bukowski backlist catalogue fall 2010

CONTENTSAnita Rau Badami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Judy Fong Bates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Catherine Bush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Alan Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Wayson Choy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Austin Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

George Elliott Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Anthony De Sa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

John Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Liam Durcan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Paul Glennon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sidura Ludwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Anosh Irani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Ryan Knighton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lori Lansens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Jeanette Lynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

D .J . McIntosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Annabel Lyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Leila Nadir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Eden Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Kerri Sakamoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CLIENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

CO-AGENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?A novel that traces the epic trajectory of terrorism through time and space in the lives of women connected to the 1982 Air India Disaster

95,000 words hardcover / Finished books available

• Longlistedforthe2008IMPACDublinLiteraryAward• ShortlistedfortheOntarioLibraryAssociation2007

EvergreenAwards

The Hero’s WalkWhen a North American granddaughter returns to the land of her grandparents, The Hero’s Walk examines the nature of family and forgiveness through the lives of people bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today’s India

368 pages hardcover / Finished books available

• YoungestrecipientoftheMarianEngelAward• AWashington PostBestBookof2001• LonglistedfortheIMPACDublinLiteraryAward• LonglistedfortheOrangePrizeforFiction• Winnerofthe2001RegionalCommonwealthPrizeforBestBook• Winnerofthe2005GiuseppeBertoLiteraryPrizeforBestItalian

Translation• Anationalbestseller

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Knopf,2006France:PhilippeRey,2007Holland:DeGeus,2008

Italy:Marsilio,2008India:Penguin,2007Australia:Scribe,2007

ANITA RAu BADAmI

RIGHTS SOLDUS:AlgonquinUSPaperback:BallantineUK:BloomsburyFrance:StockSpain:BronceCatalan:Columna

Canada:KnopfGreece:KastaniotisPoland:DialogPortugal:DifelItaly:MarsilioHolland:DeGeus

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Tamarind WomanA touching portrait of the relationship between two generations of women on two continents


• ABarnesandNobleDiscoverGreatNewWritersselection,Spring2002

• AWHSmithTravelRead-of-the-Week,UK

PRAISE FOR ANITA RAu BADAmI’S FICTION

“Badami has woven a web of memory and myth in her novel, a tapestry in which the personal and the political are tragically intertwined.”

—THECALCUTTATELEGRAPH

“This book demands to be read straight through—20 pages a night before switching off the bedside lamps will leave most readers longing for more.”

—THEWASHINGTONPOST

“A novel of broad and lovely scope. Badami deftly handles terrifying shifts in tradition and social order.”

—ELLE

“A skilled writer can convey epic events through the lives of ordinary people. Badami’s [book] is an outstanding example of such skill…. In graceful prose, replete with the sensuous details of everyday life, she gives us a portrait of resilience and adaptability in the face of personal disillusion, trauma, and disintegrating tradition.”

—COMMONWEALTHPRIZEJURY

“This is a substantial, satisfying read, elegantly written and effortlessly compelling. Much reminiscent of Rohinton Mistry.”

—THEINDEPENDENT,UK

“A picture of post-colonial India is vividly conjured up…. Sharply realized as the minor characters are, they are never allowed to overshadow the central figures…. The more upbeat mood [of the latter part of the book] mitigates the sadness of the rest, and brings this very accomplished first novel to a quiet and satisfying conclusion.”

—THETIMES,UK

RIGHTS SOLD US:Algonquin,2002Canada:KnopfUK:Bloomsbury,2002France:PhilippeRey

India:PenguinGermany:BertelsmannSerbia:MonoiManjana

FORTHCOmING TITLETell It to the Trees

RIGHTS SOLD Canada:Knopf,Fall2011

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada:RandomHouse,

2010

The Year of Finding memory: A memoirA probing memoir about a daughter’s search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents’ past


PRAISE FOR JuDY FONG BATES’ THE YEAR OF FINDING MEMORY

“This memoir, like all true memoirs, has the piercing sharpness of unexpected life-affecting revelations… this is one of those rare memoirs where the reader never wants the book to end.”

—THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“This is a beautiful, heart-wrenching memoir. Fong Bates shifts masterfully between various times and places, from her mother’s arrival in Vancouver by propeller plane in 1955 to her family’s return to China more than 50 years later. She confronts her own prejudices, finally realizing that the years she spent with her unhappy parents were in fact a gift from two people who had suffered greatly.”

—QUILL&QUIRE,STARREDREVIEW

“A poignant story, told with tenderness”—THEMONTREALGAZETTE

“An achingly beautiful book with one of the finest, most grabbing openings in recent memory.”

-THEVANCOUVERSUN

“A moving and informative memoir.”—THELONDONFREEPRESS

“[A] quiet read, written like a song in a minor key, with many refrains.”—WINNIPEGFREEPRESS

“Judy Fong Bates’ new memoir, The Year of Finding Memory, is the most accurate and heart felt written account of what it’s like to explore the Chinese countryside in search of your roots. [She] captures the beauty of the villages, the sense of returning home to a place you’ve never been, the heartache, joy, understanding and longing that you feel, and that very real there-but-for-the-grace-of-God emotion that you experience in meeting your relatives who were left behind. Beautiful!”

—LISASEE,AUTHOROFSHANGHAI GIRLS

JuDY FONG BATES

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RIGHTS SOLDUS:Counterpoint,2005Canada:McClelland&

Stewart,2004Thailand:Sanskrit

ALSO AvAILABLEChina Dog and Other

Stories from the Chinese Laundry

RIGHTS SOLDUS:CounterpointCanada:McClelland&

Stewart

midnight at the Dragon CaféThe life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s


• The2007“OneCommunity,OneBook”selectionforPortland,Oregon• Winnerofa2006AlexAwardfromtheAmericanLibraryAssociation• AnAmericanLibraryAssociationNotableBookfor2006

PRAISE FOR JuDY FONG BATES’ MIDNIGHT AT THE DRAGON CAFÉ

“In deceptively simple, intimate prose, Judy Fong Bates captures the complexities of a childhood filled with secrets, longing, and superstition, and powerfully exposes the lengths to which families will go to survive. Midnight at the Dragon Café is an original, haunting debut novel.”

—KIRKUSREVIEWS,STARREDREVIEW

“The mounting suspense of family secrets makes this first novel a breathless read, even as the simple, beautiful words make you want to stop and read the sentences over and over again.”

—BOOKLIST,STARREDREVIEW

“Bates writes in clean, understated prose, imbuing her characters with a lasting poignancy.”

—ENTERTAINMENTWEEKLY

“Judy Fong Bates catches and holds our attention like a teacher of unruly kids: She whispers… unpretentious prose.”


“The simplicity and honesty of Fong Bates’ composition… puts the readers right in the midst of ‘Dragon Café’.”

—THEPLAINDEALER,CLEVELAND

“A deeply affecting debut novel…, Bates conveys with pathos and generosity, the anger, disappointment, vulnerability and pride of people struggling to balance duty and passion.”

—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“An elegant first novel.”—CHATELAINE

“[Bates’] attention to physical detail is matched by compassionate understanding, which gives real weight to the telling of the submerged, drowning passion hidden in this household.”

—THENATIONALPOST

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Claire’s HeadFollowing the critical success of The Rules of Engagement, Catherine Bush’s novel is a gripping and deeply moving glimpse into the world of migraineurs


• ShortlistedforTheTrilliumAward• AGlobe and MailBestBookoftheYear

The Rules of Engagement 320 pages hardcover / Finished books available

The Rules of Engagement is a powerful exploration of what love is, the emotional borders we must cross in order to try to attain it, and the responsibilities inherent in its possession

• ANew York TimesNotableBookoftheYear• ALos Angeles TimesNotableBookoftheYear• ShortlistedfortheCityofTorontoBookAward• AGlobe and MailTop100Booksof2000

PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF CATHERINE BuSH

“[Catherine Bush]… is clearly a high-risk author, intellectually unafraid. In her second novel, The Rules of Engagement, she traverses war zones—psychological, sexual, real—with clear-eyed, cerebral sophistication.”

