New Non-Fiction 2008

The Fruit Hunters is “lustrous and exhilarating” and Gollner’s talent “is genetic, physical – an exquisite sensitivity of tongue, nose and eye.”
The New York Times

The Fruit Hunters:

A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure
Adam Leith Gollner
Doubleday Canada

Seen Reading: "Sun Going Down" & "Blackbodying"

Have You Met My Best Friend, Andrew?

Andrew Hood’s no monster – and he won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award! The Globe and Mail says of his Pardon Our Monsters, “…when the book gets good, it gets uncannily, magnificently good.”

Photo: Crystal Porcher

New Non-Fiction 2008

“…deft…stylish…joyous…a book of great charm.”

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Mark’s Spoken Here was a New York Times Notable Book and a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year.

The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
Mark Abley
Random House Canada

Seen Reading: "The Mechanical Bird"