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New TitlesClaire Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Eden Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Alan Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Simon Choa-Johnston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

George Elliott Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Liam Durcan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Colin Ellard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Alix Hawley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Yasuko Thanh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lori Lansens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Selected BacklistAnita Rau Badami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Judy Fong Bates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Wayson Choy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Cecil Foster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Stephen Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Frances Greenslade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

CLIENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

CO-AGENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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The BearIn a nail-biter of psychological suspense told by a six-year-old in a voice reminiscent of Room, two small children are left alone at a remote island campground when their parents are killed by a bear

240 pages / Finished books available

The Bear grabs you by the throat and will not let you go . Written by an author who has much experience of both wilderness survival and motherhood, it is a brilliant examination of how children help each other and themselves in extreme circumstances .

PRAISE FOR CLAIRE CAMERON’S THE BEAR

“The Bear had me up all night, and when I finally put it down I knew that I wouldn’t forget Anna and her little brother Stick for a long time. Claire Cameron is an absolute master in letting us feel grief and loss by never using those words. The ending is very moving and offers us real consolation at the same time.”

– HERMAN KOCH, AUTHOR OF THE DINNER

“A tender, terrifying, poignant ride. Hang on.”— OPRAH.COM

“A gripping survival thriller … [an] agonizing odyssey of loss and being lost also has humour. The book’s anguished yet hopeful ending provides a touching terminus for Anna and Stick’s journey to adulthood. This expertly crafted novel could do for camping what Jaws did for swimming.”

— PEOPLE

“Harrowing suspense. The Bear is a survival thriller that is told from a child’s-eye point-of-view, which is not only convincing but doubles the tension. A heartbreaking, white-knuckle read.”

– ANDREW PYPER, AUTHOR OF THE DEMONOLOGIST

“The Bear is a taut and touching story of how a child’s love and denial become survival skills. Claire Cameron takes a fairytale situation of children pitted against the wilderness, removes the fairies, and adds a terrifying and ravenous bear. I devoured this wonderful new novel in one day—if I can use the word ‘devoured’ for a book about a bear.”

– CHARLOTTE ROGAN, AUTHOR OF THE LIFEBOAT

“Claire Cameron plunges us in to the dark terrors of the wilderness. The Bear is a survival story that is heart-pounding and moving. I devoured this book.”

– TANIS RIDEOUT, AUTHOR OF ABOVE ALL THINGS

“The Bear faultlessly captures the wonder, bewilderment, fear and self-centeredness of five-year-old Anna, and beautifully balances the darkness of her tale with a hopeful, sensitively told back story and moments when she grasps her situation with just enough clarity to shoulder her burden.”

– CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN, AUTHOR OF THE PAINTED GIRLS

CLAIRE CAMERON

RIGHTS SOLD US: Reagan Arthur Books/

Little, Brown, 2014Canada: Doubleday, 2014UK: Harvill Secker, Random

House UK, 2014Netherlands: Cargo/De

Bezige BijBrazilian Portuguese:

Bertrand Brasil/Grupo Editorial Record

Turkey: Nefes YayineviVietnam: SkybookFilm: John TatoulisFrance: Kero

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The Line PainterA twist on the classic road trip story, The Line Painter explores how the past, fear, and memory alter perception


Fleeing guilt and grief over her recently deceased boyfriend, Carrie McDonald is on a solo cross-country road trip when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario .

PRAISE FOR CLAIRE CAMERON’S THE LINE PAINTER

“It takes a certain amount of courage to tread such well-covered ground; it takes significant talent to make such a familiar conceit feel fresh and original, to lift it beyond the constraints of the cliché. In her debut novel The Line Painter…Toronto writer Claire Cameron demonstrates that she has both, in abundance. … The opening pages of The Line Painter are a masterful balancing act of suspense and relief, a dance between expectation and surprise that steadily increases the tension to an almost unbearable point. Writing in a tight, parsed, minimalist tone, Cameron acutely conveys the tension inherent in the situation and, more significantly, builds on readerly expectations with this motif. … It’s a bravura performance. … Some of Carrie’s actions are shocking, but nonetheless fully in character. That’s a difficult trick for a writer to pull off but Cameron manages it with aplomb.”

— THE GLOBE AND MAIL

The Last NeanderthalA riveting literary thriller set at the end of the Neanderthal era

75,000 words / Final manuscript January 2016

“In a flash, she could see that that the cat knew her plan . He had watched her eyes flicker and guessed her moves exactly . He jumped, but to the side . One beat of the heart and she had missed the mark . The stick would hit at the side of his mouth . Rather than stab through the back of his head as intended, it would glance off his tooth or nose . Without perfect aim, she would not be able to kill him in one move . There was no second move . She was the eaten .”

— From The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron

The Last Neanderthal is based on the life of Girl, who finds herself alone as her family members die off and disappear . It is inspired by the new science that has come to light in the 35 years since the publication of The Clan of the Cave Bear and by Claire Cameron’s extensive experience in wilderness survival . Through the lives of three women—a Neanderthal and two modern-day women—it integrates the notions that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens co-existed, and that they were a lot more like us than we have been led to believe .

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: HarperCollins,

2007Vietnam: Skybook

Visit Claire online at www.claire-cameron.com

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RIGHTS SOLDUS: Little, Brown, Jan 2017Canada: Doubleday,

Jan 2017Netherlands: Cargo/

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Knopf, fall 2016

Son of a TricksterA return to the tumultuous cross-cultural Native territory of Monkey Beach

86,000 words / Edited manuscript available January 2016

Son of a Trickster combines aboriginal belief systems and wacky family dynamics with fantasy, horror, and edgy, mordant humour in an unorthodox coming-of-age story . One of seventeen-year-old Jared Martin’s grandmothers insists that he is the son of Wee’git the Trickster, that dangerous shape-shifter who looks innocent but wreaks havoc . His other grandmother insists that “If you weren’t your dad’s and your momma tried to pass you off as his, I’d have slit her throat and left her in a ditch to die like a dog .” Jared’s far-northern west-coast Native community is closing in on him: his mom’s psycho ex-boyfriend, Death Threat, tries to kill him; Jared is beaten senseless for his weed, essential to the cookie business with which he supports his father, who plays him for all he is worth; his mom takes up with a biker who moves in along with his pit bull, Baby Killer .

PRAISE FOR EDEN ROBINSON’S MONKEY BEACH

“Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut.”— THE TIMES, 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.”

— THE WASHINGTON POST

“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.”

— THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

“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.”

— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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Monkey BeachA darkly humorous aboriginal coming-of-age story set in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest


• Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2002• Finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, 2000• Winner of the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction, 2001• Now in its 15th printing in paperback

On the peaceful shore of the Douglas Channel lies the remote Haisla community of Kitamaat, British Columbia . Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Hill, ambitious and handsome, is the pride of the village . Serious-minded Jimmy shows little interest in courtship until he falls in love with Karaoke, the village beauty . But their young romance is cut short by the news of a horrifying accident at sea and Jimmy’s mysterious disappearance .

Blood SportsYoung people are caught up in the violent, seamy underbelly of Vancouver


Tom Bauer is an epileptic who has hooked up with fellow ex-junkie Paulina . They have recently had a baby named Melody when Jeremy, Tom’s cousin, and his henchmen reach out to traumatize the family . Tom comes home from his job to find Paulie and Mel missing, and two thugs waiting for him . The Kafkaesque nightmare that ensues would seem to have no place in the idyllic setting of Vancouver . By the end of the book, it is hard to think of the west coast—or human relationships—in the same way again .

TraplinesNovellas that take us deep inside the gripping world of young Northwest Coast Native People


• Winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize, UK, 1997• A New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year, 1996

In crackling prose, Eden Robinson describes homes ruled by bullies, psychopaths and delinquents; families whose conflict resolution techniques range from grand theft to homicide; and kids who just can’t get a break . A master of psychological suspense, Traplines guides us through a world where the fast food, banged-up cars, and grunge of modern adolescence barely camouflage the dark extremes of sex, fear and desire .

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: McClelland & Stewart, 2006US eBook: Open Road

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Knopf, 1996US: Metropolitan Books UK: Little, Brown Book GroupFrance: Éditions de l’OlivierGermany: Rowohlt VerlagNetherlands: Uitgeverij PrometheusUS eBook: Open Road

RIGHTS SOLDUS: Houghton MifflinUK: Little, Brown Book GroupCanada: KnopfGermany: Rowohlt VerlagNetherlands: PrometheusFrance: Albin MichelEstonia: HotgerCzech: HavranFilm: Eagle Eye FilmsFrance (Pocket Book Reprint): J’ai luUS eBook: Open Road

THE FLAVIA DE LUCE MYSTERY SERIESSoon to be a TV series from acclaimed director Sam MendesOver 3 million copies of the series sold worldwide

#7 As Chimney Sweepers Come to DustA New York Times bestseller

87,000 words / Finished books available

Hard on the heels of the return of her mother’s body from the frozen reaches of the Himalayas, Flavia, for her indiscretions, is banished from her home at Buckshaw and shipped across the ocean to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Toronto, her mother’s alma mater, there to be inducted into the a mysterious organization known as the Nide . No sooner does she arrive, however, than a body comes crashing down out of the chimney and into her room, setting off a series of investigations into mysterious disappearances of girls from the school .

PRAISE FOR THE FLAVIA DE LUCE SERIES

“Set in 1951, Bradley’s exceptional seventh series whodunit (after 2014’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches) takes Flavia de Luce, a preteen with an interest in poisons, from her family home in Bishop’s Lacey, England, to Canada, where she is to attend her late mother’s alma mater, Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy. On Flavia’s very first night there, a fellow student, P.A. Collingwood, bursts into her room and reveals that three other girls have disappeared. When the head of school, Miss Fawlthorne (aka the Hangman’s Mistress), knocks at Flavia’s door, Collingwood flees up the chimney, dislodging a mummified corpse and detaching its skull. This intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycote’s a suitably Gothic setting for Flavia’s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm (e.g., ‘If you’re anything like me, you adore rot. It is pleasant to reflect on the fact that decay and decomposition are what make the world go round’).”

— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review

“Bradley has managed to create one of the most beguiling detectives of recent years.”

— THE GUARDIAN

“She now seems certain to become a national treasure. Film director Sam Mendes’ production company—which made Call The Midwife for the BBC—has optioned her stories for TV. Flavia deserves it. She is as addictive as dark chocolate and as English as Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending.”

— DAILY MAIL

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ALAN BRADLEY

RIGHTS SOLD (#7)US: Delacorte Press, January 2015US Large Print: Thorndike PressN. American English Audio:

Random HouseCanada: Doubleday, January 2015UK: Orion, April 2015Germany: BlanvaletPoland: VesperRussia: ASTTV Rights: Neal Street Productions/

Sam MendesItaly: Sellerio

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“Alan Bradley has an uncanny ability to take us into the mind and emotions of our young detective as she deals with both her grief and the mystery, and somehow makes it all believable and entertaining.”

— MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE

“It’s hard to resist either the genre’s pre-eminent preteen sleuth or the hushed revelations about her family.”

— KIRKUS REVIEWS

#6 The Dead in Their Vaulted ArchesAs Flavia works to solve another murder, she uncovers clues to solve her own family mystery


It is April 1951 and the de Luce family has gathered at the railway station for the homecoming of Flavia’s long-lost mother, Harriet, when a stranger whispers a mysterious message into Flavia’s ear . Moments later, he is dead . Where has Flavia heard these words before? What do they mean, and how are they connected with the hidden and long-forgotten film she has discovered in Buckshaw’s attic? The messenger’s words, and the grave family secrets they drag into the light of day, will change Flavia’s life forever .

#5 Speaking from Among the BonesWhen Flavia sneaks into the tomb of St. Tancred, patron saint of Bishop’s Lacey, she discovers that he has a companion


Upon the five hundredth anniversary of his death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open the tomb of St . Tancred, its patron saint . Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr . Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked .

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RIGHTS SOLD (#5)US: Delacorte Press, 2013N. American English Audio:

Random HouseUS Large Print: Thorndike PressCanada: Doubleday, 2013UK: Orion, 2013UK Audio: W.F. HowesGermany: BlanvaletBrazil: Editora SaraivaItaly: SellerioTurkey: PegasusRussia: ASTMainland China: HarbinJapan: Tokyo SogenshaNetherlands: Luitingh-SijthoffPoland: VesperTV Rights: Neal Street Productions/

Sam Mendes

RIGHTS SOLD (#6)US: Delacorte Press, 2014N. American English Audio:

Random HouseUS Large Print: Thorndike PressCanada: Doubleday, 2014UK: OrionGermany: BlanvaletUK Audio: W.F. HowesPoland: VesperJapan: Tokyo SogenshaItaly: SellerioRussia: ASTTV Rights: Neal Street Productions/

Sam Mendes

Visit Flavia online at www.flaviadeluce.com

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#4 I Am Half-Sick of ShadowsIt’s Christmas-time at Buckshaw, where a famous actress is found strangled by a length of film from one of her own movies


Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop’s Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch the shooting of a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern, yet nobody is prepared for the evening’s shocking conclusion: the actress’s body found strangled to death by a length of film from one of her own movies . As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight .

