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Fall 2021
Recent Highlights
The Age of Fentanyl Alone: A Love Story
Brodie Ramin, M.D. Michelle Parise
978-1-4597-4670-1 978-1-4597-4690-9
Canada $22.99 | U.S. $20.99 Canada $22.99 | U.S. $18.99
“A fascinating, wise, and humane “Beautifully and powerfully
analysis of one of the most pressing written, Alone: A Love Story left me
health challenges of the 21st heartbroken and inspired at the
century.” same time.”
—Steven Pinker, author of —Terry Fallis
Enlightenment Now
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the
Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.
We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government
of Ontario, through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit
and Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada.
Printed and bound in Canada.
978-1-4597-4911-5
Contents
Publisher’s Note 2
Introducing Rare Machines 3
FICTION Even So 4
Lauren B. Davis
The Devil to Pay 5
Barbara Fradkin
The Devil’s Choir 6
Martin Michaud
NON-FICTION Hockey 365, The Second Period 7
Mike Commito
Modest Hopes 8
Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy
Hard to Be Human 10
Ted Cadsby
The Rebel Christ 11
Michael Coren
Massey Hall 12
David McPherson
The Beatle Bandit 13
Nate Hendley
RARE MACHINES The Shaytān Bride 14
˙
Sumaiya Matin
Yume 15
Sifton Tracey Anipare
I, Gloria Grahame 16
Sky Gilbert
Persephone’s Children 17
Rowan McCandless
Nothing Will Be Different 18
Tara McGowan-Ross
Seven Down 19
David Whitton
KIDS & TEENS The Underground Railroad 20
Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper,
Karolyn Smardz Frost
Lost Shadow 21
Claire Gilchrist
Recent Highlights 22
How to Order 24
Publisher’s Note
Welcome to the new look of Dundurn Press. The
Fall 2021 season is the first catalogue featuring
our recently announced new branding and
logo, the design of which evolved out of the
long-standing castle colophon by echoing the
castle’s arched windows, creating a visual effect
of a portal or beckoning hallway. Dundurn’s
new mandate underscores our commitment to
discovering new and underrepresented voices
in Canadian publishing, amplifying exceptional
Canadian writers and stories to the world, and
opening a portal to writers and readers. In step
with our editor-driven approach to acquisitions,
the first books from our new literary imprint, Rare
Machines, launch this Fall. You can find our vision
for the imprint on the next page and details
about Rare Machines titles on pages 14 to 19.
You will continue to see a variety of genres from
this press as we build on our strengths. This Fall
season features a remarkable array of books,
from a demon-filled fantasy novel set in Japan
(Yume, page 15) to hockey history for diehard
fans (Hockey 365, The Second Period, page 7) to
middle-grade fiction with coyotes (Lost Shadow,
page 21) to genre-bending memoir (Persephone’s
Children, page 17). I invite you to discover these
stories and more in the following pages.
We acknowledge the perseverance of the
community of booksellers, librarians, authors,
agents, reviewers, and readers, and we thank you
for your continued support of Dundurn Press.
Scott Fraser
Publisher, Dundurn Press
2 Dundurn Press Fall 2021
Introducing Rare Machines
Dundurn Press’s new literary imprint, Rare Machines,
is curious, courageous, and forward thinking, much
like the press itself. From pages 14 to 19, you will
find the imprint’s inaugural list of innovative and
daring fiction and memoir, featuring Sumaiya
Matin’s memoir, The Shaytān Bride, and David
˙
Whitton’s inventive novel, Seven Down. Rare
Machines’ lead acquisitions editors, Julie Mannell
and Russell Smith, are writers themselves with deep
ties to literary culture. Their vision for the imprint
lifts authors’ talent and originality to the fore.
The name Rare Machines emerges from the idea
that a writer is a rare machine for producing
books, and the book itself is as elegant and
complex as the most unusual of devices.
Rare Machines welcomes hybrid forms; it
welcomes emerging writers; and it is a place
for both the experimental and the polished.
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 3
Fiction
Even So
Lauren B. Davis
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INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4764-7
5.5 x 8.5 | 336 pages
Canada September 14, 2021 | $21.99
U.S. October 12, 2021 | $18.99
FICTION / Literary
Rights North America, English.
