English world rights to an illustrated lifestyle cookbook by THE SALMON SISTERS, by sisters Emma Laukitis and Claire Neaton who spent their young lives on a remote family homestead - when they weren't out fishing on The Bering sea with their dad. To include stories of their unique upbringing, Emma's original sketches and artwork, and recipes which will inspire anyone to want to live closer to the land - or sea. To Gary Luke at Sasquatch Books. Contact: Sandra Bishop at [email protected].

North American English rights to Dr. Christian Smith's THE SCIENTIST AND THE PSYCHIC sold on a pre-empt to Amanda Betts and Anne Collins at Random House Canada for publication in 2020. As a child, Dr. Smith watched his mother become a world-renowned psychic and as an adult, whose education and research challenges the existence of the paranormal, he embarks on a quest to uncover and investigate the science underlying psychic phenomena. Contact: Stephanie Sinclair at [email protected].

Canadian English rights to GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY, a debut memoir by Kelly S. Thompson, a former Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces and graduate of UBC's MFA program, highlighting truths about life as a woman in the military, to Jenny Bradshaw at McClelland & Stewart, in a preempt, for Summer 2019. Contact: Stephanie Sinclair at [email protected].

World rights to the highly anticipated new work from  Billy-Ray Belcourt , NDN COPING MECHANISMS: Notes from the Field , using poetry, prose, and digital art to document the polyphonic emotions that flower in Indigenous social words, to House of Anansi Press, for Fall 2019. Contact: Stephanie Sinclair at [email protected] .

World rights to author of Beyond the Pale, a multi-award nominated memoir, comes Emily Urquhart's THIRD ACT, a work of narrative nonfiction based on her essay in The Walrus that makes the case for late in life creativity, featuring stories of creative seniors from a variety of backgrounds-such as poets, physicists, musicians, scientists, and actors-with her visual artist father's story woven throughout, and buoyed by voices of leading experts on ageing and creativity and through examples of progressive senior-led arts organizations from across North America, smashing ageist stereotypes and telling a new story about the possibilities of our third act, sold to Sarah MacLachlan at House of Anansi (Walrus Imprint) for Spring 2020. Contact: Samantha Haywood at [email protected].

Audio rights to winner of the RBC Taylor Prize and beloved Canadian bestseller, THEY LEFT US EVERYTHING by Plum Johnson sold at auction to Rebecca Best of Rakuten Kobo. Rights previously sold to Putnam U.S., Brandon Culture in China and Gads Forlag in Denmark. Contact: Samantha Haywood at [email protected].

World rights to Dr. Lee Airton's GENDER: YOUR GUIDE - A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Say, What to Know, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture, an accessible and prescriptive guide on topics such as how to use gender-neutral pronouns, how to know which pronouns to use, and other 'gender-friendly' daily practices, acquired by Cate Prato of Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Inc. Contact: Samantha Haywood at [email protected].

World rights to social justice and feminist activist, writer, journalist, educator, and speaker, Judy Rebick's riveting new memoir HEROES IN MY HEAD where she documents two major decades in her life: the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion; and the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, revealing for the first time her very private battles she waged during these important decades with multiple personality disorder, sold to Janie Yoon at House of Anansi for publication in April 2017. Contact: Samantha Haywood at [email protected].

World English and French rights to chef and activist Joshna Maharaj's TAKE BACK THE TRAY: The Industrial Food Revolution, a social gastronomy manifesto and practical guide for transforming the way people eat in hospitals, schools, prisons, and community food centers, sold to ECW Press for Spring 2020. Contact: Jesse Finkelstein at [email protected].

" Sofie & Cecilia  paints a marvelously detailed, slyly witty portrait of two women of talent married to successful painters in early twentieth-century Sweden-when girls might dabble in drawing lessons, but must put aside any artistic ambitions after marriage. Their growing independence is fueled by their friendship, sustained over the length of their lives. Fans of Elena Ferrante (not to mention Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, whose books are a bonding point) will revel in this wise and intensely moving story of two women navigating a world that expected women to weave, knit and embroider in the shadow of the real artists, their husbands. Nevertheless, they persisted." -Marni Jackson
"... Sofie and Cecilia will be on all the book club lists this year. It is a book that will be read by women, passed between friends, and lead to conversations about our own lives and who we have become. "  -Parry Sound North Star "Deeply researched, but also deeply considered, Boys is something quite rare in the pages of non-fiction, a page-turner. This is a must read for everyone who loves boys."

"A broad, readable take on the limits of modern-day masculinity, and how to push its boundaries to better serve our children and ourselves. It's full of love but unsentimental, with new tidbits for scholars of gender, race and identify, and valuable insight for parents of little boys, like me."
"With Boys, Rachel Giese shows that there is indeed a 'boy crisis,' but it's not the one we keep hearing about, and it's a crisis whose solutions lie in expanding the limits of boyhood and manhood to enable boys and men to be true to themselves and reach their full potential. I loved this book, such an absorbing and inspiring read, and it left me with hope and admiration for today's boys-and the men they're on their way to becoming."

