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Series: Working the Dead Beat Hardcover Sandra Martin 9780887842467 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2012

Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin offers an extraordinary collection of obituaries of Canada’s most legendary and infamous political figures, activists, celebrities, theorists, and cultural icons, as well as an intimate portrait of the life of the obit writer.Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada’s famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbr... + Read More
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Series: The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011 New and Updated Edition New edition Paperback Misha Glenny 9781770892736 $29.95 HISTORY Sep 29, 2012

"The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkans people." — San Francisco ChronicleFrom the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket comes this unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century which gives readers the essential historical background to more than one hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vivid... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures The Universe Within Paperback Neil Turok 9781770890152 $19.95 SCIENCE Sep 29, 2012

The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come.In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores tr... + Read More
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Series: The Munk Debates Has the European Experiment Failed? Paperback Niall Ferguson 9781770892286 $14.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2012

In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavours. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion. Modern Europe's stunning achievements aside, its sovereign debt crisis has shaken the world's largest political and economic union to its core. Can the federal institutions and shared values of Europeans meet the challenges of debt crisis that are as much political as economic? Or, are Europe's current wo... + Read More
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Series: How to Host a Dinner Party Hardcover Corey Mintz 9781770892309 $19.95 COOKING May 25, 2013

From the author of the Toronto Star’s wildly popular column “Fed” comes the essential guide to throwing the perfect dinner party in any situation. We’ve all been there: twenty minutes before guests arrive, and you’re unsure if you’ve got enough wine, or enough chairs, or whether your friend is a vegetarian or a vegan. Hosting a dinner party is hard, but Corey Mintz can help. For his popular Toronto Star column, "Fed," he has presided over 115 dinner parties, every week opening his home to strangers and friends alike in an effort to perfect the ... + Read More
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Series: The Truth About Luck What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma Paperback Iain Reid 9781770892415 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2013

"Reid’s writing is . . . engaging and humorous." — Winnipeg Free PressIn The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird’s Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation ? which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she be... + Read More
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Series: Is Work Killing You? Paperback Dr. David Posen MD 9781770892750 $19.95 SELF-HELP Feb 02, 2013

A timely, insightful, and essential guide to conquering stress from the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief.From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating ? and eliminating ? excessive stress in the workplace. Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology... + Read More
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Series: People Park Paperback Pasha Malla 9780887842160 $24.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2012

"Pasha Malla is an impressive young voice that gives hope for a future generation of new Canadian writing talent." — Globe and MailIt’s the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrationist Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section... + Read More
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Series: Carnival Hardcover Rawi Hage 9780887842351 $29.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2012

Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeIn the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers -- the spiders and the flies. The spiders patiently sit in their cars and wait for the calls to come. But the flies are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised hands of passengers among life's perpetual flux. Fly is a wanderer and a knower. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying carpet pilot from the Ea... + Read More
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Series: Mister Roger and Me Paperback Marie-Renée Lavoie 9781770892026 $22.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2012

Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight years old, even though she claims to be ten. When Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor, and dreams about dying, moves into the working-class neighbourhood where Helen lives with her family, the two make uneasy acquai... + Read More
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Series: Bone and Bread Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9781770890091 $22.95 FICTION Mar 30, 2013

A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods ? and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal’s Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood,... + Read More
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Series: Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Paperback Théodora Armstrong 9781770891029 $22.95 FICTION Mar 16, 2013

"Théodora Armstrong’s stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony JarmanSet against the divergent landscape of British Columbia ? from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns ? Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy.Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various ? and as compelling ? as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his staff while... + Read More
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Series: For Sure Paperback France Daigle 9781770892040 $24.95 FICTION Jun 29, 2013

For Sure is the tender story of a young family living in Moncton, New Brunswick, and a subtle, complex exploration of the relationship between place, language, and culture.For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose ? which is occasionally interrupted by surprising bits of information, biography, and definitions that appear on the page ? Daigle perfectly captures the essence of a place and offers us a refl... + Read More
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Series: Time Warped Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception Paperback Claudia Hammond 9781770892125 $22.95 SCIENCE Sep 15, 2012

"A fascinating and at times mind-boggling book that will change the way you think about time." — Financial TimesWe are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, acclaimed writer ... + Read More
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Series: The Blue Book Paperback A.L. Kennedy 9781770891845 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