#3 A Red Herring Without MustardA New York Times bestseller that includes 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 .

ALAN BRADLEY (continued)

RIGHTS SOLD (#4)US: Delacorte Press, 2011North American English Audio:

Random HouseUS Large Print: Thorndike PressCanada: Doubleday, 2011UK: Orion, 2011UK Audio: W.F. Howes

Japan: Tokyo SogenshaPoland: Vesper Netherlands: Luitingh-SijthoffGermany: BlanvaletGermany Audio: Random HouseRussia: AST Bulgaria: AMG BooksItaly: Sellerio

Turkey: PegasusBrazil: Editora SaraivaMainland China: HarbinKorea: Munhakdongne Publishing GroupFrance: 10/18Finland: Bazar PublishersHungary: MaximTV Rights: Neal Street Productions/Sam Mendes

RIGHTS SOLD (#3)US: Delacorte Press, 2011US Large Print: Thorndike PressN. American English Audio: Random HouseUK: Orion, 2011UK Audio: W.F. HowesUK Large Print: MagnaCanada: Doubleday, 2011Italy: Sellerio, 2011 Germany: Blanvalet, 2011Germany Audio: Random House

Spain: Editorial Planeta Brazil: Editora SaraivaMainland China: HarbinTaiwan: Azoth BooksPoland: VesperRussia: ASTRomania: Editura Trei, 2011Lithuania: Leidykla VAGACroatia: Naklada LjevakNetherlands: Luitingh-SijthoffJapan: Tokyo Sogensha

Norway: Forlaget PressIsrael: Matar Publishing HouseBulgaria: AMG BooksKorea: Munhakdongne

Publishing GroupFrance (hardcover): Editions

JC LattèsFrance (paperback): 10/18Turkey: PegasusFinland: Bazar PublishersHungary: Maxim

TV Rights: Neal Street Productions/Sam Mendes

Czech: EuromediaPortugal: Planeta

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#2 The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s BagFlavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder—but, then again, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die


#1 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the PieA new breed of detective heroine is a pig-tailed eleven-year-old with disturbing fascinations


• Rights Sold in 36 countries• Over a quarter of a million copies sold in paperback in the USA

RIGHTS SOLD (#2)US: Delacorte Press, 2010N. American English Audio: Random HouseUS Large Print: Thorndike PressCanada: Doubleday, 2010UK: Orion, 2010UK Large Print: Magna UK Audio: W.F. HowesPortugal: Planeta ManuscritoItaly: Mondadori/SellerioIsrael: Matar Publishing HouseGermany: BlanvaletGermany Audio: Random House

Spain: Editorial PlanetaFrance (hardcover): Editions JC LattèsFrance (paperback): 10/18Korea: Munhakdongne Publishing GroupPoland: VesperBrazil: Editora SaraivaJapan: Tokyo SogenshaCatalan: Columna EdicionsNetherlands: Luitingh-SijthoffMainland China: HongwenguanDenmark: Forlaget PunktumCroatia: Naklada LjevakTaiwan: Azoth Books

Norway: Forlaget PressRomania: Editura Trei, 2011Lithuania: Leidykla VAGABulgaria: AMG BooksRussia: ASTCzech language: Euromedia GroupTurkey: PegasusHungary: MaximMainland China: HarbinFinland: Bazar PublishersSweden: Lind & Co.TV Rights: Neal Street Productions/

Sam Mendes

RIGHTS SOLD (#1)US: Delacorte Press, 2009N. American English Audio: Random HouseUS Large Print: Thorndike PressUK: Orion, 2009UK Large Print: Magna UK Audio: W.F. HowesCanada: Doubleday, 2009Italy: Mondadori, 2009/SellerioIsrael: Matar Publishing HouseGermany: Blanvalet, 2009Germany Audio: Random House Spain: Editorial PlanetaFrance (hardcover): Editions JC LattèsFrance (paperback): 10/18

Poland: VesperKorea: Munhakdongne Publishing GroupBrazil: Editora SaraivaJapan: Tokyo SogenshaCatalan: Columna EdicionsSlovakia: IkarNorway: Forlaget PressTaiwan: Azoth BooksRussia: ASTPortugal: Planeta ManuscritoNetherlands: Luitingh-SijthoffSerbia: Marso Czech Language: Euromedia GroupMainland China: HarbinCroatia: Naklada Ljevak

Turkey: PegasusLithuania: VagaArabic language: Arab Scientific PublishersAlbania: MoravaGreece: LyhnariRomania: Editura TreiDenmark: Forlaget PunktumDenmark Audio: AV ForlagetHungary: MaximVietnam: Alpha BooksBulgaria: AMG BooksSweden: Lind & Co.Finland: Bazar PublishersIceland: ForlagidTV Rights: Neal Street Productions/Sam Mendes

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Penguin, May 2016Indian subcontinent English:

Penguin India, May 2016

The House of WivesBased on a true story

92,000 words / Final manuscript now available

The House of Wives is inspired by the story of Simon Choa-Johnston’s ancestors . In 1862 Emanuel, a Jew from Calcutta, sailed to Hong Kong to take up the opium trade . There he took a second wife (he had left the first one behind in India), grew prosperous, built himself a grand mansion called Kingsclere, and began to have children . Life became more complicated however when his Indian wife decided, unannounced, to join him in Hong Kong, and Kingsclere became The House of Wives . Mysteriously, thirty-six years after his arrival, Emanuel fled Hong Kong alone for London, where he died a pauper in 1905 .

Given those basic facts, playwright and director Simon Choa-Johnston has created a fascinating and compelling drama exploring a little-known corner of history . It is a novel that he has been preparing to write all his life, not only through archival research and family interviews but through travel to India and Hong Kong . It includes a family curse, and tragic death, and an abundance of mystery .

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Simon Choa-Johnston’s ancestral home, Kingsclere, circa 1880, on what is now known as Kennedy Terrace, Hong Kong. Today only the foundations remain.

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: HarperFlamingo,

2005UK: Random/Harvill, 2005

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: HarperCollins,

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GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKEThe Motorcyclist87,000 words / Final manuscript now available

As children we cannot know, except in the most general, mythical ways, the complex interactions that lead to our births . Inspired by the life of George Elliott Clarke’s father, The Motorcyclist tells the story of Carl Black, a black working-class intellectual and artist, a traveler, reader, actor, speaker, labor organizer, and womanizer . He was a man who struggled all his life to restore the family’s respectability, which he felt his mother had jeopardized . He yearned for the bohemian life, but felt obligated to settle for a bourgeois one, trapped in a railway porter’s prosaic existence . The novel recreates the courtship of Carl and Mar, imagined by a son yearning to understand why his now-deceased father was so difficult to love .

