Cormorant Books tackles its first children's book with Charles Pachter's 'M is for Moose.' This fall's lineup also includes Joseph Boyden's short stories collection 'Born with a Tooth,' and Neil Bissoondath's 'The Soul of All Great Designs.' Cormorant Books. Where imagination takes flight.
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CONTENTSNEW TITLES
M is for Moose: A Charles Pachter Alphabet by Charles Pachter 2Operation Rimbaud by Jacques Godbout 4The Soul of All Great Designs by Neil Bissoondath 5Aegean Tales by Pan Bouyoucas 6Distantly Related to Freud by Ann Charney 7What’s Law Got To Do With It? edited by Jane Ursel, Leslie M. Tuttyand Janice leMaistre 8The P-Town Murders by Jeffrey Round 9Born With A Tooth by Joseph Boyden 10
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais 11The Frankenstein Murders by Kathlyn Bradshaw 11Oonagh by Mary Tilberg 12Walking on Water by Jancis M. Andrews 12The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais 13One Careless Moment by Dave Hugelschaffer 13Terracide by Hubert Reeves 14
RECENTLY RELEASED
The Only Snow in Havana by Elizabeth Hay 14No Beautiful Shore by Beverley Stone 15Silver Salts by Mark Blagrave 15The Violets of Usambara by Mary Soderstrom 16The Wolf ’s Head by Peter Unwin 16The Worlds Within Her by Neil Bissoondath 17Days of Sand by Hélène Dorion 17
The marriage of words and images isa trend in contemporary art: visual
artists are painting words, phrases, andsentences onto their canvases. Taking thistrend and applying it to a children’s book,Charles Pachter, one of Canada’s pre-eminentvisual artists, has reviewed forty years ofwork and matched a blend of familiar andnew images with words that explore theidea of Canada. From “Alberta” and“autumn,” through “beaver” and“butter tart,” to a portrait of MargaretAtwood (“poet”), this beautiful book willdelight children, parents, and grandparentsalike. It contains reproductions of iconicpaintings, such as the Queen patting a moose,and paintings of historical Canadian figuresPierre Elliott Trudeau, and Elizabeth and JohnGraves Simcoe, along with short biographiesfor parents. Also ncluded is the CanadianNational Exhibition prize- winning recipefor butter tarts and a complete list of allillustrations in the book. With his talentjoyfully evident on every page, M is forMoose celebrates Charles Pachter’s continuingfascination with the marriage of words andimages, his love of Canada, and his depthof understanding of our history.
CHARLES PACHTER is a painter, printmaker,sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. Hehas degrees from the University of Toronto,the Sorbonne in Paris, and the CranbrookAcademy of Art in Michigan, as well as anhonorary doctorate from Brock University.At present, he resides in Toronto, where hiswork has been shown at the Royal OntarioMuseum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and theMcMichael Gallery, and can be seen on thewalls of the College Street subway station.
M IS FOR MOOSECharles PachterA Charles Pachter Alphabet
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OPERATION RIMBAUDJacques GodboutA Novel Translated by Patricia Claxton
From Governor General’s Award-winnerPatricia Claxton comes a new translationof a tale of intrigue, impiety, and insurrectionby Quebec’s original literary lion, JacquesGodbout.
Thirty-five-year-old Michel Larochelle, anagnostic Jesuit, sees his membership in the
Society of Jesus in unconventional terms: as acover for all manner of clandestine activities. Atthe end of the 1960s, and with liberal expressionreaching its peak, it seems almost anything isavailable to this peripatetic man of the cloth. Sowhen Larochelle is personally chosen to executea secret mission dubbed “Operation Rimbaud”on behalf of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s venerableKing of Kings, he doesn’t hesitate. Aware of animminent coup threatening the kingdom,Selassie entrusts his alluring daughter andLarochelle with the perilous task of overseeingthe safe removal of the original stone tabletsbearing the ten commandments. Honouringhis personal adage to kill only when necessary,Larochelle keeps the tablets intact whileviolating nearly every law they dictate.
JACQUES GODBOUT was born in Montrealand obtained an MA from the University ofMontreal. He is the author of numerous fiction,non-fiction, poetry, and children’s books. Hejoined the National Film Board of Canada in1958 and is an award-winning filmmaker, pro-ducer, and scriptwriter.
