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CORMORANT

SPRING 2009

ONE CARELESS MOMENTA PORTER CASSEL MYSTERYDAVE HUGELSCHAFFER

Some fires must be fought alone.

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CONTENTSNEW TITLES

Underground by June Hutton 2 From This Distance by Karen McLaughlin 3 The Third Day Book by Linda Rogers 4 The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman 5 Death in Key West by Jeffrey Round 6 The Gift From Berlin by Lucette ter Borg 7 After theRed Night by Christiane Frenette 8 Wednesday Night at the End of the World by Hélène Rioux 9

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

One Careless Moment by Dave Hugelschaffer 10 Oonagh by Mary Tilberg 11 Walking on Water by Jancis M. Andrews 12 The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais 12 The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais 12

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Fiction 13Non-fiction 15Gay & Lesbian Titles 15Translations 16Children’s Books 16

2 New Release/Fiction

• Launch in Vancouver for 70th anniversary of Spanish Civil War

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ISBN: 978-1-896951-81-2Release date: March 20095.5” x 8.5”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 300 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/LiteraryFIC 014000 Fiction/Historical

Sixteen-year-old Albert Fraserbelieves that serving in the FirstWorld War will make him a man.

What he doesn’t realize is the type ofman he will become, until a shell blastburies him alive in a trench at theSomme. Albert emerges from the warwith a driving need to fill the emptyspaces left by the shrapnel that contin-ues to burrow beneath his skin. Backhome in Vancouver, he works to keepbusy and when the Great Depressionhits, he rides the rails and takes jobs asthey come, eventually finding his way tothe Yukon. But with no real place to callhome, he seems destined to wanderaimlessly. When the Spanish Civil Warerupts, he seeks out Picasso’s Guernicaand sees in the painting a reflection ofwhat his life has become. Now he travelsto Spain, a soldier once more, to reclaimall he has lost — or to die trying.

June Hutton is a published poet and short-fiction author whose work has been nomi-nated for the Journey Prize Anthology andthe Western Magazine Award. June hasworked as a northern reporter and haslived all over Canada, from Toronto toWhitehorse. She currently resides in Van-couver and is a member of the writinggroup SPiN.

UNDERGROUNDJune HuttonA Novel

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FROM THISDISTANCEKaren McLaughlinA Novel

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-40-2Release date: March 20095.5” x 8.5”Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 320 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/LiteraryFIC 044000 Fiction/ContemporaryWomen

Robyn Gallagher inherits a car fromthe mother-in-law she believesmisjudged her. In it, she sets out

from the town where she buried Muriel,on the banks of the Bay of Fundy, to goon a cross-country road trip back to herhome in Calgary. Although there arehazards along the way, Robyn discoversthat her journey crosses more than justphysical terrain. The long stretches ofsolitude enable her to finally speak hermind to Muriel, to settle old scores, andto seize the opportunity to reflect onwhere she stands — both within herselfand within the world. At times furious,funny, and deeply compassionate, FromThis Distance is the life-affirming storyof one woman’s liberation from limitedexpectations.

Karen McLaughlin lives on a small islandin British Columbia and enjoys fast cars,gardening, and walking with her cat. Shehas won the Steeple Artworks Artist’sSociety scholarship and the EM/MediaScholarship, amongst other honours. Shehas a BFA from Alberta College of Art andDesign and has studied at the Universityof Regina and Saint Mary’s University inHalifax. From This Distance is her secondnovel.


• Mother’s Day Launch• Advertising in the Globe and

Mail, BC Bookworld, Tyee.com, Geist

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-39-6Release date: April 20095.5” x 8.5”Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 272 pages


Also by this author:The Empress Letters ($22.95)ISBN 978-1-896951-80-5

Tragedy has dogged Precious herwhole life, tearing her away fromher loved ones wherever she finds

them. Now married and raising a deafdaughter in Victoria, Precious prays thatshe has left this curse behind. But whenshe discovers she is again pregnant, bit-tersweet memories of her time in HongKong with her Chinese father and step-mother begin to stir, reminding her ofthe fragility of the present. In this sequelto 2007’s The Empress Letters, LindaRogers’s lyrical grace captures theessence of a soul divided between thefour corners of the world.

