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Table of Contents
Fiction
A RIVER ACROSS SIGMUND BROUWER and JOANNE BISCHOF ................................................................... 5
AND THE BOYS WILL PLAY JOANNE PROULX ........................................................................................... 13
THE BOAT PEOPLE SHARON BALA ................................................................................................................ 3
CONDUCT MIRANDA HILL............................................................................................................................... 9
CRISIS POINT DWAYNE CLAYDEN ................................................................................................................. 7
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STROTHER PURCELL IAN WEIR................................................................ 19
HENRY & STARR CLAIRE TACON................................................................................................................... 18
MEN WALKING ON WATER EMILY SCHULTZ ........................................................................................... 16
MITZI BYTES KERRY CLARE ............................................................................................................................. 6
NORTH FACING WINDOW BRUCE MCKAY ............................................................................................... 11
THE OCCUPATION STEVE DYKSTRA ............................................................................................................ 8
POEM AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE MAUREEN MCQUERRY .................................................. 12
SCRAPBOOK NATHAN RIPLEY ........................................................................................................................ 14
SO MUCH LOVE REBECCA ROSENBLUM...................................................................................................... 15
SOFIE & CECILIA KATHERINE ASHENBURG .................................................................................................. 2
THE THIEF WHO STAYED FOR BREAKFAST JOHN LEKICH ................................................................ 10
THINGS TO DO WHEN IT'S RAINING MARISSA STAPLEY ...................................................................... 17
YIDDISH FOR PIRATES GARY BARWIN ......................................................................................................... 4
Non-Fiction
BETWEEN THE PEAKS OF LIGHT MARY PATERSON .............................................................................. 27
BOY RACHEL GIESE............................................................................................................................................ 23
CLAWED BACK KAREN HO ............................................................................................................................ 24
DRAWING ME HOME KAREN FISHER ALANIZ ............................................................................................ 21
FIREBRAND JOSH KNELMAN .......................................................................................................................... 25
RUN, HIDE, REPEAT PAULINE DAKIN ......................................................................................................... 20
STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE NICHOLAS AND ANNE GIARDINI ............................................................. 22
THIS IS NOT MY LIFE DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN ......................................................................................... 29
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONNECTING ALEXANDRA SAMUEL....................................... 28
WHEN HOME WON'T LET YOU STAY CAROL OFF ............................................................................... 26
Katherine Ashenburg
For readers of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, SOFIE & CECILIA
is a story of lifelong female friendship. Set in the art world of
Sweden, starting in the late 19th century and inspired by the lives of celebrated artists Carl
Larsson and Anders Zorn, here it’s the wives’ stories that reveal the understood secrets and
frustrating conventions of m arriage, career, fam ily life and society.
Nils Olsson and Lars Vogt were the two most famous painters in Sweden at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of
the 20th. But SOFIE & CECILIA is about their wives—their dreams, their dashed hopes, the solace they make for themselves in
work, and the unexpected passions. It is also about the long, hard birth of their friendship, at a time when intimate
companionship between women was a new and even unsettling thing.
Sofie is studying art when she falls deeply in love with Nils—so in love that when he tells her she will not be painting after their
marriage, she doesn’t realize the seriousness of that decision. She becomes the mother of seven children, a textile designer with
a more contemporary sensibility than her husband’s, and the co-decorator of a house that revolutionizes interior design in
Sweden (although her husband gets most of the credit). Ambivalent about who she is and what she wants, Sofie attracts the
enduring love of a Scottish man and the frustrated friendship of Cecilia.
Cecilia comes from a prosperous family of textile manufacturers in Stockholm’s small Jewish community. In a later generation,
she would have been the natural successor to her father’s business, but not a girl born in the 1870s. Like Sofie, she falls in love
with a painter, the charismatic Lars. His repeated, unrepentant philandering unravels one important side of their marriage, while
others endure. Cecilia becomes his business manager, although his infidelity continues to rankle.
Sofie’s and Cecilia’s lives flower, often in unpredictable ways, in their last decades. In widowhood, Sofie makes a joyful return to
painting, although she has to confront a painful surprise about the husband she thought she knew. And when Mac Lawrie, the
Scottish man who has loved her for decades, returns to propose a second time, she must decide what is most important for her,
work or love. Meanwhile, the 1930s are darkened for Cecilia by the pro-Nazi elements in Sweden, which inspires a return to her
Jewish roots. But in those same years, she finds love—an unpredictable and scandalous love that astonishes Sofie as well as
Cecilia.
For readers of historical literary fiction such as The Nightingale, All The Light We Cannot See and Brooklyn by Colm Toibin,
SOFIE & CECILIA is a voyage into the heart of feminine wisdom.
KATHERINE ASHENBURG is the author of three books and many magazine and newspaper articles. She wrote for The New York Times travel
section and on design for Toronto Life, among others . Her books include GOING TO TOWN: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario (winner
of the Ontario Historical Society award), THE MOURNER’S DANCE: What We Do When People Die (short-listed for two important prizes) and THE
DIRT ON CLEAN: An Unsanitized History (one of The Independent’s Ten Best History Books of the year and one of the New York Public Library’s 25
Best Books of the year), which was published in 12 countries and six languages. In former incarnations, she was a producer at CBC Radio and The Globe
and Mail’s Arts and Books editor. She won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine awards in 2012 for her article on old age.
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Sofie & Cecilia
Sharon Bala
Rem iniscent of Little Bee by Chris Cleave, THE BOAT PEOPLE is a
tim ely debut novel by award winning author Sharon Bala. This
important novel invites us to explore what people leaving everything
they know and becoming strangers in a strange land are going
through, and provokes a more com passionate lens through which to
look at the current refugee crisis.
Thirty-five-year-old Mahindan has survived civil war, a prison camp, and a perilous ocean voyage from Sri Lanka. When
the rusty cargo ship carrying him and 500 fellow refugees reaches safe Canadian shores, he thinks the struggle is finally
over. But his journey has only begun.
Set in Vancouver and Sri Lanka, THE BOAT PEOPLE follows Mahindan and his six-year-old son as they are separated,
imprisoned, and forced to navigate the morass of the refugee system. Their reluctant immigration lawyer, Priya, is a firstgeneration Sri Lankan-Canadian whose father has enigmatically warned her not to “get mixed up in all of that.” Grace, a
third generation Japanese-Canadian, is the adjudicator who must decide Mahindan’s fate. Will she allow him to stay and
start a new life in Canada or deport him back to certain death?
Inspired by real life events, THE BOAT PEOPLE is a timely novel about identity and belonging; family secrets and loss;
and the rift that forms between immigrant parents and their third culture children.
SHARON BALA’s short fiction has won three Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Awards and been published, or is
forthcoming, in: Grain, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Room, Riddle Fence, and in a collection called Racket. Her debut
novel, THE BOAT PEOPLE, won the Percy Janes First Novel Award (May 2015) and was short listed for the Fresh Fish Award (October
2015). Visit her at: sharonbala.com
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Represented by Stephanie Sinclair
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The Boat People
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Yiddish for Pirates
Gary Barwin
A stunning debut, to be launched on Random House Canada's
prestigious New Face of Fiction program .
This outstanding novel combines the adventure of Treasure Island with the comedy of
The Sisters Brothers, and the alternate history of The Yiddish Policemen's Union with the
expanse of Don Quixote.
Set in the years around 1492, YIDDISH FOR PIRATES recounts the compelling story of
Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew. Onboard he meets
Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion and the narrator of this tale.
This brilliant novel is filled with Jewish takes on classic pirate tales—fights, prison escapes, and exploits on the high seas—
but it's also a tender love story, between Moishe and Sarah, and between Aaron and his "shoulder," Moishe. Rich with
puns, colourful language, post-colonial satire and Kabbalistic hijinks, YIDDISH FOR PIRATES is also a compelling
examination of mortality, memory, identity and persecution, from one of this country's most talented writers.
GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, educator, and the author of 17 books of poetry, and work for
teens and children. His work has been widely performed, broadcast, anthologized and published nationally and
internationally, and has been regularly commissioned by the CBC. His latest book is Moon Baboon Canoe (poetry,
Mansfield Press, 2014), winner of the City of Hamilton Arts Award.
Barwin has a PhD. in music composition, a B.A., B.F.A and a B.Ed. and taught middle school and high school for nearly ten years. He
has taught writing at McMaster University and at Mohawk College, to street-involved youth, and at Offcentre Art and Creativity
Workshops. He was the Fall 2013 Young Voices eWriter-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library and Writer-in-Residence at Western
University in 2014-2015.
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English Canada, Random House Canada (New Face of Fiction), April 2016
Manuscript available
Represented by Shaun Bradley
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“All my life I have been waiting for the romantic tale of a
Kabbalistic Jewish pirate as filtered through a uniquely Canadian
perspective. Today, my prayers have been answered and then
some.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure
“Yiddish for Pirates is a rollicking story, a linguistic typhoon,
and the most audacious and original novel I’ve read in a long
time. Gary Barwin has the imagination of David Mitchell and a
galleon full of dictionaries.”
—Emily Schultz, author of The Blondes
“Gary Barwin is a gifted writer and a whiz-bang storyteller. Both
are on vivid display in his hilarious tragicomic epic, Yiddish for
Pirates. Narrated by a five-hundred-year-old wisecracking parrot,
naturally, this swashbuckling tale had me hanging on for dear
life. A wild and wonderful ride.”
—Terry Fallis, author of Poles Apart and No Relation
“What an accomplishment! What an imagination! The wit, the
wordplay, and the subversive humour make this a thoroughly
original and delightful novel.” —Lauren B. Davis, Scotiabank
Giller Prize–nominated author of Our Daily Bread and Against a
Darkening Sky
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Sigmund Brouwer and Joanne Bischof
In Victorian London, a man abandons his family in order to protect it,
but finds that his wife’s love is fiercer than defeat.
Nathanial Terwillegar contracts leprosy during his military service in India, and makes the
agonizing choice to walk away from his family rather than expose them to the disease. Because
he fails to return to her, Suzanne Terwillegar becomes a scorned and pitied woman, unaware
that each night Nathaniel is a secret guardian, watching over his family to keep them safe. With
debtor’s prison looming, Suzanne is forced into her own agonizing choice—cling to her love for
the man who abandoned her, or accept a marriage proposal that will save her children. When
Suzanne agrees to a wedding date and Nathaniel is assured that his family will be safe under the
care of another man, it finally allows him the luxury of suicide to end his suffering. Except on the
night of his planned death, he stumbles across an abandoned baby, and by protecting the little
girl, he begins a chain reaction of events that eventually bring hope to a small community of
people, and his wife back into his life.
Co-written by acclaimed and well-loved authors and with alternating points of view, A RIVER
ACROSS offers readers a deep and complex story of fierce love set in Victorian London.
With over four million books in print, SIGMUND BROUWER is the bestselling author of books for children and adults. His most recent
adult novel, Thief of Glory, won the Christy Awards for Best Book and Best Historical Romance, the Alberta Reader's Choice Award,
the Lime Award for Historical Fiction, and was named a 2015 INSPYs Shortlist Nominee for General Fiction. His recent YA novel Dead
Man's Switch received the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book, was a finalist for the Red Maple, a finalist for the
John Spray Mystery Award, and was a 2015 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book. Learn more about Sigmund
Brouwer at www.sigmundbrouwer.com.
A Carol Award and two-time Christy Award-finalist, JOANNE BISCHOF writes deeply layered fiction that tugs at the reader’s
heartstrings. She was honored to receive the SDCWG Novel of the Year Award in 2014 and in 2015 was named Author of the Year by
the Mount Hermon Writer’s conference. Her 2014 title This Quiet Sky broke precedent as the first self-released title to final for the
Christy Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her husband and their three children. Learn more about Joanne
Bischof at www.joannebischof.com.
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A River Across
Kerry Clare
Rem iniscent of Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by M aria Sem ple, M ITZI
BYTES is a funny novel whose dark edges are tinged with suspense,
about a heroine for whom triumph is not necessarily destiny. This is a
grown-up Harriet the Spy for the digital age.
In her twenties, Sarah Lundy started an anonymous blog called “Mitzi Bytes”, candidly documenting her return to the
dating scene after a devastating divorce. Through her blog, Sarah not only found her feet again, but she found her voice,
with legions of readers eagerly awaiting her every post.
Fifteen years later, Sarah is married with children, ensconced in a comfortable life she loves, and she’s still blogging, these
days documenting domestic adventures. But nobody—not even her husband—knows about Sarah’s Mitzi incarnation, or
that she’s been sharing the details of their lives with the world, usually in stark detail, no punches pulled.
Which means that Sarah is possibly in trouble when she starts receiving threatening emails from the mysterious Jane Q.
Time’s up, the first one says. This game is over. You’re officially found out.
Over a difficult week, Sarah tries to discover Jane Q’s identity first before her secret online self is revealed to the people
she cares about. Of Sarah’s relationships with friends and family, which has reached this terrible breaking point? Which of
the others will be strong enough to withstand the shock of meeting Mitzi face-to-face?
What price will Sarah have to pay for sharing so much of her life online—even if what she’s written has been the truth all
along?
KERRY CLARE is a National Magazine Award-nominated writer, and editor of the anthology THE M WORD: Conversations About
Motherhood, which was published to rave reviews in 2014. Her essays, reviews and short fiction have appeared most recently in The
Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Joyland, Canadian Notes & Queries and The New Quarterly. Well into her second decade of blogging,
Kerry teaches “The Art of Blogging” at the University of Toronto, and writes about books and reading at her popular website,
PickleMeThis.com. MITZI BYTES is her first novel.
English Canada, Harper Collins, April 2017
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Mitzi Bytes
Dwayne Clayden
Young Calgary Police Constable Brad Coulter is happy as a street cop until armed bank robbers
kill his partner and wound him. After that, he wants only one thing: to improve out-of-date
police tactics and keep other officers safe. It’s 1976 and the small prairie city is fast acquiring big
city problems, but not all the higher-ups in the department share Coulter’s vision.
Our hero struggles with his partner’s death and his failure to apprehend the killers, especially
when he encounters them at a second robbery. Being adopted by Lobo, the dog his partner was training for the canine
unit, and having paramedic student Maggie Gray in his life both help. So does the acerbic, often confrontational guidance
of his new partner, veteran officer Jerry Briscoe. Coulter wins a coveted position on the city’s newly formed Tactical
Support Unit, but the TSU struggles to overcome opposition from within the police force, lack of proper equipment, and
a mere two weeks of training with SWAT officers brought in from Los Angeles. When a drug-addled gunman barricades
himself in his garage, what should have been the perfect opportunity for the TSU to prove itself ends in disaster when the
Deputy Chief controlling the scene won’t let them go in. The result: officers dead and a city in shock.
Kevin Giles, a jaded member of the Canadian Armed Forces, has the perfect cover. Who would suspect a soldier stationed
at the military base south of the city of robbing Brinks' trucks and banks? Unfortunately, every job they pull seems to end
with another body, and the cops seem to be getting smarter. The lure of a score big enough to retire on keeps them
going, and sets up the final bloody standoff between the bank robbers and Brad Coulter and the TSU.
With comparisons to W.E.B. Griffin’s Men in Blue series, the work of Robert B. Parker and TV’s Fargo, CRISIS POINT has
already received accolades when it was shortlisted for the Unhanged Arthur (Best Unpublished Crime Manuscript) at the
2015 Arthur Ellis Awards, given out by the Crime Writers of Canada. CRISIS POINT is the first in a series of books
featuring Brad Coulter.
