The relationship between an author and his or her editor and/or publisher is a special one. When picking up a book off the shelf we often don’t think about the countless hours the two spend together, making revisions and debating about the novel’s inner world. One such relationship is especially fascinating around here, that of Salman Rushdie and his longtime Canadian editor and publisher Louise Dennys.
may love seize you
may the mountain pass always be open
may you continue to carry cases of champagne in the night streets
may you always know the company of animals, and sing to the cows and the crows
may you always read in bed with the ones you love most
may the flash of lightining illuminate a wild joy in your face even in the shipwreck
I developed a taste for crime as a teenager with Agatha Christie, but I think it was Donna Tartt’s The Secret History which really opened my eyes to the possibilities of the psychological thriller. I read a lot of crime fiction now: I particularly love Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series which, like Tartt’s work, blend cracking plots with beautiful writing and exceptionally crafted characters.
June 4, 2018 (Toronto) – Signal Books is pleased to announce Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption by Stephen J. Harper, on sale October 16, 2018.
Right Here, Right Now draws on Harper’s decade of experience as a Canadian Prime Minister and G-7 leader, to help readers understand the changes we are seeing in politics, business and society.
Toronto (June 5, 2018) – Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Wayne Johnston’s latest novel First Snow, Last Light is now available as an audiobook, read by four Newfoundland actors: David Ferry (Ned), Gordon Pinsent (Reg), Mary Lewis (Sheilagh) and Ryan Wells (Brendan). This marks the first multi-voice audio produced by Penguin Random House Canada’s new in-house audio program.
June 11, 2018 (Toronto) – Random House Canada is pleased to announce My Stories, My Times by Jean Chrétien, on sale October 23, 2018.
Published to coincide with the 25-year anniversary of Mr. Chrétien becoming Canada’s prime minister for the first of three consecutive majority terms, My Stories, My Times is written in Jean Chrétien’s unmistakable voice, as he recounts amusing and illuminating anecdotes from his life before, during and after politics.
Monday, June 25, 2018 (Toronto) — Former Crown Prosecutor, bestselling author and finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award Harold R. Johnson has been commissioned by McClelland & Stewart to write a book about the failures of the Canadian state to deliver justice to Indigenous people.
Toronto, February 17, 2016—Nicole Winstanley, Publisher of Penguin Canada, has acquired Here I Am, a new novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, for publication in September 2016 under the company’s Hamish Hamilton imprint. The deal, which also includes a second novel and a book of non-fiction, was arranged via Devon Mazzone of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
(London) February 1, 2016 - The Development Partnership today announced that they will develop Mohamed Fahmy’s upcoming memoir The Marriott Cell, which will be published by Penguin Random House Canada in October, as a feature film.
