We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to TWO of the five authors on the shortlist for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize, celebrating literary non-fiction.
Our shortlisted authors are:
We are excited to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to THREE of the five books in contention for this year’s CANADA READS! This year’s theme for Canada Reads is One Book To Open Your Eyes, featuring books that challenge readers to look differently at themselves, their neighbours and the world around them.
New York, New York (February 25, 2018) – A global publication date of Tuesday, November 13, 2018, has been set for the highly anticipated memoir by Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States of America. The news was announced today by Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, which acquired world publishing rights to the book. Titled BECOMING, Mrs. Obama’s book will be released in the U.S. and Canada in print and digital formats by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
McClelland & Stewart is honoured to announce the forthcoming publication of a final novel by the late Richard Wagamese, the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk. This posthumously published novel, entitled Starlight, will be released on August 14, 2018, in hardcover and as an ebook and audiobook. The deal was arranged by John Pearce of Westwood Creative Artists in association with Chris Casuccio, on behalf of Richard Wagamese’s Estate.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 (Toronto) – Penguin Random House Canada announces the launch of a new imprint, Strange Light, that will publish cutting-edge voices exploring evolving literary forms.
Growing out of our online magazine Hazlitt, Strange Light will build on what Hazlitt has done exceptionally well: publishing unpredictable, experimental, diverse, and emerging authors telling stories only they could tell.
Strange Light has acquired Canadian English rights to Max Porter’s second novel Lanny, which follows Porter’s much-heralded 2016 debut Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
Monday, April 9, 2018 (Toronto) —McClelland & Stewart announces the forthcoming publication of a book by journalist Justin Ling about the murders of at least seven men who disappeared from Toronto’s Gay Village. The deal was arranged by agent Martha Webb at CookeMcDermid, and the as-yet-untitled work will be published in Canada in print and digital formats in 2019.
Penguin Canada is proud to announce a new work from the award-winning and internationally bestselling writer and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Khaled Hosseini. The new work, entitled Sea Prayer, is a short, illustrated book which Hosseini wrote in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015.
December 7, 2017 (Toronto) – Bond Street Books is thrilled and proud to announce the publication of a magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson. Transcription, a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance, will be published in hardcover in September 2018.
May 10, 2018 (Toronto) — Penguin Canada announces the forthcoming publication of a book on sexual politics by investigative reporter Robyn Doolittle.