DWAYNE CLAYDEN is a paramedic with over 38 years in emergency services. A former police officer, tactical paramedic, and EMS
chief, he is an international speaker at EMS conferences and has published four textbooks for paramedics. Dwayne is a popular speaker
in the crime writing community and provides police and medical procedures advice and editing to authors. Dwayne’s first novel
manuscript, CRISIS POINT, was a finalist for the 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards Unhanged Arthur. His short story,
“Hell Hath No Fury”, appeared in AB Negative, an anthology of short stories from Alberta Crime Writers.
Represented by Amy Tompkins
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Crisis Point
Steve Dykstra
THE OCCUPATION is a legal thriller set in Toronto and some of the world’s biggest
monetary capitals. Connor de Groote, a Bay Street lawyer, is working on a cutthroat deal
during the height of the financial crisis when an “ethical issue” from the past comes back
to haunt him. De Groote finds himself unwittingly dragged into a world of blackmail and
murder, all while struggling to manage the overwhelming demands of his billionaire
clients.
As the pressure mounts, he increasingly struggles to justify his occupation—a job in which he is obliged to represent the
wealthy and powerful men who have already brought the financial world to its knees.
Stylistically comparable to the works of Brad Meltzer and John Grisham, THE OCCUPATION is a behind-closed-doors,
action-filled story populated with criminals wearing both white and blue collars.
STEVE DYKSTRA is a corporate/commercial lawyer practicing in the Greater Toronto area. Although he now runs his own company,
he started his career on Bay Street, Canada’s financial hub, working first for Goodman & Carr and then Loopstra Nixon. He also spent
nearly five years as a legal recruiter.
Steve also contributes a weekly column for the U.S. legal blog, “Above the Law”. This wide-ranging forum receives approximately 7
million page views and more than 1 million unique visitors per month. It’s a go-to source for legal news, commentary, advice and
entertainment.
Steve is at work on his next thriller, set in New York City. He lives just outside Toronto with his wife and children.
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The Occupation
Miranda Hill
Set between 1890 and the 1960s against the backdrops of
Pittsburgh, the world’s factory and M uskoka, where the rich
come to play, CONDUCT is a multi-generational novel that
considers how our lives are shaped by the stories we select to
tell and the secrets we try to keep.
It all begins in 1890. Lady Ada and Evelyn are traveling by train toward Pittsburgh and two very different futures, one
affluent, the other quite the opposite. Ada is reluctantly making a journey toward a marriage to a man she has never met
(arranged by her once-respected British family); Evelyn is on her way to work as a domestic servant in one of the city’s
finer houses. This chance meeting between Ada and Evelyn, and the envy it triggers when they impulsively switch
identities, is the beginning of a recurring connection, weaving together their contrasting lives—from the drawing rooms
of upper class Pittsburgh homes, to its factories and slums, and then over the border to the golden age of the grand
hotels of Muskoka, the destination of a new and glamorous set of “pleasure seekers”—and ultimately impacting their
families over several decades of shifting fortunes and remarkable circumstances.
With her proven eye for insight into human relationships, in CONDUCT Miranda Hill considers the ties between toil and
leisure, the captains of industry and the working class, disease and health, and the elements that determine our place in
the world, whether chance or choice.
With the historical sweep of Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here and the vibrant characters as in Andrea Levy’s
Small Island or Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay, CONDUCT will appeal to the quality lover and book club reader in us
all.
Winner of Canada’s most prestigious short story prize, the Writers Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, MIRANDA HILL’s
stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, The New Quarterly among others. Her debut collection Sleeping Funny,
published in 2012, was one of the bestselling and well-reviewed collections of the year. Hill is also the founder and executive director of
the Canadian literary charity Project Bookmark Canada. She lives, writes and works in Hamilton, Ontario. CONDUCT is her debut
novel.
Doubleday Canada, English Canada, Spring 2017
Manuscript Available Fall 2016
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Conduct
John Lekich
The first book in a com ic crim e fiction series written in the vein
of Elm ore Leonard and Donald W estlake, involving m urder,
kidnapping and theft am ong m ovie stars and social clim bers.
THE THIEF WHO STAYED FOR BREAKFAST is written in the tradition of Elmore Leonard’s Get Shorty and Donald
Westlake’s Dortmunder books. Funny, plot-driven, and full of colorful characters, THE THIEF tells a story of murder,
kidnapping and theft with style, wit, and an experienced writer’s deft touch.
Protagonist Charlie Nolan is an ex-thief with a troubled past that includes a divorce from Lauren Hayes, a film star he
can’t quite forget, and some bad dealings with his con-man father, Harry, who keeps turning up despite Charlie's
attempts to leave him behind. Trying to stay on the straight-and-narrow with an unassuming job and a quiet life, Charlie
finds himself pulled back into Lauren’s privileged, corrupt Hollywood world. He becomes embroiled in a series of plots
and heists, ranging from art and jewelry theft, to kidnapping and dognapping, to avenging the murder of his mentor, an
art-loving thief named Jimmy Flowers. Rounding out the cast of characters are Marty Braverman, a gangster-turnedproducer whose early investors “were the kind of lowlifes who wore tracksuits but never exercised;” trophy wife Nicole
Jameson, who embroils Charlie in a plot to steal her own jewelry back from her producer husband Bryce; aging
Hollywood actress Amanda Barrington, Charlie’s employer, whose fortunes are dwindling; and Amanda’s spirited
granddaughter Kate, who becomes Charlie’s accomplice and love interest.
THE THIEF moves from the ridiculous to the sublime and back again: its characters are larger than life, and their passions
and obsessions keep the reader as engaged as the plot. Award-winning author, film critic and journalist John Lekich brings
a classic charm and warmth to everything he writes. He has interviewed giants like Audrey Hepburn and Bob Hope, and
can bring to life Hollywood darlings and dropouts like no one else. This is the first book in a series that’s a strong and
memorable contribution to the genre.
JOHN LEKICH is a Vancouver-based journalist, film reviewer, and novelist. The winner of ten national and regional magazine awards,
his work has appeared in such publications as The Globe and Mail, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and Reader’s
Digest. His favourite interview subjects include Audrey Hepburn, George Plimpton, Garrison Keillor, and silent screen star Lillian Gish.
Lekich is the author of several books, including three critically acclaimed novels for younger readers. The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls,
King of the Lost and Found, and The Losers’ Club, which was a finalist for The Governor General’s Award.
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The Thief Who Stayed
for Breakfast
Bruce McKay
A young m an loses his innocent view of the world when he falls in love
with a well-loved painter whom all others believe is losing her m ind.
NORTH FACING WINDOW cuts to the heart of the world’s questions about madness and
sanity, and reaches for answers to a young man's questioning whether there is any light left in
the world.
In NORTH FACING WINDOW, Nathan Gidding, a naive would-be poet who works as an orderly in a St. Louis hospital,
finds his emerging world view under pressure when a renowned artist is admitted to the hospital, and then gouges out
her own eye in the middle of the night in a misguided act of piety.
Kat's deterioration from revered painter to psych ward patient incites Nathan to turn toward corrupt relational alliances
that threaten to plunge him into the same darkness that destroyed his father's psyche and medical career.
In the end, Nathan helps Kat realize that painting a redemptive self-portrait is the one work which can resurrect her spirit,
and reignite his hope in the power of human connection.
BRUCE MCKAY is a St. Louis native, and received his MFA from UC, Irvine, where he currently lectures in the Department of English.
Represented by Sandra Bishop
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North Facing Window
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Poem at the Center of
the Universe
Maureen Doyle McQuerry
W hen Cooper agrees to help his new neighbor W ren keep the secret prom ise she swore to
her brother— to deliver his ashes to the oldest living thing on earth— the journey tests their
survival and forces them to confront the monsters of grief and PTSD that are threatening
to destroy both their families.