Linda Rogers is a poet, playwright, editor,and journalist whose work has beentranslated into seven languages. She haswon, among others, the Dorothy LivesayAward, the Stephen Leacock Poetry Prize,and the Governor General’s ConfederationMedal. Linda is the past President of theFederation of BC Writers and the Leagueof Canadian Poets. She lives in Victoria, BC.

THE THIRDDAY BOOKLinda RogersA Novel


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Mail, Montreal Review of Books, The Beaver

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-21-1Release date: January 20095.5” x 8.5”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 320 pages


Inspired by the life of Doctor MaudeElizabeth Seymour Abbott, The HeartSpecialist is the story of a woman

pursuing her dream at the dawn of thetwentieth century. Stripped of a regularchildhood when her father is accused ofa horrific crime and abandons the family,Agnes was never considered ladylike.She is drawn to the wrong things, suchas anatomy and dissection, which leadto her calling as a doctor. Yet despitea rapid rise to stardom in the medicalcommunity, she finds herself up againstthe same glass ceiling faced by women inher field. Set against the backdrop ofconflict and upheaval permeating theearly 1900s, The Heart Specialist is thestory of one woman’s triumph in theface of adversity.

Claire Holden Rothman is a writer andtranslator. Her work on Le chercheur detrésors won her the 1994 John GlasscoTranslation Award. She has a BA inphilosophy from McGill, a MA in EnglishLiterature from Concordia University, andhas taught English at Marianopolis Collegeand creative writing at McGill University.Claire lives in Montreal.

THE HEARTSPECIALISTClaire Holden RothmanA Novel


A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-43-3Release date: May 20095.125” x 7.625”Trade Paper $20 / 280 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 011000 Fiction/GayFIC 022000 Fiction/Mystery &Detective/General

Also by this author:The P-Town Murders ($20)ISBN 978-1-897151-28-0

The rich really are different. BradfordFairfax, special agent, has a romanticNew Year’s Eve in store for his

boyfriend Zach: a stay at a luxury resortin Key West. But their plans are turnedupside down when the pair run into animprobable “heiress” to one of the world’sgreat fortunes — someone who isdesperate to convince anyone that hisfather wants him dead. But how muchof a grasp on reality can a drug-abusingmega-wealthy man who thinks he’s MariaCallas really have? And who or what is thismysterious “Baby” that he pines for? Doesthe transvestite ghost, Rosie, hold theanswers to these and other troubling questions? Join Brad and his sidekickZach for this second instalment in theBradford Fairfax mystery series, a madcapand raunchy romp through the originalgay Shangri-La.

Jeffrey Round is the internationally best-selling author of A Cage of Bones. He hasworked as a television producer and writerfor the CBC and Alliance Atlantis. He has aBA in English Literature and Theatre fromDalhousie, has attended the HumberSchool for Writers, and has studied filmand television at Ryerson University. Helives in Toronto.

DEATH INKEY WESTJeffrey Round


A Novel Translated by Liedewy Hawke

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• National Media in Toronto during Harbourfront Appearance

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-31-0Release date: January 20095.125” x 7.625”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 280 pages


Andreas Landewee is a reluctant wit-ness to history, having survivedboth World War II and the Soviet

occupation of Germany. When his wifeElizabeth dies, he decides to leave Europeand live in a cabin in the woods of BritishColumbia. Landewee sees this move as achance to start a new life. But without real-izing it, he begins to recreate his old one.He frantically awaits keepsakes from home,including Elizabeth’s most prized posses-sion — a piano given to her by her heroand admirer, Adolf Hitler. Yet despite theseinescapable ties to the past, Landeweeattempts to make good in his new home.He slowly begins to explore the memoriescarried within the piano, and comes torealize that only by accepting the past canhe move towards redemption.

Lucette ter Borg is a writer, journalist,and director. Her first novel, The GiftFrom Berlin, won the 2005 National DutchDebut Prize. Lucette has a son and lives inthe Netherlands.