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


• One of the Toronto Star’s Best Reads for 2005• Longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

“Vivid, raw… wonderfully descriptive writing.”— USA TODAY

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

— LIBRARY JOURNAL

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

“Sparkling, powerfully inventive prose.”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Rough, uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking.”— THE TIMES, UK

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RIGHTS SOLDNorth America:

Bellevue Literary Press, March 15, 2016

The Measure of Darkness73,000 words / Final manuscript now available

The Measure of Darkness is the story of two brothers, Martin and Brendan Fallon, who have been estranged for years and have now suddenly been reunited in the aftermath of a car accident that has left Martin with a brain injury . The injury causes Martin to experience a disorder called “neglect”—he can’t appreciate half his visual world, and is unaware of his deficits . He tries to maintain control of his personal and professional life but the disorder, with the limited insight it brings, wreaks havoc . It is also a metaphor for the types of blindness he experiences in other aspects of his life . At the centre of the novel is a mystery: why was Martin parked on a rural road in a snowstorm when he was hit by a snow plow?

PRAISE FOR LIAM DURCAN’S GARCIA’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.”

— LIBRARY JOURNAL

“What prompts an honorable man to commit unspeakable acts? That’s one of many moral conundrums considered in Durcan’s compelling debut. … Durcan 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.”

— BOOKLIST, starred review

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

— KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Durcan is a master at identifying and explicating the grey areas of life—the part where most life takes place. [It] is impossible not to be drawn into the consideration of morality, on both an individual and societal scale. Long after the last page is read, García’s Heart will be firmly lodged in both the heart and mind.”

— THE VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST

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

— THE TORONTO STAR

“Durcan takes us right into the nub of the neuroscientific conception of the self. You must read this book.”


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RIGHTS SOLDUS: Thomas Dunne Books,

2007Canada: McClelland &

Stewart, 2007Netherlands: AilantusItaly: L’Ancora del

MediterraneanoComplex Chinese: Sun

Color Culture PublishingSimplified Chinese: Beijing

Booky Company

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


• Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, 2008 • A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection,

Spring 2008

Neurologist Patrick Lazerenko travels to The Hague to witness the war crimes trial of his beloved mentor, a Honduran doctor accused of involvement in torture in his native land . In order to do so, Lazerenko has abandoned his responsibilities as lead scientist in a cutting-edge research project at his Boston-based start-up, Neuronaut . He is driven to get to the root of the shocking accusations against Dr . Hernan García de la Cruz, the man whose life he had modelled his own upon . García’s Heart goes beyond issues of guilt and innocence to the ways in which human behaviour may or may not be mitigated by physiology . Can we really tell where the truth lies by observing the human brain? Should such observations absolve us of responsibility for our actions, or be admissible in a court of law? Or does nothing matter except the way we are perceived by others, like the endless torture victims who are testifying against García? And is a doctor’s supposedly altruistic desire to help others anything but an expression of egotism?

PRAISE FOR LIAM DURCAN’S GARCIA’S HEART“Neurologist Durcan dissects the ethics involved when politics, medicine and violence collide in this finely wrought novel.”

— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Durcan’s language is sculpted with seemingly effortless precision. His sentences are rich with detail and metaphor, luxurious with reference and allusion, but also lean and raw, getting straight to the point of what he wants to describe. And what he wants to describe is no simple matter: it is the struggle among conflicting feelings, impressions, beliefs and realities when good people try to understand one another despite the pain they have inadvertently inflicted on each other and on themselves. Durcan gets it. He gets the humiliation of losing one’s will in the face of rejection, the anxiety that erodes understanding, the hope that keeps us straining for self-knowledge. He gets it and he tells it beautifully, powerfully, both softly and savagely, in language that courses with intelligence.”

— THE LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA

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non-fiction: popular science

RIGHTS SOLDNorth America: Bellevue

Literary Press, Fall 2015Korea: Gilbut Publishing

CompanyGermany: BtbChina: Jiangsu Education

PublishingRussia: AlpinaLatin American Spanish:

Ediciones B MexicoSpain: Ariel

Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday LifePlaces of the Heart explores the relationship between emotion and place by revealing the ways in which different kinds of places elicit specific feelings

90,000 words / Final books now available

Psychogeography explores how our surroundings influence our emotions . Each chapter of Places of the Heart shows us how one type of space affects us emotionally, and how modern technology is altering this interaction .

PRAISE FOR COLIN ELLARD’S PLACES OF THE HEART

“Richly insightful.” – NATURE MAGAZINE

“If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities—and ourselves.”

— CHARLES MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF HAPPY CITY

“This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start, with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with history, archeology, technology, and design.”

— ESTHER M. STERNBERG M.D., AUTHOR OF HEALING SPACES

You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the MallColin Ellard does for physical space what Nasim Taleb did for randomness and Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic: he illuminates what science says about our spatial intelligence and how it shapes our connections to buildings, cities, cyberspace, and nature


We’ve all been there: wandering around a multi-storied parking garage searching for our car or wondering which direction we’re facing when we emerge from the subway . Yet our dogs remember exactly where they buried a chew toy three summers ago and ants in the Sahara find their way home after travelling a distance equivalent to a marathon . In You Are Here, Colin Ellard explains the human proclivity for getting lost, comparing our ability to process physical space to the far-superior skills of animals normally considered less intelligent than our own species . Ellard describes the mental maps we develop to ease everyday navigation, whether it’s noting a striking landmark or leaving a virtual trail of crumbs to find our way through the woods .

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RIGHTS SOLDUS: Doubleday, 2009Canada: HarperCollins, 2009Taiwan: LocusJapan: HayakawaSimplified Chinese: CITIC

PressWorld French: Editions

du Seuil

Travelling through natural, man-made, and even cyberenvironments, he offers sage and often amusing insights into the spatial design of everything from office cubicles and family rooms to malls and casinos, explaining why so many spaces fail so spectacularly . From entertaining anecdotes to eye-opening facts to advice on how we can become environmentally responsible citizens, You Are Here provides a valuable perspective on the world and our place in it .

PRAISE FOR COLIN ELLARD’S YOU ARE HERE

“[A] smart, deeply satisfying exploration of how creatures from insects to humans handle the complexities of physical space … his message is well-reasoned and important.”

— THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

“You Are Here provides a colorful, well-charted atlas of our subjective mental maps—visual stories that we tell ourselves—and an impassioned argument for finding our true place in the world we inhabit.”