Sixteen-year-old Cooper is struggling to navigate his way into young adulthood now that the relationship he once
enjoyed with his father is strained by post-Iraq PTSD. To shake off the stress of a summer going wrong, Cooper agrees to
help his new neighbor Wren keep the secret promise she swore to her brother—to deliver his ashes to Methuselah, a
4,846 year-old bristlecone pine in California’s White Mountains. Though they expect the trek to be hot, dangerous, and
mysterious, neither of them are prepared for what they encounter along the way: dust storms, lightning, evidence of the
Lone Pine Devil, and an encounter with three old women with a strange resemblance to the Three Fates who drive them
into the wilderness to save Cooper’s father who falls into an abandoned mine shaft while searching for the lost teens.
MAUREEN MCQUERRY loves giving author talks in schools and at conferences. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s hiking, biking,
or traveling and always hoping for a real life mystery or adventure.
Maureen is also an award winning poet. Her work has appeared in: Smartish Pace, the Georgetown Review, The Atlanta Review, The
Southern Review, Quiddity, Relief Journal and several anthologies.
Maureen's YA novel, The Peculiars (Abrams/Amulet 2012) was an ALA Best Book for Young Adult Readers 2013, Bank Street and Horne
Book recommended book, and a winner of the Westchester Award. Her most recent titles Beyond The Door and The Telling Stone
(chosen by Booklist as Top 10 Fantasy/SciFi for Youth) are a middle grade duo that combines Celtic myth, shapeshifters, and a secret
code in a coming of age story.
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“McQuerry’s compelling narrative races forward, immersing the
readers in its lyrical mysteries.”
—Booklist starred review
“A sense of wonder and worry permeates the narrative,
evocative of The Dark is Rising or the work of Neil Gaiman, and
the cliffhanger ending will leave you clamoring for more.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
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Joanne Proulx
Rem iniscent of The Fates and the Furies by Lauren Groff, AND
THE BOYS W ILL PLAY is a story about m arriage, power, financial
dependence, instinct, sex and survival in contem porary society, and
if, or how, love fits in.
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And the Boys Will Play
AND THE BOYS WILL PLAY opens with two simultaneous crises: Mia and Michael Slate
discover a business partner and best friend has cheated them out of their wealth, while on the same night their lovestricken son Finn passes out in the snow at a party, a mistake costing him more than he realized was even possible.
Every one finds their own way of dealing with the losses. For Finn, it is Jess, a former babysitter who, sneaks into his room
at night. Despite her serious boyfriend, Finn desperately tries to move beyond the secretive sex and make Jess admit to
love.
As their marriage frays and sex with Michael gets rough, Mia finds solace at a friend’s empty condo, which she begins to
covet almost as much as she does her friend. Michael sets his anger loose after midnight at an abandoned baseball
diamond in the company of an old pitching machine and a boy who isn’t his son. When he creeps onto his ex-partner’s
property one night and the stranger boy starts talking revenge, the story shifts into more savage terrain. By the final,
tragic chapter, none of the Slates are either innocent or spared.
JOANNE PROULX’s debut novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, published internationally, was the recipient of Canada’s Sunburst
Award for Fantastic Fiction, was named a best debut of 2007 by The Globe and Mail, and was selected by Border’s in 2008 for their
prestigious Best New Voices series. Joanne has had short stories published in several literary journals including Exile and Maisonneuve
and is currently at work on her second novel, AND THE BOYS WILL PLAY.
Canada English, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Canada
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Praise for Joanne Proulx's Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet:
“Proulx channels ennui, insecurity and inner yearnings of a
teenage boy to produce a fast-moving tale of struggling youth.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[Proulx] weaves a compelling narrative about seeking faith and
deftly channels the voice of a disaffected stoner.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Proulx is pitch-perfect in her portrayal of the potty-mouthed,
weed-smoking, angst-ridden adolescent narrator. A debut novel
that’s sharp, edgy and slightly skewed—all qualities Luke
consummately embodies.”
—Kirkus
“...believable and engaging”
—Booklist
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Nathan Ripley
Rem iniscent of Patricia Highsm ith’s Tom Ripley series and Red
Dragon by Thom as Harris, SCRAPBOOK, the debut thriller by Nathan
Ripley, is the story of M artin Reese, a m an whose obsessive hobby
digging up the undiscovered rem ains of serial killer victim s is about
to lead to a terrifyingly real encounter with a killer who is very m uch
alive.
For years, Martin’s been illegally buying police files on serial killers and studying them in depth, using them as guides to
find the bodies. He doesn’t take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop along with the scanned police
files: his digital scrapbook. Martin sees his work as a public service, a making-right of what the cops have failed to do. But,
of course, there’s a perverse streak to someone who lurks around the woods and highways of Seattle with a shovel,
anonymously looking for victims of crimes.
Detective Sandra Whittal, an early thirties hotshot cop whose rise in the department has everything to do with her focus
and case-closing efficiency, has taken a special interest in Martin, the mysterious caller who she knows only as “the
finder.” She's convinced that he’s a killer who hasn’t yet worked up the courage to kill.
On his latest dig, Martin is looking for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the early 1990s murderer who may have been
responsible for the disappearance of Tinsley Schultz—the sister of Ellen, Martin’s wife. Martin thinks he is about to find
the bones of the sister-in-law he never met. But when he arrives at the site and shovels up the dirt, he finds more than
just bones. There’s a freshly killed body in there, a young and recently disappeared Seattle woman, lying among remains
that were left there decades ago.
Someone else knew where Jason Shurn left the corpses of his victims. Someone else hunted alongside Jason, and isn’t
happy that Martin has been going around digging up his memories, the catalog of what he’d done and stored in the
earth—another sort of scrapbook. The body is called in to the cops—by the real killer, not by Martin—but Detective
Whittal is convinced that the man who made all those other calls also put this young woman in the ground. When a
crooked cop with a tenuous tie to Martin Reese vanishes, Whittal begins to zero in on her suspect. Hunted by Shurn’s old
killing partner and by Detective Whittal, Martin realizes that if he has to go deeper into the world of killing in order to
escape this trap, he will.
Journey Prize winner for his short fiction, NABEN RUTHNUM also writes literary fiction and journalism. His crime fiction is written
under the transparent pseudonym Nathan Ripley. He does the monthly Crimewave review column at the National Post, and his stories
and essays have appeared in The Walrus, Hazlitt, Sight & Sound, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, among other places. He's currently
based in Toronto.
Represented by Stephanie Sinclair and Samantha Haywood
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So Much Love
Rebecca Rosenblum
Olive Kitteridge m eets The Lovely Bones in this stunning first
novel about the unexpected reverberations the abduction of a
young wom an has on a sm all com m unity.
When a young woman named Catherine Reindeer vanishes without a trace from her small
town, those who know her are left to cope with her absence. Moving from her outer circle
of acquaintances to her closest intimates, the novel reveals how the lives of those left behind can be overturned in the
wake of an unexplained disappearance. But at the heart of the novel is Catherine’s own story of resilience and recovery.
When a final devastating loss after months of captivity forces her to make a bold decision, she is unprepared for
everything that follows her dramatic escape. Woven throughout are stories about a local female poet who was murdered
years earlier, a woman whose life and work become a lifeline for Catherine during her darkest hours—and who may
ultimately hold the key to Catherine’s quest to find solace in the aftermath of unimaginable tragedy.
SO MUCH LOVE is a haunting story of longing and loss, the necessity of bearing witness, and what it means to tell your
own story.
REBECCA ROSENBLUM's fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Danuta Gleed
Award. ONCE her first collection of short stories, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That
Mattered in 2008. Her story “How To Quit Your Day Job” was turned into an award winning short film. Rosenblum lives, works, and
writes in Toronto.
English Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Spring 2017
Manuscript Available Spring 2016
[email protected]
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Emily Schultz
From the award-winning author of The Blondes — a Kirkus , BookPage
and NPR best book selection.
