In an overwhelming time, stories can help us cope and better understand the world at large. There is a lot to be afraid of these days, but allow @revawrites to sweep you away in her debut that the @globeandmail calls "witheringly incisive and consistently pitch-perfect, Good Citizens Need Not Fear is nothing short of a comic triumph. My new hero, Reva, is – no doubt about it – cooking with gas." You can order a physical copy from your local bookstore, or you can download the eBook or audiobook from your favourite online retailer!
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Women Talking
We are delighted by the wave of fantastic reviews rolling in for Miriam Toews's #WomenTalking, in this week of the US edition's release. Ron Charles of The Washington Post praises WOMEN TALKING as “a deeply sympathetic understanding of the way women talk… [Toews] has long been one of my favorite contemporary authors. The compressed structure of WOMEN TALKING makes it unlike her earlier novels, but once again she draws us into the lives of obscure people and makes their survival feel as crucial and precarious as our own.”
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Brava, Miriam!
The moment we found out Kate Harris won the #RBCTaylorPrize for her incredible memoir, LANDS OF LOST BORDERS. Kate, we are so proud and so happy for you! Brava ❤️✨🚵♀️❤️
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Forty years ago, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, John Irving's fourth novel, was published. Since its initial publication in 1978, John's captivating, wise, and deeply funny protest novel has sold upwards of 10 million copies in North America alone. In celebration of this remarkable achievement, and in recognition of the need for Garp and Jenny's stories now, more than ever, we are proud to publish this stunning, limited 40th anniversary edition of the book, featuring a new introduction from John himself.
In his riveting introduction, John Irving writes: "We live in sexually intolerant times. That's why this forty-year-old novel isn't out-of-date, but it should be. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP was written in what I believed was a sad time. Isn't this a sad time, too? Isn't my country more divided today than when GARP was a work-in-progress? ... It's true that THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP is a protest novel. Yet, when I was writing it, I never imagined I'd still be protesting forty years later."
It is a privilege and an honour to publish John Irving and his work. Earlier this year, John was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. Join us as we continue to celebrate John and the world he has created. Have you had the joy of meeting Garp, Jenny, Roberta, Bonkie—and so many more—yet?
You can start reading an excerpt from chapter one here: http://bit.ly/2DjDCge
Craig Davidson on his novel THE SATURDAY NIGHT GHOST CLUB
"Really it's a book, for me, about memory."
Thank you so much to our friends at the Writers' Trust of Canada and Rogers Media for producing this fantastic video of Craig Davidson discussing his novel, THE SATURDAY NIGHT GHOST CLUB, finalist for the 2018 #RogersFiction Prize.