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Governor General’s Shortlists Announced
The Canada Council has announced the shortlists for the 2009 Governor General’s Awards, and I’m thrilled to have nine titles on the shortlists:
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Fiction:
The Mistress of Nothing, by Kate Pullinger |
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Non-Fiction:
The Cello Suites, by Eric Siblin |
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Drama:
Where the Blood Mixes, by Kevin Loring |
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Another Home Invasion, by Joan MacLeod 978-0889226227 | $16.95 pb | in stock Talon Books / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast) |
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Children’s Literature – Illustration:
Bella’s Tree, by Janet Russell, illustrated by Jirina Marton |
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My Great Big Mamma, by Olivier Ka, illustrated by Luc Melanson 978-0888999429 | $18.95 hc | in stock Groundwood Books (HarperCollins) |
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Alego, by Ningeokuluk Teevee 978-0888999436 | $17.95 hc | in stock Groundwood Books (HarperCollins) |
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Translation – French to English:
A Slight Case of Fatigue, by Stephane Bourguignon, translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott |
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Empire of Desire, by Thierry Hentsch, translated by Fred A. Reed 978-0889225879 | $29.95 pb | in stock Talon Books / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast) |
Add comment October 14, 2009
Lisa Foad wins ReLit Award for Short Stories
The Night is a Mouth, by Lisa Foad
978-1550961140 | $21.95 pb | in stock
Exile Editions / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
It was announced on Sept 20 that Lisa Foad’s The Night Is A Mouth has won the ReLit Award in the short stories category.
Add comment September 28, 2009
PW reviews Unbridled Books’ Shimmer & 31 Hours
Shimmer, by Eric Barnes
978-1932961959 | $24.95 pb | in stock
Unbridled Books / McArthur and Co. (HarperCollins)
31 Hours, by Masha Hamilton
978-1-932961-83-6 | $29.95 hc | available September
Unbridled Books / McArthur and Co. (HarperCollins)
Publishers Weekly has reviewed two of Unbridled Books’ titles:
Shimmer
This topical fiction debut from Memphis news publisher Barnes is a cautionary thriller about ambition and corruption in corporate America. Robbie Case, the 35-year-old CEO (and largest shareholder) of Core Communications has managed to grow the business from 30 employees to more than 5,000 in three short years. But his $20 billion company, linking mainframe computers worldwide to the Internet backbone, is built on faulty technology, false promises and questionable finances. Weary of the day when everything inevitably unravels, Case’s slow (but accelerating) downward spiral drives the narrative through a number of timely plots, including Ponzi schemes and toxic assets: “The people who worked here, the companies we acquired, the stock we sold—all of it was an unseen disease.” Readers may find it difficult, if not impossible, to empathize with Case, but the corporate intrigue should hook anyone fascinated by the collapse of Wall Street and the crimes of Bernie Madoff.
31 Hours
Hamilton’s gorgeous and complex fourth novel tracks the 31 hours before Jonas, a sensitive young man raised by idealistic parents (now divorced), straps on a vest of explosives and enters the New York City subway system to martyr himself. The novel begins with Jonas’s mother, Carol, knowing, with a mother’s instinct, that something is very wrong with her son. Thus begins an odyssey that takes her back to her ex-husband, Jake; to Jonas’s girlfriend, Vic; and, finally to the authorities. Hamilton touches on many perspectives, including that of Vic, a dancer who is shocked that her longtime friendship with Jonas recently turned to love; Vic’s younger sister, Mara, who tries to fix their parents’ failing marriage; Sonny Hirt, an especially perceptive homeless man who senses something is very wrong on the subway where he’s panhandling. Through all of this, Jonas ritually prepares for this final act of his life, but without the single-minded fanaticism one expects. It’s a very tense narrative, vividly imagined and eerily plausible.
Add comment July 28, 2009
Wolf Brother chosen for Today Show’s book club
Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551318 | $9.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
The Today Show has chosen WOLF BROTHER by Michelle Paver, the first book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, as the next pick for “Al’s Book Club.” Michelle’s segment will air July 30.
The information on the rest of the series is below. The sixth and final book, Ghost Hunter, will be releasing in hardcover in October.