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Men Walking on Water
1929: Detroit is the city of future, drunk on potential as Fords drive off the line and booze flows over the border. It’s
Prohibition’s last breath when Alfred Moss—a smalltime rumrunner driving across the frozen river—disappears into the
night. It’s a common fate. The riverbed is full of beer crates and rusting Model Ts, but this time it’s different. Charles
Prangley—a corrupt pastor who decries bootlegging from the pulpit while packing his church basement with Canadian
whisky—needs to know why his man has disappeared. Fueled by guilt, ego and pride, he embarks upon his investigation,
all while juggling the secrets of his past and the business of making money.
Gritty, violent, and expansive, MEN WALKING ON WATER is an epic tale of personal and cultural hypocrisy, set in an age
that marked both a beginning and an end for American values.
EMILY SCHULTZ is the co-founder of the literary journal Joyland and the host of the podcast Truth & Fiction. Her novel Heaven Is
Small was published by House of Anansi in Canada and the U.S. in 2009, and was named a finalist for the 2010 Trillium Book Award
alongside books by Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Schultz’s newest novel, The Blondes, was released from Doubleday Canada in
August 2012 and became a national bestseller. It was published in the U.S. in spring 2015 to critical acclaim by St. Martin’s/Thomas
Dunne.
Schultz's writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Elle, Today’s Parent, The Walrus, the Black Warrior Review, Prism, Geist,
Descant, The New Quarterly, CellStories, the Fanzine, and At Length. She has worked as an editor and as a creative writing instructor.
English Canada, Knopf Canada, Spring 2017
[email protected]
Praise for Emily Schultz’s The Blondes:
“Emily Schultz is my new hero.” —Stephen King
“Reading The Blondes—WOW!" —Margaret Atwood
“Schultz spins an eerie tale with perspective into our cultural
attitudes about beauty.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The Blondes is the book you can’t put down; it’s also the book
you can’t stop thinking about after you do.”
—Bookpage (Top Fiction pick)
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Marissa Stapley
From bestselling author of Mating for Life comes two love stories in
one, both connected to The Sum m ers’ Inn, a fam ily run B&B based
perched at the edge of the St. Lawrence River. Rem iniscent of The Notebook , M arissa
Stapley brings us a story of love in all its incarnations, and family in all its form s.
Orphaned as an infant, Mae Summers was raised by her grandparents, Lilly and George, at the seasonal inn they have
operated together for nearly sixty years called The Summers’ Inn. The inn has always been to Mae both an idyll and a
desolate symbol of what she has lost: not just her parents, but Noah, the island-dwelling boy who was her companion as
a child and her first love as a teenage girl, but then disappeared from her life without a trace.
Searching for happiness, Mae moved to New York, got engaged, and started a company. But deception and despair have
brought her back home. When she arrives, she is forced to face the fact that Summers’ Inn may soon become nothing but
a memory, and that everything she is trying to cling to in order to heal is flowing away from her, fast.
Populated with authentic characters and heartbreakingly real situations, Stapley’s characters and Summers’ Inn come to
life on the page, all playing an important role in a story that is nostalgic, hopeful, and, in the trademark style of this
author, redemptive. The pain of life is revealed, but so is the joy of it, and the ways in which humans can find meaning in
it, by learning to let go of fear and embrace hope.
MARISSA STAPLEY writes the weekly column “Shelf Love” for The Globe and Mail. Her first novel, Mating for Life, was a Canadian
bestseller and received enormous praise nationwide. Stapley is a former magazine editor who now writes freelance for The National
Post, Elle Canada and Today's Parent. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto, and editing at Centennial College. She
currently lives in Toronto with her husband and two young children. THINGS TO DO WHEN IT'S RAINING is her second novel, she is
at work on her next.
English Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada, February 2017
Manuscript Available March 2016
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Things To Do When It's
Raining
Claire Tacon
Rem iniscent of Lorrie M oore and Heather O'Neill, Claire Tacon's pitch
perfect second novel, HENRY & STARR, is equally heart-warming as it
is heart-breaking. HENRY & STARR is ultimately the story of a father,
struggling to let his daughters grow up, and of a working class family,
struggling against hard odds, to take care of each other when the world
lets them down.
Going into parenthood, Henry Robinson never anticipated the wonder he would find in being a father. When his first
daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, Henry swears to devote his life to making her happy.
Years later, working at Frankie's Funhouse, where Starr loves the life-like robots, Henry befriends Darren, a high school
student who plays Frankie at work. Darren needs to get to the Chicago ComiCon to win back his ex-girlfriend and when
Henry's wife and younger daughter express their feeling of neglect, and suggest that Starr should be more independent,
Henry packs Starr (and her pet turtles) and Darren (still dressed as Frankie) into the van for a road trip no one was
prepared for.
CLAIRE TACON’s first novel, In the Field, was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke award. Her fiction has been short-listed for the
Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Awards and the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and has appeared in journals and
anthologies such as The New Quarterly, sub-TERRAIN and Best Canadian Short Stories. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of British Columbia and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international.
Represented by Stephanie Sinclair
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The Death and Life of
Strother Purcell
Ian Weir
SAN FRANCISCO, 1892. The old Gold Rush capital is rollicking toward
the twentieth century. Young W ill Hearst is creating a m odern media
em pire. W yatt Earp, the retired but not-yet-legendary frontier lawm an,
is trying to reinvent himself— and get rich— as a Bay Area property developer. And Barry
W eaver, a hack writer of frontier dim e-novels, ends up on a self-destructive spree and a
night in the drunk tank where he encounters a hom eless one-eyed derelict who turns out
to be the fabled Strother Purcell— or what rem ains of him . W eaver sees his opportunity. He
will write this story. All it requires is a final act— a true-life clim ax that will com bine
redem ption and tragedy on a scale com m ensurate with Purcell’s stature, not to m ention
W eaver’s narrative aspirations.
VANCOUVER, 1974. A university student named Garrett Brookmeier discovers a typewritten fragment, tucked between
the pages of a misfiled library book in the dustiest corner of Special Collections. He and his mentor, the brilliant but
tormented Prof. James Lee Driskill, grow convinced that this is a holograph portion of a long-lost foundational epic that
has come to be known as The Purcelliad. If so, this is nothing less than the White Whale of Frontier Studies. It will
revolutionize Nineteenth Century scholarship, redefine our understanding of the forces that shaped the national
character, and crown the career of whoever can reassemble the full text.
What unfolds is an archetypal saga of obsession, treachery, lost love, murder and revenge—and that’s just the academic
research. A deadpan revisionist Western, refracted through the lens of a Southern Gothic revenge tragedy and framed by
a tale of academic skulduggery, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STROTHER PURCELL is a novel about the power of the
Past…and the lengths we’ll go to in order to invent it.
IAN WEIR is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist. His debut novel Daniel O’Thunder, published in 2009, was a finalist for four
awards: the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
and the Canadian Authors Association’s Award for Fiction. Among his extensive television credits, he was the writer and executive
producer of the acclaimed crime thriller Dragon Boys, a CBC miniseries that first aired in 2007. His stage plays have been produced
across Canada and in the U.S. and U.K., and he is the author of ten radio dramas. He has won two Geminis, four Leos, a Jessie and the
Writers Guild of Canada Canadian Screenwriting Award. His last novel, Will Starling, was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC and
published in Canada and the US.
Manuscript Available April 2016
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A LIFE ON THE MOVE
Pauline Dakin
“For years I was warned that writing about m y fam ily would be
dangerous for m e and for those I loved; that exposing our bizarre story
would bring all hell raining down upon us and put lives at risk. That’s a
chance I’m now willing to take.”
Twice when she was growing up Pauline Dakin and her family disappeared, quietly slipping away from all that makes up a
life—friends, extended family, schools, jobs—without any goodbyes. Both times they moved thousands of kilometres
away to start again. It wasn’t until she was a young adult that Pauline learned what was behind the strange, secretive
behaviour. Her mother finally revealed they were on the run from the mafia, and that they were receiving help and
protection from a covert government-based anti-organized crime task force.
When her mother eventually decided to go into protective custody in a secret location, Pauline agreed that she too
would make a final disappearance to a safer place. But before this could happen she made a horrifying discovery.