—THENEWYORKTIMESBOOKREVIEW

“Catherine Bush’s third novel is an emotionally compelling and intellectually enthralling love story that is as much of our world as an MRI brain scan and as timeless as the Buddha. Brilliantly conceived and executed… Catherine Bush is as attuned to oddity and as sly, subtle, brainy and deadpan as Wertmüller or Barbara Gowdy or, come to that, Thomas Mann.”

—THEGLOBEANDMAIL

FORTHCOmING TITLEThe Thief

CATHERINE BuSH

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:McClelland&Stewart,2004

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Farrar,Straus&GirouxCanada:HarperCollinsHolland:HetSpectrumFilm:KeatleyFilmsFrance:Tryptique

ALSO AvAILABLEMinus Time

RIGHTS SOLDUS:HyperionCanada:HarperCollinsUK:Serpent’sTaleFrance:Boréal

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A Red Herring Without mustardThe third instalment of the Flavia de Luce mystery series

95,000 words / Manuscript now available

Multi-award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce . The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the village of Bishop’s Lacy, including a missing child, a fortune-teller, and a corpse . After asking the old gypsy woman to tell her fortune, Flavia stumbles across the poor soul in the wee hours, bludgeoned by her own crystal ball . Was she murdered by people convinced that the soothsayer abducted a local child years ago? Could this crime be connected to the missing baby? While pondering the possibilities Flavia stumbles upon another body, that of a local character who earlier was caught prowling about the family’s drawing room . Pedalling Gladys, her trusty bicycle, across the village in search of clues to both crimes, Flavia uncovers some odd new evidence . Most intriguing is her introduction to an elegant woman with an object in her possession that opens the door to the biggest mystery of all: Flavia’s mother’s disappearance . As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul in order to solve this latest batch of mysteries .

ACCLAIm FOR ALAN BRADLEY’S BELOvED FLAvIA DE LuCE mYSTERIES

“Wonderfully entertaining… sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year.”

—CHICAGOSUN-TIMES

“If ever there was a sleuth who’s bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it’s Flavia de Luce… [A] scrumptious first novel.”

—USATODAY

“A five-star performance for young and old… written with Dickensian flair, Sherlockian suspense and tongue-in-cheek fun.”

—MYSTERYBOOKSNEWS

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Delacorte,2011N.Americanaudio:Random

HouseUK:Orion,2011UKaudio:W.F.HowesPortugal:PlanetaManuscritoCanada:Doubleday,2011Italy:Mondadori,2011Germany:Blanvalet,2011Spain:PlanetaFrance:JCLattèsKorea:MunhakdongneBrazil:SaraivaCatalan:ColumnaMainlandChina:

HongwenguanPoland:VesperUSlargeprint:Thorndike

ALAN BRADLEY

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s BagThe second instalment of the Flavia de Luce mystery series

384 pages / Finished books available

PRAISE FOR THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN’S BAG

“One of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”–USATODAY

“The real delight here is [Flavia’s] droll voice and the eccentric cast… utterly beguiling.”

–PEOPLE

“Bradley’s endlessly entertaining follow-up to 2009’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie finds precocious 11-year-old Flavia de Luce once again indulging her curiosity about corpses. Wandering near her threadbare ancestral home in early 1950s England, Flavia bumps into famed TV puppeteer Rupert Porson and his pregnant wife, who have been marooned by an ailing van. While they wait for repairs to be completed, they agree to put on a performance for the village of Bishop’s Lacey but Rupert’s sudden death ends the show. Feigning an innocence entirely at odds with her shrewdness about adult doings, Flavia uses her skills in chemistry and questioning to puzzle out which of the many possible suspects murdered Rupert and why. The author deftly evokes the period, but Flavia’s sparkling narration is the mystery’s chief delight. Comic and irreverent, this entry is sure to build further momentum for the series.”

–PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“Bradley takes everything you expect and subverts it, delivering a smart, irreverent, unsappy mystery.”

–ENTERTAINMENTWEEKLY

“A gloriously eccentric cast of characters… There’s not a reader alive who wouldn’t want to watch Flavia in her lab concocting some nefarious brew.”

–KIRKUSREVIEWS

“All in all, it’s a perfectly detailed and credible English village in the Agatha Christie manner [and] determined sleuth Flavia de Luce is the bright centre.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“Flavia is a precocious delight.”–NATIONALPOST

“A pitch-perfect performance that surpasses an already worthy debut.”–THEHOUSTONCHRONICLE

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Delacorte,2010Canada:Doubleday,2010UK:Orion,2010UKLargePrint:MagnaPortugal:PlanetaManuscritoItaly:MondadoriIsrael:MatarGermany:BlanvaletSpain:PlanetaFrance:JCLattèsKorea:MunkakdognePoland:VesperBrazil:SaraivaJapan:TokyoSogenshaCatalan:ColumnaHolland:Luitingh-SijthoffMainlandChina:

HongwenguanDenmark:PunktumCroatia:NakladaLjevakTaiwan:AzothNorway:PressUKaudio:W.F.HowesN.Americanaudio:Random

HouseUSlargeprint:Thorndike

ALAN BRADLEY

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the PieThe first novel in a debut crime series introduces a new breed of detective heroine in a pigtailed eleven-year-old with disturbing fascinations

96,000 words / Finished books available

• Internationalbestseller• Rightssoldin32countries• Winnerof2009AgathaAwardforBestFirstNovel• WinneroftheArthurEllisBestFirstCrimeNovelAward• WinnerofDilysAwardforthemysterybooksellersmostlovedtosell• InAmazon’sTopTenBooksinMysteryandThrillers• Books-a-MillionBookClubPick• ANew York TimesBestseller• Winnerofthe2007DebutDaggerAward

PRAISE FOR ALAN BRADLEY’S THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE

“A strong plot, involving philately, ornithology and prestidigitation, and a wonderful supporting cast make this Canadian novelist’s debut delightfully entertaining.”

—THEGUARDIAN,UK

“This is a charming period crime novel with a grotesque gallery of characters reminiscent of the inhabitants of Mervyn Peake’s cult Gormenghast trilogy. It’s 1950, and Flavia de Luce, a precocious 11-year-old with a fully equipped chemistry lab at the top of Buckshaw, the crumbling family seat, discovers a body in the cucumber patch. When Flavia announces this at breakfast, her news is met with indifference by her wonderfully appalling older sisters Ophelia and Daphne (“How very like you”).”

—DAILYMAIL,UK

“[P]recocious Flavia is unique. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award, this is a fresh, engaging first novel with appeal for cozy lovers and well beyond.”

—LIBRARYJOURNAL

“Canadian Alan Bradley’s first full-length crime novel is delightful. … Expect more from the talented Bradley.”


“Brilliant, irresistible and incorrigible, Flavia has a long future ahead of her. Bradley’s mystery debut is a standout.”

