GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Rights Catalogue 2016 Goose Lane Editions T. 506.450.4251 | F. 506.459.4991 Toll Free: 1.888.926.8377 [email protected] www.gooselane.com FORTHCOMING ALOHA WANDERWELL NON-FICTION The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the Girl Who Stole the World CHRISTIAN FINK-JENSEN & RANDOLPH EUSTACE-WALDEN In 1922 an eighteen-year-old American woman set out to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. The project was foolhardy in the extreme. Drivable roads were scarce and the cars themselves — about as powerful as today’s ride-on mowers — were alien in much of the world. To overcome these limitations, the Wanderwell Expedition created a specially modified Model T Ford that featured rubber tires, steel disc wheels, gun scabbards, and a sloped back that could fold out to become a darkroom. Thus equipped, Aloha set out to see the world. All that remained was learning how to drive. Aloha’s name and adventures became known around the world. Tall, graceful, and beautiful, she was photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower, in the salt caverns of Poland, parked on the back of the Sphinx, firing mortars in China, visiting American fliers in Calcutta, meeting the prince regent of Japan, shaking hands with Mussolini, smiling through a tickertape parade in Detroit. She was an inspiration to thousands. As it turns out, the famous Aloha Wanderwell was an invention. The American Aloha Wanderwell was, in reality, the Canadian Idris Hall. And her mentor, the dashing filmmaker, lecturer, polyglot, and world traveller Captain Walter Wanderwell, was an invention himself. Aloha’s story is epic, both heart-stopping and heart-breaking. She was by turns a hero, a victim, a superstar, and a forgotten face. Her story crosses international, moral, and gender boundaries, taking readers on a journey of experimentation and adventure. CHRISTIAN FINK-JENSEN is a widely published writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. His work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and journals, including the Toronto Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, Rights held: Canada New York Quarterly, Rosebud, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, (French and English) Georgia Straight, and many others. He is currently at work on a novel and another work of non- Biography fiction. Fall 2017 RANDOLPH EUSTACE-WALDEN began reviewing movies at fifteen. His regular film review column in a local entertainment magazine became widely syndicated and led to him writing, producing, and hosting his own movie-based television series. Over the ensuing four decades, his diverse media-based career has crossed and intersected all disciplines, including publishing, television, film, radio, and online as writer, author, journalist, editor, forensic researcher, critic, television producer, director, documentarian, web developer, and teacher. He wrote Entreé to Asia: A Culinary Adventure and wrote and produced the eponymous series for PBS. [email protected] 2016 FORTHCOMING THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS NON-FICTION Reading, Writing, and Resistance in Palestine MARCELLO DI CINTIO In 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. During a brief lull in the bombing, photos emerged of a young Gazan girl in a green dress sifting through the rubble of what remained of her home. She was looking for her books. The Girl in the Green Dress examines the Palestinian experience from an uncommon viewpoint, the writer’s pen, and reveals the role of literature in the lives of those engaged in a constant Rights held: North America struggle. (English and French) Social History MARCELLO Di CINTIO is the author of three books of travelogue, including Walls: Travels along Fall 2017 the Barricades. Walls won the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-fiction, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction. Di Cintio also wrote a “Hazlitt Original” about Palestinian literary culture titled Song of the Caged Bird: Words as Resistance in Palestine. Di Cintio’s magazine writing can be found in publications such as The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The International New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, and Afar. He is a former writer-in-residence with the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program and the Palestine Writing Workshop, and will be featured instructor at the 2015 Iceland Writers Workshop. Also by MARCELLO DI CINTIO WALLS: Travels Along the Barricades In this ambitious blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean to live against the walls? From Native American reservations on the US-Mexico border and the “Great Wall of Montreal” to Cyprus’s divided capital and the Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand what these structures say about those who build them and how they influence the cultures that they surround. WINNER Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for “Di Cintio is very good — honest, sharp, nuanced, and vivid . the descriptions of landscape and Political Writing Wilfrid Eggleston Award for townscape are acute.” — Owen Hatherley, New Statesman Non-fiction City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book “This is a remarkable book, and Di Cintio is a thoroughly engaged — and engaging — traveller Prize and wordsmith.” — Will Ferguson, Globe and Mail LONGLIST Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Alberta Readers’ Choice Award Rights held: North America x US (English and French) Social History [email protected] 2016 FORTHCOMING FICTION ALL THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND RIEL NASON A sensational new novel by the author of the award-winning novel The Town That Drowned. At 17, Violet is left by her parents to manage their antique business for the summer. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning. photo: Shane Nason photo: Violet is haunted by her brother’s absence and irritated with her responsibilities. Between Rights held: North America visiting a local hermit, who makes twig furniture for the shop and finding a way to land the (English and French) contents of the mysterious Vaughan estate, Violet sneaks out with her summer boyfriend. But Literary Fiction what really keeps her up at night are thoughts of Bliss and sightings of a white deer, which only Fall 2016 she has seen. All the Things We Leave Behind is about remembrance and attachment, about what we collect and what we leave behind. In this highly affecting novel about absence and adolescence, Nason explores the permeability of memory and the sometimes confusing bonds of human emotion. RIEL NASON’s stories have appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, Grain, and The Dalhousie Review. In 2005, she was awarded the David Adams Richards Prize from the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. The Town That Drowned was her sensational debut novel. Also by RIEL NASON THE TOWN THAT DROWNED Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful day was her entire town — buildings and people — floating underwater. Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place to call home. Deftly written in a deceptively unassuming style, Nason’s keen insights into human nature and the depth of human WINNER attachment to place make this novel ripple in an amber tension of light and shadow. Commonwealth Book Prize (Canada and Europe) “[R]aises thoughtful questions about the meaning of home and the nature of progress.” Margaret and John Savage — Shawn Syms, The National Post First Book Award SHORTLIST CLA Young Adult Book Award Red “Goose Lane Editions is gaining a reputation for spotting good writers early. This is an Maple Award impressive first novel.” — Victor Enns, The Winnipeg Review LONGLIST IMPAC Dublin Award Rights held: World x Commonwealth Literary Fiction [email protected] 2016 FORTHCOMING FICTION THIS MARLOWE MICHELLE BUTLER HALLETT 1593. Queen Elizabeth reigns from the throne while two rival spymasters — Sir Robert Cecil and the Earl of Essex — plot from the shadows. Their goal? To control succession upon the aged queen’s death. The man on which their schemes depend? Christopher Marlowe, a cob- bler’s son from Canterbury who has defied expectations and become an accomplished poet and playwright. Now that the plague has closed theatres, Marlowe must resume the work for which he was originally recruited: intelligence and espionage. Fighting to stay one step ahead in a dizzying game that threatens the lives of those he holds most dear, Marlowe comes to question his allegiances and nearly everything he once believed. As tensions mount, he is tossed into an impossible bind. He must shoose betwen paths that lead either to wretched guilt and miserable death or to love and honour. An historical novel with a contemporary edge, This Marlowe measures the weight of the body politic, the torment of the flesh, and the state of the soul. One of Canada’s most courageous and original literary voices, MICHELLE BUTLER HALLETT is the author of the critically acclaimed novels deluded your sailors (Killick Press, 2011), Sky Waves (Killick Press, 2008), and Double-blind (Killick Press, 2007), and the short-story collection The shadow side of grace (Killick Press, 2006).