Complete with hit-men, body doubles, and undercover agents, RUN, HIDE, REPEAT is a memoir about a childhood
steeped in unexplained fear and bizarre behaviour. It’s also the story of Pauline’s discovery that the years of running were
based on a spectacular and complex hoax, manufactured by those she trusted the most.
Like Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club or Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, RUN, HIDE, REPEAT explores coming to terms with
a lost childhood, and betrayal by those most loved and trusted. Ultimately, RUN, HIDE, REPEAT follows a profound path
of personal discovery—one that is paved with the redemptive powers of love and forgiveness.
PAULINE DAKIN is the Senior Producer, Current Affairs Programming (Nova Scotia) for CBC Radio, the former national health
reporter for CBC News, and is the host of the regional documentary program Atlantic Voice. Her work has been recognized with many
regional, national and international awards, including a citation of merit from Canada’s top journalism prize, The Michener Awards, for
a multi-media, collaborative series on adverse drug reactions in children. She is a three-time recipient of fellowships from the National
Press Foundation in Washington to do specialized training and reporting on HIV vaccine development and obesity issues. She is also a
fellow of the MIT/Knight Science Journalism program on medical evidence.
Dakin has worked as a producer, on-air host, assignment editor, and reporter in various media including film, television, radio, and
print. She also writes and produces documentaries on a wide range of topics. She is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she lives with
her two teenage daughters. RUN, HIDE, REPEAT is her first book.
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Run, Hide, Repeat
ONE MAN’S EXTRAORDINARY MISSION TO BRING FALLEN WARRIORS HOME
Karen Fisher Alaniz
A dying m an’s words and a blood-stained letter drove one artist’s 40-year
journey from the battlefields of Vietnam into the hom es of over 4,000
fam ilies of fallen heroes.
When Michael Reagan came home from the Vietnam War a broken man, he struggled to make sense of the haunting
memories. Why did he survive while so many others didn’t? It took him years to create a stable life for himself—
something he never had growing up. He put himself through school, excelling at the prestigious Art Institute of Seattle.
After graduating, he eventually landed his dream job as Director of Art and Marketing at the University of Washington.
When he wasn’t working at the university, he was drawing portraits, mostly of celebrities. Opening a personal art studio
overlooking the water was a dream-come-true, and his portrait work gained wide admiration from Hugh Heffner to the
Pope. Mike has raised over $10 million dollars for charity through his artwork.
But, this isn’t the story of someone overcoming obstacles to make a life for himself. This is the story of a man who in an
instant—gave it all up.
About the Artist: MICHAEL REAGAN is a talented artist and a combat Marine who served in the Vietnam War. In 2003 he was asked to
draw the portrait of Navy Corpsman, Michael Vann Johnson for his widow. Her words upon seeing the portrait for the first time
changed the trajectory of his life. She said, “You brought my husband home.” In 2004 Michael Reagan founded the Fallen Heroes
Project. Since that time, he has drawn more than 4,400 portraits of his fallen comrades from various wars. The portraits are donated to
families of the fallen, free of charge. He is a humanitarian who has donated millions to charity through his artwork. Michael lives just
outside Seattle, Washington with his wife Cheryl.
About the Author: KAREN FISHER-ALANIZ is the author of the memoir, BREAKING THE CODE: A Father’s Secret, a Daughter’s
Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks, 2011). Shortly after the book’s release, she was interviewed by
Audie Cornish on NPR’s, Sunday Morning Edition. She teaches memoir writing at her local community college and leads workshops on
the subject of life story writing. She has also worked as a freelance writer, and an elementary and middle school teacher. Ms. Alaniz
lives in Walla Walla, Washington with her two dogs, enjoying the company of many family and friends living nearby.
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Drawing Me Home
CAROL SHIELDS ON WRITING
Nicholas and Anne Giardini
Shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision and wit,
STARTLE AND ILLUM INATE is a book of advice and reflections on
writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that is destined to
becom e as valued and essential as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne
Lam ott's Bird by Bird .
In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry's
Party, The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays,
Carol Shields was unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her
friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote on the craft of writing.
Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page
written the day before, then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book was finished. Now in her
own words, as clear and straightforward as a glass of water, comes STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE,
the best possible guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. This essential
work, drawn by her daughter and grandson from her voluminous correspondence with other
writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, is a last gift from one of our finest
novelists meant for both aspiring and established writers. It helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about
writing: such as why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a
writer knows when a work is done.
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ANNE GIARDINI, Carol Shields's daughter, has published two novels, The Sad Truth about Happiness and Advice for Italian Boys, and
is working on a third. Anne is an executive, a board director and a lawyer, and is the 11th chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
NICHOLAS GIARDINI is one of Carol Shields's 12 grandchildren. A committed reader, he enjoys books that explore character and selfperception. Eleven when his grandmother died, Nicholas remembers her as a warm and intense presence. While carrying out research
for this book in the archives, reading letters, lectures and notes, he came to know his grandmother as a person, and began to
understand more fully the role she played in the world of ideas, and in the lives of her friends, fellow writers and readers.
English Canada, Random House Canada, Spring 2016
Represented by Trena White
[email protected]
Praise for Carol Shields:
“Carol Shields has explored the mysteries of life with abandon,
taking unusual risks along the way. The Stone Diaries reminds us
again why literature matters."
—New York Times Book Review
“Carol Shields's short stories have given me happiness, not just
pleasure. They're prismatic; they delight at first by the clear and
simple elegance with which they are made, then there is
something so bountiful and surprising, like beautiful broken
lights." —Alice Munro
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BECOMING A MAN IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Rachel Giese
Building on a tradition of investigative cultural narratives that are
both personal and analytical, from Anne-M arie Slaughter to Hanna
Rosin to Judith W arner and m ost recently to Jennifer Senior’s
bestselling All Joy, No Fun .
Giese reveals that our current ‘boy crisis’ in The West cannot be understood or solved by decrying it as a by-product of
feminism. This is not The End of Men, or a winner-takes all grudge match. In fact Giese would like us all, as mother,
father, husband or wife, to reset the conversation on the so-called gender wars and declare a truce. Girls advancement
requires the involvement of boys, and our boy’s imminent future success and well-being requires our attention like never
before.
What does it mean to grow up male at the beginning of the twentieth-century, when traditional ideas of masculinity are
in flux? And how are adults preparing boys for the challenges and new expectations facing them? With a journalist’s eye,
Rachel Giese travels deep into the heart of guy culture to discover the truth about contemporary boys’ lives. She reports
from boys-only sex education classes and the sidelines of recreational sports leagues; she visits a juvenile detention
centre, a support group for transgendered teenagers, and a Boy Scout convention; she also learns to play video games
with her son and hangs out with comics fans. She tells stories of real boys navigating the transition into manhood and
how the upheaval in cultural norms about sex and sexuality is affecting this coming of age process.
Drawing on her own experience as the mother of a boy, as well as extensive research and interviews with educators,
coaches, activists, parents, psychologists, sociologists, and young men themselves, Rachel Giese examines the myths and
realities of boy culture and the challenges facing boys today. With lively reportage and clear-eyed analysis, she reveals
reasons to feel hopeful for our young men, and shows that this new gender reality has the potential to liberate us all.
RACHEL GIESE was the deputy editor of The Grid. Previously, she was a senior editor at The Walrus, a columnist for the Toronto Star,
a host and producer at CityTV’s BookTelevision, a writer and editor at CBC.ca’s Arts Online, a senior editor at Chatelaine, and a
journalism instructor at Ryerson University. Her writing, which has been nominated for several National Magazine Awards, has
appeared in Toronto Life, Canadian Business, Flare, The Globe and Mail, and Report On Business. She appears on CBC TV and radio, as
a regular pundit on The National’s Three to Watch politics panel and a commentator on Metro Morning. She’s been the guest host of
Day Six and a frequent contributor to Q. Currently she’s working on a 10-part CBC radio documentary series on the lives of children
and the culture of childhood, which will air in the summer of 2015. She has a degree in history from the University of Toronto. Giese
lives in Toronto with her family. BOY is her first book.