—KIRKUS,STARREDREVIEW

“A rollicking debut. …enormous fun for the reader.”—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Delacorte,2009USlargeprint:ThorndikeUK:Orion,2009UKlargeprint:MagnaCanada:Doubleday,2009Italy:Mondadori,2009Israel:MatarGermany:Blanvalet,2009Spain:PlanetaFrance:JCLattèsPoland:VesperKorea:MunhakdongneBrazil:SaraivaJapan:TokyoSogenshaN.Americanaudio:Random

HouseUKaudio:W.F.HowesCatalan:ColumnaSlovakia:IkarNorway:PressTaiwan:AzothRussia:ASTPortugal:PlanetaManuscritoHolland:Luitingh-SijthoffSerbia:MarsoCzechRepublic:EuromediaMainlandChina:HongwenguanCroatia:NakladaLjevakTurkey:DomingoLithuania:VagaArabiclanguage:ArabScientificAlbania:MoravaGreece:LyhnariRomania:TreiDenmark:PunktumIceland:ForlagidEstonia:TiritammHungary:Ulpius-hazKiado

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Not Yet: A memoir of Living and Almost DyingNot Yet is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by a survivor who cheated death twice and reclaimed his life


• Anationalbestseller• AGlobe and MailBestBookof2009

“Illness and recovery are sensitively and sensuously rendered, with candour, humour and authenticity. … It is a pleasure to have his continuing presence (haunted, though it is by the weight of the past and his own physical frailties) in our community of storytellers.”

—GLOBEANDMAIL

“Not Yet is a powerful work, an account of a life almost lost, a questioning of how a life should be lived, and an inquiry into the role of the past and its impact on the present. It is a chronicle of finding oneself after the deepest of traumas, in the arms and eyes of friends. It is a work that blends tension and sadness with joy and contemplation. And it is a reminder, as if we needed one, of why Wayson Choy is beloved, as a writer and as a man.”

—OTTAWACITIZEN

“Choy ranks among the finest writers in this country. …Not Yet is another building block in Choy’s astonishing, unique, ongoing multi-volume, multi-genre portrait of who he is and how he came to be himself.”

–MACLEAN’SMAGAZINE

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodThree weeks before his fifty-seventh birthday, Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. A beautifully wrought memoir, Paper Shadows is inspired by this startling revelation

342 pages hardcover / Black-and-white photographs throughout / Finished books available

• Shortlistedforthe1999GovernorGeneral’sAward• ShortlistedfortheinauguralDrainie-TaylorPrize• A1999Globe and MailNotableBookoftheYear• Anationalbestseller• WinneroftheEdnaStaeblerCreativeNon-FictionAward

WAYSON CHOY

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Picador

Canada:PenguinAustralia:Penguin

RIGHTS SOLD Canada:Doubleday,2009Australia&NewZealand:

ScribeCroatia:NakladaLjevakFrenchCanada:XYZ,2012

FORTHCOmING TITLEA Single Heart

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All That mattersGrowing up in vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s, Kiam Chen is caught in a tangle of mixed loyalties. As first son, he is trapped between the old China ways and a world that is rapidly changing


• Winnerofthe2004TrilliumPrize• Shortlistedforthe2004GillerPrize• Longlistedforthe2006IMPACDublinLiteraryAward• Anationalbestseller

The Jade PeonyChinatown, vancouver, of the early 1940s provides the backdrop for this fresh, uplifting novel, told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family


• Winnerofthe1995TrilliumPrize• Winnerofthe1995CityofVancouverBookAward• Namedasoneofthe100MostImportantBooksin

CanadianHistory• AnAmericanLibraryAssociationNotableBookoftheYear

PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF WAYSON CHOY

“In China, [Choy] tells us, a figure called the ‘dark storyteller’ reveals ‘hidden things not seen in the glare of daylight.’ Working in a new country and a new context, Wayson Choy has deftly continued that tradition [in] a fine… novel.”

—NEWYORKTIMES

“[This] is a sweet and funny novel and accomplishes so much of what we expect in good fiction. Certainly, the novel delights us with beautifully written prose, but it does more than that, too. It renders a complex and complete human world, which… we have learned to love.”

—BOSTONBOOKREVIEW

“Choy’s graceful writing seems to conjure up the very spirit of a quiet child who notices all. [He is] a master storyteller.”

—THESEATTLETIMES

RIGHTS SOLD US:OtherPress,2007Canada:Douglas&McIntyreAustralia:PenguinGermany:UllsteinFrenchCanada:XYZHolland:DeVliegende

Hollander

RIGHTS SOLDUS:OtherPress,2007Canada:Doubleday,2004

Australia:Penguin,2005FrenchCanada:XYZ

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moreThe much anticipated new novel from the winner of The Giller Prize, The Commonwealth Prize, and The Trillium Prize


• Winnerofthe2009TorontoBookAward

PRAISE FOR AuSTIN CLARKE’S MORE

“More may stand as one of the crowning achievements of Clarke’s career.”—QUILL&QUIRE

“Clarke brings into the light the dignity and strength with which our mothers and grandmothers have borne their daily exclusions from the more genteel spaces of Canadian identity. By choosing to write Idora’s story as Toronto’s story, at the height of his literary power, Clarke boldly challenges, and transforms, Canadian sense and sensibility.”

—THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“[More] is Clarke’s bravest book and one whose redemptive quality ultimately leaves the reader wanting more.”

—THECOURIER-MAIL,AUSTRALIA

ABOuT THE WORK OF AuSTIN CLARKE

“Uncommonly talented, Clarke sees deeply, and transmits his visions and perceptions so skillfully that reading him is an adventure.”

—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“A beautiful, comic, innovative, spellbinding and tragic novel… Clarke has a matchless ear for dialogue, he is a master of several idioms. He succeeds in making his pages brilliant. In fact, The Meeting Point is a treat from beginning to end.”

—BOSTONGLOBE

“Mr. Clarke is masterful at delineating the oppressive insecurities of Bernice and her friends… Bernice emerges as a large-souled heroine, whose progress one awaits in the next installment of what is planned as a trilogy.”

—THENEWYORKTIMES

“A brilliant piece of writing. Clarke is magnificent in transferring to print the music, the poetry, the complete aptness of the West Indian dialogue. It is comic, tragic, it is all shades in between. And as prose it is as near poetry as prose can become.”

—THECHARLOTTEOBSERVER

AuSTIN CLARKE

RIGHTS SOLD US:Amistad,2009Canada:ThomasAllen,

2008Australia:HarperCollins,

2009UK:TindalStreet,2010

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RIGHTS SOLDUS:Amistad,2003Canada:ThomasAllen,

2002Holland:DeGeus,2005UK:TindalStreet,2004Australia&NewZealand:

HarperCollins,2004

ALSO AvAILABLEThe QuestionThe Origin of WavesLove and Sweet FoodThe Toronto TrilogyChoosing His Coffin

The Polished HoeThe entire African diaspora implodes in one murderous night on the West Indian island of Bimshire


• Winnerofthe2003CommonwealthPrizeforBestBook• Co-winnerofthe2003TrilliumBookAward• Winnerofthe2002GillerPrize• Finalistforthe2004ZoraNealeHurston/RichardWright

LegacyAward• #1nationalbestseller—over17weeksonbestsellerlists• ABookSense76Pick• ACostcoBookClubMainSelection• ACostco“Pennie’sPicks”TenthAnniversarySelection

PRAISE FOR AuSTIN CLARKE’S THE POLISHED HOE

“An extraordinary tale of lust and oppression…, a beautiful light-skinned ‘black’ woman [is] forced by the ambition of her mother and the sexual appetite of her colonial master to live a dangerous double life as beneficiary and plaything of a society steeped in racial cruelty.”

—THETIMES,UK

“Respect to Tindal Street Press for bringing to the UK this soaring and sorrowful novel of Caribbean life…. Austin Clarke creates a seething panorama of sex, race and power…. The novel’s language proves as lush, seductive—and dangerous—as its landscape.”


