Deals
Canada, English rights to Eddy Boudel Tan's THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT
2021 Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Star Eddy Boudel Tan’s THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, an atmospheric upmarket page-turner about a family processing a mysterious loss from their past, exploring how the insecurities of Asian immigrants are exploited in their isolated town, how the expectations placed on the second generation are chafed against, and how a current of rage simmers beneath the composed veneers of both…
Canada, English rights to Eternity Martis's WHITE LIES
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…
French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY
Leméac Éditeur has acquired French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY in an exclusive submission…
French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS
Les Éditions du Boréal has acquired French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS in an exclusive submission…
Canadian Rights to Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen's co-authored memoir
Award-winning author of Caught Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s co-authored memoir about the latter’s four-year incarceration from the age of 13 at the Whitbourne School for Boys in St. John’s in the 1970s, where he was subjected to long bouts of solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and how he managed to find love on the other side, turn his life around and seek justice for those lost years with the help of his daughter, whose father’s experiences inspired her career in law…
Canada English Rights to Jennifer Pagliaro's GIRLS, INTERRUPTED
Toronto Star crime reporter Jennifer Pagliaro’s GIRLS, INTERRUPTED, a true crime narrative examining the recent rash of teen violence, specifically focusing on the alleged swarming attack of Ken Lee, who was experiencing homelessness, at the hands of eight teenage girls, taking readers from the night of the murder to the girls’ arrest and eventual trial, and interrogating how we reconcile a brutal murder with a broken youth justice system…