English Canada, HarperCollins, Spring 2017
Partial Manuscript Available Spring 2016
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BOY
THE HIDDEN COST OF TIGER PARENTING ON RELATIONSHIPS,
CAREER, AND MENTAL HEALTH
Karen Ho
The concept of "tiger parenting" is both infam ously known and
painfully fam iliar to m illions of children from cultural
backgrounds that stress studying hard and high levels of
academ ic achievem ent. But the long-term effects of decades of pressure and strict
parenting m ethods in pursuit of these goals often results in m ultiple kinds of setbacks for
years, if not decades, after graduation.
In “Jennifer Pan's Revenge”, Karen K. Ho chronicled one of the worst cases of parental pressure for Toronto Life. Karen's
account of Jennifer's relationship with her parents, her decade of lies, her trial for the fatal attack on her parents and
ultimately, the jury's conviction of first-degree murder and attempted murder garnered one million pageviews in its first
month online, as well as interviews and attention from news organizations around the world, including The Washington
Post, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post, BBC Radio One and Longform, which named it one of 2015's
top 5 crime stories for the year.
Following the success of her look at one of the most extreme cases of tiger parenting in Toronto Life, Karen K. Ho's book
will look at how a generation of modern young Chinese women, both in China and abroad, have had their lives affected
by a method of parenting promoted as a blueprint for success.
KAREN K. HO is a writer, business reporter and photographer based in Toronto. She was most recently the business and labour editor
at the Yellowknife-based Northern News Services Ltd., where she oversaw the business sections of three weekly newspapers. She has
also been published in Toronto Life, The Walrus, media newsletter Today in Tabs and the National Post.
Proposal Available Spring 2016
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Clawed Back
Josh Knelman
W ritten with the character-based gusto and narrative flare akin to
bestselling nonfiction writer M ichael Lewis, FIREBRAND is the
dram atic, true-story odyssey of a charm ing young lawyer who ventures
into heart of global capitalism: the international tobacco industry.
As Mad Men did for the alcohol-fueled, oversexed, corrupt world of New York advertising,
FIREBRAND does for the even more despised world of big tobacco. This is Flash Boys meets The Tipping Point in an addictive
and counterintuitive piece of storytelling that spans the globe, beginning shortly after 9/11—a cutting-edge contemporary tale
of our ambiguous times, told through the eyes of an anti-hero created by our corporate age.
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FIREBRAND is the true story of a young lawyer starting a promising career specializing in brand management at a boutique
entertainment law firm in London. Soon, though, he is approached by a headhunter and asked to apply for a job at a mysterious
multinational corporation—the headhunter will not tell him the name of the company that is seeking to employ him, or what it
sells. His curiosity is piqued, and he proceeds with a series of unusual job interviews. Eventually, he is offered the job—to work
as legal counsel for one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, in one of the world’s most despised industries.
He doesn’t hesitate—this is the opportunity he’s been waiting for—and his life changes the moment he says yes. He is given a
company car, a stunning office, a personal assistant, a corporate account, a free and endless supply of cigarettes—and an
invaluable education into the high-stakes game of Risk being played by a dynasty of global cigarette manufacturers, engaged in
fierce battles across the continents for new customers and brand loyalty: this is capitalism, unfiltered.
And here is the unsettling paradox of the lawyer’s job, and of this book—his mission is to advise his company on how to best
adjust to each new law passed, and to make the company more money. But how to succeed while facing a tidal wave of shifting
social attitudes that run against his company’s product—a product which is killing people? He becomes a chain-smoking
problem solver, and has the time of his life doing it.
JOSHUA KNELMAN is an award-winning arts and investigative journalist and editor. His first book, HOT ART: Chasing Thieves and
Detectives Through the Secret Art, was a two-time award winner and bestseller published internationally to great acclaim including
Vanity Fair and Detours. He was a founding member of The Walrus magazine. His writing has also appeared in The Walrus, Toronto
Life, TORO, Saturday Night, CBCarts.ca, The National Post, Quill & Quire, and The Globe and Mail. Knelman’s feature article “Artful
Crimes” in The Walrus was the result of a three-year investigation into the international black market of stolen arts and antiquities and
won Canada’s National Magazine Awards 2006 gold medal for Arts and Entertainment. Knelman is also the fiction editor of Four
Letter Word: A Collection of Fictional Love Letters from Chatto & Windus, UK.
Proposal Available February 2016
[email protected]
Praise for Joshua Knelman's Hot Art:
“Your spring non-fiction reading.... deep thoughts on the nature
of man.... Through interviews with cops, FBI agents, and a
prominent former smuggler, [Knelman] shows how
corrupt dealers (and public indifference) have helped this nearly
unpoliced form of criminal activity become so pervasive"
—Details Magazine
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Carol Off
“On three occasions, Asadullah Aryubwal was forced to gather up his wife along with their five young
children and flee Afganistan for their lives. The first time was because of the Taliban. The second was
because of warlords. The third, and most decisive, was because of me.” —Carol Off
In 2002, journalist Carol Off was working for CBC television’s flagship news program, The National, on assignment in Afganistan to
cover the fallout of the 9/11 attacks in New York. While there she met Asadullah Aryubwal. Twice he had been driven from his
homeland by death threats from the Taliban and local warlords.
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You Stay
Aryubwal would never recant what he so boldly stated in Off’s documentary—that General Dostum, a local warlord—should be on trial
for war crimes rather than receiving money and authority from the U.S. And so, for the third time, the Aryubwal family was on the run.
This time they would never be able to return. They had survived years of civil war, the theocracy of the Taliban and the subjugation of
warlords. But they could never escape the consequences of telling the truth to a journalist. In Afganistan, there is no way to survive
that.
WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY is a multi-faceted exploration of the refugee experience, and often corrupt process of vetting
and accepting settlers from other lands. But it is also a personal exploration about life as a working journalist—a tale of guilt, and
corruption and backroom statesmanship. And it is the story of intense personal relationships, impossible choices, enduring friendships,
grace, and generosity. But more than anything, it is a meditation on the importance of our universal quest to find safe harbour for our
dreams—a place to call “home.”
CAROL OFF is the current host of CBC radio’s As It Happens, the network’s flagship investigative news program covering breaking international
stories. It is heard nationally on CBC’s Radio One in Canada, internationally via the Sirius network, and in more than 180 U.S. markets via Public Radio
International (PRI). With extensive experience in both Canadian and international current affairs, Off has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Haiti, the
Balkans and the sub-continent, as well as events in the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada. She reported the fallout from
the 9/11 disasters with news features and documentaries from New York, Washington, London, Cairo and Afghanistan.
Off's coverage of the post-war reconstruction of the Balkans and the war crimes trial for Yugoslavia led her to write the best-selling book, The Lion, the
Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and another national best-seller on the war in Croatia, The Ghosts of
Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War, which won the prestigious Dafoe Foundation Award in 2005. Her most recent book, Bitter
Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet, was a finalist for the National Business Book Award and was nominated
for the prestigious Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. She lives and works in Toronto. For more information, see:
http://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/carol-off.html
English Canada, Random House Canada, Spring 2017
[email protected]
Praise for Carol Off’s Bitter Chocolate:
“In the style of Mark Kurlansky’s Salt, Bitter Chocolate unravels
chocolate’s glittery packaging and uncovers an industry tainted
by war and genocide and child slavery.”
—Ottawa Xpress
“[Off] makes her case so strongly and with such nuanced flavour
that the book becomes as hard to put down as a bar of
Toblerone.” —Shared Vision
“A first-class account . . . her prose is lively and her tone
impassioned.”