Spirit Walker, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551134 | $9.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
Soul Eater, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551141 | $9.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
Outcast, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551158 | $9.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
Oath Breaker, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551165 | $9.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
Ghost Hunter, by Michelle Paver
978-1842551752 | $18.95 hc | available October
Orion / McArthur (HarperCollins)
Add comment July 28, 2009
McArthur mysteries get 4 nominations for Arthur Ellis Awards & win the Agatha Award
The Cruellest Month, by Louise Penny
978-0755340750 | $10.99 mm | in stock
Headline / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
The Murder Stone, by Louise Penny
9780755341016 | $24.95 pb | in stock
Headline / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
Margarita Nights, by Phyllis Smallman
978-1552787632 | $10.99 mm | in stock
McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
Transgression, by James W. Nichol
978-1552787649 | $10.99 mm | in stock
McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
The Tsunami File, by Michael Rose
978-1552787625 | $10.99 mm | in stock
McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
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| Louise Penny has won the Agatha Award on May 2 for her novel The Cruellest Month, and she is also nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel for her latest book The Murder Stone. |
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| Two other McArthur titles are nominated in the Best Novel category for the Arthur Ellis Awards this year: Transgression, by James W. Nichol; and The Tsunami File, by Michael Rose. |
Phyllis Smallman, also a McArthur author, has been nominated for the Arthur Ellis for Best First Novel for her book Margarita Nights. The winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards dinner on Thursday, June 4. |
Add comment May 3, 2009
Globe reviews Barry Callaghan’s latest
Beside Still Waters, by Barry Callaghan
978-1552787908 | $29.95 hc | in stock
McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
Barry Callaghan’s new novel Beside Still Waters was reviewed in the Globe & Mail on Apr. 4:
A breathtaking journey by water
As past and present shuffle and reshuffle like a pack of cards, a bittersweet story emerges of innocence lost and regained
DIANA KUPREL
April 4, 2009
Two portentous enigmas lie at the heart of Beside Still Waters, a powerful and uncompromising love story by renowned writer Barry Callaghan. The first, signalled in the epigraph, is "we are all our ages at once." The other comes from one of the novel’s characters, a Catholic priest who compares life to an algebra equation, the solution to which is 2 = 1: "What’s absolutely not true is proven to be true, and until you understand how to find out where the mistake is, and live with it, you understand nothing."
Beside Still Waters tells the story of photojournalist Adam Waters and his quest to find the woman, a dancer named Gabrielle O’Leary, whom he has loved since childhood and who has disappeared twice from his life. The first time was about a decade earlier in their hometown of Toronto, when at the age of 19 she fled to New York after her mother committed suicide. The second is in Puerto Rico, where, nine years later, they meet by accident in a casino. She is in the company of a mysterious gambler named Mio. They resume their love affair, but after a few glorious days, she steals away early one morning while he sleeps.
As Adam journeys toward a leper colony deep in the bush of war-ravaged Gabon, where he has tracked her down, his encounters with a veritable bazaar of characters – from a Bavarian oom-pa-pa band to the lunatic colonel in motley fatigues who waxes poetic on the technology of war and the merits of the crossbow – become increasingly fraught, setting the stage for a deadly showdown. Allusions to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness are not subtle.
Adam’s relentless quest is counterpointed by his memories of growing up Catholic in Toronto, the reunion with Gabrielle in Puerto Rico and his experiences as a photojournalist in the Middle East. As past and present shuffle and reshuffle in Adam’s consciousness, like a pack of cards, a bittersweet story emerges of innocence lost and regained, of grief and reconciliation.
Beside Still Waters is a breathtaking novel. Callaghan’s prose is pure poetry in the way in which gestures and objects, animate and inanimate (e.g., birds, balloons), accrete meanings and transubstantiate, in how detritus or the discarded (e.g., shoes) becomes integral to the fictional constellation. It is exuberantly erotic in its depiction of sexuality’s joy. Yet the novel is also deeply disturbing in the violence that piles up and in which one becomes implicated, in its exploration of the evil that can penetrate and compose a life. And it is fearless in broaching such hard moral issues as the brutalization of children.