“The Polished Hoe’s meandering orality, its slow-burning power, succeed movingly in asserting memory over the silent gaps in recorded history.”

—THEGUARDIAN,UK

“The sensuality of Clarke’s writing keeps his story alive. With vibrant characters and language, this is also one of those rare books you can smell.”

—THESYDNEYHERALD

“Out of a single act of retribution, Clarke has in fact spun an entire history, one in which freedom, love, and even languor all have their place.”

—THENEWYORKTIMESBOOKREVIEW

“With an obvious affection for Caribbean cadence and its rum-soaked asides, Clarke unfolds Mary’s story through the meandering statement she gives to the police after she has taken gruesome revenge on her ‘master’.”

—THENEWYORKER

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George & RueThe winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Poetry brings to life the true story of two men, members of Clarke’s own family, hanged for murder in 1949


• OneoftheToronto Star’sBestReadsfor2005• Longlistedforthe2007IMPACDublinLiteraryAward

PRAISE FOR GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE’S GEORGE & RUE

“A lot like Faulkner… the novel sweeps you up in its narrative color and its lavish tongue and then, with stately force comes together into a solid crime story.”

—O:THEOPRAHMAGAZINE

“This haunting first novel… is heartbreaking and beautifully rendered.”—ENTERTAINMENTWEEKLY

“Vivid, raw…, wonderfully descriptive writing.”—USATODAY

“This is a profoundly insightful, stark, fictional account of two desperate black men whose fruitless lives reflect the consequences of bigotry and intolerance.”

—LIBRARYJOURNAL

“A powerful debut, with a visceral understanding of pain and anger.”—KIRKUSREVIEWS

“Sparkling, powerfully inventive prose.”–PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“Rough, uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking.”—THETIMES,UK

“This formidably crafted recreation of a desperate episode should win widespread acclaim.”


“A novel of exceptional power and imagination.”—THENATIONALPOST

“An amazing first novel…. Mesmerizing.”—THETORONTOSTAR

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Carroll&Graf,2006Canada:HarperCollins,

2005UK:RandomHouse/Harvill,

2005

FORTHCOmING TITLEThe Motorcyclist

GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE

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Barnacle Lovemoving from the Portuguese village of Lomba da maia, where time stands still, to the dark alleys of a sleepy, backwater Toronto in the 1970s, Barnacle Love offers a remarkable coming-of-age story


• Shortlistedforthe2009TorontoBookAward• Shortlistedforthe2008GillerPrize

PRAISE FOR ANTHONY DE SA’S BARNACLE LOVE

“In Barnacle Love, a set of interlinked stories, Anthony De Sa moves with skill and ingenuity between folk tale, myth and narratives of contemporary displacement. The tone is spare and elegiac; the stories are filled with carefully chosen details and sharply drawn characters. They have immense emotional and truthful power.”

—COLMTÓIBÍN

“[A] moving and engaging read, its memorable images and heart’s woes sometimes visceral in their power.”

—THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“This collection of linked short stories speaks poignantly about the wrenchingly opposing forces that can tear an immigrant family apart. … Unable either to fit in or stand out, [Manuel] is any immigrant, every immigrant, always reaching for a dream he cannot have, and never at home.”

—THEOTTAWACITIZEN

“Barnacle Love is a beautiful debut, haunting and elegiac, capturing lives at once as grittily real and as mythic as the sea that forms them.”

—NINORICCI,AUTHOROFTeSTAMeNT

“Anthony De Sa’s dramatic immigrant history is revealed in this series of linked stories often operatic in their tragic proportions and folk-tale in structure. With emotional power, incidents veer daringly in mood from brutal to tender. Anthony De Sa writes of the unbreakable connections between the old and new worlds with a revelatory passion. I have no hesitation in saying his is an astonishing talent.”

—WAYSONCHOY,AUTHOROFALL THAT MATTeRS

“Barnacle Love has the irresistible allure of familiarity and conviction.”—THETORONTOSTAR

ANTHONY DE SA

RIGHTS SOLD US:Algonquin,August2010Canada:Doubleday,2008Portugal:DomQuixoteFilm:NellyFurtado,Nelstar

Entertainment

FORTHCOmING TITLECarnival of Desire

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:RandomHouse

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The World is a Ball: The Joy, madness and meaning of SoccerIn this picaresque, Pete-mcCarthy-meets-Nick-Hornby travelogue, John Doyle explores the world of soccer—from the small club games to the unifying force of the World Cup


• CBCBookClubChoiceforJune2010

Journalist, social anthropologist, memoirist, and soccer fanatic John Doyle turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer—the beautiful game . As John says, “Soccer is a simple game, made complicated by tactics on and off the field .” The action moves from the first game John saw, with the Longford Town club, in 1960s-era Ireland, through soccer in the 21st century—the World Cups in 2002 and 2006, the European Championships in 2004 and 2008 and concludes with a detailed chronicle of the key games on the road to World Cup 2010 . From Italy to Ireland and from Buenos Aires to Bratislava he has travelled to write a cogent, humorous analysis of the great and the lowly teams who will play in South Africa in the world’s biggest sporting event . At the core of the book rests eyewitness and eye-popping accounts of the big soccer tournaments in this century . From the dazzled, drunken fans, the crazed taxi drivers, to the fans dressed as leprechauns or in lederhosen, Doyle muses on the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon . From the petty nationalism and cultural wars of small-club soccer to the power of the World Cup to unify people from around the globe, The World Is a Ball examines soccer from a different angle . Soccer as religion, crossing the boundaries of geography and faith . Soccer as pagan ritual . More than just a travelogue or one fan’s diary, John Doyle’s latest offers a compelling analysis of the ultimate sport, and how it has kept pace as the global village has sprung up around it .

PRAISE FOR JOHN DOYLE’S THE WORLD IS A BALL

“He’s masterly on the topic of his favourite sport.”–THEVANCOUVERSUN

“A fine book about the beautiful game.”–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“The perfect primer for the world’s game.”–THEMONTREALGAZETTE

“Doyle describes the games … as if they were great theatre, or maybe acts in an opera.”

–TORONTOSUN

JOHN DOYLE

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Doubleday,May

2010US:Rodale,October2010UK:TransworldIreland,May

2010Croatia:ZnanjeD.D.,May

2010

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García’s HeartBringing together the central issues of our day, from terrorism to bioethics, García’s Heart is a fast-paced literary thriller that skilfully blends the science of neurology with the intricacies of criminal culpability


• WinneroftheArthurEllisAwardforBestFirstNovel• ABarnesandNobleDiscoverGreatNewWritersSelection• Anationalbestseller

PRAISE FOR LIAm DuRCAN’S GARCÍA’S HEART

“Durcan’s outstanding debut novel walks… a taut line between skillful thriller and philosophical novel of ideas. [H]e already writes with an ease reminiscent of Graham Greene. Durcan crafts a character whose background in neurology and medicine—Durcan is himself a neurologist—deftly informs the action…. As the plot unfolds, the novel takes on a breathtaking immediacy that will awe readers.”

—LIBRARYJOURNAL

“What prompts an honorable man to commit unspeakable acts? That’s one of many moral conundrums considered in Durcan’s compelling debut…. Durcan (A Short Journey by Car, 2004) renders satisfyingly complex characters in sharp, vivid prose…. García’s Heart beats with a riveting blend of science and suspense, perfect for fans of David Baldacci.”


“[An] audacious literary debut…. The author’s… shrewd, intricate debut reveals a multitalented artist. A fascinating construct.”