— TOM VANDERBILT, AUTHOR OF TRAFFIC: WHY WE DRIVE THE WAY WE DO (AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT US),

AMAZON.COM REVIEW

“One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read … It’s fun, pure fun.” — THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Delightfully lucid … Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Ellard writes with admirable clarity … An anecdotally rich provocation in service of environmental awareness.”

— KIRKUS REVIEWS

“[A] fascinating and exhaustive rundown of the processes involved in keeping us and other animals moving in the right direction … an absorbing read.”


“Delightful, dense and illuminating.”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Colin Ellard’s new book, You Are Here, is a powerful inquiry into how we humans orient ourselves in space and identify places both familiar and new. As an architect, and someone who loves the experiential qualities of three dimensional space, this book took me on a journey to places I’d never even considered before—such as how other creatures on this planet orient themselves, and why it is that our prodigious brain can invent worlds that far outstrip the abilities of our more primitive orienting sensory apparatus. It’s a stimulating and provocative read for anyone who’s looking for a better understanding of how we process the world around us and orient ourselves within our habitations and living environments.”

— SARAH SUSANKA, AUTHOR OF THE NOT SO BIG HOUSE

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Knopf, February

2015US: Ecco/HarperCollins,

August 2016

All True Not a Lie in ItHawley does for iconic American pioneer Daniel Boone what Hilary Mantel did for Cromwell and Peter Carey did for Ned Kelly


• Winner of the 2015 Amazon.ca First Novel Award• Longlisted for the Giller Prize

PRAISE FOR ALIX HAWLEY’S ALL TRUE NOT A LIE IN IT“Alix Hawley’s resurrection of the great woodsman, Daniel Boone, is astonishingly, uncannily vivid. Lightly stitched to the sparse historical record, this is not a picture of the frontier itself so much as the restless spirits of exploration, love, memory, and greed that drove Boone—‘the white Indian’—west through the wilderness. His voice cracks like a musket shot across these pages. An amazing debut.”

— REGINA MARLER, LITERARY CRITIC AND BOOK REVIEWER

“Alix Hawley has really done a number on an American folk hero. With vivid imagery and a strong, dreamlike voice, she confidently strips away the myth of Daniel Boone to reveal the strange, pulsing man underneath. It is a remarkable feat and a remarkable book.”

— TRACY CHEVALIER, AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

“An extraordinary feat of backwoods ventriloquism, carried off with great flair and conviction, across the boundaries of custom, time and gender. Alix Hawley invests afresh in the voice of Daniel Boone and his tough familiars, bringing shock and sensuality, but also surprising tenderness, to the famously rugged frontier myth.”

— RICHARD HOLMES, AUTHOR OF THE AGE OF WONDER

“Alix Hawley’s debut novel is audacious and bold, like an early Ondaatje, with writing that is luscious, lyrical, and bloodthirsty. Like Hawley’s narrator, Daniel Boone, All True Not a Lie in It, constantly seeks out new ground, wrapping the reader in a landscape of language and dream.”

— ALEXI ZENTNER, AUTHOR OF TOUCH

“Hawley’s skills are impressive indeed. In her hands, Boone comes to life in a way that even long-time aficionados will find surprising and affecting…. Hawley’s Boone is a hero for these times, and All True Not A Lie In It is a powerful reminder of the fact behind the legend, of how fiction can arrive at fundamental, troubling human truths.”

– THE VANCOUVER SUN

“Atmospheric and beautifully written … the story retains an insistent allure.”— THE TORONTO STAR

“Hawley’s ability to convey the menace of paradise is overwhelming, as well as her ability to make the reader share in the sorrows of her hero.”

— THE NATIONAL POST

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Hamish Hamilton/

Penguin, April 5, 2016Romania: Editura RAO

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: McClelland &

Stewart, 2012

The Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow MountainsA haunting historical novel set in little-known French Indochina

70,500 words / First page proofs now available

A doctor brews a potion from the datura flower with the aim of poisoning soldiers in the French garrison in Saigon . Based on the real-life Hanoi Poisoning Plot of 1908, this novel tells a story that crosses the landscape of Vietnam when the doctor is forced to flee . The characters include a fish-girl pulled from the Mekong River— in a superstition-rich land, this is an omen; a diplomat’s son, a poet with one green eye; a rich revolutionary who detests his inheritance money, and a pregnant wife who keeps a menagerie of pigeons, cats, and a boa constrictor . The stories in this novel are Yasuko’s family’s stories . Falling somewhere between Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Fromme, and The End of the Alphabet by C .S . Richardson, The Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains offers a poetic, fantastic, darkly comic look at the cost of insurrection as well as the complications of falling in love at a time when historical conditions complicate it .

PRAISE FOR YASUKO THANH’S STORY COLLECTION FLOATING LIKE THE DEAD

“Her empathy for a variety of characters in crisis—from a German nanny choosing a husband to a betrayed Vietnamese wife—is impressive, as is her talent for reimagining little-known historical periods. Together, these qualities combine to make Floating Like the Dead an impressive debut.”

— THE MONTREAL GAZETTE

“Using artfully simple language, Thanh has crafted a story of powerfully resonant emotion with tremendous restraint—a gift that respects both her characters and her readers.”

— JOURNEY PRIZE JURY CITATION

“A prizewinner well before the publication of her first book, Yasuko Thanh impresses above all with the thematic complexity of her approach. Coupling a globetrotter’s perspective and historical curiosity to that, her stories conjure vignettes of troubling existence, where change is possible but outcomes deviate far from plans.”

— THE VANCOUVER SUN

“Yasuko Thanh writes with a tiger’s eye for detail, her sentences haunt, images flash like lightning. She is a major talent.”

— WAYSON CHOY, AUTHOR OF THE JADE PEONY

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The Mountain StoryA whopping great adventure tale and an epic family drama in the mould of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden


PRAISE FOR LORI LANSENS’ THE MOUNTAIN STORY“The Mountain Story is an expertly crafted novel about how ordinary lives can be changed by an extraordinary mountain. If climbing speaks to how we can find truth and beauty in hardship, Lansens shows that it is also a way to see inside our souls. I loved this novel.”

— CLAIRE CAMERON, AUTHOR OF THE BEAR

A “heart-stoppingly suspenseful tale…. A moving portrait of the human spirit—as fierce, lovely and indomitable as nature itself.”

– PEOPLE MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE WEEK

“It’s a master class in fiction and its potential.” – THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Right from its opening pages, The Mountain Story has you firmly in its grip. Immensely readable, beautifully written and incredibly heart-breaking…it’s an extraordinary story of survival, heroism and redemption that will stay with you long after you read the last page.”

