to the world of Canadian literature. The redesigned A List books will feature new cover art by noted Canadian illustrators, and each edition begins with a new introduction by a notable writer. We can think of no better way to celebrate forty- fi ve years of great publishing than by bringing these books back into the spotlight. We hope you’ll agree. Sarah macLachlan, President & Publisher
SURVIVAL: A THEmATIC GUIDE TO CANADIAN LITERATURE By margaret Atwood with a new Introduction by the author 978-1-77089-252-1 | Paperback $14.95 | Jul 12, 2012 When fi rst published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks.
THE CIRCLE GAmE By margaret Atwood | Introduction by Suzanne Buffam 978-1-77089-278-1 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 The appearance of Margaret Atwood’s fi rst major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. Containing many of Atwood’s best and most famous poems, The Circle Game won the 1966 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an international reputation as a classic of modern poetry.
CIVIL ELEGIES By Dennis Lee | Introduction by Nick mount 978-1-77089-249-1 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee’s uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1972.
POEmS FOR ALL THE ANNETTES By Al Purdy | Introduction by Steven Heighton 978-1-77089-260-6 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan.
FIVE LEGS By Graeme Gibson | Introduction by Sean Kane 978-1-77089-257-6 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fi ction, selling 1,000 copies in its fi rst week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that “Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other Canadian novel that I can think of.” 18
Anansi_F12_pages.indd 2 12-05-25 11:28 AM “It’s incredible that the House of Anansi has survived for forty-fi ve years; and that it has gone beyond mere survival, and is now thriving. I hope it will persist for another forty-fi ve years, and that Canada will persist as well; and that the reading of books will still take place, and that readers will continue to fi nd such reading an enjoyable and meaningful way to spend time. For if so, the human race will also have survived. And why should it not? Incredible things do happen.” — margaret Atwood from the Introduction to the A List edition of Survival
THE HOCKEY SWEATER AND OTHER STORIES By Roch Carrier | Translated by Sheila Fischman | Introduction by Dave Bidini 978-1-77089-251-4 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 “The Hockey Sweater,” the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love.
KAmOURASKA By Anne Hébert | Introduction by Noah Richler 978-1-77089-254-5 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth- century love-triangle in rural Quebec. Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris Book Prize and was made into a landmark feature fi lm by Claude Jutra.
SELECTED SHORT FICTION OF LISA mOORE: OPEN AND DEGREES OF NAKEDNESS By Lisa moore | Introduction by Jane Urquhart 978-1-77089-255-2 | Paperback $14.95| Oct 13, 2012 Lisa Moore’s stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. The Collected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore shows us that love, alongside desire, can sometimes come as a surprise, sometimes an ambush. She splices moments and images together so adroitly, so vividly, you’ll swear you’ve lived them yourself.
THE OUTLANDER By Gil Adamson | Introduction by Esta Spalding 978-1-77089-259-0 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 Gil Adamson’s extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-fl ight and propels the reader through a gripping road trip with a twist — the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck young woman. Part historical novel, part Gothic tale, and part literary Western, The Outlander is an original and unforgettable read.
DE NIRO’S GAmE By Rawi Hage | Introduction by Colm Tóibín 978-1-77089-250-7 | Paperback $14.95 | Oct 13, 2012 Winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, De Niro’s Game is a beautiful, explosive portrait of a contemporary young man shaped by a lifelong experience of war. Rawi Hage’s brilliant style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.
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An Ava Lee Novel September 1, 2012 The Red Pole of Macau
By Ian Hamilton
"A terrific story . . . Hamilton has created a marvellous character in Ava Lee." — Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail
In The Red Pole of Macau, Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull out of a multi-million-dollar real estate deal in the territory of Macau. The developers are threatening to halt construction unless Michael and his business partner put up another $80 million; the bank is looking for repayment on their loan; and her father is prepared to sell everything to protect his first- born son.
When Ava enlists Uncle for help, she discovers his health is failing and is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong. As Ava follows the money trail, she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into
• FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Hong Kong’s dark and deadly world of organized crime. Sleuths Will Ava protect her family’s future? Or will this job lead to a violent end . . . • 978-0-88784-254-2 • $19.95 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • Trade paperback Ian Hamilton is the author of The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Disciple of Las
Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, and The Red Pole of Macau, the first four • 5.25" x 8" Ava Lee novels. The Water Rat of Wanchai was a finalist for the Crime • 336 pages Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and the CBC Bookie Awards (Mystery and Thriller), and was an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors' Pick, an Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an Amazon.ca Mysteries and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year, and a Quill & Quire Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year. Other Formats
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October 6, 2012 A Marko della Torre Novel Zagreb Cowboy
By Alen Mattich
Set in 1991 Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut novel in a taut new crime fiction series, featuring one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction: Marko della Torre.
Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della Torre has been working both sides of the law — but somewhere along the way he’s crossed the line. When a corrupt cop called Strumbc helps three hired Bosnian thugs to hunt him down and kill him, della Torre makes a run for it through Croatia, Italy, and finally to London, where he’ll take Strumbic for all he’s worth.
A page-turning thriller shot through with black humour and razor-sharp dialogue, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut novel in a taut new crime
• FICTION / Crime fiction series. • 978-1-77089-108-1 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • $19.95 • Trade paperback Alen Mattich was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and grew up in Libya, Italy, Canada, and the United States. He went to McGill University for his October 6, 2012 undergraduate degree and did post-graduate work at the London School of • 5.25" x 8" Economics. A financial journalist and columnist, he's now based in London • 384 pages and writes for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. The second Marko
della Torre novel, Killing Pilgrim, will be published in fall 2013. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA
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ALSO AVAILABLE Evil in Return Elena Forbes
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February 16, 2013 The Scottish Banker of Surabaya
By Ian Hamilton
"[A] globe-hopping crime thriller." — National Post
Ava begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a Scot, but in actuality is a front for an elaborate money-laundering operation for Italian mobsters. The relationship between Ava and the Scotsman turns nasty and personal. Meanwhile, Uncle’s health problems become apparent...
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths Ian Hamilton is the author of The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Disciple of Las • 978-1-77089-234-7 Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, and The Red Pole of Macau, the first four • $19.95 Ava Lee novels. The Water Rat of Wanchai was a finalist for the Crime • Trade paperback Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and the CBC Bookie
Awards (Mystery and Thriller), and was an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of the
Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors' Pick, an Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an • 5.25" x 8" Amazon.ca Mysteries and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star Top 5 Fiction Book of • 352 pages the Year, and a Quill & Quire Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year.
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Ian Hamilton
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July 14, 2012 Easy to Like By Edward Riche
" . . . hilarious . . .laugh-out-loud funny . . . " — Maclean’s
Shortlisted for the BMO Winterset Award
From award-winning author Edward Riche comes a savagely funny satire about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. Disillusioned by his floundering Los Angeles existence — his writing career is at a low, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the Feds, and his son, a former
child star, is in prison — Elliot does what any self-respecting wino would do: escape to France.
But fate has other things in store. Stranded in Canada by an expired • FICTION / Literary passport, he is encouraged to remain there due to his bit part in a growing • 978-1-77089-105-0 Hollywood scandal. Deciding that Toronto may just be the perfect city in • $18.95 which to lay low, Elliot kills time by bluffing his way to the top of the Canadian • Trade paperback Broadcasting Corporation.
From the deranged flakiness of Los Angeles cults to the bureaucratic rituals • 5.125" x 7.875" of Canadian culturecrats, Easy to Like is a brilliant satire about making and • 304 pages breaking public taste from one of our most exciting, unapologetic literary talents. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Edward Riche is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and playwright. His Other Formats previous novels include Rare Birds, which was adapted into a major motion Hardcover $29.95 picture starring William Hurt and Molly Parker, and his second novel, The 978-0-88784-231-3 Nine Planets, won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. His writing has appeared EPUB $24.95 978-1-77089-043-5 in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and the Telegram. Edward lives in St. John's Newfoundland.
ALSO AVAILABLE REVIEWS The Sisters "Easy to Like lives up to the promise of its title...Riche [has a] gift for withering Brothers turns of phrase . . ." — Kevin Chong, Globe and Mail Patrick deWitt ". . . hilarious . . . laugh-out-loud funny . . ." — Maclean's
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May 12, 2012
DarkMarket How Hackers Became the New Mafia
By Misha Glenny The Orwell Prize 2012, Short-listed Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2011, Commended
" . . . an engrossing yarn . . . DarkMarket offers an eminently readable, • TRUE CRIME / General witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages." — Wall • 978-1-77089-106-7 Street Journal • $18.95 • Trade paperback Do you think your computer is secure? Don’t be so confident, says Misha Glenny, acclaimed journalist and author of the international bestseller McMafia. His explosive new book DarkMarket explores the rise of hackers
• 6" x 9.25" and how — through cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial • 304 pages espionage — they have supplanted traditional crime syndicates to become the new global mafia.
Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year, • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, and highly intelligent new breed of
criminal: the hacker. By investigating the rise and fall of the criminal website Other Formats DarkMarket, Glenny has uncovered the most vivid, alarming, and illuminating stories. He takes us from Google headquarters in California to Turkey’s Hardcover $29.95 978-0-88784-239-9 National Intelligence Ageny in Istanbul to the Internet cafes of Odessa, EPUB, $16.95 Ukraine, to introduce us to and explain all the players in this clandestine 978-1-77089-048-0 world — the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts, and the victims — and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history. ALSO AVAILABLE Painstakingly researched and completely engrossing, DarkMarket takes us McMafia on a journey around the globe to unravel the biggest threats facing the twenty- Misha Glenny first century. This is a must read for anyone who wants to learn about what is happening online and how to protect themselves.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Misha Glenny is the international bestselling author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld; The Rebirth of History; The Fall of Yugoslavia (winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Book on Foreign Affairs); and The Balkans: 1804-1999. He was an International Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a political consultant in southeastern Europe, and is regularly consulted by U.S. and European governments on Balkan issues. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, London Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, The New Statesman, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. He lives in London, U.K.
REVIEWS "Misha Glenny describes the battle [against cyber crime] in chilling detail." — Toronto Star
"Nobody writes more compellingly about contemporary international crime than the author of McMafia. Misha Glenny combines a terrific pace with the best journalistic practice and stylish writing . . . Illuminating and terrifying." — Martin Levin, Globe and Mail
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June 9, 2012 The Antagonist
By Lynn Coady Scotiabank Giller Prize 2011, Short-listed Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2011, Commended Toronto Star Reviewers' Top 100 Books 2011, Commended Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Pick 2011, Commended Amazon.ca Best Books: Canadian Fiction 2011, Commended
". . . by turns angry, funny, tender, and sad . . ." — Globe and • FICTION / Literary Mail • 978-1-77089-104-3 • $18.95 The hulking Gordon Rankin has spent his life cast as an enforcer, a goon — • Trade paperback by his classmates, his coaches, and especially his own father, Gordon Senior, an unfortunate victim of small man syndrome. Rank duly accepts his role and spends the majority of his high school and university years • 5.250" x 8" implementing the violent commands of others. Until one day tragedy strikes, • 352 pages with only Rank to blame. With nobody to turn to, he disappears.
But almost twenty years later Rank discovers that an old, trusted friend — the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA only person to whom he has ever confessed his sins — has published a novel
mirroring Rank’s life. The betrayal cuts to the deepest core of him, and forces Other Formats Rank to confront the tragic true story from which he’s spent his whole life running. A diatribe, a prayer, an ode to what it means to be a man, Rank’s Hardcover $32.95 978-0-88784-296-2 painful, suspenseful, and often hilarious journey grabs us by the throat and EPUB $16.95 the heart and never lets us go. This is Rank’s turn to finally set the record 978-1-77089-042-8 straight.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, "Group Therapy," runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.
REVIEWS "A deft blend of farce, tragedy and wry social comment, The Antagonist is no mean feat." — Barbara Carey, Toronto Star
"The Antagonist could have not have come at a better time. In our fast, media- saturated world, this novel gives the reader the refreshing and increasingly rare opportunity to take a closer, more compassionate look at someone wrongly judged by his outer shell." — Heather Leighton, Rover Arts
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April 28, 2012 The O'Briens
By Peter Behrens
"A major accomplishment." — New York Times
The O’Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail • FICTION / Literary mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his • 978-1-77089-033-6 siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the • $18.95 continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, • Trade paperback he is never quite able to leave his past behind.
Told from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the • 5.25" x 8" construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a • 528 pages majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls
"Canada’s Century." Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA it, The O’Briens is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Other Formats Peter Behrens is the author of the Governor General's Literary Award-winning Hardcover $32.95 978-0-88784-229-0 novel, The Law of Dreams, published around the world to wide acclaim, and a collection of short stories, Night Driving. His short stories and essays have EPUB $32.95 appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and the National 978-1-77089-029-9 Post. He was born in Montreal and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son. ALSO AVAILABLE REVIEWS The Law of Dreams "[The O'Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. Behrens' Peter Behrens writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping."
— Globe and Mail
"Pitch perfect." — National Post
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June 16, 2012 How Should a Person Be?