—KIRKUSREVIEWS

“Neurologist Durcan (A Short Journey by Car) dissects the ethics involved when politics, medicine and violence collide in this finely wrought novel…. Subplots involving a devious political think-tank, the long-expired romance between Patrick and Hernan’s daughter and the goings-on at Patrick’s company, provide a rich backdrop to the trial, but the centerpiece is the mélange of complex feelings.”

—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“[O]nce I cracked open García’s Heart I couldn’t put it down…. Durcan’s debut novel was both captivating and eloquent.”

—HOUR.CA

“Durcan doesn’t offer any easy answers in this searching, meticulously observed novel of moral complexity. He does offer plenty to think about.”

—THETORONTOSTAR

RIGHTS SOLDUS:ThomasDunne,2007Canada:McClelland&

Stewart,2007Holland:AilantusItaly:L’Ancora,2009Taiwan:SunColorMainlandChina:Beijing

Booky

ALSO AvAILABLEThe City in Darkness

LIAm DuRCAN

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BookweirderThe second book in a young adult trilogy about a boy who gets mixed up in the plots of his books

256 pages / Finished books available

Twelve-year-old Norman Jespers-Vilnius is stuck in a cottage in the sleepy British countryside for a summer with his parents and ultra-irritating younger sister, Dora . Things really couldn’t be any duller for Norman … that is, until he finds himself smack in the middle of a children’s adventure story he’d dug out of the house’s dusty library . Soon Norman is plotting to rescue his dear friend Malcolm, the loyal stoat, from the story’s evermore dangerous and difficult plot turns . Can Norman save Malcolm, steer the novel back on track and hide his increasingly strange preoccupations from his suspicious mother (who seems to know a thing or two herself about the mysterious force of Bookweird)? Before we find out, we follow Norman on a chilling trip to 19th century Paris and a thrilling, fiery medieval adventure and finally, with Malcolm’s help, on a mission to discover the family secret at the heart of Bookweird .

PRAISE FOR PAuL GLENNON’S WORK

“What a delicious concept Bookweird is, and what a fantastic writer we have in Paul Glennon.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

BookweirdThe first book in a young adult trilogy from one of Canada’s most original and acclaimed novelists


PRAISE FOR PAuL GLENNON’S BOOKWEIRD

“Novels like Bookweird remind us of something that is easily lost among the mortgages and quotidian drivel: pure fun. The book’s oddities, its strange sense of play, also come with an emphasis on heroism and a dash of paradox. What a delicious concept Bookweird is, and what a fantastic writer we have in Paul Glennon.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“Glennon does a fine job in keeping the story moving, and he’s terrific at family dynamics.”

–THEOTTAWACITIZEN

PAuL GLENNON

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Doubleday,Sept.

2010Israel:YediotAharonoth

ALSO AvAILABLEBookweirdest

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Doubleday,2008Poland:BertelsmannMedia

(SwiatKsiazki)Israel:YediotAharonoth

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Holding my BreathA bold and tender debut novel from a fresh and exciting new voice


PRAISE FOR SIDuRA LuDWIG’S HOLDING MY BREATH

“Sidura Ludwig’s restrained style matches the scale of her debut novel…. Holding My Breath is calm and absorbing, its themes handled with delicacy. The writing is precise and each lyrical moment is earned.”

—THETELEGRAPH,UK

“Ludwig’s first novel is a warm, deftly rendered Jewish family saga set in 1950s and 60s Canada. Beth Levy, an only child, lives with her parents above their pharmacy in Winnipeg. Maternal grandmother Baba and aunts Carrie and Sarah share a house nearby. Unmarried seamstress Carrie is Beth’s protector—thin, tense, disappointed; younger Sarah is rebellious and deceptively carefree. Beth worships them equally, and is curious about their dead brother Phil, a second-world-war hero. Submerged in his old diaries, she is inspired by his interest in space exploration and daydreams about being an astronomer; but dominating mother Goldie has other plans, which also do not include Beth’s friendship with local boy Tim. Conflict and fiercely protected secrets and myths are the main themes here. Nothing startling, but the characters are distinctive and Ludwig has a talent for storytelling.”

—THEGUARDIAN,UK

“A powerful exploration of the conflict between individual needs and family ties, independence and responsibility, growing up and growing old.”

—THEBOOKSELLER

“[A] nicely observed debut… The drama is understated throughout.”–PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“[T]hese sharply delineated women never simplify into types…. Ludwig has the gifts to launch beyond the predictable.”

—THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“There is much to admire in Sidura Ludwig’s debut novel, Holding My Breath, a coming-of-age story set in the mid-20th century: its powerful evocation of setting, compelling cast of complex female characters and affirming celebration of Jewish family life.”

—THENATIONALPOST

“In Holding My Breath, Ludwig captures the complexities of love, as it relates to personal happiness but also responsibility to family, friends and community.”

—THEJEWISHINDEPENDENT

RIGHTS SOLDUS:ShayeAreheart,2008Canada:KeyPorter,2007UK:TindalStreet,2008Germany:Droemer

FORTHCOmING TITLELily’s Megillah

SIDuRA LuDWIG

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Dahanu RoadSet in the town of Dahanu on the outskirts of Bombay, this is a tale of two opposing clans—the Iranis and the Warlis—and the forbidden love that brings them together with tragic results


PRAISE FOR ANOSH IRANI’S DAHANU ROAD

“[Irani’s]… writing is visual and intense… he creates his flawed characters with humour and compassion as they struggle with changing times. [He] gives us a fascinating and exotic story that takes place within a little known historical context of Iran/Indian history.”

–THECHRONICLEHERALD

“Irani weaves an intricate web of personal and political relationships… With characters as rooted in the earth as the trees of the orchard, Dahanu Road springs to life. The fruits of Irani’s labours will surely win him the acclaim he’s enjoyed for his past work.”

–WINNIPEGFREEPRESS

“Historic truths and rich storytelling.”–THENATIONALPOST

“Anosh Irani has a talent for peeling back layers of history and class in brilliant tales that are wittily folkloric, devastatingly political, and flamboyantly mythological. He must come from a long line of storytellers, fire keepers and, I suspect, also magicians.”

—RAWIHAGE,AUTHOROFDe NIRo’S GAMeANDCoCkRoACH

“A beautiful novel, Dahanu Road is big with love and infused with the passion of Anosh Irani’s gentle yet shrewd prose.”

—DONNAMORRISSEY,AUTHOROFWHAT THeY WANTeDANDkIT’S LAW

PRAISE FOR ANOSH IRANI’S FICTION

“[This is a] lush debut novel…. [A]n undercurrent of dark humor as well as Irani’s atmospheric evocation of Bombay enliven this compelling story.”

—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“The end contains effervescent hope amidst all the despair through a song… which is borne out of loss, transcending reality and lifting the spirit of not only the hapless two children but the readers as well.”

—THETAMPATRIBUNE

ANOSH IRANI

RIGHTS SOLD Canada:Doubleday,

Spring2010Italy:Piemme,

December2010India(English):

HarperCollinsIndiaTurkey:InkilapKitabevi

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The Song of KahunshaA new novel by one of Canada’s brightest young writers about the power of the imagination to help us overcome the most formidable obstacles


• AbestsellerinItalyandCanada

PRAISE FOR ANOSH IRANI’S SONG OF KAHUNSHA

“Irani is a gifted storyteller, and [his book], Dickensian in its plot and its vivid prose, is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking.” —BOOKLIST

“[Irani’s novel] is a story of hope and resilience in the face of terrible circumstances.” —THECHICAGOTRIBUNE

“Anosh Irani… reveal[s] the tender heart of human need in his devastating yet surprisingly gentle novel.”