Add comment April 15, 2009
IMPAC award shortlist announced
Man Gone Down, by Michael Thomas
978-0-8021-7029-3 | $18.00 pb | in stock
Black Cat Books / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)
The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles, Roy Jacobsen
9780719521126 | $16.50 pb | temporarily out of stock (expected May)
John Murray Publishers / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
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| The IMPAC shortlist was announced last week. We have two titles on there and both may be possibly under your radar: MAN GONE DOWN by Michael Thomas and THE BURNT OUT TOWN OF MIRACLES by Roy Jacobsen. The winner will be announced on June 11th. |
Add comment April 8, 2009
2008 Nobel Prize in Literature winner available from McArthur & Co.
The Prospector, by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
9781567923803 | $16.95 pb | available November
David R. Godine / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
McArthur & Company are pleased to announce that they are the new Canadian agents for David R. Godine of Boston. THE PROSPECTOR, from 2008 Nobel Prize in literature winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, is now available for ordering in paperback from Harper Collins. Another of Le Clézio’s works, THE DESERT, is being translated and will be available in 2009.
The Nobel Committee terms Le Clézio an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
Add comment October 27, 2008
Globe & Mail reviews new mysteries from Tana French, Elena Forbes
The Likeness, by Tana French
9780340924785 | $24.95 pb | in stock
Hodder & Stoughton / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
Our Lady of Pain, by Elena Forbes
9780887848117 | $21.95 pb | in stock
House of Anansi Press (HarperCollins)
These two fabulous reviews ran on the weekend in The Globe & Mail, by Margaret Cannon. Both are excellent reviews, both books ship from Harper Collins and both are in stock:
THE LIKENESS
By Tana French
This premise of this knockout novel is so clever it’s difficult to pare it down for a review. Dublin police officer Cassie Maddox was once an undercover operative. Her false identity was Lexie Madison. Four years later, she’s called to a crime scene. The victim, who could be her twin, is … Lexie Madison, and her life is identical to the fake biography Maddox once created. Who is this woman, and why did she assume a cop’s undercover identity? French, author of the creepy Into the Woods, doesn’t stop there. The man who sent Maddox undercover wants her to go there again, to enter fake Lexie’s world and see a murder case "from the inside out." So Lexie Madison is revived to uncover her own murderer. Long (but not too long), dense and filled with wonderful characters and atmosphere, The Likeness is riveting.
OUR LADY OF PAIN
By Elena Forbes
Readers of Forbes’s debut, Die With Me, have been waiting for the return of Detective Mark Tartaglia, And what a return! In this intelligent, beautifully constructed novel, the victim is London art dealer Rachel Tenison. She is found in Holland Park on a snowy February day, naked and frozen, her body positioned symbolically. Tartaglia and partner Sam Donovan seek a killer, but Tenison wasn’t the first victim, and she won’t be the last. Furthermore, she had some unusual tastes. Forbes provides a terrific plot, great characters and plenty of atmosphere.
Add comment October 23, 2008
New Release Roundup: Titles Shipping Now
Here’s a quick list of some of the more important fall books that are in the warehouses and shipping now:
Doors Open, by Ian Rankin
9780752890715 | $24.95 pb | in stock
Orion / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)
Ian Rankin’s DOORS OPEN is now shipping from Harper Collins (McArthur) and will be soon on National bestseller lists. And don’t forget the final Rebus novel, Exit Music, is now out in mass market paperback (978-0752893952).
Payback, by Margaret Atwood
9780887848100 | $18.95 pb | in stock
House of Anansi (HarperCollins)
Also, Margaret Atwood’s new Massey Lecture PAYBACK (Anansi) will hit Harper’s warehouse Sept 12. She hits the road to deliver the lectures in October, and they’ll be broadcast on CBC in early November.
Cockroach, by Rawi Hage
978088784209 | $29.95 hc | in stock
House of Anansi (HarperCollins)
Off to War, by Deborah Ellis
9780888998958 | $12.95 pb | in stock
House of Anansi (HarperCollins)
Both Deborah Ellis’s book OFF TO WAR and Rawi Hage’s book COCKROACH are 
getting lots of fabulous reviews and media attention. Cockroach has just been longlisted for this year’s Giller Prize as well.
Born With a Tooth, new edition, by Joseph Boyden
978-1-897151-34-1 | $20.00 pb | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)
Joseph Boyden’s new book is coming from Penguin this fall and will push sales for this paperback. His new book has also been longlisted for the Giller.
M is for Moose, by Charles Pachter
978-1-897151-33-4 | $20.00 hc | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)
This book is beginning to take on a life of its own: please take note. I’ll update publicity and promotion developments as they are booked. At the moment, the book will be featured in the October issue CANADIAN FAMILY. This could be THE kids Canadiana art book of the Christmas season!
Add comment September 18, 2008