By Sheila Heti
"Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious . . . A book that risks everything." — Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Stories and Ticknor comes a bold interrogation into the possibility of a beautiful life. How Should a • FICTION / Literary Person Be? is a novel of many identities: an autobiography of the mind, a • 978-1-77089-248-4 postmodern self-help book, and a fictionalized portrait of the artist as a young • $18.95 woman — of two such artists, in fact. • Trade paperback
For reasons multiple and mysterious, Sheila finds herself in a quandary of
self-doubt, questioning how a person should be in the world. Inspired by her • 5.25" x 8.25" friend Margaux, a painter, and her seemingly untortured ability to live and • 320 pages create, Sheila casts Margaux as material, embarking on a series of
recordings in which nothing is too personal, too ugly, or too banal to be turned • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA into art. Along the way, Sheila confronts a cast of painters who are equally
blocked in an age in which the blow job is the ultimate art form. She begins Other Formats questioning her desire to be Important, her quest to be both a leader and a pupil, and her unwillingness to sacrifice herself. Hardcover $29.95 978-0-88784-240-5 Searching, uncompromising and yet mordantly funny, How Should a Person EPUB $24.95 Be? is a brilliant portrait of art-making and friendship from the psychic 978-0-88784-279-5 underground of Canada’s most fiercely original writer. This paperback edition features new and expanded content. ALSO AVAILABLE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Ticknor Sheila Heti is the acclaimed author of the novel How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti the story collection The Middle Stories, which was published in Germany,
France, The Netherlands, the United States, and Spain, and the novel
Ticknor, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Her writing has appeared in various literary anthologies and in several US and Canadian publications, including New York Times Magazine, Esquire, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and Brick. Heti is also the creator of the popular Toronto and New York-based lecture series, Trampoline Hall. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, and philosophy and art history at the University of Toronto. Sheila Heti lives in Toronto.
REVIEWS "Original, Contemplative, and often tangential, this is an unothodox compilation of colorful characters, friendship, and sex." — Publishers Weekly
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August 18, 2012 The Emperor of Lies
By Steve Sem-Sandberg Translated by Sarah Death Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, Long-listed Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2011, Commended
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second- largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director — and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence.
From one of Sweden’s most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski’s monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by a titanic ambition, he • FICTION / Literary sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove • 978-1-77089-034-3 to make it — and himself — indispensable to the Nazi regime. Drawing on the • $18.95 detailed records of life in the Lódz ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the • Trade paperback full panorama of human resilience and probes deeply into the nature of evil. He asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an • 5.75" x 8.812" accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a • 672 pages pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Winner of the August Prize, Sweden’s most important literary award, The
Emperor of Lies is a haunting, profoundly challenging novel.
Other Formats ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Hardcover 978-0-88784-259-7 Steve Sem-Sandberg is an award-winning Swedish writer, critic, and EPUB $34.95 translator. He is the author of twelve novels and four works of nonfiction. He 978-1-77089-041-1 has won a number of literary prizes, including the August Prize, the
Aftonbladet Literary Award, and the De Nios Grand Award, and was a finalist for the prestigious Nordic Council Literary Award on two occasions. His ALSO AVAILABLE critically acclaimed and powerful novel The Emperor of Lies has been published in more than twenty countries. He divides his time between Vienna Far to Go Alison Pick and Stockholm.
Sarah Death is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the UK-based journal Swedish Book Review. She lives in England.
REVIEWS "Absorbing from first page to last . . . Dickens would have been very pleased with this novel." — Guardian
". . . a brilliantly constructed novel, massive, detailed, teeming with characters; it capturesthe reader from almost the first page and does not let go." — Globe and Mail
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August 1, 2012 To the Island
By Meaghan Delahunt
He disappeared. That's all she really knew.
In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile and haunted by what happened to him under the rule of the Colonels in the 1960s. Slowly Lena unlocks the secrets of her father's past, and in getting to know him begins to understand the dark realities of contemporary Greek history.
To the Island is a book about the impact of larger political events on the lives of ordinary people, and how political and personal betrayals reverberate across generations, beautifully evoking the currents and cross-currents between individuals, within families and in broader society. And in Lena and Andreas's stories, it shows how difficult it is to confront our personal and collective pasts — and the terrible consequences of being unable to do so. • FICTION / General • 978-1-84708-274-9 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • English Meaghan Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House, was nominated for the • Trade paperback Orange Prize, won the Saltire First Book Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book • 5.2" x 7.9" of the Year Prize and a regional Commonwealth Prize. She lectures in • 272 pages Creative Writing at the University of St. Andrews. Born in Melbourne, Meaghan Delahunt now lives in Edinburgh. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA
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August 1, 2012
Gioconda
By Lucille Turner
A solitary child, Leonardo's only intimate is Lisa Gherardini, the girl who spies on him in his workshop. Spurned by his tutor, he is sent by his despairing father to Florence as an apprentice. Under the guiding hand of Verrocchio, the master sculptor, he begins to make his name. But success requires sacrifice; Florence demands a level of conformity impossible for him. Forced to leave, Leonardo places himself at the service of the charismatic, power-thirsty Duke of Milan. His journey leads him back to Lisa and the portrait he has waited so long to paint, the culmination of his life's work.
