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Canada English Rights to Zak Jones's FANCY GAP
Canada English Rights to Zak Jones's FANCY GAP

2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winner, PhD candidate, and U.S. Army veteran Zak Jones’ FANCY GAP, a debut novel set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to Virginia, following a troubled family—the less-than-honorably discharged Corporal Dalton Fuquay and his teen brother Messiah, whom Dalton must save from their dangerous grandmother and the self-radicalized, born-again muster of acolytes she commands—being torn apart by mental and physical illness, opioid addiction, and poverty

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Canada English rights to Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK
Canada English rights to Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK

Author, screenwriter, and musician Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK, a galloping, incendiary tale set in the undeveloped Adirondack Mountains of the early 1950s, following the young Morley sisters as they flee their burning past only to take refuge among a derelict utopian community led by a tempestuous and charismatic leader, exploring the medium of the cult novel and themes of progress and persuasion…

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Canada, English rights to Eddy Boudel Tan's THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT
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…

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Canadian Rights to Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen's co-authored memoir
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…

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Canada, Non-fictionPaige Sisleydeal news, deals, Lisa Moore, Jack Whalen, Lynn Henry, Knopf Canada, Martha Webb
Canada English Rights to Jennifer Pagliaro's GIRLS, INTERRUPTED
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…

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Canada, Non-fictionPaige Sisleydeals, deal news, Jennifer Pagliaro, Haley Cullingham, McClelland & Stewart, Martha Webb