—MINNEAPOLISSTARTRIBUNE

The Cripple and His TalismansA modern-day, Indian, male rendition of Alice’s journey through the looking glass


“A highly imaginative novel, full of humour, poetry and insights, written in a beautiful, spare style. Throughout the narrative looms a great city, Bombay, crazily reflected in the life of one of its inhabitants who, by means baffling, heinous, desperate and often very funny, seeks to embrace the divine with both arms.”

—YANNMARTEL,AUTHOROFTHe LIFe oF PI

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Milkweed,2007Canada:Doubleday,2006Italy:Piemme,2007Spain:Alfaguara,2007France:PhilippeReyIsrael:KinneretGreece:Agyra,2007

Portugal:QuetzalPortugal(bookclubedition):

CirculodeLeitoresBrazil:PlanetaMainlandChina:BeijingBookyTaiwan:CommonwealthRussia:Phantom

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Algonquin,2005Canada:Raincoast,2004

Germany:Europa,2005Taiwan:BusinessWeekly,2007

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C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the DarkAn intimate, irreverent, and unpredictable story of new fatherhood—from the perspective of a blind man


The final pages of Cockeyed, Ryan Knighton’s internationally acclaimed comic memoir about going blind and growing up, closed with a casual musing about the future, and what fatherhood could mean for a blind man whose off-beat ways tend to privilege misadventure over common sense . Within days of that book’s publication, Ryan’s wife, Tracy, was pregnant .

C’mon Papa chronicles the first two years of blind fatherhood . Through unorthodox tales and reflections—both moving and wicked—Ryan takes us inside a new family bound and illuminated by his particular darkness and light . Balancing the sad and bittersweet with laugh-out-loud humour, the story begins in the shadow of a miscarriage, amidst a risk of birth defects that leaves Ryan and Tracy in a state of constant worry . C’mon Papa is Ryan’s hilarious take on the spectacle of modern fatherhood—from pretending to be a cervix in prenatal class to attempting to change diapers without being able to see . The book is as much the story of Ryan’s birth into a strange new world as it is about his child’s arrival, and what the experience taught him about family, fear, marriage, hope, and the capacity of will .

PRAISE FOR RYAN KNIGHTON’S C’MON PAPA

“Painfully funny. Whether he’s writing about getting run over, role-playing a cervix, or losing his infant daughter in the snow, Knighton is wise, witty, moving, and assured.”

–ANNABELLYON,AUTHOROFTHe GoLDeN MeAN

“A testament to the power of partnership, humour, and optimism.”–QUILL&QUIRE

“Ryan Knighton staggers into parenthood blindly (literally), and this warm and funny book, in which he copes with the attendant problems and struggles to “see” his new daughter, could make you think of parenting in a whole new way.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“Knighton is a talented, clever writer, who transitions easily from introspection to comedy. … Knighton has a way of nailing things many parents think, but could ne’er so well express. … I laughed. I cried. Seriously.”

–THEVICTORIATIMESCOLONIST

RYAN KNIGHTON

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Knopf,Spring2010Poland:NaszaKsiegarnia

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RIGHTS SOLDUS:PublicAffairs,2006UK:AtlanticBooks,2007Canada:Penguin,2006MainlandChina:Shanghai

Interzone,2007Taiwan:JCCultureGermany:RowohltFilm:Hotchkissand

Associates,JodieFosterdirecting

Poland:Woloszanski

CockeyedRyan Knighton’s story of his slow descent into blindness shines a new light on what we can learn about the broader world through unseeing eyes


• Shortlistedforthe2007StephenLeacockMemorialMedalforHumour

• ShortlistedfortheOntarioLibraryAssociation2007EvergreenAwards

PRAISE FOR RYAN KNIGHTON’S COCKEYED

“Ultimately, what makes this wonderfully readable memoir different from others of its ilk is that the author emerges as someone you’d really like to hang out with. He’s funny, imaginative, and possessed of a lightly-worn learning that makes his cultural and literary references (from Oedipus’s desire for blindness to an imagined Platonic dialogue on IKEA), well-judged and enlightening. But best of all, Cockeyed is an unparalleled user’s guide to blindness that will benefit the sighted as much as the sightless.”

—THESUNDAYTELEGRAPH,UK

“Engaging and insightful, literally shedding light on a dark and misunderstood condition.”

—KIRKUSREVIEWS,STARREDREVIEW

“The book is a way to see life through another lens, an invitation to take a journey that no reader should refuse.”

—PUBLISHERSWEEKLY,STARREDREVIEW

“[This is an] engaging, often moving memoir… , a thoughtful and likeable book.”

—THESUNDAYTIMES,UK

“Ryan Knighton’s account of his growing disability is exceptional. By his own admission, Cockeyed gleefully plays up the slapstick of his situation but it’s still an eye-opening account, so to speak.”

—GQ,UK

“Cockeyed is unexpectedly and frequently funny: Knighton maintains a certain gallows humour about his condition, and his total lack of self pity makes this book an enlightening and enjoyable read.”

—VOGUE,UK

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The Wife’s TaleWith sharp humour and delicate grace, The Wife’s Tale follows mary Gooch—morbidly obese and living in denial— as she pursues her husband across the country


• ANew York TimesEditor’sChoice,Apr2010• AMoreMagazineBestBookoftheMonth,February2010• AnAmazonAugust2009BestReadoftheMonth

PRAISE FOR LORI LANSEN’S THE WIFE’S TALE

“Sensitive but deliciously comic…. Lansens has more than a few tales worth telling.”

–THENEWYORKTIMES

“Lansens’ portrait of a woman who hides behind the Kenmore as protection from life’s heartache is earthy and primal in its pain. Yet Lansens doesn’t resort to an overnight makeover to save Mary. Instead, our heroine uncovers a hidden strength she had all along. Those who loved The Girls will be pleased that Lansens is back. Highly recommended.”

–LIBRARYJOURNAL,STARREDREVIEW

“Lansens’ clear prose unveils the connection between a body weighed down by flesh and a spirit smothered by loneliness. Mary’s odyssey of heartache and hope is not so much about finding her husband as it is about rediscovering herself.”

–PEOPLE

“[Mary is] a wonderful character, and Lansens’ handling of her eventual transformation into someone capable of compassion and acceptance is handled with a light but assured touch”

–PUBLISHERSWEEKLY

“Lori Lansens, best-selling author of The Girls, structures The Wife’s Tale as the story of a damaged heroine on a quest. The trick is that (as in any good quest story) the real object of the search isn’t what the searcher thinks it is. … [A] fast-moving story and Mary’s gradual metamorphosis… rings true.”

–BOOKPAGE

“Lansens writes with acute insight… fully immersing readers in her protagonist’s struggle to find a new and better self.”

–BOOKLIST

“Like short-story queen Alice Munro, to whom she is often compared, Lansens demonstrates a singular gift for discerning both the ordinary and the extraordinary in small-town life and small-town people.”


