Goose Lane Editions Winter 2018 Image: Aaron Burden, Unsplash.com In case you missed it Catch the wave of the indie film sensation Maudie The Painted House of Maud Lewis LAURIE HAMILTON 9780864923349 pb | $19.95 La maison peinte de Maud Lewis 9780864923356 pb | $22.95 Co-published with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Christmas with Maud Lewis LANCE WOOLAVER 9780864921895 hc | $24.95 Co-published with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Front cover image: Aaron Burden, Unsplash.com Fiction Praise for Andrew Battershill’s first novel Pillow: “A fresh, incredibly smart take on literary crime.” — The Globe and Mail “Hilarious, humane, fearsomely original novel by a young novelist — this Andrew Battershill; this wet-behind-the-ears rookie! — who writes with such skill and daring that you’d think this was his tenth book rather than his debut.” — Craig Davidson 9781773100029 pb | $22.95 CAN MARRY, BANG, KILL 324 pages, 5 x 8 March 2018 ANDREW BATTERSHILL Fiction Rights held: Canada For a guy who mugs people for their laptops, Tommy Marlo isn’t such a bad guy. He can’t help trying to make the people he meets — even those he mugs — feel better about their situation. Unfortunately for Tommy, he rips off the daughter of a psychotic, high-ranking member of a notorious motorcycle gang. Even worse, the laptop that he pilfered contains proof of a few gruesome murders and the location of a huge stash of money. Flat broke and marked for death, his only shot at surviving is to rob the motorcycle Also appearing as an eBook: gang, use the cash to get out of town, and hide out on the small island where his mother now lives. 9781773100036 e | $19.95 CAN 9781773100043 m | $19.95 CAN What follows is a revisionist crime thriller, a page-turning hybrid of literary and genre fiction for fans of Elmore Leonard or Patrick deWitt. But Battershill writes with a voice all his own. Deftly combining crackling dialogue with biting wit, MARRY, BANG, KILL hums with the thrill of chaos as Tommy runs to a quiet island to escape • ARCs a swelling cast of characters who are trying to arrest, rob, kill, or save him. The island won’t be quiet for • National advertising long. • National media relations • Cross-Canada reading tour, ANDREW BATTERSHILL’s first novel, Pillow, was longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the including festivals and in- 2016 Sunburst Award and shortlisted for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Award. Pillow was also selected conversation events by the Walrus as one of the Best Books of 2016 and by CBC Books as one of the Best Debuts of the year. • Pre-publication excerpts Battershill is the co-founder and former fiction editor of Dragnet magazine, and now the fiction editor of • Social media campaign This Magazine. He lives in Vancouver and Quadra Island. In 2017-2018, he will be Writer-in-Residence at • Co-op available the Regina Public Library. Winter 2018 1 Fiction Now in trade paper “The Hunter and the Wild Girl is powerful, almost elemental storytelling, an achievement not only of craft but of raw emotion. It pulses with vitality, building to a stunning, shattering conclusion.” — Robert Weirsema, Vancouver Sun ”A rich, immersive experience. Pauline Holdstock’s is the kind of prose you get lost in.” — National Post 9781773100449 pb | $22.95 CAN The Hunter and the Wild Girl 336 pages, 5 x 8 February 2018 PAULINE HOLDSTOCK Fiction Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Rights held: Canada Shortlisted, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize A National Post Best Book of 2015 The story begins with the crack of splintered boards and bones as a feral girl crashes out of the hut where Also available as an eBook: she’s been held against her will and into the scrubland of southern France. Townsfolk chase her to the 9780864928016 e | $19.95 CAN edge of a deep gorge. She leaps and vanishes into legend — and into the territory of Peyre Rouff, a once- 9780864928429 m | $19.95 CAN renowned hunter who spends his days fending off his own demons in an abandoned château. Pauline Holdstock sets this absorbing novel in the blurry territory between myth and reality. The girl and • National advertising the hunter inhabit radically different worlds. The wild girl’s is rooted in the physical, a source of food and • National media relations danger, Rouff’s in the cerebral, an existence patterned to prevent him from the destruction of despair. • Author reading tour When their two worlds unexpectedly collide, this odd pair of outsiders forms an unlikely bond. The girl’s • Book club guide untamed spirit and volatility shakes the hunter from his solitude. The hunter’s unexpected kindness • Social