Also available as an ebook
Father Sweet
J.J. Martin
ISBN: 9781459747647 paper $20.99
978-1-4597-4396-0
9 781459 747647
An evocative character-driven novel that explores the
challenge and necessity of loving difficult people.
Angela Morrison has it all. She’s married to a wealthy man, adores her son,
grows orchids, and volunteers at Our Daily Bread Food Pantry. What more
could she want? More — much more. And she’s willing to risk everything
after meeting Carsten, the landscaper with the glacier-blue eyes.
Sister Eileen, who runs Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, struggles with the
silence of God and harbours a secret she believes is unforgivable. She Two White
yearns to convince Angela she is loved by God, despite her selfishness and Queens and the
destructive behaviour, but in order for that to be authentic Eileen must One-Eyed Jack
learn to love her first, and that’s no easy task — especially after Angela Heidi von Palleske
causes a terrible tragedy. Through the crucible of their relationship, paper $22.99
Angela and Eileen discover how caring for the most difficult among us and 978-1-4597-4678-7
practising forgiveness, no matter how painful, opens a door to the miracle
of transformation.
Lauren B. Davis is the author of The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Against a
Darkening Sky, The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, and The Radiant City. She
has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and the ReLit Awards, and shortlisted
for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Lauren lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
EvenSoNovel laurenbdavis.com
@laurenbdavis Laurenbdaviswriter laurenbdavis
4 Dundurn Press Fall 2021
Fiction
The Devil to Pay
An Inspector Green Mystery #11
Barbara Fradkin IN THE SAME
SERIES
Paperback
978-1-4597-4384-7
5 x 8 | 328 pages
Canada October 19, 2021 | $19.99
U.S. November 16, 2021 | $16.99
FICTION / Mystery & Detective /
Police Procedural
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
#10 None So Blind
978-1-4597-2140-1
ISBN: 9781459743847
$17.99
#9 The Whisper
of Legends
978-1-4597-0567-8
9 781459 743847
$17.99
#8 Beautiful Lie
Impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael the Dead
Green returns and unwittingly puts his daughter, a rookie 978-1-9266-0708-5
$16.95
patrol officer, in the line of fire.
#7 This Thing of
Sidelined to administrative duties, Inspector Michael Green misses the Darkness
thrill of the chase. So when his daughter Hannah, now a rookie patrol 978-1-8949-1785-8
$16.95
officer, responds to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in a wealthy
#6 Dream Chasers
suburban neighbourhood, he is intrigued. Both husband and wife deny a 978-1-8949-1758-2
problem and, despite Hannah’s doubts, no further police action is taken, $15.95
but Green encourages her to dig deeper on her own. When the husband #5 Honour Among Men
disappears and his car is found at the airport, the police conclude he 978-1-8949-1736-0
is simply fleeing an unhappy home, a floundering law practice, and a $15.95
mountain of debt. Until a body is discovered. #4 Fifth Son
978-1-8949-1713-1
While Green’s old friend Brian Sullivan investigates the victim’s work $16.99
and family, Hannah is haunted by fear that her actions precipitated the #3 Mist Walker
murder. On her own time, she begins to dig into questions that linger at 978-1-8949-1703-2
$12.95
the periphery of the case. What has happened to the family dog, which
#2 Once Upon a Time
disappeared the same night as the husband? And who is the odd, solitary
978-0-9291-4184-8
young Ph.D. student who was researching ducks near the murder site? $12.95
Her relentless search for answers leads her into the countryside, straight #1 Do or Die
into the path of danger. And another body. 978-0-9291-4178-7
$17.99
Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people
turn bad. She is the author of the Amanda Doucette series and the critically
acclaimed Inspector Green novels, two of which have won the Arthur Ellis
Award for Best Novel: Fifth Son and Honour Among Men. She lives in Ottawa.
InspectorGreenMystery barbarafradkin.com @BarbaraFradkin
“For those who like a solid classic mystery with added character, Inspector
Green is perfect.”
