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M I S S W O R L D 19 70 B Y J E N N I F E R H O S T E N , C O M I N G S P R I N G 2 0 2 0
Founded in 2017 by Canadian author and publishing executive Kenneth Whyte, Sutherland House is a new Toronto-based publisher of non-fiction books for global English-language audiences.
Sutherland House specializes in narrative works of biography, memoir, history, business, culture, and current affairs. Aiming for high-quality and broad appeal, it published eight books in 2019 and will deliver nine in 2020. Each volume will be commissioned and edited by Mr. Whyte.
All of our publications will bear the unique aesthetic of the Sutherland House brand, and be subjected to rigorous market testing from conception to launch. By maintaining a low overhead, the company is dedicating an unusually high portion of its resources to the promotion and mar-keting of its titles, which will be managed by our international network of service providers.
Our Sutherland Classics series, which began in 2019 with the republication of Bernard Crick’s definitive George Orwell: A Life, is indicative of our commitment to quality non-fiction. We will reprint one or two masterpieces of biography, memoir, or character-driven history every year under the Sutherland Classics imprint.
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MIS S WORLD 1970
The Craziest Pageant Ever and the Rest of My Life
J E N N I F E R H O S T E N
1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the supersonic Concorde—a time of new possibilities and social upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the Caribbean island of Grenada, was as surprised as anyone to find herself in the midst of it.
After winning a Miss Grenada contest, she travelled to Lon-don for the 1970 Miss World pageant and arrived at Royal Albert Hall determined to make her mark. So, too, did members of the fledgling Women’s Liberation movement who chose that global-ly-televised moment to protest the sexual exploitation of women. They planted bombs, stormed the hall, and chased comedian Bob Hope from the stage.
By the end of the night, the world had been introduced to both radical feminism and a new ideal of feminine beauty. Ms. Hosten was the first woman of color crowned Miss World.
Miss World 1970 is the story of the craziest and most meaningful pageant ever, an inspiring account of Ms. Hosten’s barrier-breaking win and her subsequent globe-trotting career as a development worker and diplomat.
With historic photographs, movie stills, and a foreword by acclaimed actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
A native of Grenada, J E N N I F E R HO S T E N trained with the BBC and worked as a broadcaster and airline hostess before winning the 1970 Miss World competition. After, she enjoyed a career in diplomacy, trade negotiation, and international devel-opment. She also founded and ran a succesful inn in Grenada, and now practices as a registered psychotherapist. A mother of two children, she lives in Oakville, Ontario.
FEBRUARY 2020
200 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5”Hardcover$22.95 USD$26.95 CAD978-1-989555-23-1
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Misbehaviour, a major motion picture based on the author’s life and starring Keira Knightley and
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Jennifer Hosten),will be released globally in 2020.
THE SHORT L I FE
OF HUG HIE MCLOON
A True Story of Bandits, Bootleggers, and Baseball
A L L E N A B E L
It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball’s age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit.
Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team finished last in each of the three seasons that the A’s rubbed his hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. He loved the crowds and they loved him back.
Graduating from batboy to boxing manager, and running his own speakeasy while serving as a secret agent for the Chief of Police, Hughie was the toast of Philly until one summer night in 1928 he was caught in a murderous crossfire outside his tavern. Twenty-six years old, he bled to death on Cuthbert Street. The next day, 15,000 admirers lined up to see his four-foot corpse. The age of magic was over.
The Short Life of Hughie McLoon is Allen Abel’s haunting and stylish biography of the most remarkable and beloved of the base-ball mascots, and a new chapter in the complicated mythology of the American dream.
A L L E N A BE L has reported from more than 100 countries as an award-winning newspaper columnist and magazine journalist. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smith-sonian, and the Globe & Mail. He has written, produced, and hosted broadcasts and documentaries for HBO, the Discovery Channel, and the CBC, earning an Emmy nomination. The Washington Post called his non-fiction book Flatbush Odyssey: A Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn “one of the best travel-ogues about anywhere, ever.”
MARCH 2020
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To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to be the unluckiest.
NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE
An Impolite Report on the State of Freedom
in Canada
P H I L I P S L AY T O N
Few things are more precious in a democratic society than indi-vidual freedom, and few things are easier to take for granted.