PATRICIA CLAXTON was the first presidentof the Literary Translators’ Association ofCanada. She has received two GovernorGeneral’s Awards for Translation, the firstin 1987 for her translation of Gabrielle Roy’sEnchantment and Sorrow, and the second in1999 for her translation of François Ricard’sbiography of Roy.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-22-8Release date: August 20085.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 200 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-32-7Release date: August 20085.125" x 7.625"Hardcover $29 / 220 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
Also by this author:The Worlds Within Her($19.95) ISBN 978-1-897151-10-5Doing the Heart Good($19.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-64-5The Unyielding Clamour of the Night($32.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-87-4A Casual Brutality($19.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-40-9
THE SOUL OF ALLGREAT DESIGNSNeil BissoondathA Novel
For Alec, an independent businessman andclassic car aficionado, life has been a series
of lies that he has told himself and the peoplearound him. Raised by a stay-at-home mother,and a father who worked on the line at an auto-motive factory in the Greater Toronto Area,Alec sets himself up as an interior designer. Hissuccess, he believes, is due as much to his talentsas to the false impression he creates among hisclients: he is a fashionable and trendy gay man,well-known in his world. Sumintra, or “Sue,” asshe calls herself, does not chafe at her parents’expectations for her, as she lives a separate andsecret life. When she meets Alec at a classic carshow, their private worlds connect and theyfall in love. The trouble for them is that theyhave public lives that are contrary to theirpersonal hopes and fears. In a short novelthat resembles Coetzee’s Disgrace in boththe elegance of its writing and its emotionalimpact, Neil Bissoondath has forged the finestnovel of his career.
NEIL BISSOONDATH has been nominatedfor a number of prizes, including the Books inCanada First Novel Award and the GovernorGeneral’s Literary Award. He has twice wonthe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction of theQuebec Writers’ Federation. He has a BA inFrench literature from York University andis currently working as a professor of creativewriting at Université Laval. Neil lives inQuebec City with his wife and daughter.
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AEGEAN TALESPan BouyoucasTwo Novels Translated by Sheila Fischman
Shortlisted for the Governor General’sLiterary Award for Fiction in 2001, and
hailed by critics as a masterpiece, The Otherbegins during the German occupation of theGreek island of Leros. Young Thomas has plansto become a seaman and sail the oceans, but onhis way to the harbour, he makes a detour andloses one of his legs in an explosion. Thomasspends years wondering what his life mighthave been like had he turned right instead ofleft. Then one day, he meets his double — aman who once shared his dreams and wasallowed to pursue them. Winner of the Prixlittéraire des collégiens in 2005 and a bestsellerin Quebec and France, Anna Why recounts theconflict between two caretakers at the Churchof the Blessed Virgin: Sister Veroniki, a youngnovice full of religious zeal, and Sister Nicoletta,a world-wise ex-missionary. As the two nuns tryto deal with their differences and their solitude,the deacon Maximos, hired to restore thechurch’s icons, falls in love with Sister Veroniki.
PAN BOUYOUCAS is a Greek-Canadianwriter, playwright, and translator. He has aBFA from Concordia University. Two of hisworks have been shortlisted for the GovernorGeneral’s Award: L’Autre in 2001 and Théséeet le Minotaure in 2003. His book The ManWho Wanted to Drink Up the Sea has beentranslated into French, Russian, and Serbian.
SHEILA FISCHMAN is one of Canada’spremier translators. She has translated over125 books. In 2007, her translation of JacquesPoulin’s novel My Sister’s Blue Eyes was afinalist for the Governor General’s LiteraryAward for Translation, and in 2006, hertranslation of Pascale Quiviger’s novel ThePerfect Circle was shortlisted for the Scotia-bank Giller Prize.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-20-4Release date: September 20085.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 220 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
Also by this author:The Man Who Wanted to DrinkUp the Sea($22.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-92-8
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-30-3Release date: August 20085.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 280 pages
It’s Montreal, 1953, and eight-year-old Ellen,an only child prone to daydreaming, and her
mother, a woman who believes in the promiseof fresh starts, have moved into a large houseon the flanks of Mt. Royal. To make ends meet,Ellen’s mother takes in a group of refugees fromCentral Europe, whose erratic behaviour anddark view of human nature captivate the younggirl’s imagination. Ellen sees the refugees as apotential source of valuable information abouther own background, of which she has heardlittle, except for a few stories about a lost goldencivilization and the family’s distant connectionto Sigmund Freud. The refugees soon leave to bereplaced by Aunt Celia, a woman whose anxietymeter is permanently stuck at danger, andEllen’s new stepfather, Dr. Henryk Steiner,whose years in the Soviet Union have earnedhim the title of Playboy of the CommunistWorld. While the adults wrangle with eachother and the fallout from their past lives,Ellen sets her sights on exploring the bravenew world of “America,” and on becominga teenage femme fatale. Her quest takes herto Crescent Bay, Long Island, and into the placidlives of her American cousins and their friends.Supporting her along the way is her best friendLydia, a fellow rebel whose mother, Magda, setsoff a series of events that will alter the course ofthe two girls’ lives.