From the glittering court of the Medici to the mortuaries of Milan and the battlefields of the Po valley, Lucille Turner's powerful novel vividly imagines Leonardo's lonely struggle to convince others of his vision of the world.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • FICTION / General • 978-1-84708-359-3 Lucille Turner was born in Bournemouth in 1964 to a French mother and • $18.95 English father. Having worked as a translator and journalist for a number of • Trade paperback years, she now teaches Literature and Communication at Sophia Antipolis
University in France.
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September 1, 2012 Leaving the Atocha Station
By Ben Lerner
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry.
In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of his generation. • FICTION / General • 978-1-84708-745-4 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • $18.95 Born in Kansas in 1979, BEN LERNER is the author of three books of poetry, • Trade paperback The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a
finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the
recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first • 5.3" x 8.5" American to win the Münster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches • 272 pages in the writing program at Brooklyn College. This is his first novel.
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August 1, 2012 Granta 120 Medicine
Edited by John Freeman
From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot toddy that was Grandmother's remedy for bruised knees, broken hearts and everything besides — here are stories about the ways we face our ailments and the ways we seek to cure ourselves. Rose Tremain contributes an extract from her highly anticipated new novel; Alice Munro writes a haunting, beautiful memoir about a strange phase in her childhood; Gish Jen tells a story about two brothers who fix up a house — but can't quite fix up the ageing parents who will live in it. The issue includes new poetry by Ben Lerner and Angela Carter, as well as non-fiction pieces by Chris Adrian, Richard Ford and a highly regarded writer who breaks her silence about living with MS. • LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General • 978-1-90588-161-1 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • $19.95 John Freeman's criticism has appeared in more than two hundred newspapers • Trade paperback around the world, including the Guardian, the Independent, The Times and the
Wall Street Journal. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, is published by
Scribner in the US and Text in Australia. • 5.8" x 8.2" • 256 pages
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October 1, 2012 Make Believe A True Story
By Diana Athill
In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s.
Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders. • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • 978-1-84708-632-7 Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the • $16.95 publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch • Trade paperback for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her
acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five • 5.2" x 7.9" volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, • 160 pages Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, and a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London.
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October 1, 2012 After A Funeral
By Diana Athill
This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself.
When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon.
But Didi's sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side — he was a gambler, a drinker and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Athill explores the three years they spent together, a period that culminated in Didi's suicide — in her home — an event he described in the journals he left for her to read as 'the one authentic act of my life'.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the • 978-1-84708-633-4 publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch • $16.95 for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her • Trade paperback acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published 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 Look at Me • 5.2" x 7.9" Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for • 176 pages Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in
London. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA
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September 1, 2012 All Made Up
By Janice Galloway
In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years.
When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her mother and was more excited by Latin and school orchestra than by boys. But as she struggled with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she thought she knew began to change. Combining visceral descriptions of puberty, sex and school-room politics with the story of a family's secrets, Galloway casts her gaze on the morals and ambitions of one small town, in writing that is personal, defiant and eloquent.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Janice Galloway's previous books include the novels The Trick Is to Keep General Breathing, which won the 1990 MIND Book of the Year Award; Foreign Parts, • 978-1-84708-327-2 which won the 1994 McVitie's Prize; and Clara, which won the 2004 Saltire • $18.95 Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of two collections of short • Trade paperback stories. She lives and works in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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October 1, 2012 The Ego Trick
By Julian Baggini
Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented and fluid? Is it known to you, or are you as much a mystery to yourself as others are to you? With his usual wit, infectious curiosity and bracing scepticism, Julian Baggini sets out to answer these fundamental and unsettling questions. His fascinating quest draws on the history of philosophy, but also anthropology, sociology, psychology and neurology; he talks to theologians, priests, allegedly reincarnated Lamas, and delves into real-life cases of lost memory, personality disorders and personal transformation; and, candidly and engagingly, he describes his own experiences. After reading The • PHILOSOPHY / General Ego Trick, you will never see yourself in the same way again. • 978-1-84708-273-2 • $18.95 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • Trade paperback Julian Baggini is the editor and co-founder of The Philosopher's Magazine. His
books include Do You Think What You Think You Think? (with Jeremy • 5.2" x 7.9" Stangroom), What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, the • 272 pages bestselling The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, and The Duck that Won the Lottery, all published by Granta Books. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA
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October 1, 2012 The Book of Barely Imagined Beings A 21st Century Bestiary
By Caspar Henderson
From Axolotl to Zebrafish, meet a world of 'barely imagined beings': real creatures that are often stranger and more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, and invites us to better imagine the world around us. An extraordinary, vivid combination of natural history and spiritual primer, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a mind-expanding, wonder- • NATURE / General inducing read. • 978-1-84708-172-8 • $39.95 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • Hardcover Caspar Henderson has been a journalist and editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the • 6" x 9.2" Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy (where he was • 336 pages senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters award
for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. He co-authored Our • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Fragile Earth (2005, New Internationalist) and was the commissioning editor
for Debating Globalization (2005, Polity).