LORI LANSENS

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Little,Brown,February

2010UK:Virago,February2010Canada:Knopf,2009Italy:MondadoriHolland:DeBezigeBijBrazil:BertrandBrasilFrenchCanada:AltoAudio:BrilliancePoland:W.A.B.Largeprint:CenterPointTurkey:ArtemisNorway:JuritzenFrench(exCanada):

l’Archipel

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The GirlsThe fictional autobiography of conjoined twins, Rose and Ruby Darlen—a breathtaking novel about the profound and transcendent love between two extraordinary sisters


• A2007Richard&JudyBookClubselection• ANew York TimesEditor’sChoice• AWall Street JournalSummerReadsPickfor2006• The#1BooksensePickforMay2006

Rush Home RoadThe untold story of the descendants of the underground Railroad


• Shortlistedforthe2003RegionalCommonwealthBookPrizeforBestFirstBook

• ShortlistedfortheRogersFictionPrize• AGlobe and MailNotableBookoftheYear,2002• ACanadianbestseller

RIGHTS SOLDWorldRightsexCanada:Little,

Brown,2006Canada:Knopf,2005Italy:MondadoriUK:ViragoHolland:DeBezigeBijIsrael:ModanTurkey:SistemGermany:UllsteinPoland:MAGBrazil:Globo

Taiwan:CommonwealthSweden:BraBockerSerbia:BeobooksCzechRepublic:BBArtPortugal:CasaDasLetrasLithuania:AlmaLitteraFrance:l’ArchipelMainlandChina:ShanghaiCenturyNorway:JuritzenFrance(bookclub):FranceLoisirs

RIGHTS SOLDWorldex-Canada:Little,Brown,

2002UK:Virago,2002Canada:Knopf,2002France:BelfondSweden:BonnierHolland:DeBezigeBij

Denmark:LademannGermany:UllsteinGreece:OceanidaItaly:MondadoriIsrael:ModanNorway:Juritzen

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada:CoteauBooks,

2009

ALSO AvAILABLEThe Ghosts of Garrison

Creek

The Factory voiceA heartwarming World War II adventure in the same league as The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

288 pages / Finished books now available

• AGlobe and MailBestBookoftheYearfor2009• LonglistedfortheGillerPrize• LonglistedfortheReLitAward

It’s 1941 and World War II is raging . At a military aircraft factory in northwestern Ontario, and in a POW camp nearby, mysterious events are endangering lives . A prisoner has escaped, putting the community on edge . Against this backdrop, the desires, the dreams, and the changing lives of four strong, engaging women who work at the factory play out . The most recent arrival is a famous female aeronautical engineer, a character inspired by a true story . In language rich with the idiom and imagery of the time, Jeanette Lynes tells an entertaining, fast-paced story of ambition, friendship, loyalty, love, and betrayal .

PRAISE FOR JEANETTE LYNES’ THE FACTORY VOICE

“The Factory Voice… is so much fun to read, with such an inventive and entertaining premise, that it would make a great television series. First time novelist Jeanette Lynes, best known for her award-winning poetry, has a great talent for bringing idiosyncratic characters to life while capturing wartime atmosphere, vernacular and anxiety…. The entire story reads like a radio drama of the time, complete with 1940s colloquialisms such as ‘swell’ and ‘dilly.’ Lynes doesn’t ignore the seriousness of the Second World War and Canada’s sacrifices; her story has its share of tragedy, poverty, charity, bigotry, uncertainty and sobering reality, as depicted by signs dotted throughout Fort William Aviation that say things like ‘Buy Victory Bonds,’ ‘All This Could End Tomorrow’ and ‘Stay Alert, Report Anything Unusual, No Matter How Small.’ She does, however, tell a rollicking good tale.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

“An entertaining and engaging story…. The pace of the novel maintains suspense without ever seeming manipulative. Moreover, although the characters occasionally teeter on the edge of becoming stereotypes, they never fall over: Lynes maintains their integrity as unforgettable individuals with unique problems. All of this makes for a compelling narrative that is hard to put down.”

–QUILL&QUIRE

“Jeanette Lynes portrays the era of Rosie the Riveter in a vibrant tale about the intertwined lives of four female employees at an aircraft plant…. Entertaining and incisive, The Factory Voice is a richly imagined story.”


JEANNETTE LYNES

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The Witch of BabylonAn antiquities thriller that is the first book in The mesopotamian Trilogy

85,000 words / edited manuscript now available

• Winnerofthe2008ArthurEllisAwardforBestUnpublishedCrimeNovel

• Shortlistedforthe2007CrimeWriters’Association(U.K.)DebutDaggerAward

The Witch of Babylon features John Madison, a New York art dealer caught up in the aftermath of the looting of the Baghdad Museum . It includes an elaborate puzzle that must be solved in order to locate a missing biblical antiquity and a spectacular lost treasure, as well as alchemy, murder, and the Mesopotamian cult of Istar . Alternating between war-torn Baghdad and New York, with forays into ancient Mesopotamian culture, The Witch of Babylon takes readers deep inside the world of Assyriology and its little-known but profound significance for the modern world .

John Madison is a Turkish-American raised by his much older brother Samuel, a mover and shaker in the New York art scene who helped John get started in the business . Samuel was in Baghdad when the war started and managed to “liberate” an important engraving from the National Museum during the looting . Back in New York, he is killed in a car accident and his brother John, the driver of the car, is hospitalized . After John gets out of the hospital, he learns that a former childhood playmate has stolen the engraving and hidden it while trying to sell it to the highest bidder . After the thief is killed by potential buyers, his lawyers send John a letter and a USB drive with elaborate puzzles on it that provide clues to the location of the engraving . Now John is in a race against time to find the engraving with the killers close on his heels . His quest takes him, against his will, back to Baghdad and an underground treasure trove unknown to the world .

THE mESOPOTAmIAN TRILOGY

No other antiquities thrillers feature Mesopotamian mythology . Book Two of The Mesopotamian Trilogy focuses on the Neo-Babylonian Empire and Book Three focuses on the Sumerians and the origin of angels . With John Madison as the protagonist, these novels marry ancient Mesopotamian history with different aspects of Hermeticism and the occult in a contemporary setting .

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Penguin,April

2011Germany:LübbeItaly:RizzoliSerbia:AlnariBulgaria:ChetmoRussia:ASTTurkey:DoganSlovakia:SlovartAudio:RecordedBooks

D.J. mCINTOSH

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Encore EdieFull of as much wry humour as teen angst, Encore Edie deftly introduces the dilemma of disability

37,000 words / Final edited manuscript now available

• Fromtheauthoroftheaward-winning,bestsellingadultnovel,The Golden Mean

Thirteen-year-old Edie’s life is becoming more complicated as she enters her teen years and starts high school . She now attends school not only with her 15-year-old sister, Dexter, but also with their cousin Meredith, who has Down syndrome . Suddenly Edie and Dexter’s responsibilities include Merry . Edie is mortified . Struggling to find her place in the complex social world of high school, Edie decides to mount an ambitious musical production derived from King Lear . Edie’s parents accuse her of using the play as an excuse to avoid her cousin, and ask her to find Merry a way of taking part in it . Meanwhile, their summer-cottage friend Robert, whom Edie had previously rejected out of embarrassment when he asked her on a date, invites Edie, Dexter, and Merry to the planetarium, and afterwards he comes to their house for dinner . Edie fails to notice his and Dexter’s interest in each other; she is too wrapped up in her own troubles, including ongoing battles with her parents over spending time with Merry . In Edie’s opinion, Merry is ruining both the play and her precarious social standing at school . The dress rehearsal and performance of King Lear: The Musical is catastrophic, and the production is almost cancelled . To make matters worse, Edie realizes that Robert and Dexter have been seeing each other for months . In July, Edie’s family makes plans to go to the cottage, but at the last minute Edie asks if she can stay with her aunt and Merry instead . Her parents are thrilled that she supposedly has warmed up to Merry; Edie can’t admit that she just doesn’t want to spend her holidays watching Dexter and Robert . The novel ends on a bittersweet note of jealousy and new-found independence as Edie learns to cherish and enjoy her cousin .

PRAISE FOR ANNABEL LYON’S FIRST YA NOvEL, ENCORE EDIE

“Whether [Encore] Edie is a busman’s holiday or the start of a new side career, readers win. Subtle, sad, and hilarious, it has a wonderful way with words and features characters that stick.”