—The Globe and Mail
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LOSING MYSELF AND FINDING THE HEART OF KINDNESS IN NEPAL
Mary Paterson
On a bright cold day, a man was leaving a woman. Twenty-eight days later, the woman was kicked out of her home. It
didn’t matter that the owner of the house himself wished to move in. She’d just been crushingly dumped. The next
month she lost her job. Well not exactly. She sold her business—a termination from work that she’d loved for eleven
years. She hadn’t foreseen the wrenching loneliness and loss of identity to come. So there she was. Heart-broken.
Homeless. Jobless. Oh, and she’d just turned forty-nine.
NON-FICTION
Between the Peaks of
Light
BETWEEN THE PEAKS OF LIGHT is a story about losing a self and finding kindness. Broken and naked and stripped raw
from a bad streak, Mary Paterson journeyed to the great mountains of Nepal for fifty days over her fiftieth birthday in
search of renewed purpose and with just one intention—to help others. Along the way, she encountered wandering
mystics, and wild dogs, and barefoot boys in black alleys. All of them taught her the healing power and radiant joy of true
kindness.
MARY PATERSON is the author of the spiritual memoir, The Monks and Me: How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh’s French Monastery Guided Me Home,
about her pilgrimage to the Buddhist monastery of the world-renowned Noble Peace prize nominee. It was published by Hampton Roads in the US and
Canada in 2012, with foreign translations in Holland, France, Germany, Brazil, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey, and China. She was the
Founder of Toronto’s Lotus Yoga Centre, where for eleven years she taught people from all walks of life: from A-list celebrities and artists to physicians
and C.E.O’s. She recently sold the Centre to focus on writing full-time.
Mary has traveled extensively throughout India and Nepal studying with renowned masters of various spiritual disciplines with a strong focus on Zen
and Tibetan Buddhist practices. She holds a BA in psychology from Queen’s University and currently teaches writing and meditation at the University of
Toronto. Trained in classical ballet, Mary has performed in theatre and film, producing works with such luminaries as the singer Jane Siberry and the
internationally celebrated author, Michael Ondaatje. For more details, visit: http://www.marypaterson.ca/
[email protected]
“This wonderfully honest and often humorous chronicle is
about finding a true home within ourselves. Life changing and
inspiring, it will touch your heart.” —Kristine Pidkameny,
Editor-in-Chief, One Spirit®
“Through her engaging stories, Mary has brilliantly interwoven
the teachings of the Buddha with real life experiences, giving this
ancient Eastern wisdom present-day relevance. Full of courage,
honesty and humor, this is a deeply moving account of a sacred
pilgrimage that reveals insights on how to live joyfully. With
open heartedness and grace, Mary brings us along on a
fascinating journey of discovery.” —Xiaolan Zhao, CMD, author
of Inner Beauty and Reflections of the Moon on Water
“There’s nothing better than a Buddhist with a sense of humor.
Mary Paterson shares her vision of a joyful, committed
Buddhism that can help us live gracefully in this very strange
world. I feel better already.”
—Brian Haycock, author of Dharma Road
“A magnificent book that eloquently juxtaposes Thich Nhat
Hanh’s Buddhist philosophy against modern-day livingm—
inspired, as seen through Paterson’s eyes. This book is a
revelation of spirituality in quotidian things, of balance and
fragility in the midst of chaos, and most of all a testimony to
mindfulness. It is a must read for anyone who wants simple
recipes for ethical living.” —Dr. Sema K. Sgaier, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
27
HOW DIGITAL MENTORS RAISE HAPPY, HEALTHY KIDS IN AN
ONLINE WORLD
Alexandra Samuel
The lovechild of Dr. Spock and M r. Spock: a childcare guide that can serve parents in the
present and take their children into the future
Far more than whether mummy leans in or stays home, far more than whether daddy is a “helicopter parent” or “free
ranger,” how parents approach their kids’ use of technology shapes both family life and future prospects. Alexandra
Samuel’s WHAT TO EXPECT is the first book to map out this fundamental divide among parents today: the divide
between what she calls tech enablers, who take a laissez-faire approach to their kids’ technology use, and limiters, who
set strict limits on their technology use. It recognizes that for the same reason that abstinence is the wrong way to
approach sex ed, we can’t prepare kids for a digital world by keeping them away from it. We need to help them learn how
to apply the principles and practices we value in a digital context.
Samuel and her husband work as digital strategists and marketers, and would gladly spend 95% of their waking hours in
front of a keyboard. But as parents of an exceptionally gifted child, “Peanut,” who has a 99.9th percentile IQ and is drawn
magnetically to any digital device, they’ve had to get beyond the binary conversation that forces us to choose between
limiting and enabling to find a middle way as digital mentors.
Each chapter of WHAT TO EXPECT addresses a different question faced by parents today, and shows how parents can
address it as digital mentors. The book brims with specific stories and recommendations from the mentor families who
are giving great thought to raising children in a digital world. WHAT TO EXPECT provides a balance of social
commentary and parenting advice, wrapped inside a compelling narrative following Samuel’s own struggles as a digital
mentor, which she chronicles with a wry wit. Like Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother or Bringing Up Bébé, it has the power
to drive a larger conversation.
ALEXANDRA SAMUEL is a longstanding contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has published a series of social media ebook
“singles,” Work Smarter with Social Media, with Harvard Business Review Press. Harvard recently released these books as a single
collection that has made it to Amazon’s top ten books on social media. She is a frequent media commentator on technology issues,
regularly quoted in stories from Fast Company, Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, and many other media outlets. She
has written about the intersection between family life and technology for publications like the Wall Street Journal, Oprah.com, the
Atlantic.com, and the Toronto Star. She is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s Experts panel. Samuel is the former VP Social Media
for customer intelligence software company Vision Critical. Before joining Vision Critical she launched the Social + Interactive Media
Centre at Emily Carr University, and founded one of the world’s first social media agencies, Social Signal.
Represented by Trena White
[email protected]
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What to Expect When
You're Connecting
THE STORY OF MY PRISON YEARS
Diane Schoemperlen
“How do you fall in love with a m urderer? Nobody ever
asked m e this question, at least not directly. But if they had,
this book would be my answer.” — Diane Schoem perlen
Schoemperlen met Shane in 2006 when she was volunteering at a soup kitchen while trying to get over a broken heart
and the writers’ block that had followed. He was a fifty-seven-year-old federal inmate sent there on a work release,
serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. He had been in prison for almost thirty years. What began as
camaraderie between two co-workers bloomed into friendship and then romance.
Diane knew almost nothing about prison. There was, as it turned out, a lot to learn. For almost six years she travelled
through the prison system with Shane, a journey that was, by turns, fascinating, frustrating, and frightening—a journey
that was also not without its moments of great joy, profound tenderness, helpless outrage, and raucous dark humour.
Her friend once commented, “I can’t believe you ever really thought this was going to have a happy ending.” She did. But
the happy ending never came.
Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN has published several collections of short fiction and three novels.
Her 1990 story collection, The Man of My Dreams, was shortlisted for both the Governor-General’s Award and the Trillium. Forms of
Devotion: Stories and Pictures won the 1998 Governor-General’s Award for English Fiction. Viking Penguin US published In the
Language of Love, Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found, Red Plaid Shirt, and Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the
Victims of September 11. Her books have been published internationally in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Korea, and
China. In 2007 she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and in 2012, she was Writer-in-Residence at
Queen’s University. Her latest book, published in 2014 in both Canada and the U.S. by Biblioasis, is By the Book, a collection of stories
drawn from old textbooks from the early 1900s and illustrated with her own full-colour collages.
Canada, HarperCollins, Spring 2016
[email protected]
Praise for Diane Schoemperlen’s By The Book:
“The best portions of By the Book suggest ways old texts might
speak to us today, chopped up, reordered, tweet-ready.
Schoemperlen works in a tradition that recalls, in addition to
Lethem and Shields, the cubist fictions of Lydia Davis, David
Markson and Padgett Powell. The most effective stories here
affirm the notion, put forth by Schoemperlen in a Q. and A., that
‘the beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of a
brilliant completeness.’”
—The New York Times
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This is Not My Life
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