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November 1, 2012 Gossip from the Forest A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales
By Sara Maitland
Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient and primal landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us — we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying.
In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of fairytales. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in • TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert • 978-1-84708-429-3 Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and • $29.95 with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a • Paperback unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairystory.
• 6.14" x 9.2" Written with Sara's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from • 256 pages the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Sara Maitland is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the Somerset Maugham Award-wining Daughters of Jerusalem, and several nonfiction books about religion. Born in 1950, she studied at Oxford University
and currently tutors on the Distance Learning MA in creative writing for
Lancaster University.
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November 1, 2012 Granta 121 Best of Young Brazilian Novelists
Edited by John Freeman
Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 — • LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Latin American Julian Barnes — the Best of Young issues have been some of the magazine's • 978-1-90588-163-5 most influential. In 2010, Granta looked beyond the English-speaking world • $19.95 with Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Now, with its first-ever issue • Trade paperback fully translated from Portuguese in partnership with Granta em Português, the magazine continues its work of celebrating emerging talent from around the • 5.8" x 8.2" world. • 256 pages Submissions by young and promising authors from across Brazil have been read and discussed by a judging panel comprised of the country's foremost • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA literary figures — including Manuel da Costa Pinto, coordinator of the Paraty Literary Festival, Cristovão Tezza is one of the most important writers in the country, and Benjamin Moser, author of a biography on Clarice Lispector. Their final choices will introduce the world to the diversity and uniqueness of Brazilian literature today.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR John Freeman's criticism has appeared in more than two hundred newspapers around the world, including the Guardian, the Independent, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, is published by Scribner in the US and Text in Australia.
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August 1, 2012 Remedy
By Anne Marsella
Meet Remedy: a young, single American living on the rive gauche and toiling at an on-line fashion magazine. She may have her feet on well-trodden expat ground, but she has her head in the clouds and the path she walks through Paris is distinctly original. When she's not dreaming up articles about this season's must-have accessory or foiling her best friend's attempts at match- making, she attends mass with a blind nun, shimmies her way through belly- dancing classes and meditates on the lives of the saints. All the while, believing that spiritual enlightenment and romantic fulfilment might be just around the corner ...
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Originally from California's San Joaquin Valley, Anne Marsella now lives in
• FICTION / General Paris with her husband, a jazz musician, and their son. Her previous books • 978-1-84627-092-5 are an acclaimed collection of stories, The Lost and Found and Other Stories • $18.95 (NYU Press), Patsy Boone (Editions de la Différence) and Remedy • Trade paperback (Portobello, 2007).
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September 1, 2012 The Falafel King is Dead
By Sara Shilo
The town has lost its famed falafel king, but the Dadon family have also lost a father and husband. Living with the daily threat of Katyusha missiles from neighbouring Lebanon, and struggling to survive amid the rubble of their lives, Simona and her three children each find their own way of coping with their grief, their fear and their hopes. Raw, lyrical, shocking and moving, Sara Shilo's powerful debut novel recounts the life of an ordinary Israeli family over the course of a single, extraordinary day in prose that we have never before encountered in contemporary Hebrew literature.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Sara Shilo was born and raised in Jerusalem, in the German Colony area, and currently lives in a small town in northern Israel, Kfar Vradim, with her family. • FICTION / General • 978-1-84627-222-6 She worked in children's education running a puppet theatre and only began • $16.95 writing for adults at age 40. • Trade paperback
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February 1, 2013 The Foundling
By Agnes Desarthes
Jerome is a calm man — at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unexpected grief. As he struggles to make sense of the loss and his own reaction to it, he finds himself assailed by emotions and memories he has allowed to lie dormant: the residual feelings for his ex-wife; a baffling new attraction to a stranger; a precarious friendship with a retired policeman; and, above all, unsettling questions about his own past and the family he never knew. In returning to the forests of his childhood and the darkest nights of the second world war, Jerome gradually, painfully begins to piece together the truth of his own origins and the tragedy that his adoptive parents tried to bury.
