Canadian rights to renowned restaurateur behind Grey Gardens and The Black Hoof empire and acclaimed author of I Hear She’s A Real Bitch Jen Agg’s THEY’LL TOAST ME WHEN I’M DEAD, a sharply observed and scathingly funny memoir about advocacy and power, loss and hope, and a celebration of ferocity in work, love, and creativity
Read MoreNorth America-English rights to Polaris Music Prize-winning musician, producer, and poet laureate Rollie Pemberton’s WAYS OF LISTENING, a series of eclectic personal and critical essays examining the ever-evolving ways we discover, create, and enjoy music—from the obsession with the “mysterious artist” archetype, the magic of demo recordings, to the racial disparity in the remastering of music…
Read MoreUpdate Editions has acquired Greek rights to Maye Musk’s A WOMAN MAKES A PLAN: ADVICE FOR A LIFETIME OF ADVENTURE, BEAUTY, AND SUCCESS…
Read MoreCanada English rights to New Yorker cartoonist and MFA graduate Gabrielle Drolet's LOOK MA, NO HANDS, a humorous memoir with illustrations that explores the complexity of developing disabling and life-altering pain in her twenties, learning to write when she couldn't type, cook when she couldn't chop, assemble IKEA furniture when she couldn't twist an Allen Key, and navigate byzantine health systems without the privilege or security of a family doctor…
Read MoreCanada English rights to multiple award-winning journalist and former CBC radio host Carol Off’s AT A LOSS FOR WORDS: WHY WE CAN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER, a blend of history, culture, politics and front-line reporting structured around six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized, including “freedom,” “democracy” and “truth,” and how we need to reclaim their value in order to find our way back to civility…
Read MoreGriffin Poetry Prize recipient and Creative Writing Professor Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE, a highly anticipated and multilayered poetry collection that combines lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments to create a poignant examination of twenty-first century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility…
Read MoreBrett Popplewell's OUTSIDER: AN OLD MAN, A MOUNTAIN AND THE SEARCH FOR A HIDDEN PAST…
Read MoreFreelance journalist, editor, essayist and science communicator, Lori Fox’s THIS BOOK IS A KNIFE, a collection of creative essays critiquing Capitalism, the dangers of climate change, and, with hope and tangible solutions, presents ways in which we might be able to radically reimagine our world before it’s too late…
Read MoreAward-winning author of Caught Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s co-authored memoir about the latter’s four-year incarceration from the age of 13 at the Whitbourne School for Boys in St. John’s in the 1970s, where he was subjected to long bouts of solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and how he managed to find love on the other side, turn his life around and seek justice for those lost years with the help of his daughter, whose father’s experiences inspired her career in law…
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