"A masterful novel, imaginatively crafted, shaped by big, precisely articulated emotion." — The TimesElizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK ? temporarily ? Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of crimes. Together they acted as fake mediums, perfecting the arcane skills practiced by effective frauds. Elizabeth finally rejected what once seemed an in... + Read More
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Series: Still Counting the Dead Paperback Frances Harrison 9781770893047 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 13, 2012

"An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone." — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a stri... + Read More
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Series: Nice Weather Paperback Frederick Seidel 9781770892620 $19.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2012

A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (New York Times Book Review). "Something is going on. Something is wrong."Frederick Seidel ? the "ghoul" (Chicago Review), the "triumphant outsider" (Contemporary Poetry Review) ? returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel ? and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.
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Series: Doppler Electronic book text, EPUB Erlend Loe 9781770893016 $16.95 FICTION Jun 06, 2012

A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living. Hi... + Read More
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Series: Doppler Hardcover Erlend Loe 9781770893009 $19.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living. Hi... + Read More
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Series: A List Survival Paperback Margaret Atwood 9781770892521 $16.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jul 12, 2012

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer ... + Read More
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Series: A List The Circle Game New edition Paperback Margaret Atwood 9781770892781 $14.95 POETRY Oct 13, 2012

As a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award–winning The Circle Game, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam. The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know i... + Read More
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Series: A List Civil Elegies 2nd edition Paperback Dennis Lee 9781770892491 $14.95 POETRY Oct 13, 2012

Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadian literature and Lee’s career.
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Series: A List Poems for All the Annettes Paperback Al Purdy 9781770892606 $14.95 POETRY Oct 13, 2012

Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here—"At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte Hotel"—but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expande... + Read More
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Series: A List Five Legs New edition Paperback Graeme Gibson 9781770892576 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that "Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of." Or indeed any young American novel — including Pynchon and Farina. Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald — one a professor, the other his student — caught in the grip of the North Amer... + Read More
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Series: A List The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories New edition Paperback Roch Carrier 9781770892514 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love. This edition features a new introduction.
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Series: A List Kamouraska New edition Paperback Anne Hébert 9781770892545 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love. Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book p... + Read More
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Series: A List The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore Paperback Lisa Moore 9781770892552 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively commonplace backdrops — a St. John's hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack machines; a half-built house "like a rib cage around a lungful of sky" - and the results linger long in the memory. The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore shows us that love, alongside desire, can sometimes come as a surprise, sometimes an ambush. She splices moments and images together so adroitly, so vividly... + Read More
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Series: The Outlander 3rd edition Paperback Gil Adamson 9781770892590 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western wilderness. She is nineteen years old and half mad. Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-flight and propels the reader through a gripping road trip with a twist — the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck young woman. Along the way she encounters characters of all stripe... + Read More
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Series: A List De Niro's Game 3rd edition Paperback Rawi Hage 9781770892507 $14.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2012

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: obsessed with leavin... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee Novel The Red Pole of Macau An Ava Lee Novel: Book 4 Paperback Ian Hamilton 9780887842542 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

"A terrific story . . . Hamilton has created a marvellous character in Ava Lee." — Margaret Cannon, Globe and MailIn The Red Pole of Macau, Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull out of a multi-million-dollar real estate deal in the territory of Macau. The developers are threatening to halt construction unless Michael and his business partner put up another $80 million; the bank is looking for repayment on their loan; and her father is prepared to sell everything to protect his first-born son.When Ava enlists Uncle for help, she discov... + Read More
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Series: A Marko della Torre Novel Zagreb Cowboy Paperback Alen Mattich 9781770891081 $19.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2012

Set in 1991 Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut novel in a taut new crime fiction series, featuring one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction: Marko della Torre.Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della Torre has been working both sides of the law ? but somewhere along the way he’s crossed the line. When a corrupt cop called Strumbc helps three hired Bosnian thugs to hunt him down and kill him, della Torre makes a run for it through Croatia, Italy, ... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee Novel The Scottish Banker of Surabaya An Ava Lee Novel: Book 5 Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781770892347 $19.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2013

"[A] globe-hopping crime thriller." — National PostAva begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a Scot, but in actuality is a front for an elaborate money-laundering operation for Italian mobsters. The relationship between Ava and the Scotsman turns nasty and personal. Meanwhile, Uncle’s health problems become apparent...
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions How Should a Person Be? New edition Paperback Sheila Heti 9781770892484 $18.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2012

"Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious . . . A book that risks everything." — Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than YouFrom the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Stories and Ticknor comes a bold interrogation into the possibility of a beautiful life. How Should a Person Be? is a novel of many identities: an autobiography of the mind, a postmodern self-help book, and a fictionalized portrait of the artist as a young woman ? of two such artists, in fact.For reasons multiple and mysterious, Sheila finds herself in a q... + Read More
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Series: The Middle Stories Paperback Sheila Heti 9781770893214 $14.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2012

Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess, a boy falls hopelessly in love with a monkey, and a man with a hat keeps apocalyptic thoughts at bay by resolving to follow a plan that he admits he won’t stick to. Globe and Mail critic Russell Smith has described Heti’s stories as cryptic fairy tales without morals at the end, ... + Read More
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Series: The O'Briens Paperback Peter Behrens 9781770890336 $18.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2012

"A major accomplishment." — New York TimesThe O’Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with ... + Read More
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Series: Easy to Like Paperback Edward Riche 9781770891050 $18.95 FICTION Jul 14, 2012

" . . . hilarious . . .laugh-out-loud funny . . . " — Maclean’sShortlisted for the BMO Winterset AwardFrom award-winning author Edward Riche comes a savagely funny satire about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. Disillusioned by his floundering Los Angeles existence ? his writing career is at a low, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the Feds, and his son, a former child star, is in prison ? Elliot does what any self-respecting wino would do: escape to France. But fate has other things in store. Stranded in ... + Read More
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Series: The Emperor of Lies Paperback Steve Sem-Sandberg 9781770890343 $19.95 FICTION Aug 18, 2012

Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director ? and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. From one of Sweden’s most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski’s monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next... + Read More
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Series: DarkMarket Paperback Misha Glenny 9781770891067 $18.95 TRUE CRIME May 12, 2012

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize" . . . an engrossing yarn . . . DarkMarket offers an eminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages." — Wall Street JournalDo you think your computer is secure? Don’t be so confident, says Misha Glenny, acclaimed journalist and author of the international bestseller McMafia. His explosive new book DarkMarket explores the rise of hackers and how ? through cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage ? they have supplanted traditional crime syndicates to become t... + Read More
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Series: The Antagonist Paperback Lynn Coady 9781770891043 $18.95 FICTION Jun 09, 2012

". . . by turns angry, funny, tender, and sad . . ." — Globe andMailThe hulking Gordon Rankin has spent his life cast as an enforcer, a goon — by his classmates, his coaches, and especially his own father, Gordon Senior, an unfortunate victim of small man syndrome. Rank duly accepts his role and spends the majority of his high school and university years implementing the violent commands of others. Until one day tragedy strikes, with only Rank to blame. With nobody to turn to, he disappears. But almost twenty years later Rank discovers that an ... + Read More
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Series: To the Island Paperback Meaghan Delahunt 9781847082749 $14.95 USD FICTION Sep 07, 2012

He disappeared. That's all she really knew. In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile and haunted by what happened to him under the rule of the Colonels in the 1960s. Slowly Lena unlocks the secrets of her father's past, and in getting to know him begins to understand the dark realities of contemporary Greek history. To the Island is a book about the impact of larger political events... + Read More
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Series: Gioconda A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci Paperback Lucille Turner 9781847083593 $15.99 FICTION Feb 08, 2013

A solitary child, Leonardo da Vinci's only intimate is Lisa Gherardini, the girl who spies on him in his workshop. Spurned by his tutor, he is sent by his despairing father to Florence as an apprentice. Under the guiding hand of Verrocchio, the master sculptor, he begins to make his name. But success requires sacrifice; Florence demands a level of conformity impossible for him. Forced to leave, Leonardo places himself at the service of the charismatic, power-thirsty Duke of Milan. His journey leads him back to Lisa and the portrait he has waite... + Read More
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Series: Leaving the Atocha Station Paperback Ben Lerner 9781847087454 $18.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, an... + Read More
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Series: The Magazine of New Writing Granta 120 Medicine Paperback John Freeman 9781905881611 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 01, 2012