• FICTION / General ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • 978-1-84627-412-1 AGNÈS DESARTHE was born in Paris in 1966 and has written many books • English for children and teenagers, as well as adult fiction. She won the Prix du Livre • Trade paperback Inter in 1996 for Un Secret sans importance and has had three previous novels translated into English: Five Photos of My Wife, which was short-listed for the • 5.2" x 7.9" Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Prize, • 272 pages Good Intentions, and Chez Moi (Portobello, 2008).
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November 1, 2012 Slavery Inc. The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
By Lydia Cacho
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who • 978-1-84627-421-3 managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible • $19.95 human cost of this lucrative exchange. Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc, is • Trade paperback an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the
tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth.
• 5.110" x 8.110" ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • 320 pages Lydia Cacho is an internationally admired Mexican journalist-campaigner. She
became a cause celèbre with her book, Demons of Eden, which exposed a • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA paedophilia ring involving Mexico's richest businessman, his friend the governor and an array of 'big men'. She took the ring to trial but was jailed and abused herself before winning her argument and her freedom. She is a columnist on El Universal, a prominent feminist activist against violence, and
teaches workshops on how to help trafficking victims. She has been named
UNESCO World Press Freedom Hero and in 2010 received the PEN
International Writer of Courage Prize. http://www.lydiacacho.net/english/
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January 1, 2013 Cruel Britannia A Secret History of Torture
By Ian Cobain
The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when it comes to dealing with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. As the enquiries into the on-going abuse of terror suspects uncover an ever more sinister and unpalatable chain of complicity — going right to the top of government — it is time to re-examine the assumption that the British don't 'do' torture. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks beyond the cover-ups and the attempts to dismiss brutality as the work of a few rogue interrogators, to reveal a secret and shocking record of torture. From WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and • HISTORY / Military / General Northern Ireland, Cruel Britannia shows how the British have repeatedly and • 978-1-84627-489-3 systematically resorted to torture, turning a blind eye where necessary, • $19.95 bending the law where they can, and issuing categorical denials all the while. • Trade paperback What emerges is a picture of Britain that challenges our complacency on human rights and exposes the lie behind our reputation for fair play. • 6" x 9.2" ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • 320 pages IAN COBAIN was born in Liverpool in 1960. He has been a journalist since the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA early 1980s and is currently an investigative reporter with the Guardian. His inquiries into the UK's involvement in torture since 9/11 have won a number of major awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. He has also won several Amnesty International media awards. Cobain lives in London with his wife and two children. This is his first book.
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INDEX F raser, John...... 2 Mount, Nick...... 18 Freeman, John...... 33, 40 Nawaz, Saleema...... 11 Galloway, Janice...... 36 N ew Measures, The...... 16 Adamson, Gil...... 19 Gibson, Graeme ...... 18 Nice Weather...... 16 After A Funeral...... 35 Gioconda ...... 31 North America`s Lost Decade?. . . . 5 All Made Up...... 36 Glenny, Misha...... 3, 25 O’Briens, The ...... 27 Antagonist, The...... 26 Gopnik, Adam...... 4 O ne Bird`s Choice...... 6 Armstrong, Théodora...... 12 Gossip from the Forest...... 39 Outlander, The...... 19 Athill, Diana ...... 34, 35 Grady, Wayne ...... 10 People Park...... 8 Atwood, Margaret...... 18 Granta 120 Medicine...... 33 Pick, Alison...... 29 Baggini, Julian...... 37 Granta 121, Best of Young Brazilian Pigeon English...... 10 Balkans,e Th ...... 3 Novelists...... 40 Poems for All the Annettes...... 18 Bartlett, Don...... 17 Griffiths, Rudyard...... 5 Posen, Dr. David...... 7 Behrens, Peter...... 27 Hage, Rawi ...... 9, 19 Purdy, Al...... 18 Bidini, Dave...... 19 Hamilton, Ian ...... 21, 23 Red Pole of Macau, The...... 21 Blue Book, The ...... 15 Hammond, Claudia...... 14 Reid, Iain...... 6 Bone and Bread...... 11 H as the European Experiment Failed?. . . 5 Remedy ...... 41 Book for Dangerous Women, The. . . 7 H ébert, Anne ...... 19 Riche, Edward...... 