– ASSOCIATED PRESS, UK

A “suspenseful, psychologically rich tale.” – BOOKLIST

“Written with breathtaking pace, tingling with suspense, leavened by humour and high on emotion and drama, The Mountain Story is one of the most memorable and moving novels you will read this year.”

– THE BLACKPOOL GAZETTE, UK

“An intelligent page turner.” – THE BOOKBAG, UK

“A read as awe-inspiring, unpredictable and raw as the landscape it is set in. The novel is brilliantly atmospheric and evocative.…”

– WE LOVE THIS BOOK, UK

“Lansens (The Girls) has written a colorful, adventurous wilderness survival novel…. [a] first-rate character-driven thriller.”

– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Her newest offering is more than just a survival tale. It is a story of friendship and loss, but also of growth and hope, and of family bonds that can either tie us down or help us soar. A great read for anyone who likes character-driven, coming-of-age stories with exquisitely described natural settings.”

– LIBRARY JOURNAL

LORI LANSENS

RIGHTS SOLDUS: Simon & Schuster,

June 2015Canada: Knopf, April 2015UK: Simon & Schuster,

May 2015Norway: Juritzen ForlagIsrael: Keter BooksNetherlands: The House

of BooksBrazil: BertrandUS Large Print: Center PointFrench: DenoelFrench Canada: Alto

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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


• A New York Times Editor’s Choice, April 2010 • A More Magazine Best Book of the Month, February 2010• An Amazon Best Read of the Month, August 2009

PRAISE FOR LORI LANSENS’ THE WIFE’S TALE“Sensitive but deliciously comic…. Lansens has more than a few tales worth telling.”

– THE NEW YORK TIMES

“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.”

– LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review

“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.”

– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“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.”

– WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

RIGHTS SOLDUS: Little, Brown & Co.,

2010UK: Virago, 2010Canada: Knopf, 2009Italy: MondadoriNetherlands: De Bezige BijBrazil (Portuguese):

Bertrand BrasilFrench-Canada: Editions

AltoUS Audio: Brilliance AudioPoland: W.A.B.US Large Print: Center Point

PublishersTurkey: Artemis YayinlariNorway: Juritzen ForlagFrench world rights (excl.

Canada): Editions l’Archipel

Film: Les Films Outsiders Inc.

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LORI LANSENS (continued)

RIGHTS SOLDWorld rights excl. Canada:

Little, Brown & Co., 2006Canada: Knopf, 2005Italy: MondadoriUK: ViragoNetherlands: De Bezige BijIsrael: Modan PublishersTurkey: SistemGermany: UllsteinPoland: MAGBrazil: Editora GloboTaiwan: CommonwealthSweden: Bra BockerSerbia: Beobooks Czech: BB ArtPortugal: Casa Das LetrasLithuania: Alma LitteraFrance: Editions l’ArchipelMainland China: Shanghai

Century PublishingNorway: Juritzen ForlagFrance (Book Club): France

LoisirsFrench Canada: Editions

Alto

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


• A 2007 Richard & Judy Book Club selection• A New York Times Editor’s Choice, 2006• A Wall Street Journal Summer Reads Pick for 2006• The #1 Booksense Pick for May 2006

The Girls charts the depths of a miraculous friendship, unsettling and beautiful in its closeness . As the two stories parallel, diverge, and intertwine, building to an unforgettable conclusion, Lansens aims at the heart of human experience and the fundamental joy of connection .

PRAISE FOR THE GIRLS

“I promise: you will never forget this extraordinary story… Lori Lansens’ blend of tragedy and comedy will touch you deeply.”

— ISABEL ALLENDE

“A tale of kindness, love, and the off things life throws at us, no matter our circumstances… The backdrop of sisters who share an essential brain vein offers complications that give the story special meaning, but Lansens’ writing is so haunting and filled with the ache of dreams unrealized, the characters seem just like everyone else… Make sure, by the end, you have plenty of tissues handy.”

— USA TODAY

“An engagingly perverse novel about twins conjoined spiritually as well as physically.”


“The Girls, by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada…. The Girls glides by like a watercolor dream, finding its poetry in dailiness and the universalities of human desire and connection…. Lansens, who has a gentle, open way of writing, makes of these two girls a kind of perfect marriage, harmonious and everlasting.”


“[The Girls] is an immensely readable novel, compelling and convincing …. [A]n enchanting blend of the extraordinary and the everyday.”

— THE NEW STATESMAN

“Now and then a book comes along that you want to savor—every phrase, every nuance, every little moment, you want to carry with you long after you’ve closed the cover. So it is with The Girls. … As much as you want Rose and Ruby’s story to continue, you know it can’t. But these unforgettable characters will live on outside the pages of this book.”

— THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

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RIGHTS SOLDWorld excl. Canada: Little,

Brown & Co., 2002UK: Virago, 2002Canada: Knopf, 2002France: BelfondSweden: BonnierNetherlands: De Bezige BijDenmark: LademannGermany: UllsteinGreece: OceanidaItaly: MondadoriIsrael: Modan PublishersNorway: Juritzen ForlagFinland: Bazar PublishersTurkey: Bu YayineviSpain: Circulo de Lectores

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


• Shortlisted for the Regional Commonwealth Book Prize, 2003• Shortlisted for the Rogers Fiction Prize, 2002• A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year, 2002• A Canadian bestseller

Heartbreaking and wise, Rush Home Road tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd and Sharla, a five-year-old mixed race girl abandoned to Addy’s care by her white mother .

PRAISE FOR RUSH HOME ROAD

“The story’s beauty is in its simplicity. Told coldly, without pretension, it reveals Lansens as an honest writer with a convincing knowledge of her characters and chosen period. She takes racism, love, hate, violence, and forgiveness in her stride.”

— SUNDAY EXPRESS, UK

“Rush Home Road, the story of a 70-year-old woman’s journey through the nearly unbearable sorrows of her past, in order to save an abandoned little girl, is a first novel of exquisite power, honesty, and conviction. Its portrait of how much has changed, and how little, over nearly a century, in the realms of race, love, hate, and loss, is quite nearly without flaws.”

— JACQUELYN MITCHARD, AUTHOR OF THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN AND A THEORY OF RELATIVITY

“A poignant novel about the power of love and forgiveness.”— BOOKLIST

“To read Lansens’ Rush Home Road is to read Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women coupled with Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, but as if both novels had been penned by Toni Morrison…. Lansens is a brilliant talent, with a profound, big-hearted comprehension of human flaws and humane possibilities.”