ANN CHARNEY was born in Poland andraised in Montreal. She is a novelist, essayist,and journalist, who has an MA in Frenchliterature from McGill University and a licenseès lettres from the Sorbonne in Paris. She haswon two National Magazine Awards, theChatelaine Fiction Prize, and the CanadianAuthors’ Association Prize, and was recentlynamed an officer of the French Order of Artsand Letters.
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WHAT’S LAW GOTTO DO WITH IT?The Law, Specialized Courts and DomesticViolence in CanadaEdited by Jane Ursel, Leslie M.Tuttyand Janice leMaistreForeword by Holly Johnson
In the past two decades, public awareness ofdomestic violence has increased dramatically,
and established institutions have been calledupon to alter their practices and improve theirresponse to domestic violence. What’s Law GotTo Do With It? examines changes in theCanadian justice system from the introductionof protection order legislation, to family law,to changes in criminal court procedures. Fromthe Yukon to downtown Toronto, specializeddomestic violence courts are exploring newstrategies to aid victims and hold perpetratorsaccountable. InWhat’s Law Got To Do With It?we learn from the perspective of prosecutors,victims, and researchers of the efficacy of thesechanges. The authors present recent, originalresearch on the impact of specialized courts, theutilization of protection orders, and questionsabout custody in family violence cases.
DR. JANE URSEL is an associate professor ofsociology at the University of Manitoba. She isalso the director of RESOLVE (Research andEducation for Solutions to Violence and Abuse)in Manitoba.
DR. LESLIE M.TUTTY is a professor at theUniversity of Calgary. She has a BA and MA inpsychology from the University of Saskatchewanand a PhD in social work from Wilfrid LaurierUniversity.
JANICE leMAISTRE was appointed to theProvincial Court of Manitoba in 2006. She isconsidered an expert in matters involving childabuse, elder abuse, and spousal abuse. She hasalso held the position of supervising seniorCrown Attorney in the family violence unit.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-29-7Release date: August 20086" x 9"Trade Paper$24.95 / 260 pages
BISAC CodesSOC 000000 Social Science/GeneralSOC 025000 Social Science/Social Work
Also by RESOLVE:Intimate Partner Violence($24.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-90-4
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THE P-TOWN MURDERSJeffrey RoundA Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery
In a place that’s “to die for,” no one expectsto die for real.
So muses undercover detective Bradford Fair-fax after an anonymous caller tells him that
his ex-boyfriend, party boy Ross Pretty, has diedfrom an accidental overdose of ecstasy in “thegayest place on earth”: Provincetown, Massa-chusetts. Brad becomes convinced that Ross’sdeath is no accident, and his intention to buryhis former lover suddenly turns into a full-scaleinvestigation. Brad quickly pins the murder onRoss’s ex-employer, the malevolent HaydenRosengarten, owner of a high-end sex resortcatering to a rich and famous clientele for whomdiscretion is everything. But when Rosengartenalso turns up dead, the list of suspects suddenlygrows: could it be Cinder Lindquist, the flam-boyant female-impersonator? Or Johnny K., oneof Rosengarten’s merciless henchmen? Whatabout Big Ruby, the lesbian café owner with abig heart, but an even bigger gun? And why doeseveryone in P-Town seem to be a Buddhist? Ontop of it all, Brad finds himself falling in lovewith Zach, a blue-haired twink from his past.Within this colourful cast of characters, it seemseveryone has a secret to hide. Jeffrey Round hascreated a deliciously camp, sexy thriller with anunforgettable new breed of hero — one whoalways gets his man.