media campaign • Cross-promotion on author’s provides the girl with a sense of connection. But when the wider world learns of the girl’s presence, Rouff is website and social media forced to confront both his choices and their consequences. channels Wild and unpredictable, lush and sensually evocative, The Hunter and the Wild Girl courses with mythical • Co-op available life blood, resonant, disquieting, and fathoms deep. PAULINE HOLDSTOCK is the author of seven novels, including Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize, Beyond Measure, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, as well as The Hunter and the Wild Girl. She lives on Vancouver Island and in the Languedoc region of France. 2 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Fiction “Genevieve Scott’s Catch My Drift is a brilliant novel in linked stories, a mother/daughter tale like none I’ve read before. Scott writes with a sharp beauty that leaves me not just breathless but wanting more. I love her prose.” — Joseph Boyden, bestselling author of The Orenda and Through Black Spruce 9780864929884 pb | $22.95 CAN 360 pages, 5 x 8 Catch My Drift April 2018 GENEVIEVE SCOTT Fiction Rights held: Canada “Like the best contemporary novels, Genevieve Scott’s Catch My Drift is alchemical. Scott harnesses the flinty realism and breathtaking prose of short fiction, mixes it with the emotional urgency and scope of a layered intergenerational drama and creates a compelling and thoroughly original portrait of the modern family. Rendered with sensitivity and insight, Catch My Drift is elegant, ambitious and tender, a rare novel in which an entire family comes Also appearing as an eBook: of age.” 9780864929891 e | $19.95 CAN 9780864929907 m | $19.95 CAN — Nancy Lee, author of The Age and Dead Girls Lorna always wanted to stand out, but her career as a competitive swimmer was cut short by a knee injury. • ARCs Cara, her daughter, tries hard to blend in, but when she has to fill in for her brother at a school pageant, she • National advertising • National media relations is overwhelmed by terror. Lorna is vain about her ability to shut out distractions. Cara can’t control her scary • Cross-Canada reading tour, thoughts. And while Lorna tries her best to move past life’s early disappointments, Cara picks at the cracks including festivals and in- in her family’s story. Spanning two decades, Catch My Drift follows mother and daughter through life changes conversation events big and small, and reveals that despite our shared experiences, we each live a private story. • Pre-publication excerpts • Social media campaign GENEVIEVE SCOTT is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA. Her short • Promotion on author’s website fiction has been published in literary journals in Canada and the United Kingdom, including the New Quarterly, and social media channels the White Wall Review, and the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, among others. Her short films have been • Co-op available screened at eleven film festivals throughout the US, Canada, England, and Ireland. Scott grew up in Toronto and currently lives in Southern California, although she will be returning to Toronto in the spring of 2018. She is a creative writing mentor to at-risk teen girls in Los Angeles with the non-profit WriteGirl. Catch My Drift is her debut novel. Winter 2018 3 Fiction Now in trade paper “Complex, lyrical, and with a profound sense of a world long passed and humanity’s eternal motivations.” — Quill & Quire “In Butler Hallett’s hands, Kit comes off as a fascinating and contradictory figure, part martyred freethinker and part unscrupulous opportunist.” — Winnipeg Review “Perfectly paced and gracefully wrought.” — Toronto Star 9781773100487 pb | $22.95 CAN This Marlowe 448 pages, 5 x 8 March 2018 MICHELLE BUTLER HALLETT Fiction Rights held: Canada 1593. Queen Elizabeth still reigns but grows old. 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 (“Kit” to his friends), a cobbler’s son from Canterbury who has defied expectations and become an accomplished poet and playwright. Also available as an eBook: And spy. 9780864929259 e | $19.95 CAN As the novel opens, Kit Marlowe, fresh from betraying the target of his espionage, is himself betrayed. 9780864929266 m | $19.95 CAN Fighting to stay one step ahead in a dizzying game that threatens the lives of those he holds most dear, including his beloved Tom Kyd, he comes to question his allegiances and nearly everything he once • National advertising believed. • Author reading tour In this psychological thriller, Michelle Butler Hallett fleshes out the historical record with insight and the • Book club guide rigor of authenticity.