Liedewy Hawke won the CanadaCouncil Translation Prize in 1986 andhas been nominated twice for theGovernor General’s Literary Award forTranslation. She lives in Toronto withher husband, Tony.

THE GIFTFROM BERLINLucette ter Borg


• Advertising in Montreal Review of Books


ISBN: 978-1-897151-14-3 Release date: April 20095.125” x 7.625”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 220 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary

Also by this author:Terra Firma ($19.95) ISBN 978-1-896951-18-8The Whole Night Through ($22.95)ISBN 978-1-896951-59-1The Woman Who Walks on Glass($22.95) ISBN 978-1-897151-15-0

In 1950, a devastating fire breaks out inRimouski. Thomas survives the blaze,but loses his memory and is institution-

alized. A shell of his former self, he piecestogether a makeshift existence by becominga gardener. Upon his release, two childhoodfriends, Marie and Romain, hire Thomas todo their landscaping. As time passes, Mariebegins to see Thomas as her escape fromthe unendurable. In 2002, Romain andMarie’s daughter Lou returns home afterrunning away to Chicago thirty years earlier.She brings along her husband, who hassuffered a brain aneurysm that has impris-oned him in his own body. Their presencereminds Marie of her own past, of theconnections she never asked for, andthe ties she can never break.

Christiane Frenette won the GovernorGeneral’s Literary Award for her firstnovel, La Terre ferme in 1998. Her novelAprès la nuit rouge, won the Prix lit-téraire Ville de Québec in 2006.

Sheila Fischman is the winner of theGovernor General’s Literary Awardfor Translation, the Molson Prize, anda recipient of the Order of Canada. Hertranslation of Pascale Quiviger’s novelThe Perfect Circle was shortlisted for the2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

A Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman

AFTER THERED NIGHTChristiane Frenette

New Release/Fiction

• Advertising in Montreal Review ofBooks


ISBN: 978-1-897151-42-6Release date: April 20095.125” x 7.625”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 220 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 019000 Fiction/Literary

Winter Solstice. A diner in Montreal.A movie. A photograph. A name.What may seem like floating bits

of trivia are actually the anchor points ofour lives, the details that tell us who we areand where we are going. They are the air webreathe, shared between strangers withouta second thought. They are the avenuesthrough which humanity flows. Riouxportrays our world the way Escher woulda staircase: intricate, troubling, fantastic,and always surprising. Wednesday Nightat the End of The World is a celebration ofall that we have in common — that despiteloneliness, none of us are truly alone.

Hélène Rioux is an award-winningnovelist and translator from Quebec.Her translation of Jeffrey Moore’s TheMemory Artists was recently shortlistedfor the QWF Translation Prize.

Jonathan Kaplansky studied at TuftsUniversity and received his MA in FrenchLanguage and Literature from McGill.He has translated works by Hélène Riouxand Hélène Dorion. Originally from NewBrunswick, he currently lives in Montreal.

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A Novel Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

WEDNESDAYNIGHT AT THEEND OF THEWORLDHélène Rioux

10 Previously Announced

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-08-2Release: January 20095.125" x 7.625"Trade Paper$19.95 / 320 pages

BISAC CodesFIC 022000 Fiction/Mystery& Detective/General

Also by this author:Day Into Night ($21.95)ISBN 978-1-896951-93-5

On loan from the Alberta ForestService, forest firefighter and inves-tigator Porter Cassel is sent

to Montana, to help with an outbreakof fires. When a small fire starts to creepthrough the underbrush deep withina Montana forest valley, Cassel is broughtin to organize the firefighters charged withcontaining it. The fire moves quickly frombad to worse, rapidly scaling the forestcanopy and killing one of Cassel’s men.Removed from command, Cassel takes thefire investigation into his own hands anddiscovers that the fire was not just a ran-dom flare-up, but the work of an arsonist.In this second book from the Porter Casselmystery series, One Careless Moment picksup where Day Into Night left off — withPorter continuing to prove himself againstall odds.