JEFFREY ROUND is an award-winningwriter and playwright who lives in Torontoand spends winters in Mexico. He has a BAin English Literature and Theatre fromDalhousie, and also studied at the HumberSchool for Writers and at Ryerson, wherehe studied film and television. He has alsoworked as a television producer and writerfor the CBC and Alliance Atlantis.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-28-0Release date: June 20085.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper$20 / 220 pages
“The stories in Born With A Tooth mark theimpressive debut of an important new literaryvoice ... Joseph Boyden is a profoundly sensitivewriter with the eye of a painter and a heart asbig as the country about which he writes.”— Fredrick Barton
Almost a decade after its original publica-tion, Joseph Boyden’s classic book of short
stories is being reissued. Born With A Tooth,Boyden’s debut work of fiction, is a collectionof thirteen beautifully written stories aboutaboriginal life in Ontario. By taking on a newvoice in each story, Boyden explores aboriginalcharacters and traditions in a most unexpectedway. Whether told by a woman trying to forgether past or by a drunken man trying to preservehis culture, each story paints an unforgettableand varied image of modern aboriginal culturein Ontario. The collection includes “Bearwalk-er,” a story that introduces a character whoappears again in his novel Three Day Road. Anextraordinary first book, Born With A Toothdemonstrates why Joseph Boyden is a writerworth reading.
JOSEPH BOYDEN spends his time betweenNorthern Ontario and Louisiana. He has anHonours BA in humanities and creative writingfrom York University and he received his MFAwith distinction from the University of NewOrleans. His story “Painted Tongue” won firstplace at the Gulf Coast Writers’ Conference. Hisnovel Three Day Road won the 2005 Writers’Trust Fiction Prize and the 2006 Libris FictionBook of the Year Award. Born With A Tooth ishis first collection of short fiction.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-34-1Release date: November 20085.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper $20 / 260 pages
Known as the most important voice inQuébécois fiction of the last fifty years for
novels like A Season in the Life of Emmanueland These Festive Nights, Marie-Claire Blaisis also an accomplished playwright. In herstage plays, Marie-Claire Blais writes froma post-religious world view, but with thestrictures of religion firmly in place. Hercharacters, however, are more than justsymbols; they are real people, strugglingwith moral dilemmas. The plays includedin this edition are evidence of Blais’s greattalent when brought to bear on the theatre.
ISBN: 978-1-896951-78-2Release date: October 20086" x 9" / Trade Paper$34.95 / 400 pages
BISAC CodesDRA 013000 Drama/Canadian
THE COLLECTED STAGEDRAMA OF MARIE-CLAIREBLAISTranslated with an introduction by NigelSpencer
THE FRANKENSTEINMURDERSKathlyn BradshawA Novel
Detective Edward Freame is hired toinvestigate the strange circumstances
surrounding the murder of Henry Clerval, onlyto be tormented by the writings of the man whowas originally tried for the crime — Dr. VictorFrankenstein. Following the trail left by the lateFrankenstein, Freame scours the Europeancountryside, trying to find the clues that willlead him to the truth behind the murder ofClerval. In a stunning homage to Mary Shelley’soriginal horror story, Kathlyn Bradshawcombines Victorian gaslight detective novelsand fog-drenched ghost stories to explore thepsychological underpinnings of characters firstrendered almost two hundred years ago.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-16-7Release Date: July 20085.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 256 pages
In 1833, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Corcoranimmigrates to Upper Canada from southern
Ireland with her sister. She believes she hasentered paradise in the deep folds of cool, greenforest off the vast inland sea of Lake Ontario,but she finds the New World harbours its ownhorrible injustices when she meets ChaunceyTaylor, a fugitive slave from Virginia. As theygrow closer, Chauncey slowly reveals his terriblepast to Oonagh, reliving the pain and tragedy heand his family suffered as slaves. But as loveforms between him and Oonagh, the two findthat even in such a small, accepting community,there are certain lines that can never be crossed.Based on documented accounts from easternOntario, Mary Tilberg elevates the reader in theglories of love and plunges them into the deep-est corners of despair, revealing the sickeningabuse wrought at the hands of men.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-18-1Release date: July 20085.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 224 pages
Walking on Water, the latest shortstory collection from award-winning
author Jancis Andrews, searches for the intimatemoments of life that reveal the fantasticamongst the mundane. In these ten stories,Andrews explores the jutting coasts andheaving mountains of British Columbia,crawls through the communities of poor Vancouverites, and brings to life charactersfully imagined with tender care and aplomb.Andrews is able to delve into the lives of hercharacters with direct and unerring writingthat also borders on the fantastic, reminiscentof the short fiction of Margaret Atwood andMavis Gallant.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-17-4Release Date: July 20085.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 192 pages
Mostly written for the French-languageRadio-Canada in the late 1970s and early
1980s, these plays explore themes that alsoappear in Marie-Claire Blais’s celebrated fictionand poetry: a shattered emotional, intellectual,and psychological landscape, which stillcontains hope. Plays included in this volumeare Vanished, Invader, Two Fates, Murmurs,Garden in the Storm, A Couple, The Exile,and Fever.
