Praise for Sharon Bala's THE BOAT PEOPLE (World Rights Available Ex: US, Doubleday; Canada, McClelland & Stewart January 2018; Turkey, Mevsimler). Contact [email protected]:

"Timely and engrossing...This is a powerful debut."

"This wise and compassionate novel is an intimate portrait of one of the great humanitarian crises of our time. Its power lies in its breadth, for it examines not just those who come to our country seeking refuge, but also those who determine their fate. As such it implicates us all in the ongoing crisis."

" The Boat People is a beautifully crafted story with a big heart. This novel has an urgency and relevance that cuts to the bone and will resonate with readers of all stripes. Bala offers no easy answers and no political posturing, but her magnificent storytelling will leave readers wondering about their own convictions, asking themselves, 'What would I do? What would I have done?' I love this book and, somehow, I empathized and understood every character's motivation and heart, despite their seemingly opposing stances. The spirits of Bala's complicated, well-developed characters will linger with you like ghosts; you will look for them in the newspaper, on the evening news, everywhere, and when you encounter them, you will pause and wonder, not only about them but about yourself."

" The Boat People is a burning flare of a novel, at once incendiary and illuminating. With a rare combination of precision, empathy and insight, Sharon Bala has crafted an unflinching examination of what happens when the fundamental human need for safety collides with the cold calculus of bureaucracy. In the best tradition of fearless literature, it shatters our comfortable illusions about who we really are, reveals just how asymmetrical the privilege of belonging can be. This is a brilliant debut-a story that needs to be told, told beautifully."

"Mysterious, suspenseful, and unnerving, The Honey Farm  offers a thrilling narrative that examines the distorted realities and conflicting perceptions that often exist in the quietest places." -Iain Reid, bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things, an NPR Best Book of the Year, 2016

" The Honey Farm delves into the intimate mysteries of art, madness, religion, and love through a story built with beautiful language and lush sensory detail. Gothic and subtly menacing, it's a book as rich as the sweet substance at its core."

"In THE HONEY FARM, Harriet Alida Lye has created a modern-day Eden, shot through with innocence and foreboding. The landscape of this gripping debut is alive with tension and temptation, and I found myself seduced alongside Lye's unforgettable characters. Laying bare faith, identity, and love, this book presents a world where nothing is quite as it seems." 

-Adrienne Celt, author of The Daughters

"I loved this book. The way Harriet Alida Lye captures and registers moments of encounter with gentleness and specificity, like bees bumping against flowers-there's magic afoot here." -Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London (A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice)

"The secret world of bees and the sensuous natural order in all its peril and glory come alive in this mesmerizing, suspenseful novel. Harriet Alida Lye is a writer of prodigious talent and The Honey Farm a thrilling, chills-inducing debut. Brava!"
-Carol Bruneau, award-winning author of Glass Voices and These Good Hands

Praise for Genevieve Scott's CATCH MY DRIFT (World Rights Available Ex: Canada, Goose Lane Editions, Spring 2018). Contact [email protected]:

"With rare insight and great sensitivity, Genevieve Scott's Catch My Drift tells the story of a family through the small but significant moments that make up their lives. As the years unfold Scott traces lines of estrangement and connection, and composes an affecting portrait of motherhood and daughterhood. These characters will linger in your memory, because they feel so real, so true, and so richly observed." -Alix Ohlin, author of  Inside

"Scott has created a vibrant, complex, and ultimately lovable family. Lorna and her drug-taking, wayward son, her tennis-playing daughter, and her philandering, cult-joining ex-husband are messed up and struggling and flawed, but I fell head-over-heels for them and rooted for them every page of the way. Like Caroline Adderson's Ellen and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge , Scott's Lorna is achingly human and fully alive on the page. Genevieve Scott's debut fiction is raw and real and packed with wisdom. I happily devoured CATCH MY DRIFT in a single sitting." -Angie Abdou, author of In Case I Go

"Like the best contemporary novels, Genevieve Scott's Catch My Drift is alchemical. Scott harnesses the flinty realism and breathtaking prose of short fiction, mixes it with the emotional urgency and scope of a layered intergenerational drama and creates a compelling and thoroughly original portrait of the modern family. Rendered with sensitivity and insight, Catch My Drift  is elegant, ambitious and tender, a rare novel in which an entire family comes of age." -Nancy Lee, author of The Age and Dead Girls  

" Find You in the Dark is an unsettling exploration of obsession you won't soon forget. Nathan Ripley delivers a first novel that fans of Patricia Highsmith psychological thrills and Thomas Harris cat-and-mouse suspense will devour. I certainly did." 

"A fast-paced, morbidly addictive novel of chilling infatuation. Ripley's impressive debut is a rich and innovative thriller." 

- Iain Reid, bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"A wickedly smart thriller that manages to be both chilling and wry. The page-turning plot...is thickened by a great cast of characters and Nathan Ripley's fantastic eye for detail and dialogue. Just when you think you've got a grasp on it, the story twists to new and darker places." 

"Climbing mountains becomes a source of both joy and loss for Jan Redford-as she finds her own gutsy route through that other wilderness, of marriage and motherhood. Cheryl Strayed, move over: End of The Rope is a rambunctious, funny, heartstopping memoir that carries us along on an electric current of risk and courage."

"Jan Redford is a badass. She is also a born storyteller, and this one - the mountains she has climbed, the men she has loved - and survived - is gritty, funny, tragic, and ultimately victorious. Women's voices are a conspicuous rarity in the mountaineering world, and tabacco-chewing mother's voices are even rarer; Redford's is a bracing and refreshing corrective - intimate, affectionate, loud and clear." 

-John Vaillant, author of The Tiger

"Jan Redford shows us that there are many types of bravery required, not just in the wilderness, but in surviving day to day life. End of the Rope  is at times funny, but always compassionate and courageous." -Tanis Rideout, author of Above All Things

"Jan Redford is my new favourite feminist anti-heroine: a potty-mouthed, tobacco-chewing, take-no-shit mountain climber who is at once strong-minded and insecure, fierce and vulnerable, loveable and flawed. Redford's voice pulsates with immediacy and vitality, and she writes her story with a bull's eye precision and unflinching honesty. Inspiring, funny, heartbreaking, and bold, End of the Rope is a book about survival and courage, about letting go of old dreams and finding new ones. I couldn't put it down." 

"Katherine Ashenburg slips her needle delicately beneath the skin to reveal the anatomy of an artist. This is the best kind of writing-about-art that is an art itself. So many pleasures here for the reader: delights of dress and décor and food and furnishings, all of the made things that make life better. Through the graceful procession of the years, strong strands of friendship tie these women together: their love of art, and books, and intelligent observation of the tangled knot of marriage."














"With this moving novel of self-discovery, Berkhout ( The Gallery of Lost Species, 2016) offers a mindful, timely reminder about the perils of blind faith and the power of change."