“Those two people [Addy and Sharla] are powerful creations who will grab even reluctant readers and hold them until the end, showing that you not only can go home again but you can also go triumphant.”

— NASHVILLE CITY PAPER

“A book with the power to captivate.”— THE IRISH TATLER

“A stunning debut novel.”— SUNDAY EXPRESS, UK

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Knopf, 2011Italy: Edizioni Piemme

Tell It to the TreesA beloved, bestselling writer returns to the domestic canvas of her award-winning books, Tamarind Woman and The Hero’s Walk, with a tense mystery and heart-rending story of family life set in an Indian household in a small northern town


A dead body is found frozen in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house . It’s the body of their tenant, Anu Krishnan . Why had she been foolish enough to go out into the blizzard? From this gripping opening, Anita Rau Badami threads a story of love and need, and of chilling secrets never told aloud .

PRAISE FOR ANITA RAU BADAMI’S TELL IT TO THE TREES

“Badami is deft at building and particularizing those characters fortunate enough to have a voice in her tale.”


“Anita Rau Badami’s Tell It to the Trees is about family secrets and the things you do in order to keep both secrets and family. The intensity of the narrative ebbs and flows and creeps—it would be a perfect psychological thriller if it wasn’t so very sad.”

— HELEN OYEYEMI, AUTHOR OF MR.FOX

“A riveting read.”— TORONTO SUN

“Part literary whodunit, part psychological drama, Tell It to the Trees is all about solitude and secrets—and how the two can combine to hold a family together; and, at the same time, tear it apart.”

— THE GAZETTE

“At first it is a howdunnit, later a whodunnit, but the art of the piece is in the whydunnit.”

— THE WINNIPEG REVIEW

“A chilling, cautionary tale at what happens when a family isolates itself against the rest of the world.”

— THE EDMONTON JOURNAL

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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


• Longlisted for the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award• Shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association 2007 Evergreen Awards

The Hero’s WalkWhen an orphaned North American granddaughter returns to her grandparents in India, the family must cope with clashing cultures


Tamarind Woman (also published as Tamarind Mem)A touching portrait of the relationship between two generations of women on two continents


• A WH Smith Travel Read-of-the-Week, UK

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Knopf, 2006France: Editions

Philippe Rey, 2007

Netherlands: De Geus, 2008

Italy: Marsilio, 2008

India: Penguin, 2007 Australia: Scribe

Publications, 2007

RIGHTS SOLDUS: Algonquin BooksUS: Paperback:

Ballantine UK: BloomsburyFrance: Stock

Spain: Ediciones Bronce

Catalan: Columna Edicions

Canada: Knopf

Greece: KastaniotisPoland: DialogPortugal: DifelItaly: MarsilioNetherlands: De Geus

RIGHTS SOLD US: Algonquin Books,

2002Canada: Knopf

UK: Bloomsbury, 2002

France: Editions Philippe Rey

India: PenguinGermany:

BertelsmannSerbia: Monoimanjana

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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 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, starred review

“With the elegant brush strokes of a miniaturist, Judy Fong Bates constructs, out of the debris of her family’s past, a poignant understanding of both her own ancestry and the passage we must all take to comprehend ourselves. The Year of Finding Memory is an engrossing account of that journey, which seeks, in the end, happiness and peace.”

— SHYAM SELVADURAI, AUTHOR OF FUNNY BOY

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

— LISA SEE, AUTHOR OF SHANGHAI GIRLS AND PEONY IN LOVE

“With admirable heart, Judy Fong Bates portrays the ever-present desire to make sense of our origins. She conjures unforgettable images of a childhood on two continents, and of two unhappy parents, who, even after the last page, we long to know, if only fleetingly, found love between them.”

— DENISE CHONG, AUTHOR OF THE CONCUBINE’S CHILDREN

JUDY FONG BATES

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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


• The 2007 “One Community, One Book” selection for Portland, Oregon• Winner of a 2006 Alex Award from the American Library Association• An American Library Association Notable Book for 2006

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.”

— KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review

“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, starred review

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

— ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

China Dog and Other Stories from the Chinese LaundryVivid, richly textured, wryly funny—a collection of linked stories about a host of Chinese immigrants from the turn of the century to the present


• A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, Fall 2002

PRAISE FOR JUDY FONG BATES’ CHINA DOG AND OTHER STORIES

“[Bates] is able to capture the reader with poignant details of physical surroundings … and conversational styles, making these stories vivid and memorable…. Bates’ stories will have wide appeal to American readers and will inspire Chinese immigrants, old and new, as well as their children…. The book will also transcend cultural barriers, striking a common chord with people of other ethnic groups who have followed similar routes to this new country we call home.”

— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“An exemplary collection. As in Margaret Laurence’s superb collection A Bird in the House, Bates’s deceptively simple narratives expose the hopes and hardships that define her characters’ lives.”


RIGHTS SOLDUS: Counterpoint Press,


Stewart, 2004Thailand: Sanskrit BooksMainland China: Nankai

University Press of Tianjin

RIGHTS SOLDUS: Counterpoint Press,


Stewart, 2005

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The Jade PeonyChinatown, Vancouver, in the early 1940s provides the backdrop for this fresh, uplifting novel, told through the reminiscences of the three young children


• Winner of the 1995 Trillium Prize• Winner of the 1995 City of Vancouver Book Award• Named one of the 100 Most Important Books in Canadian History• An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year 1998

PRAISE FOR WAYSON CHOY’S FICTION

“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.”


“[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.”

— BOSTON BOOK REVIEW

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

— THE SEATTLE TIMES

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.


• Winner of the 2004 Trillium Prize• Shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize• Longlisted for the 2006 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award• A national bestseller

WAYSON CHOY

RIGHTS SOLD US: Other Press, 2007Canada: Douglas & McIntyreAustralia & New Zealand: PenguinGermany: UllsteinFrance: Les Editions XYZNetherlands: De Vliegende HollanderMainland China: Nankai University

Press of Tianjin

RIGHTS SOLD US: Other Press, 2007Canada: Doubleday, 2004

Australia & New Zealand: Penguin, 2005

French Canada: Les Editions XYZ, 2012

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MEMOIRS

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 reveals the inner workings of Vancouver’s Chinatown in the 1930s.

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

• Shortlisted for the 1999 Governor General’s Award• Shortlisted for the inaugural Drainie-Taylor Prize, 1999• A 1999 Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year• A national bestseller• Winner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award, 2000

Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost DyingFramed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.


• A national bestseller• A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009

In 2001, Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack . As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of the machines that were keeping him alive, Choy heard the voices of his ancestors warning him that without a wife he would one day die alone . And yet through his ordeal Choy was never alone .