ISBN: 978-1-896951-79-9Release date: September 20086" x 9" / Trade Paper$34.95 / 300 pages
THE COLLECTED RADIODRAMA OF MARIE-CLAIREBLAISTranslated with an introduction by NigelSpencer
ONE CARELESS MOMENTDave HugelschafferA Porter Cassel Mystery
When a small fire starts to creep throughthe underbrush deep within a Montana
forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in toorganize the firefighters charged with contain-ing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse,rapidly scaling the forest canopy and killing oneof Cassel’s men. Removed from command,Cassel takes the fire investigation into his ownhands, discovering that the fire was not justa random flare-up, but the work of an arsonist.In this second book in the Porter Cassel mysteryseries, One Careless Moment picks up where DayInto Night left off — with Porter continuing toprove himself against all odds.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-08-2Release date: July 20085.125" x 7.625" / Trade Paper$21 / 320 pages
Co-Winner of 1993 Edna Staebler Awardfor Creative Non-Fiction
“The book floats in the mind after it is read, likepoetry.” — Canadian Book Review Annual
Elizabeth Hay collects a series of reflectionson life, identity, history, and love, drifting
through her many homes to consider theidentity of Canadians and how we live in thewider world. Hay questions the idea of beingCanadian and compares it to the world aroundher in stunning detail, drawing the disparatelocations together by their connection to thehistory of the early Canadian fur trade and ourhearty adoration of snow.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-27-35.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper$20 / 140 pages
TERRACIDEHubert ReevesTranslated by Donald Winkler
One of the world’s greatest astrophysicists,Hubert Reeves has turned his attention
to the state of planet Earth. The facts andfigures he has studied lead him to believe thatthe human race is on the brink of making theworld uninhabitable. With Terracide, HubertReeves joins the ranks of scientists demandingthat we pay closer attention to our consumptionof non-renewable resources and the pollutionthey cause. Drawing on cogent scientific data,Reeves lays out a prognosis that is alarming.Terracide is not only a plea for the Earth, it isa blueprint for a race against time.
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“This is not just another coming of age novelbut a fully realized portrait of life.” —The SunTimes (Owen Sound)
Bride Marsh, the prettiest girl in a town ofboys, and Wanda Stuckless, Bride’s best
friend and a small-time drug dealer, havenever been away from the small East Coastisland they call home. The summer after highschool, they make plans to leave everythingbehind and move to Toronto, but in theprocess, they realize that running away fromhome is not as easy as they originallythought. With an angst reminiscent of AComplicated Kindness, No Beautiful Shore isawash in the anxiety of growing up and theirresistible urge to leave home.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-19-85.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 182 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
NO BEAUTIFUL SHOREBeverley StoneA Novel
SILVER SALTSMark BlagraveA Novel
Lillie Dempster of Saint John, NewBrunswick, often imagines herself on the
big screen. It is the one fantastic escape shecan afford from her tragic daily life. Set inthe burgeoning early years of the twentiethcentury, Lillie’s life plays out like that of thedistressed damsels from the silent films sheloves. When a group of filmmakers comes totown to shoot a movie, she finds she has theopportunity to live her film fantasies. Realiz-ing she has a future in film, Lillie makes herway to Hollywood, but as she quickly learns,life in the spotlight is not always the glamourand glitz she thought it would be.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-24-25.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 256 pages
“The Violets of Usambara is a beautifully writ-ten, moving piece of literature that has risen tothe top of my best picks for ’08 ... Anchored bya tensely constructed plot, it is both a richlyrewarding read and a novel that should besought out by lovers of well-crafted fiction.”— The Sun Times (Owen Sound)
Thomas Brossard and his wife, Louise, raiseda prosperous Québécois family, as might
be expected of a successful cabinet minister.But, with Thomas’s electoral defeat, the worldoutside his home becomes less inviting. WhenThomas disappears in war-stricken Burundi ona fact-finding mission, Louise becomes trappedinside their house by her own fears.