In this timely, provocative essay, Philip Slayton argues that Canada, in ways large and small, is frittering away the liberties on which a free and open society depends. We give too much power to our politicians and unelected judges. We paper over our divisions and stifle voices that challenge conventional wisdom. We tolerate inaction on the most pressing issues of the day.
It is time, writes Slayton, for Canadians to throw off their self-imposed chains, to stand up and fight for what we believe in before we lose our ability to do so—a prospect, he warns, that is far more likely than we realize.
Born in England and raised in Manitoba, PH I L I P S L AY T ON is a Canadian lawyer and the former dean of law at the Univer-sity of Western Ontario. He is the best-selling author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, among other books. A Rhodes Scholar, he has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and President of PEN Canada. Married to the writer Cynthia Wine, he lives in Toronto and Nova Scotia.
APRIL 2020
175 Pages, 6” x 9”Softcover$22.95 USD$24.95 CAD978-1-989555-22-4
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Canadians are polite and deferential.We think that’s virtuous.
But what if we’re just sheep?
THE TELL-TALE HEART
The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
J U L I A N S Y M O N S
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Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian Symons’ The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biog-raphy of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential authors in the English language.
A highly-regarded mystery and crime writer in his own right, Symons is in a unique position to understand Poe’s work and to sharply, thoroughly reveal the secrets of his life. He paints Poe as his contemporaries saw him: a man whose life was filled with tragedy and who struggled to make a living through his writing, only to emerge as a definitive voice in murder-and-madness fiction and the inventor of the detective story.
More relevant than ever in our horror-obsessed times, The Tell-Tale Heart is the second volume in the Sutherland Classics series, which seeks to rediscover and reprint classic works of narrative non-fiction.
“As absorbing and compelling as a good detective story.” – Washington Post
One of Britain’s most acclaimed mystery writers, J U L I A NS Y MON S was the author of the award-winning novels The Colour of Murder and The Progress of a Crime. He also published works of biography, history, and literary criticism, including Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, a celebrated study of mystery storytelling. He was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and received the prestigious Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Associa-tion of Great Britain. Symons died in 1994.
MAY 2020
275 Pages, 6” x 9”Hardcover$26.95 USD$29.95 CAD978-1-989555-20-0
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Murder, mischief, and madness – theacclaimed biography of an American master
returns to print.
DO SOMETHING!
365 Ways You Can Strengthen Canada
P R E S T O N M A N N I N G
Politicians, legislatures and parliament are widely mistrusted. Canadians do not see their issues and concerns reflected in the priorities of the people elected to serve them. The rise of populism is one symptom of discontent. Others are low voter turnouts and an increasingly vicious public sphere. It is time for Canadians to repair and strengthen their democracy. It is time to Do Something!
In this riveting and inspirational book, author and parlia-mentarian Preston Manning calls on Canadians of all beliefs and allegiances to renew their nation’s democracy and the ideas, processes, and institutions that support it. Drawing on a lifetime of public service, he offers 365 practical ways that people can get involved and make a difference, in their communities and on the national stage.
“There is an old saying,” writes Manning, “that a Canadian optimist is someone who believes things could be worse. But I am an optimist who believes the future can be better if enough of us resolve to make it so.”
PR E S T ON M A N N I N G was a member of the Canadian Parliament from 1993 to 2001. He founded two new politi-cal parties—The Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance—both of which became the official opposition in parliament and laid the foundation for the present-day Conservative Party of Canada. He is the Founder of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. He and his wife Sandra divide their time between Calgary, Vancouver, and a family ranch in Saskatchewan.
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“Democracy in Canada—defined as government of the people, by the people, and for the people—
is in deep trouble.” – Preston Manning
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YOUR MOVE
What Board Games Teach Us About Life
J O A N M O R I A R I T Y & J O N AT H A N K AY
“Illuminating...introduces and critiques an overlooked art form” – Kirkus
In a breezy, punchy style, the authors draw on behavior psy-chology, economics, political science, and years of teaching and playing games to reveal what an array of popular games tell us about our culture, history, society, and relationships.
“Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games; they allow us to explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to climate.” – Steven Pinker, Harvard University, author of Enlight-enment Now
180 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5”Softcover$17.95 USD$22.95 CAD978-1-9994395-4-5
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ST ILL L I FE
A Memoir
J E F F S U T H E R L A N D
“The training manual for facing loss and redefining the good life” – Mo Rocca, CBS Sunday Morning
Father, husband, athlete, medical doctor, Jeff Sutherland was already suffering from a terminal ALS diagnosis and locked in his own inanimate body when still greater loss struck his family. His story, written on a computerized device that tracks his eye movements on a screen, is a testament to human will’s ability to overcome unspeakable tragedy, and the power of familial love to heal incomprehensible pain.
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SMART, SUCCES SFUL & ABUSED
The Unspoken Problem of Domestic Violence and
the High-Achieving Female
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An intimate and conversational inquiry into the most puzzling form of domestic violence: the abused endured by high-achieving women who to all appearances have everything required to stand up for themselves.
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MORE THAN WE BARGAINED FOR
An Untold Story of Exploitation, Redemption,
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J O H N S T E FA N I N I
“The engrossing, first-person story of a nation-builder you’ve never heard of ” – Margaret Wente, columnist
John Stefanini, who built the dominant construction union on the continent, spins the stories of treachery, arson, beatings, shootings, sabotage, police investigations, and nail-biting negoti-ations that defined his life as a full-time labor organizer.
As head of Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 183, John Stefanini brought improved pay and working conditions to tens of thousands of construction workers while also contributing to pioneering legal reforms that benefitted workers in other sectors of the economy. He lives in Toronto. This is his first book.
PERFECT C IT Y
An Urban Fixer’s Global Search for Magic in the
Modern Metropolis
J O E B E R R I D G E
“As a lifelong observer of cities, I couldn’t stop devouring—and learning from—Joe Berridge’s eye-opening and enjoyable account. He mixes a lifetime’s worth of knowledge with a constantly fresh eye and pen so that the book is a delight and an illumination. An indispensable guide to where our global com-munity is going.” – author and essayist Pico Iyer
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CHANG E YOUR WORLD
The Science of Resilience and the True
Path to Success
M I C H A E L U N G A R
Finally, a book that explains why self-help mostly fails, and what really works.
The self-improvement industry puts responsibility for change on your shoulders and seldom produces results. Dr. Michael Un-gar’s mind-bending new book explains how it’s easier—and more effective—to change your world than to change yourself.
“Ungar elegantly guides us toward what really creates change and hope” – Frank Thomas, Texas Christian University
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1 2 R U L E S F O R L I F E
“Black reminds us who we were and who we are, and lays the groundwork for who we might become.” – Jordan Peterson, from the Foreword
Historian Conrad Black argues that making the world a better place “is the destiny, and the vocation, Canada could have, not in the next century, but in the next five years of imaginative government.”
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“The definitive biography” – The Sunday Times
George Orwell is more relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit than he was in his own short lifetime.
Professor Crick’s enjoyable and clear-eyed assessment of Orwell’s thought and personality “remains the best one there is,” says The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell.
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THE TH IRD MAN
Churchill and Roosevelt as Revealed by Their Ally
and Confidant, Mackenzie King
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M AT T H E W B U C E M I is an experienced editor and writer, with a creative history that includes lead roles at publishing houses, production studios, and newspapers. He earned his PhD in English at Cornell University, where he also taught a series of award-winning courses in literature, film, and philosophy.
MATTHEW BUCEMI
MANAGING ED ITOR
K E N N E T H W H Y T E is the former editor-in-chief of Saturday Night Magazine, the founding editor of The National Post, and the former editor and publisher of Maclean’s magazine. He was president of Rogers Publishing, Canada’s largest magazine company, and the founding president of Next Issue Canada (now Texture), in partner-ship with Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst, and Time Inc. Mr. Whyte is the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William
Randolph Hearst (2008, Random House), a Washington Post book-of-the-year and a runner-up for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In 2017, he published Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Knopf), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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L E N A YA N G is a book and editorial designer with experience work-ing with publishing houses, independent authors, newspapers, and magazines. Her work has appeared in Maclean’s magazine and The National Post. She is a graduate of Columbia Publishing Course and New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute.
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