–QUILL&QUIRESTARREDREVIEW

“[Encore] Edie is an effortless read, an honest and beautiful book about family and a girl defined by her freedom and her brilliant imagination…. a surefire instant classic.”

–THEGLOBEANDMAIL

ANNABEL LYON

RIGHTS SOLDCanada:Penguin,January

2011Sweden:StabenfeldtNorway:StabenfeldtFinland:Stabenfeldt

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The Golden meanIn the frank, earthy, and engaging voice of Aristotle, The Golden Mean brings to life the world of the ancient Greek philosopher


• Winnerofthe2009RogersWriters’TrustFictionPrize• ShortlistedfortheGovernorGeneral’sAward2009• ShortlistedfortheGillerPrize2009• AGlobe and MailBestBookof2009• Anationalbestseller

PRAISE FOR ANNABEL LYON’S THE GOLDEN MEAN

“This quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world, whether domestic or medical or military, and she has steeped herself in the thinking of the time. She makes her characters entirely solid and real, while respecting their otherness, the distance between us. That is what characterised Mary Renault’s novels, and I think that she would have deeply admired this book. [Lyon’s] judgment is sound and true, and the reader trusts her voice from the first paragraph.”

–HILARYMANTEL,AUTHOROFWoLF HALLWINNEROFTHE2009MANBOOKERPRIZEFORFICTION

“The Golden Mean is more than a brilliant and beautifully told novel: it’s also a profound exploration of moral and philosophical issues that have troubled and perplexed us since Aristotle.”

–RUSSELLBANKS,AUTHOROFTHe ReSeRVe

“A cornucopia of vivid impressions of the ancient world. Upon finishing the novel, I was struck by a feeling of emptiness, loathe to close the door on Lyon’s time machine.”

–THETIMES,LONDON

“[A] story that gives us the classical world with everyday liveliness and narrative force … a graceful fusion of effective narrative and colloquial language … splendidly intelligent and entertaining.”

–NATIONALPUBLICRADIO

“The fourth century BCE comes eccentrically alive in this award-winning debut historical novel from a Canadian short story writer (The Best Thing for You, 2004, etc.)…. As authoritative and compelling as Mary Renault’s renowned novels set in the ancient world. One hopes we may learn more about Lyon’s immeasurably brilliant, unflappably human Aristotle.”

–KIRKUSREVIEWS

RIGHTS SOLDUS:Knopf,September2010Canada:RandomHouse,

2009UK:Atlantic,August2010Spain:RocaFrance:TableRondeBrazil:LeyaBrasilPortugal:DomQuixoteCroatia:SareniDucanTaiwan:Ye-RenAudio:RecordedBooksTurkey:PegasusFinland:BTJHolland:Ambo/AnthosGreece:Livanis

ALSO AvAILABLEThe Best Thing for You:

NovellasOxygen: Stories

RIGHTS SOLDMcClelland&Stewart

FORTHCOmING TITLEThe Sweet Girl

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The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of my Lost Familywith photos by Farah NoshIn this heart-wrenching memoir, Leilah Nadir witnesses the long, drawn-out destruction of the place that birthed civilization. What she is driven to tell is the story of those whose voices have been caught, strangled, muted: the voice of the everyday Iraqi civilian, living through foreign invasion and now civil war


• Winnerofthe2008GeorgeRygaAwardforSocialAwarenessinLiterature

PRAISE FOR LEILAH NADIR’S THE ORANGE TREES OF BAGHDAD

“Skillfully told with extraordinary warmth, her story gives us an incredible and often surprising insight into a Middle-Eastern culture that is simultaneously exotic and familiar, comforting and terrifying … This is a compelling, touching and beautifully written book that thoughtfully challenges assumptions about a place and a people lost in the miasma of war.”

–BRISBANECOURIERMAIL

“Nadir’s strength as a writer lies in her passionate descriptions of the smallest detail. There’s a real immediacy, even an urgency, about The Orange Trees of Baghdad, bolstered by her oft-repeated question, What is the fate of Iraq now?… This is a powerful and important book.”

—THEVANCOUVERSUN

“It’s hard to avoid the reality, as one reads this poignant memoir, that Nadir’s roots are the roots of our own civilization.”

—MONTREALMIRROR

“Leilah Nadir’s The Orange Trees of Baghdad reminds us that Iraq is not just a war; it is a country. Lovingly woven together from inherited memory and family lore, her Iraq is infinitely more vivid, more textured, and more heartbreaking than what we see nightly on the news. In the debates about winning and losing the war, this is a book about what loss really means—the theft of history and of homeland.”

—NAOMIKLEIN,AUTHOROFNo LoGoANDTHe SHoCk DoCTRINe

“Leilah Nadir’s insightful, searching story about her Iraqi roots, family, exile, and survival, told in absorbing and moving language, reveals the great civilization now under assault and the human beings under perpetual blast, condemnation, and bombardment.”

—GEORGEELLIOTTCLARKE

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LEILAH NADIR

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Blood SportsRIGHTS SOLDCanada:McClelland&

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monkey BeachAn astonishing first novel that takes us on a journey into the spirit world of the Northwest Coast First Nations, alongside a modern Native teenager


• LonglistedfortheIMPACDublinLiteraryAward• Finalistforthe2000GillerPrizeandthe2000GovernorGeneral’s

AwardforFiction• WinneroftheB.C.BookPrizeforFiction

PRAISE FOR EDEN ROBINSON’S MONKEY BEACH

“Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut.”—THETIMES,UK

“Monkey Beach is far more than a novel of psychological transformation, though it is that. It is, in the best sense, a thriller, a spiritual mystery…. The novel also contains some of the truest passages I have read on what it is like to be a teenager…. Puberty has rarely received such a perceptive and unflinching gaze. You can tell Monkey Beach is an original because you actually want to read it again. [This is a] startlingly accomplished first novel.”


“Although death hangs like a Pacific mist over these pages, Robinson, herself a Haisla, fills this edifying book with the stuff of the living, from the tiniest details of Haisla life to the mightiest universals of tradition, desire and family love.”

—THELOSANGELESTIMES

“Robinson’s paean to the Pacific Northwest and Haisla culture, embodied in her stout-hearted hero and all her other vital and complex characters, does what good literature does best: It moves meaningfully from the particular to the universal and back again. And Robinson performs this enlightening feat with genuine insight, wry humor and translucent lyricism.”

—THECHICAGOTRIBUNE

“Robinson has created a convincing, well-written work, filled with the sadness of a disappearing way of life and a family’s grief.”

—THESEATTLETIMES

“As a writer she pays attention to the significance of small things: crows, Kraft Dinners, soapberry mash. As a storyteller she captures a place and its inevitable impact on the people who live there. Her descriptions of the Canadian Pacific wilderness are sensual and evocative. The result is a sort of magical realism firmly rooted in the familiar trappings of the real world.”

—THEPORTLANDOREGONIAN

EDEN ROBINSON

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One Hundred million HeartsA story of love and memory, patriotism and sacrifice, and guilt and complicity in the context of war


PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF KERRI SAKAmOTO

“Kerri Sakamoto’s restrained narrative generates extraordinary tension, making this heartbreaking book a mesmerizing tour de force.”

–THEWASHINGTONPOST

“America’s inexhaustible supply of good writing has turned out another impressive debut in Kerri Sakamoto’s new novel…. For those who like their books to have that subtle, Peter Hoeg feel, here is a burning, enigmatic addition to the genre.”

–THEINDEPENDENTONSUNDAY,UK

“A beautifully written… novel about a woman’s awakening.”–THETIMES,UK

The Electrical FieldA masterful and elegant story of passion, memory and regret, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past, and into our communal response to war


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FORTHCOmING TITLEThe Mongolian Spot

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