“Unwin is a writer worth reading, whose visionof bleak landscape is graced by humour andhumanity.” — Kenneth Radu
Peter Unwin tells the history of Lake Superiorand its lands, illuminating the stories of the
men who sought the Ontonagon Boulder, thestrangling dread of Mishipizheu, the maddeningdetermination of voyageurs, and the hollowache of loss on the greatest of inland seas. Inlanguage that endears and engages, Unwinbrings Lake Superior to life like no other writercan, delivering in breathless vibrancy the historyof the Wolf ’s Head.
ISBN: 978-1-897151-25-95.5" x 8.5"Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 256 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
THE VIOLETSOF USAMBARAMary SoderstromA Novel
THE WOLF’S HEADWriting Lake SuperiorPeter Unwin
ISBN: 978-1-897151-26-66" x 9" Trade Paper $20 / 256 pages
BISAC CodesHIS 029000 History/North America HIS 051000 History/Expeditions& Discoveries NAT 018000 Nature/Lakes & Ponds
DAYS OF SANDHélène DorionA Novel Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky
Winner of the Prix Anne-Hébert
“Her images are soothing and comforting evenwhile they probe the frightening unanswerablesof life. There is a luxuriousness in her prose.”—The Globe and Mail
Days of Sand is an autobiographical workthat transcends mere biography to become
a work of sensory fiction. In vivid, poeticlanguage, Dorion has created an intimate workof contemplation and meditation. Set on theshores of the St. Lawrence and the beaches ofMaine, the novel mixes memory and desire,the past with the present. The ideas and themesexplored are those that have been presentthroughout Dorion’s critically acclaimed career:the place of the private individual in the publicspace.
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ISBN: 978-1-897151-07-55.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper with French Flaps$18.00 / 110 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
A Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist
“Heart-wrenching … with a searing intensityand a powerful sensitivity that sweeps aside thepolitics of identity and lays bare the painful andbeautiful human condition.”— The Vancouver Sun
Set in both the Caribbean and Canada, TheWorlds Within Her joins politics and love as
Yasmin explores the history of her estrangedfamily in a home she never knew. Alternatingbetween Yasmin and her mother, Shakti, theirworlds and dreams collide to release deeplyburied secrets.
THE WORLDS WITHIN HERNeil BissoondathA Novel
ISBN: 978-1-897151-10-55.5" x 8.5" Trade Paper$19.95 / 400 pages
BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
Scotiabank Giller Prize, Finalist (2006) / Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of theBC Book Prizes, Winner (2007) / Globe and Mail Top 100 (2006) / Quill &Quire Book of the Year (2006)
“Home Schooling is nothing short of an exceptional collection of beautifulwords and resonant insights. Carol Windley’s gift with narrative andimages gives truly inspired meaning to the phrase ‘creative writing.’”— The Globe and Mail
“A lucid and gripping poetic style … [Quiviger’s] prose is illuminatedthrough Sheila Fischman’s intense and unflinching English rendering …”—The Globe and Mail
THE PERFECT CIRCLEPascale QuivigerA Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
ISBN: 978-1-897151-04-4 / 5.125" x 7.625" / Trade Paper / $22.95 / 224 pages BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
BEYOND MEASUREPauline HoldstockA Novel
Scotiabank Giller Prize, Finalist (2004) / Commonwealth Prize, Finalist(2005) / City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, Finalist (2005) / Ethel WilsonFiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes, Winner (2005) / Globe and MailTop 100 (2005)
“In Beyond Measure, Holdstock has created a fascinating portrayal of asociety obsessed with surfaces, which sees the creation of beauty as amplejustification for torture, mutilation, and murder.” — Books in Canada
ISBN: 978-1-896951-49-2 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper with French Flaps $22.95 / 300 pages / BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
“The novel expresses Poulin’s talents for crisp, quirky dialogue, scene-sketching and irresistible pacing. His book is full of incidental pleasures,
odd characters, bizarre incidents, moments of poetry — some of them verycomic — that spring from as much of the author’s own generosity of spiritas from the richness of things. This is a splendid book.” — The Toronto Star
VOLKSWAGEN BLUESJacques Poulin
A Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
19Heritage Toronto Awards / CBC Canada Reads
ISBN: 978-1-896951-42-3 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper / $19.95 / 208 pagesBISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
INSIDE TORONTOUrban Interiors 1880s to 1920s
Sally Gibson
Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence, Winner (2007) / Canadian Associa-tion of Professional Heritage Consultants Heritage Communications
Award, Winner (2007) / City of Toronto Book Award, Finalist (2007)
“This is a social history with heart, political vision, lively wit, and aboveall, the touching immediacy of vanished lives. A particular charm of this