Dave Hugelschaffer has spent eighteenyears working in the forests of Alberta asa forest ranger, timber cruiser, firefighter,and land planner. One Careless Momentis his second book. Dave currently livesin Edson, Alberta.

A Porter Cassel Mystery

Some fires must be fought alone.

ONE CARELESSMOMENTDave Hugelschaffer

Previously Announced

• Launch during Black History Month in February

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ISBN: 978-1-897151-18-1Release: January 20095.5" x 8.5”Trade Paper with French Flaps$21 / 224 pages


In 1833, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Cor-coran emigrates with her sister fromsouthern Ireland to Upper Canada. In

the deep folds of cool, green forest off thevast inland sea of Lake Ontario, shebelieves she has found paradise — only todiscover that the New World harbours itsown horrible injustices when she meets afugitive slave from Virginia namedChauncey Taylor. Love grows betweenthem as Chauncey slowly reveals his terri-ble past to Oonagh, reliving the pain andtragedy he and his family suffered as slaves.The two find that even in their small,accepting community, there are certainlines that can never be crossed. Based ondocumented accounts from easternOntario, Mary Tilberg elevates the readerwith the glories of love and plunges theminto the deepest corners of despair, reveal-ing the sickening abuse wrought at thehands of men.

Mary Tilberg grew up in Moroccoand Liberia before moving to Torontoas a teenager. She has a BEd and anHonours BA in Creative Writing fromYork University. Her poetry and shortfiction are regularly published inCanadian literary journals. She nowlives on the coast of British Columbia.

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OONAGHMary Tilberg

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Translated by Nigel Spencer

ISBN: 978-1-896951-79-9 / Release: March 20096" x 9" Trade Paper / $34.95 / 300 pages

BISAC Codes: DRA 013000 Drama/CanadianPER 008000 Performing Arts/Radio/General

Mostly written for the French-language Radio-Canada in thelate 1970s and early 1980s, plays included in this volume areVanished, Invader, Two Fates, Murmurs, Garden in the Storm,

A Couple, The Exile, and Fever.

Known as the most important voice in Québécois fiction over the lastfifty years for novels, Marie-Claire Blais is also an accomplishedplaywright. The plays in this edition are evidence of what her great

talent brings to theatre.

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THE COLLECTED RADIO DRAMAOF MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS

Translated by Nigel Spencer

THE COLLECTED STAGE DRAMA OFMARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS

ISBN: 978-1-896951-78-2 / Release date: March 20096" x 9" Trade Paper / $34.95 / 400 pages

BISAC Codes: DRA 013000 Drama/Canadian

Walking on Water searches for the intimate moments of life thatreveal the fantastic amidst the mundane. In these ten stories,Andrews swoons through supernatural hallucinations, explores

the jutting coasts and heaving mountains of British Columbia, crawlsthrough the communities of poor Vancouverites, and brings to life charac-ters fully imagined with tender care and aplomb.

ISBN: 978-1-897151-17-4 / Release: March 2009 / 5.125” x 7.625”Trade Paper with French Flaps / $21 / 192 pages

BISAC Codes: FIC 019000 Fiction/LiteraryFIC 029000 Fiction/Short Stories

Short Stories

WALKING ON WATERJancis M. Andrews

Louder Than The SeaWayne Bartlett

978-1-896951-28-7$22.95 pb

A Casual BrutalityNeil Bissoondath

978-1-896951-40-9$19.95 pb

Doing the Heart Good

Neil Bissoondath978-1-896951-64-5

$19.95 pb

The Soul of All GreatDesigns


$29.00 hc

The Unyielding Clamourof the Night


$32.95 hc

The Worlds Within HerNeil Bissoondath

978-1-897151-10-5$19.95 pb

Silver SaltsMark Blagrave

978-1-897151-24-2$21.00 pb

The Man WhoWanted to Drink

Up the SeaPan Bouyoucas

978-1-896951-92-8$22.95 pb

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Born With A ToothJoseph Boyden

