Q&A with Paula Hawkins, Author of The Girl on the Train

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1. The Girl On The Train is a masterfully written thriller – have you always been a fan of the genre?

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.

Signal Books Announces “Right Here, Right Now” by Stephen J. Harper

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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.

Audio edition of Wayne Johnston’s First Snow, Last Light, the first multi-voice production from Penguin Random House Canada, now on sale

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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.

My Stories, My Times by Jean Chrétien

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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.

McClelland & Stewart to publish book on Canada’s failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by former Crown Prosecutor Harold R. Johnson

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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer Joins Hamish Hamilton

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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.

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