book is the amplitude of the photo captions, packed with juicy detailsand political-historical commentary rooted in the concrete evidence
offered up by these snapshots of our past.” — Michele Landsberg
History ARC 011000 Architecture/Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
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THE ALIEN HOUSEÉlise TurcotteA Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (French language), Winner(2003) / Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Finalist (2004)
“In this novel, as in all her work, Élise Turcotte continues to explore —with perfect phrases, pure poetry, and simple and sublime images — thesense of the living world.” — Clin d’Oeil
Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Finalist (2001)
“Dragons Cry is passionate, moving, and true. A story told in deceptivelysimple, often beautiful fragments becomes a yearning, complex, lyricalwhole.” — Ronan Bennett
ISBN: 978-1-896332-24-6 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper / $19.95 / 208 pagesBISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
LIVES OF THE SAINTSNino RicciA Novel
Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Winner (1990) / BressaniPrize, Winner (1990) / Books in Canada First Novel Award, Winner (1990)
“Lives of the Saints is a gem of a novel.” — The Globe and Mail
ISBN: 978-1-896951-43-0 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper / $19.95 / 247 pagesBISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
TERRA FIRMAChristiane Frenette
A Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (French language), Winner(1998)
“Christiane Frenette has a unique voice, like that of a young girl in hernovel who holds tightly in the palm of her hand a letter that is a grenade on
the point of exploding.” — Elle Quebec
ISBN: 978-1-896951-18-8 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper / $19.95 / 134 pages BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
MY SISTER’S BLUE EYESJacques Poulin
A Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Finalist (2007)
“Jack has a belief, which he imparts to Jimmy, that an author can hook areader within the first paragraph. In the case of Poulin, this statement canbe extended to apply to any paragraph. Each and every sentence is a lure.
This book could be quoted from at random and it would be sure toimpress.” — The Gazette (Montreal)
ISBN: 978-1-897151-05-1 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper with French Flaps$22.95 / 172 pages / BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
SWISS SONATAGwethalyn Graham
A Novel
Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Winner (1938)
“Swiss Sonata is a remarkable and prophetic novel. Remarkable because ituses the unlikely setting of a girls’ boarding school as a microcosm in whichto address the volatile and ominous political situation of the western world
in the late 1930s … That the novel was written by a Canadian at a timewhen Canadian literature hardly existed is astonishing.”
— Elspeth Cameron
ISBN: 978-1-896951-62-1 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper / $19.95 / 340 pagesBISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
21Governor General’s Literary Awards
22 Alberta Book Awards / Lambda Literary Awards
ODORIDarcy TamayoseA Novel
George Bugnet Award of the Alberta Literary Awards, Finalist (2008)
“When the worlds of language and art collide, a composition will not justspeak to its audience, but will have the potential to touch the soul. Such isthe work of Darcy Tamayose … The complexity of the tale she spins isdeeply spiritual, personal, and relatable, weaving the history and culture ofJapan with the life and struggles sustained in a Southern Alberta family.”— Lethbridge Living
ISBN: 978-1-897151-09-9 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper with French Flaps$22.95 / 268 pagesBISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/LiteraryFIC 010000 Fiction/Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
OTHER MEN’S SONSMichael RoweEssays
Lambda Literary Awards for Arts & Culture and Non-Fiction, Finalist (2008)The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction, Winner (2008)
“Other Men’s Sons leads the reader to reflect upon not only what it meansto be a gay man, but what it means to be fully human.” — Quill & Quire
ISBN: 978-1-897151-01-3 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper with French Flaps$22.95 / 300 pagesBISAC Codes LCO 019000 Literary Collection/EssaysBIO 026000 Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoirs
23Globe and Mail Top 100
BOTTLE ROCKET HEARTSZoe Whittall
A Novel
Globe and Mail Top 100 (2007)Quill & Quire Book of the Year (2007)
“Zoe Whittall might just possibly be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, tough-est, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge
from Montreal since Mordecai Richler.” — The Globe and Mail
“The everyday detail that Trofimuk infuses into his fiction makes for a real-istic portrayal of family life, friendship and regeneration. Even when char-
acters veer toward the unusual, or even unlikely, Trofimuk achievesverisimilitude, and his flair with prose is luxurious.”
