MISS WORLD 1970 BY JENNIFER HOSTEN, COMING SPRING 2020 ABOUT SUTHERLAND HOUSE Founded in 2017 by Canadian author and publishing executive Kenneth Whyte, Sutherland House is a new Toronto-based publisher of non-fiction books for global English-language audiences. Sutherland House specializes in narrative works of biography, memoir, history, business, culture, and current affairs. Aiming for high-quality and broad appeal, it published eight books in 2019 and will deliver nine in 2020. Each volume will be commissioned and edited by Mr. Whyte. All of our publications will bear the unique aesthetic of the Sutherland House brand, and be subjected to rigorous market testing from conception to launch. By maintaining a low overhead, the company is dedicating an unusually high portion of its resources to the promotion and mar- keting of its titles, which will be managed by our international network of service providers. Our Sutherland Classics series, which began in 2019 with the republication of Bernard Crick’s definitive George Orwell: A Life, is indicative of our commitment to quality non-fiction. We will reprint one or two masterpieces of biography, memoir, or character-driven history every year under the Sutherland Classics imprint. CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT PUBLICITY SPRING 2020 THE SUTHERLAND HOUSE INC. [email protected] 416 Moore Ave, Suite 205 Toronto, ON M4G 109 RIGHTS INQUIRIES [email protected] MATTHEW BUCEMI [email protected] ORDERING INFORMATION CANADA WORLD UNIVERSITY OF BAKER AND TAYLOR TORONTO PRESS PUBLISHING SERVICES 5201 Dufferin Street 30 Amberwood Parkway Toronto, ON M3H 5T8 Ashland, OH 44805 Email: utpbooks@utpress. Tel: (888) 814-0208 utoronto.ca Email: [email protected] Misbehaviour, a major motion picture based on To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to the author’s life and starring Keira Knightley and be the unluckiest. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Jennifer Hosten), will be released globally in 2020. THE SHORT LIFE OF HUGHIE MCLOON MISS WORLD 1970 A True Story of Bandits, Bootleggers, and Baseball The Craziest Pageant Ever and the Rest of My Life ALLEN ABEL JENNIFER HOSTEN FEBRUARY 2020 MARCH 2020 200 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and 300 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5” 1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the Hardcover it was baseball’s age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players Hardcover $22.95 USD supersonic Concorde—a time of new possibilities and social $22.95 USD $26.95 CAD believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. $26.95 CAD 978-1-989555-23-1 upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the 978-1-989555-21-7 Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Biography & Autobiography Caribbean island of Grenada, was as surprised as anyone to find Biography & Autobiography Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he / Women herself in the midst of it. / Sports made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy Biography & Autobiography After winning a Miss Grenada contest, she travelled to Lon- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team / People with Disabilities don for the 1970 Miss World pageant and arrived at Royal Albert Arts finished last in each of the three seasons that the A’s rubbed his Hall determined to make her mark. So, too, did members of the History / United States / History / Women hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. 20th Century fledgling Women’s Liberation movement who chose that global- He loved the crowds and they loved him back. MARKETING & ly-televised moment to protest the sexual exploitation of women. MARKETING & Graduating from batboy to boxing manager, and running his PUBLICITY They planted bombs, stormed the hall, and chased comedian Bob PUBLICITY own speakeasy while serving as a secret agent for the Chief of Marketing & Publicity Marketing & Publicity Hope from the stage. Contact: Sarah Miniaci Police, Hughie was the toast of Philly until one summer night in Contact: Sarah Miniaci By the end of the night, the world had been introduced to • PR campaign emphasizing • Full-scale PR campaign 1928 he was caught in a murderous crossfire outside his tavern. emphasizing book reviews, both radical feminism and a new ideal of feminine beauty. Ms. book reviews, interviews, interviews, features/pro- Twenty-six years old, he bled to death on Cuthbert Street. The features/profiles, and Hosten was the first woman of color crowned Miss World. excerpt placements with files, and excerpts with next day, 15,000 admirers lined up to see his four-foot corpse. major U.S. print, online, and Philadelphia, PA and broadcast media (women’s Miss World 1970 is the story of the craziest and most The age of magic was over. national U.S. print, online, interest, public affairs, meaningful pageant ever, an inspiring account of Ms. Hosten’s and broadcast media history, news & culture) The Short Life of Hughie McLoon is Allen Abel’s haunting and (baseball/sports, history, barrier-breaking win and her subsequent globe-trotting career