From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot toddy that was Grandmother's remedy for bruised knees, broken hearts and everything besides - here are stories about the ways we face our ailments and the ways we seek to cure ourselves. Rose Tremain contributes an extract from her highly anticipated new novel; Alice Munro writes a haunting, beautiful memoir about a strange phase in her childhood; Gish Jen tells a story about two brothers who fix up a house - but can't quite fix up the ageing parents who will live i... + Read More
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Series: Make Believe A True Story Paperback Diana Athill 9781847086327 $15.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 05, 2012

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her ent... + Read More
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Series: After A Funeral New edition Paperback Diana Athill 9781847086334 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2012

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon. But Didi's sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side - he was a gambler, a drinker and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Athill explores the thr... + Read More
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Series: All Made Up Paperback Janice Galloway 9781847083272 $15.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 05, 2012

In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her mother and was more excited by Latin and school orchestra than by boys. But as she struggled with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she thought she knew began to change. Combining visceral descriptions of puberty, sex and school-room politics with the story of a fa... + Read More
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Series: The Ego Trick Paperback Julian Baggini 9781847082732 $15.99 PHILOSOPHY Mar 01, 2012

Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented and fluid? Is it known to you, or are you as much a mystery to yourself as others are to you?With his usual wit, infectious curiosity and bracing scepticism, Julian Baggini sets out to answer these fundamental and unsettling questi... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Hardcover Caspar Henderson 9781847081728 $39.95 NATURE Oct 01, 2012

An entrancing guide to the world's most far-fetched creatures - a unique blend of cutting edge science and philosophical meditation on what we humans can learn from the extraordinary animals around us.From Axolotl to Zebrafish, meet a world of 'barely imagined beings': real creatures that are often stranger and more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thoug... + Read More
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Series: Gossip from the Forest The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales Paperback Sara Maitland 9781847084293 $29.95 TRAVEL Nov 01, 2012

Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient and primal landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of fairytales. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cult... + Read More
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Series: The Magazine of New Writing Granta 121 Best of Young Brazilian Novelists Paperback John Freeman 9781905881635 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 01, 2012

Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - the Best of Young issues have been some of the magazine's most influential. In 2010, Granta looked beyond the English-speaking world with Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Now, with its first-ever issue fully translated from Portuguese in partnership with Granta em Português, the magazine continues its work of celebrating emerging talent from around the world. ... + Read More
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Series: Remedy Paperback Anne Marsella 9781846270925 $18.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2012

Meet Remedy: a young, single American living on the rive gauche and toiling at an on-line fashion magazine. She may have her feet on well-trodden expat ground, but she has her head in the clouds and the path she walks through Paris is distinctly original. When she's not dreaming up articles about this season's must-have accessory or foiling her best friend's attempts at match-making, she attends mass with a blind nun, shimmies her way through belly-dancing classes and meditates on the lives of the saints. All the while, believing that spiritual... + Read More
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Series: The Falafel King Is Dead Paperback Sara Shilo 9781846272226 $15.99 FICTION Sep 07, 2012

The town has lost its famed falafel king, but the Dadon family have also lost a father and husband. Living with the daily threat of Katyusha missiles from neighbouring Lebanon, and struggling to survive amid the rubble of their lives, Simona and her three children each find their own way of coping with their grief, their fear and their hopes. Raw, lyrical, shocking and moving, Sara Shilo's powerful debut novel recounts the life of an ordinary Israeli family over the course of a single, extraordinary day in prose that we have never before encoun... + Read More
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Series: The Foundling Paperback Agnes Desarthes 9781846274121 $18.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2013

Jerome is a calm man - at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unexpected grief. As he struggles to make sense of the loss and his own reaction to it, he finds himself assailed by emotions and memories he has allowed to lie dormant: the residual feelings for his ex-wife; a baffling new attraction to a stranger; a precarious friendship with a retired policeman; and, above all, unsettling questions about his own past and the family he never knew. In returning to the... + Read More
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Series: Slavery Inc. Paperback Lydia Cacho 9781846274213 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2012

Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the... + Read More
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Series: Cruel Britannia A Secret History of Torture Paperback Ian Cobain 9781846274893 $19.95 HISTORY Jan 01, 2013

The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when it comes to dealing with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. As the enquiries into the on-going abuse of terror suspects uncover an ever more sinister and unpalatable chain of complicity - going right to the top of government - it is time to re-examine the assumption that the British don't 'do' torture. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the account... + Read More