24 Book of Barely Imagined Beings, The. . 38 Heighton, Steven...... 18 Richler, Noah ...... 19 Born Liars...... 14 Henderson, Caspar...... 38 S cottish Banker of Surabaya, The . . 23 Buffam, Suzanne...... 18 Heti, Sheila...... 28 Secret of the Crown, The ...... 2 Cacho, Lydia...... 44 H ockey Sweater and Other Stories, The. . 19 S eidel, Frederick ...... 16 C .a rnival...... 9 H oggard, Liz...... 7 S elected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore. .19 C arrier, Roch...... 19 H olding Still For As Long As Possible. . 11 S em-Sandberg, Steve...... 29 C ircle Game, The...... 18 How Should a Person Be?...... 28 Shaw, Don...... 17 Civil Elegies...... 18 Is Work Killing You?...... 7 Shilo, Sara...... 42 Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility. . 12 Joffe, Josef...... 5 S isters Brothers, The...... 24 C oady, Lynn...... 26 Juliet Stories, The...... 12 Slavery Inc...... 44 Cobain, Ian...... 45 Just Fine...... 13 S nyder, Carrie...... 12 C .o ckroach...... 9 Kamouraska ...... 19 Spalding, Esta...... 19 C ohn-Bendit, Daniel...... 5 Kane, . . . S.e an...... 18 S u.rvival ...... 18 C ruel Britannia...... 45 Kelman, Stephen...... 10 Ticknor ...... 28 Daigle, France...... 13 Kennedy, A. L...... 15 Time Warped...... 14 Dark . .M .a rket...... 3, 25 Kissinger, Henry...... 5 To the Island...... 30 Day...... 15 Krugman, Paul ...... 5 T óibín, Colm ...... 19 De Niro’s Game...... 9, 19 Lavoie, Marie-Renée ...... 10 T ruth About Luck, The...... 6 Death, Sarah...... 29 Law of Dreams, The...... 27 T urner, Lucille...... 31 Delahunt, Meaghan...... 30 Leaving the Atocha Station...... 32 Turok, Neil...... 4 Desarthes, Agnes...... 43 Lee, Dennis...... 18 U niverse Within From Quantum deWitt, Patrick...... 24 Lerner, Ben...... 32 to Cosmos, The...... 4 Disciple of Las Vegas, The ...... 21 Leslie, Ian...... 14 U rquhart, Jane...... 19 Does the 21st Century Belong to China?. . 5 Life’s Little Difficulties...... 13 W ater Rat of Wanchai, The ...... 21 Doppler...... 17 Loe, . . E. rlend...... 17 What Becomes...... 15 Easy to Like...... 24 Maitland, Sara...... 39 W hittall, Zoe...... 11 Ego Trick, The...... 37 Majzels, Robert...... 13 W ild Beasts of Wuhan, The. . . . . 23 Emperor of Lies, The...... 29 M ake Believe, A True Story. . . . . 34 Winter...... 4 Evil in Return...... 22 M alla, Pasha...... 8 Withdrawal Method, The...... 8 Falafel King is Dead, The...... 42 Mandelson Lord, Peter...... 5 Working the Dead Beat...... 2 Far to Go...... 29 Marsella, Anne...... 41 Zagreb Cowboy...... 22 F erguson, Niall...... 5 Martin, Sandra...... 2 Fischman, Sheila...... 19 Mattich, Alen...... 22 F i.ve . Legs ...... 18 M .c M.a fia...... 3, 25 For Sure...... 13 Mister Roger and Me...... 10 F orbes, Elena...... 22 M oore, Lisa...... 19 F oundling, The...... 43 Moritz, A. F...... 16
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Anansi_F12_pages.indd 4 12-05-25 11:28 AM Stil l Counting the Dead Stories from Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields By Frances Harrison Scott Griffin Chair 6” x 9.2126” 272 pages Sarah MacLachlan President & Publisher Allan Ibarra VP Finance October 2012 Trade paperback $24.95 Matt Williams VP Publishing Operations 978-1-77089-304-7 Janie Yoon Senior Editor, Nonfiction, Crime Fiction & International
July 2012 jared bland Senior Editor, Poetry & Canadian Ficition EPUB $13.95 Kelly Joseph Managing Editor 978-1-77089-305-4 meredith Dees Editor Erin Mallory Manager, Cross-Media Group “An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account Alysia Shewchuk Designer & Digital Assets Coordinator of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone.” — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito Lonny knapp Print Production Manager Laura Repas Publicity Director
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it Kate McQuaid Senior Publicist became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger Fred Horler Marketing Manager guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, Trish Osuch Web Content Manager and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout Barbara Howson VP Sales & Rights that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Allison Charles International Sales Manager Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail. Emily Mockler Sales Associate, National Accounts Eva O’brien Sales Assistant About the Contributor Gillian Fizet Rights Manager Frances Harrison was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as well as the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Imperial College in London. For many Amanda Lee Data Asset Administrator years she worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC posted in South Asia, South East Asia, and Iran. From 2000–4 she was the resident BBC Correspondent Mark Luk Operations Manager in Sri Lanka. She has worked at Amnesty International as Head of News and while writing Still Counting the Dead was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University.
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