Fall 2021 Recent Highlights The Age of Fentanyl Alone: A Love Story Brodie Ramin, M.D. Michelle Parise 978-1-4597-4670-1 978-1-4597-4690-9 Canada $22.99 | U.S. $20.99 Canada $22.99 | U.S. $18.99 “A fascinating, wise, and humane “Beautifully and powerfully analysis of one of the most pressing written, Alone: A Love Story left me health challenges of the 21st heartbroken and inspired at the century.” same time.” —Steven Pinker, author of —Terry Fallis Enlightenment Now We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada. Printed and bound in Canada. 978-1-4597-4911-5 Contents Publisher’s Note 2 Introducing Rare Machines 3 FICTION Even So 4 Lauren B. Davis The Devil to Pay 5 Barbara Fradkin The Devil’s Choir 6 Martin Michaud NON-FICTION Hockey 365, The Second Period 7 Mike Commito Modest Hopes 8 Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy Hard to Be Human 10 Ted Cadsby The Rebel Christ 11 Michael Coren Massey Hall 12 David McPherson The Beatle Bandit 13 Nate Hendley RARE MACHINES The Shaytān Bride 14 Sumaiya Matin˙ Yume 15 Sifton Tracey Anipare I, Gloria Grahame 16 Sky Gilbert Persephone’s Children 17 Rowan McCandless Nothing Will Be Different 18 Tara McGowan-Ross Seven Down 19 David Whitton KIDS & TEENS The Underground Railroad 20 Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost Lost Shadow 21 Claire Gilchrist Recent Highlights 22 How to Order 24 Publisher’s Note Welcome to the new look of Dundurn Press. The Fall 2021 season is the first catalogue featuring our recently announced new branding and logo, the design of which evolved out of the long-standing castle colophon by echoing the castle’s arched windows, creating a visual effect of a portal or beckoning hallway. Dundurn’s new mandate underscores our commitment to discovering new and underrepresented voices in Canadian publishing, amplifying exceptional Canadian writers and stories to the world, and opening a portal to writers and readers. In step with our editor-driven approach to acquisitions, the first books from our new literary imprint, Rare Machines, launch this Fall. You can find our vision for the imprint on the next page and details about Rare Machines titles on pages 14 to 19. You will continue to see a variety of genres from this press as we build on our strengths. This Fall season features a remarkable array of books, from a demon-filled fantasy novel set in Japan (Yume, page 15) to hockey history for diehard fans (Hockey 365, The Second Period, page 7) to middle-grade fiction with coyotes Lost( Shadow, page 21) to genre-bending memoir (Persephone’s Children, page 17). I invite you to discover these stories and more in the following pages. We acknowledge the perseverance of the community of booksellers, librarians, authors, agents, reviewers, and readers, and we thank you for your continued support of Dundurn Press. Scott Fraser Publisher, Dundurn Press 2 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Introducing Rare Machines Dundurn Press’s new literary imprint, Rare Machines, is curious, courageous, and forward thinking, much like the press itself. From pages 14 to 19, you will find the imprint’s inaugural list of innovative and daring fiction and memoir, featuring Sumaiya Matin’s memoir, The Shaytān Bride, and David ˙ Whitton’s inventive novel, Seven Down. Rare Machines’ lead acquisitions editors, Julie Mannell and Russell Smith, are writers themselves with deep ties to literary culture. Their vision for the imprint lifts authors’ talent and originality to the fore. The name Rare Machines emerges from the idea that a writer is a rare machine for producing books, and the book itself is as elegant and complex as the most unusual of devices. Rare Machines welcomes hybrid forms; it welcomes emerging writers; and it is a place for both the experimental and the polished. Dundurn Press Fall 2021 3 Fiction Even So Lauren B. Davis OF RELATED INTEREST Paperback 978-1-4597-4764-7 5.5 x 8.5 | 336 pages Canada September 14, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. October 12, 2021 | $18.99 FICTION / Literary Rights North America, English. Also available as an ebook Father Sweet J.J. Martin ISBN: 9781459747647 paper $20.99 978-1-4597-4396-0 9 781459 747647 An evocative character-driven novel that explores the challenge and necessity of loving difficult people. Angela Morrison has it all. She’s married to a wealthy man, adores her son, grows orchids, and volunteers at Our Daily Bread Food Pantry. What more could she want? More — much more. And she’s willing to risk everything after meeting Carsten, the landscaper with the glacier-blue eyes. Sister