978-1-897151-34-1$20.00 pb

The Frankenstein MurdersKathlyn Bradshaw978-1-897151-16-7

$21.00 pb

Glass VoicesCarol Bruneau

978-1-897151-12-9$22.95 pb

The Oil Patch QuartetJohn Ballem

978-1-896951-89-8$29.95 pb

Purple for SkyCarol Bruneau

978-1-896951-30-0$21.95 pb

Distantly Related to FreudAnn Charney

978-1-897151-30-3$21.00 pb

Earth and High HeavenGwethalyn Graham978-1-896951-61-4

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Beyond MeasurePauline Holdstock978-1-896951-49-2

$22.95 pb

Day Into NightDave Hugelschaffer978-1-896951-93-5

$21.95 pb

Greener Than EdenMichael Kohn

978-1-896951-99-7$22.95 pb

Coureurs de BoisBruce MacDonald978-1-896951-72-0

$22.95 pb

Dragons CryTessa McWatt

978-1-896332-24-6$19.95 pb

Lives of the SaintsNino Ricci

978-1-897151-35-8$20.00 pb

Gently Down the StreamRay Robertson

978-1-897151-02-0$19.95 pb

The Empress LettersLinda Rogers

978-1-896951-80-5$22.95 pb

The Violets of UsambaraMary Soderstrom

978-1-897151-25-9$21.00 pb

No Beautiful ShoreBeverley Stone

978-1-897151-19-8$21.00 pb

OdoriDarcy Tamayose

978-1-897151-09-9$22.95 pb

Doubting Yourselfto the Bone

Thomas Trofimuk978-1-896951-86-7

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Home SchoolingCarol Windley

978-1-897151-03-7$22.95 pb

Banana BoysTerry Woo

978-1-896332-21-5$22.95 pb

Finding HomeEric Wright

978-1-897151-11-2$22.95 pb

Swiss SonataGwethalyn Graham978-1-896951-62-1

$19.95 pb

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And Beauty AnswersElspeth Cameron

978-1-897151-13-6$36.95 hc

Inside TorontoSally Gibson

978-1-896951-95-9$59.95 hc

The Only Snow in HavanaElizabeth Hay

978-1-897151-27-3$20.00 pb

Living In The World AsIf It Were Home

Tim Lilburn978-1-896951-14-0

$16.95 pb

Thinking and SingingTim Lilburn

978-1-896951-38-6$24.95 pb

TerracideHubert Reeves

978-1-897151-00-6$19.95 pb

The Wolf ’s HeadPeter Unwin

978-1-897151-26-6$20.00 pb

What’s Law GotTo Do With It?Jane Ursel et al.

978-1-897151-29-7$24.95 pb

Making a KillingWarren Dunford

978-1-896951-66-9$19.95 pb

The Scene StealerWarren Dunford

978-1-896951-77-519.95 pb

Soon To Be A MajorMotion Picture

Warren Dunford978-1-896951-70-6

$19.95 pb

Cities of WeatherMatthew Fox

978-1-896332-20-8$22.95 pb

Still Life With JuneDarren Greer

978-1-896951-44-7$21.95 hc

Queen’s CourtEdward O. Phillips978-1-896332-22-2

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Bottle Rocket HeartsZoe Whittall

978-1-897151-06-8$19.95 pb

Aegean TalesPan Bouyoucas

978-1-897151-20-4$21.00 pb

Days of SandHélène Dorion

978-1-897151-07-5$18.00 pb

The Woman WhoWalks on Glass

Christiane Frenette978-1-897151-15-0

$22.95 pb

Operation RimbaudJacques Godbout

978-1-897151-22-8$21.00 pb

My Sister’s Blue EyesJacques Poulin

978-1-897151-05-1$22.95 pb

Volkswagen BluesJacques Poulin

978-1-896951-42-3$19.95 pb

The Perfect CirclePascale Quiviger

978-1-897151-04-4$22.95 pb

To The Far ShoreNégovan Rajic

978-1-896951-82-9$22.95 pb

M is for MooseCharles Pachter

978-1-897151-33-4$20.00 hc

Other Men’s SonsMichael Rowe

978-1-897151-01-3$22.95 pb

The P-Town MurdersJeffrey Round

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