Genevieve Scott's THE DAMAGES, set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, exploring themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity
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Award-winning and internationally-published author, Laurie Petrou, and award-winning playwright and television writer, Kate Fodor's ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") debut middle grade novel, THE REHEARSAL CLUB, a lighthearted middle-grade mystery inspired by New York City’s historic boarding house for aspiring actresses, as 12-year-old Pal and her newly-formed pack of friends uncover a decades-old mystery that stretches across a dual timeline between present day and the 1950s…
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Award-winning author and playwright, best known for his Marty Chan Mystery Series, Marty Chan’s DETENTION, a humorous middle grade mystery novel featuring an intrepid school reporter, Izzy, as she launches a podcast series investigating the possible wrongful conviction and detention sentence of a classmate; pitched as a technologically updated Harriet the Spy meets the mockumentary ‘American Vandal…’
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Author of the award-winning bestselling memoir and 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN, Eternity Martis’s debut novel WHITE LIES, a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and the patriarchal influences that lets them) and the dark and messy side of female friendships…
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Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians)'s THE EL, a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place on a single day in 1979 Chicago as a group of teenage Royals trek across the city to attend a gathering of fellow gang members in a story that's pitched as half TOMMY ORANGE, half THE WARRIORS, entirely a love letter to a group of friends trying to make their way in a city (and a country) that doesn't want them…
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US English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE, in which Métis kin, one trapped by circumstance in a semi-criminal rut and the other disillusioned with performative activist culture, hatch on a dangerous yet bold political mission—freeing a herd of bison onto the sprawling concrete of downtown Edmonton—and then must deal with the fateful and fatal consequences that follow…
Read MoreScotiabank Giller and Writers' Trust Prize finalist Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF, about a Canadian chef who meets a colleague from Quebec while training in Paris who later comes to work for the chef at his first restaurant in Vancouver; over the next few years, his restaurant empire booms before beginning to crumble under the weight of sexual assault allegations and accusations the chef stole his most profitable recipes…
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Life skills coach, blogger and Indigenous rights defender originally from Pays Plat First Nation and currently residing on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation, Andrea Landry’s picture book, REZ LIFE IS THE BEST LIFE, which follows the life of a young Nehiyaw girl living on the reserve on the prairies as she experiences the beauty of Indigenous land-based living surrounded by her kinship network…
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