Eileen, who runs Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, struggles with the silence of God and harbours a secret she believes is unforgivable. She Two White yearns to convince Angela she is loved by God, despite her selfishness and Queens and the destructive behaviour, but in order for that to be authentic Eileen must One-Eyed Jack learn to love her first, and that’s no easy task — especially after Angela Heidi von Palleske causes a terrible tragedy. Through the crucible of their relationship, paper $22.99 Angela and Eileen discover how caring for the most difficult among us and 978-1-4597-4678-7 practising forgiveness, no matter how painful, opens a door to the miracle of transformation. Lauren B. Davis is the author of The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Against a Darkening Sky, The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, and The Radiant City. She has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and the ReLit Awards, and shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Lauren lives in Princeton, New Jersey. EvenSoNovel laurenbdavis.com @laurenbdavis Laurenbdaviswriter laurenbdavis 4 Dundurn Press Fall 2021 Fiction The Devil to Pay An Inspector Green Mystery #11 Barbara Fradkin IN THE SAME SERIES Paperback 978-1-4597-4384-7 5 x 8 | 328 pages Canada October 19, 2021 | $19.99 U.S. November 16, 2021 | $16.99 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural Rights World, All Languages Also available as an ebook #10 None So Blind 978-1-4597-2140-1 ISBN: 9781459743847 $17.99 #9 The Whisper of Legends 978-1-4597-0567-8 9 781459 743847 $17.99 #8 Beautiful Lie Impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael the Dead Green returns and unwittingly puts his daughter, a rookie 978-1-9266-0708-5 $16.95 patrol officer, in the line of fire. #7 This Thing of Sidelined to administrative duties, Inspector Michael Green misses the Darkness thrill of the chase. So when his daughter Hannah, now a rookie patrol 978-1-8949-1785-8 $16.95 officer, responds to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in a wealthy #6 Dream Chasers suburban neighbourhood, he is intrigued. Both husband and wife deny a 978-1-8949-1758-2 problem and, despite Hannah’s doubts, no further police action is taken, $15.95 but Green encourages her to dig deeper on her own. When the husband #5 Honour Among Men disappears and his car is found at the airport, the police conclude he 978-1-8949-1736-0 is simply fleeing an unhappy home, a floundering law practice, and a $15.95 mountain of debt. Until a body is discovered. #4 Fifth Son 978-1-8949-1713-1 While Green’s old friend Brian Sullivan investigates the victim’s work $16.99 and family, Hannah is haunted by fear that her actions precipitated the #3 Mist Walker murder. On her own time, she begins to dig into questions that linger at 978-1-8949-1703-2 the periphery of the case. What has happened to the family dog, which $12.95 disappeared the same night as the husband? And who is the odd, solitary #2 Once Upon a Time 978-0-9291-4184-8 young Ph.D. student who was researching ducks near the murder site? $12.95 Her relentless search for answers leads her into the countryside, straight #1 Do or Die into the path of danger. And another body. 978-0-9291-4178-7 $17.99 Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people turn bad. She is the author of the Amanda Doucette series and the critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels, two of which have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel: Fifth Son and Honour Among Men. She lives in Ottawa. InspectorGreenMystery barbarafradkin.com @BarbaraFradkin “For those who like a solid classic mystery with added character, Inspector Green is perfect.” —Globe and Mail Dundurn Press Fall 2021 5 Fiction The Devil’s Choir A Victor Lessard Thriller #3 Martin Michaud IN THE SAME SERIES Paperback 978-1-4597-4270-3 5.5 x 8.5 | 544 pages Canada October 26, 2021 | $21.99 U.S. November 23, 2021 | $17.99 FICTION / Thrillers / Crime Rights World, English Also available as an ebook Never Forget Martin Michaud ISBN: 9781459742703 paper $21.99 978-1-4597-4273-4 9 781459 742703 In this intricate, intense mystery from the acclaimed “master of the Quebec thriller,” the ghosts of Victor Lessard’s past come back to haunt him as he investigates a horrific murder-suicide that doesn’t add up. When a young Montreal family dies in an orgy of bloody violence, all signs point to a rampage by the father. But Victor Lessard isn’t convinced. The brilliant, brooding detective suspects that others were involved in the killings.