" Hysteria is a powerful piece of fictional misdirection, of establishing readerly expectations and upending them, repeatedly, to tremendous effect. It is at once thought-provoking, tautly suspenseful and genuinely surprising."
"Filled with past, dark secrets, and hideous insight into the mind(s) of killers, Ridley's thrilling novel left me breathless as I devoured chapter after chapter anxious to see what would happen next. As things get more and more complicated, more and more hopeless for Martin, I found all I could do was read faster and faster while doing my best to savor every detail! " 

"intriguing premise, competent character development, and numerous plot twists... Dexter fans will enjoy the creepy vibe. "  -Publisher's Weekly
" Find You in the Dark lingers long after the last page has been devoured. And Ripley proves a stellar addition to the Canadian crime novel scene. An addictive debut."
"Timely and engrossing...This is a powerful debut. "  -Publishers Weekly
"Debut author Bala capably establishes the interlocking narratives of three characters, each revealing a different, albeit compelling, perspective...by empathetically exploring each character's backstory, Bala presents the complex task of balancing a nation's desire to be compassionate with the need to identify threats to national security, providing a timely examination of the refugee crisis worldwide. Recommended for all fiction collections. "  

"The most striking aspect of the novel lies in its quietly confident understanding that everyone is complicit in systems of racial and ethnic violence...and Bala's assertion that no one is completely innocent intensifies her emotionally vivid prose. "   -Quill & Quire
"Rooted in actual events, Bala uses the tools of fiction to excavate the human truths hidden under the headlines... The Boat People succeeds not because it has answers, but because of how it foregrounds the questions: who are we as individuals? Who are we as a culture, as a society? How do our beliefs, our empathy, survive in the face of confusion and the threat of deception and violence?... The Boat People is a book perfect for our times, essential reading to bring context to questions which we are, perhaps, more inclined to ignore. "  

"The horror comes in relatively early, and it doesn't stem from the Sri Lankan civil war; it comes from our own dawning awareness that the Canadian system for dealing with refugees is a ghastly machine...If it tells us more than we want to know about our failings, that's a first step toward correcting them. And far from being a preachy polemic, it is a very well-crafted story likely to be read for a long time. "  -The Tyee

"Lush, poetic...Each lyrical line feels like a gift left at the reader's altar. A honey-mouthed debut ruminating on creation, possession, and faith."
"Her refreshing honesty, especially about her mistakes, is a welcome respite from more self-aggrandizing memoirs, and her refusal to shy away from the more turbulent parts of her past, including a tragic loss, balances well her lighthearted reminiscences...Redford has made her mark through sheer willpower and muscle." -Booklist

"With its vivid storytelling, fascinating glimpse into the world of mountaineering, and insights into the healing power of wilderness, End of the Rope proves a promising debut. Not to mention an invaluable addition to the canon of chronicles by women climbers."

-The Vancouver Sun

Selecky's story turns more complicated than it first appeared. Bursting with energy and color, every page delights and provokes. This book is a dazzler."

"Fresh and original, Sarah Selecky's novel cleverly satirizes our insta-world but also takes its characters seriously enough to give  them an ending that's moving and transcendent." 

-Kerry Clare, author of Mitzi Bytes

"The human desire to belong is at the heart of Sarah Selecky's radiant, shimmering novel. In the person of Lilian Quick, Selecky has created an irresistible heroine.   And in her reflections and observations, she has once again proven that she is a writer perfectly attuned to the music of the present moment."  -Barbara Gowdy, author of Little Sister

"Lear's Shadow exudes warmth-for Montreal and its theatre scene brought to vibrant life on the page, and for its heroine Bea, finding the courage to take on life's uneven gifts. Claire Holden Rothman's fiction makes a moving case for the possibility of change." 

-Joan Thomas, author of The Opening Sky

"'Love like a shadow flies...,' wrote Shakespeare, and this is a story of love in its shifting shades. Desire, duty, and the fellowship of theatre, rendered in Holden Rothman's tender, clear-eyed prose." -Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of Us Conductors

"Spare, consuming, unforgettable. Foe is a dark arrow from a truly original mind. Page by eerie page, Iain Reid pulls the known world out from under you, and leaves you trapped inside a marriage's most haunting question: can I be replaced? This is a book that seeps into your bloodstream - and crowns Iain Reid the king of deadpan, philosophical horror." 
"What I liked most about Earn It! is the fact that it also cleverly points out to young readers that the most rewarding part of accomplishing your goals is earning it. And for parents looking for a fun, yet easy, way to explain the benefits of earning and saving money to children, this book has got you covered." -Jennifer Traynor of the Mama@Heart blog



"it's full of wry humour and wise, essayistic asides that keep the prose moving at a quick clip. It's also oddly devastating, a mature work written by a writer in full control of his game."