as • Online influencer marketing stylish biography of the most remarkable and beloved of the base- books/culture, human in the #Bookstagram and a development worker and diplomat. interest) literary, lifestyle, women’s ball mascots, and a new chapter in the complicated mythology of • Publishing trade ARC/ interest and history blog- With historic photographs, movie stills, and a foreword by the American dream. galley outreach ger communities acclaimed actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw. • NetGalley homepage • Film tie-in from producers feature of The Queen • Select author appearances • Publishing trade ARC/galley & book signing events in outreach ALLEN ABEL has reported from more than 100 countries major markets • Select author appearances A native of Grenada, JENNIFER HOSTEN trained with the as an award-winning newspaper columnist and magazine • Goodreads First to Read & book signing events in BBC and worked as a broadcaster and airline hostess before ARC giveaway promotions major markets journalist. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smith- • Targeted advertising • Targeted advertising winning the 1970 Miss World competition. After, she enjoyed a sonian, and the Globe & Mail. He has written, produced, and campaigns on Facebook, campaigns on Facebook, career in diplomacy, trade negotiation, and international devel- Goodreads and BookBub Goodreads and BookBub hosted broadcasts and documentaries for HBO, the Discovery for Featured New Release for Featured New Release opment. She also founded and ran a succesful inn in Grenada, Channel, and the CBC, earning an Emmy nomination. The promotion promotion and now practices as a registered psychotherapist. A mother of • Pre-order push and ongo- • Pre-order push and ongoing Washington Post called his non-fiction book Flatbush Odyssey: A ing release promotion in release promotion in two children, she lives in Oakville, Ontario. Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn “one of the best travel- Sutherland House Books Sutherland House Books newsletter and social newsletter and social media ogues about anywhere, ever.” media Canadians are polite and deferential. Murder, mischief, and madness – the We think that’s virtuous. acclaimed biography of an American master But what if we’re just sheep? returns to print. NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE THE TELL-TALE HEART An Impolite Report on the State of Freedom The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Canada JULIAN SYMONS PHILIP SLAYTON APRIL 2020 FOREWORD BY SARAH WEINMAN, MAY 2020 AUTHOR OF THE REAL LOLITA 175 Pages, 6” x 9” 275 Pages, 6” x 9” Softcover Hardcover $22.95 USD Few things are more precious in a democratic society than indi- $26.95 USD $24.95 CAD $29.95 CAD 978-1-989555-22-4 vidual freedom, and few things are easier to take for granted. Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian 978-1-989555-20-0 Social Science / Essays In this timely, provocative essay, Philip Slayton argues that Symons’ The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biog- Biography & Autobiography Canada, in ways large and small, is frittering away the liberties raphy of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential authors in / Literary Figures Political Science / Commentary & Opinion on which a free and open society depends. We give too much the English language. Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective Political Science / World / power to our politicians and unelected judges. We paper over our A highly-regarded mystery and crime writer in his own right, Canadians divisions and stifle voices that challenge conventional wisdom. Symons is in a unique position to understand Poe’s work and to Literary Criticism / Horror & Supernatural We tolerate inaction on the most pressing issues of the day. sharply, thoroughly reveal the secrets of his life. He paints Poe MARKETING & PUBLICITY It is time, writes Slayton, for Canadians to throw off their as his contemporaries saw him: a man whose life was filled with MARKETING & PUBLICITY Marketing & Publicity self-imposed chains, to stand up and fight for what we believe in tragedy and who struggled to make a living through his writing, Contact: Sarah Miniaci before we lose our ability to do so—a prospect, he warns, that is Marketing & Publicity only to emerge as a definitive voice in murder-and-madness Contact: Sarah Miniaci • PR campaign emphasizing far more likely than we realize. fiction and the inventor of the detective story. book reviews, interviews, • ARC/galleys to #booksta- features/profiles, and More relevant than ever in our horror-obsessed times, The gram and online literary excerpt placements with community reviewers and Canadian & international Tell-Tale Heart is the second volume in the Sutherland Classics influencers print, online, and broad- Born in England and raised in Manitoba, PHILIP SLAYTON series, which seeks to rediscover and reprint classic works of • Publishing trade ARC/galley outreach cast media (politics, public is a Canadian lawyer and the former dean of law at the Univer- affairs, news, opinion/ narrative non-fiction.