— The Globe and Mail
ISBN: 978-1-896951-86-7 / 5.5" x 8.5" / Trade Paper with French Flaps$22.95 / 260 pages
BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary
AUTHOR / TITLE ISBN PRICE
ANDREWS, JANCIS M.
Walking on Water (TP) 978-1-897151-17-4 21.00
BALLEM, JOHN
The Oil Patch Quartet (TP) 978-1-896951-89-8 29.95
BARTLETT, WAYNE
Louder Than The Sea (TP) 978-1-896951-28-7 22.95
BISSOONDATH, NEIL
A Casual Brutality (TP) 978-1-896951-40-9 19.95
Doing the Heart Good (TP) 978-1-896951-64-5 19.95
The Soul of All Great Designs (HC) 978-1-897151-32-7 29.00
The Unyielding Clamour of the Night (HC) 978-1-896951-87-4 32.95
The Worlds Within Her (TP) 978-1-897151-10-5 19.95
BLAGRAVE, MARK
Silver Salts (TP) 978-1-897151-24-2 21.00
BLAIS, MARIE-CLAIRE
The Collected Radio Drama of... (TP) 978-1-896951-79-9 34.95
The Collected Stage Drama of... (TP) 978-1-896951-78-2 34.95
BOUYOUCAS, PAN
Aegean Tales (TP) 978-1-897151-20-4 21.00
The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea (TP) 978-1-896951-92-8 22.95
BOYDEN, JOSEPH
Born With A Tooth (TP) 978-1-897151-34-1 20.00
BRADSHAW, KATHLYN
The Frankenstein Murders (TP) 978-1-897151-16-7 21.00
BRUNEAU, CAROL
After the Angel Mill (TP) 978-0-920953-91-4 16.95
Berth (HC) 978-1-896951-85-0 29.95
Depth Rapture (TP) 978-1-896951-07-2 19.95
Glass Voices (TP) 978-1-897151-12-9 22.95
Purple for Sky (TP) 978-1-896951-30-0 21.95
BUSHKOWSKY, AARON
The Vanishing Man (TP) 978-1-896951-58-4 22.95
CAMERON, ELSPETH
And Beauty Answers (HC) 978-1-897151-13-6 36.95
CHARNEY, ANN
Distantly Related to Freud (TP) 978-1-897151-30-3 21.00
CLARK, JOAN
The Victory of Geraldine Gull (TP) 978-0-920953-69-3 14.95
DORION, HÉLÈNE
Days of Sand (TP) 978-1-897151-07-5 18.00
DUNFORD, WARREN
Making a Killing (TP) 978-1-896951-66-9 19.95
The Scene Stealer (TP) 978-1-896951-77-5 19.95
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture (TP) 978-1-896951-70-6 19.95
FOX, MATTHEW
Cities of Weather (TP) 978-1-896332-20-8 22.95
FRENETTE, CHRISTIANE
Terra Firma (TP) 978-1-896951-18-8 19.95
The Whole Night Through (TP) 978-1-896951-59-1 22.95
The Woman Who Walks on Glass (TP) 978-1-897151-15-0 22.95
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GIANGRANDE, CAROLE
A Forest Burning (TP) 978-1-896951-25-6 22.95
An Ordinary Star (HC) 978-1-896951-56-0 29.95
GIBSON, SALLY
Inside Toronto (HC) 978-1-896951-95-9 59.95
GILBERT, SKY
An English Gentleman (HC) 978-1-896951-55-3 29.95
An English Gentleman (TP) 978-1-896951-83-6 21.95
GODBOUT, JACQUES
Operation Rimbaud (TP) 978-1-897151-22-8 21.00
GRAHAM, GWETHALYN
Earth and High Heaven (TP) 978-1-896951-61-4 19.95
Swiss Sonata (TP) 978-1-896951-62-1 19.95
GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS
Adieu, Betty Crocker (TP) 978-1-896951-60-7 22.95
The Extraordinary Garden (TP) 978-1-896951-53-9 22.95