PRAISE FOR WAYSON CHOY’S NOT YET: A MEMOIR

“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.”


“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.”

— THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

RIGHTS SOLDCanada: Doubleday, 2009Australia & New Zealand: Scribe

PublicationsCroatia: Naklada LjevakFrench Canada: Les Editions XYZ,

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RIGHTS SOLDCanada: HarperCollins, 2014

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IndependenceA moving portrait of a journey to adulthood and the women who guide it


Independence is the touching story of the coming-of-age of a country and two teenagers in it, at the time of Barbados’ independence from Britain in 1966 . Fourteen-year-old Christopher Lucas and Stephanie King have been neighbours and best friends since they were born a few months apart . They have been raised by their impoverished grandmothers after their mothers went “over ’n’ away” to the USA and Canada to find work . The grandmothers are growing desperate about their ability to support their charges . When the novel opens, there is a sudden and unexplained rift between Christopher and Stephanie following the return from Canada of a benefactor named Mr . Lashley, who lavishes gifts on Stephanie .

PRAISE FOR CECIL FOSTER’S INDEPENDENCE

“Independence is a richly detailed novel, offering a vivid portrait of a Bajan society in flux.”

— QUILL & QUIRE

“[Foster’s] glorious new novel, by far his best effort to date, outshining even his memorable debut … This is a wonderful book, hopefully destined for wide readership and endless love.”

— THE NATIONAL POST“Foster’s story of a West Indies community in transition is a marvelous read, filled with humour, sorrow, and wit, and told with the deft and gentle touch of a master storyteller.”

— THOMAS KING, AUTHOR OF THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN

Visit Cecil online at www.cecilfoster.ca

No Man in the HouseThe touching tale of boys whose parents have abandoned them


PRAISE FOR CECIL FOSTER’S NO MAN IN THE HOUSE“He shows the brave characters of West Indian women as no one else has.”

— E. ANNIE PROULX, AUTHOR OF THE SHIPPING NEWS

“A moving story, rich in detail, told with great sensitivity and affection.”— NEW YORK NEWSDAY

“[One] of those rare books that do indeed celebrate indomitable characters and the resilience of the human spirit…. A remarkable debut.”

— KIRKUS REVIEWS

CECIL FOSTER

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The MessengerAn explosive and timely thriller that takes the reader into the mind of a terrorist


Daria is a refugee from one of the many overcrowded, poverty-stricken refugee camps that dot the Middle East . She has been groomed for years by her terrorist handlers . She is a lustrous diamond, polished, educated at the finest schools and Westernized to wipe out any trace of her Middle Eastern heritage . She passes herself off as a cultured, dark-skinned Italian woman from an aristocratic Florentine family, all the while harboring a seething hatred of the West and everything it represents . The wars that claimed the lives of her brothers and her father feed her need for revenge—and revenge she will have . America will lie in waste at her feet . But soon she has a scientist on her trail who thinks he can put a stop to her lethal journey . He has long predicted that something like this would happen, and has been consistently ignored . Now is his chance to be vindicated .

PRAISE FOR STEPHEN MILLER’S THE MESSENGER

“The Messenger is a fascinating shocker, thoroughly engaging, smart and eerily plausible.”

— BC BOOKWORLD

“A chilling, heart-thumping, masterfully-written thriller. Stephen Miller has created a complex anti-heroine in the character of Daria Vermiglio, a portrait of a bio-terrorist so well rendered that we can relate to her, understand her, and identify with her journey from complete conviction to regret for her actions once she meets some of her victims: the American poor.”

— CARMEN AGUIRRE, AUTHOR OF SOMETHING FIERCE: MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTER

“A real snake-charmer of a tale, The Messenger doesn’t unfold, it uncoils. You can only stare, appalled and fascinated, unable to avert your eyes. A riveting read, from beginning to end. This is Cormack McCarthy territory. It goes way beyond its genre.”

— JOHN MACLACHLAN GRAY, AUTHOR OF NOT QUITE DEAD

“The Messenger, Stephen Miller’s first novel in five years and his best to date, brings us deeply into the psyches of two very different people on either side of the terror divide…. Their meeting is inevitable and shattering, the culmination of Miller’s slow boil of mounting dread featuring people far too close to ourselves…. Miller delivers suspense with the elegance of a French press.”

— THE NATIONAL POST

“The Messenger is a thriller that lets the reader see through the terrorist’s eyes. It’s a fascinating and terrifying read, mainly because it is within the realm of reason.”

— THE OKLAHOMAN

RIGHTS SOLDNorth America: Bantam,

2012Israel: KinneretDenmark: Forlaget PunktumSpain: Editorial ViceversaSerbia: BeoknjigaMainland China: Yilin PressPoland: MuzaAudio: Recorded Books

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RIGHTS SOLDUS: Free Press, 2012Canada: Knopf, 2011UK: Virago, 2012Netherlands: OrlandoGermany: Mare VerlagGerman Paperback:

SuhrkampItaly: Keller Editore

ShelterA spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story, Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their missing mother, and brings to life a breathtaking landscape


• A 2012 Waterstones 11 Debut Novel• Shortlisted for the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction, 2012• Shortlisted for the Evergreen Award, 2012

When a devoted mother disappears, her daughters set out to discover who she really was, besides being a mom . Shelter draws you into the world of two teenaged sisters whose mother has vanished into the wilderness of British Columbia .

PRAISE FOR FRANCES GREENSLADE’S SHELTER

“Frances Greenslade’s stunning debut novel … a new voice has emerged from the varied wilderness of the Canadian fiction scene which is as clear as a glacier-fed stream and as compelling as that which tells a haunting story by the campfire.”

— THE SCOTSMAN

“The longing for a lost mother has rarely been expressed so soulfully. The yearning of these two vulnerable young sisters for their mother, who has disappeared, is palpable. I was entirely absorbed in their precarious situation and their desire to find her, yet aware that their mother’s gift was the resourcefulness they needed to survive. Greenslade is a fresh new voice that you are sure to hear again.”

— BOBBIE ANN MASON, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET

“This book casts a strong spell. Greenslade depicts the battle between different types of love with harrowing intensity and quiet compassion. The landscape is so vividly rendered, it is a character all on its own, and sisters Maggie and Jenny are unforgettable in their resilience. Shelter shows us how wilderness can be a safer haven than a home with four walls, but also how love, despite its heartbreaking unpredictability, remains the shelter we desire most.”

— JAMIE ZEPPA, AUTHOR OF BEYOND THE SKY AND THE EARTH: A JOURNEY INTO BHUTAN

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