—Globe and Mail
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 5
Fiction
The Devil’s Choir
A Victor Lessard Thriller #3
Martin Michaud IN THE SAME
SERIES
Paperback
978-1-4597-4270-3
5.5 x 8.5 | 544 pages
Canada October 26, 2021 | $21.99
U.S. November 23, 2021 | $17.99
FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
Rights World, English
Also available as an ebook
Never Forget
Martin Michaud
ISBN: 9781459742703 paper $21.99
978-1-4597-4273-4
9 781459 742703
In this intricate, intense mystery from the acclaimed “master of
the Quebec thriller,” the ghosts of Victor Lessard’s past come
back to haunt him as he investigates a horrific murder-suicide
that doesn’t add up.
When a young Montreal family dies in an orgy of bloody violence, all signs
point to a rampage by the father. But Victor Lessard isn’t convinced. The
brilliant, brooding detective suspects that others were involved in the
killings. But who? And why? As Lessard struggles to solve the puzzle, the
Without Blood
discovery of a nightmarish chamber of horrors seems to confirm that the
Martin Michaud
murders are part of a wider pattern. With a ghost from his past making paper $21.99
him doubt his own sanity, Lessard must evade the lethal operatives of a 978-1-4597-4209-3
powerful, highly secretive organization as he races to untangle the mystery
before a diabolical killer can strike again.
Martin Michaud is a bestselling author, screenwriter, musician, and former
lawyer. His critically acclaimed Victor Lessard series has won numerous
awards, including the Arthur Ellis Award and the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Crime
Fiction, and is the basis for the award-winning French-language TV series
Victor Lessard. He lives in Montreal.
VictorLessardThriller michaudmartin.com
MartinMichaudAuteur martinmichaudauteur
“The Devil’s Choir is a ‘complete’ thriller: a very well-run plot, captivating and believable
characters, impeccable suspense. Michaud is carving out a place of choice among the elite
of the Quebec industry.”
—La Presse
“Martin Michaud is a master at twisty storytelling and compelling atmosphere.”
—Catherine McKenzie
6 Dundurn Press Fall 2021
Non-Fiction
Hockey 365, The Second Period
More Daily Stories from the Ice
Mike Commito OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4844-6
6 x 9 | 416 pages
Canada September 28, 2021 | $23.99
U.S. October 26, 2021 | $19.99
SPORTS & RECREATION / Hockey
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
Hockey 365
Mike Commito
ISBN: 9781459748446 paper $23.99
978-1-4597-4184-3
9 781459 748446
More hockey history for every day of the year!
Celebrate hockey history with Hockey 365, The Second Period and be
reminded of why you love hockey every day of the year. Whether you are
a long-suffering Leafs fan or you cheer for a team that has actually won
a Stanley Cup in the last half century, this compendium will give you a
hockey-history fix no matter your allegiance. From the National Hockey
League’s humble beginnings to the empty seats of the 2020 Stanley Cup
Playoffs, Mike Commito has gone back into the vault to bring you even
more hockey history. So, get ready, the second period is about to begin. 101 Fascinating
Hockey Facts
Mike Commito is a hockey historian and writer, whose work has appeared on Brian McFarlane
the Athletic, Sportsnet, and VICE Sports, and in the Hockey News. Since 2018, paper $13.99
Mike has been a regular contributor for the LA Kings. Mike was eligible to be 978-1-4597-4566-7
drafted to the NHL in 2003, but is still waiting for the call. He lives in Sudbury,
Ontario.
Hockey365 @mikecommito mikecommito mikecommito
“Author, historian, and unabashed fan Mike Commito has assembled
myriad facts, stories and events, a delicious feast that takes fans day by
day through a calendar year, sewing it all together with a thread that links
the past with the present … a terrific addition to any hockey library.”
—Dave Stubbs, NHL.com Columnist, for Hockey 365
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 7
Non-Fiction
Modest Hopes
Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers
from the 1820s to the 1920s
Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy
Paperback
978-1-4597-4554-4
7 x 8.5 | 216 pages
75 Illustrations, black & white;
25 Illustrations, colour
Canada September 14, 2021
$29.99
U.S. October 12, 2021
$26.99
HISTORY / Social History
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
ISBN: 9781459745544
9 781459 745544
8 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, OF RELATED
semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. INTEREST
Too often, workers’ cottages are characterized today as being
small, cramped, poorly built, and disposable. But in the late
1800s, to have worked and saved enough money to move into
one was an incredible achievement. Moving from the crowded
conditions of boarding houses, or areas such as Toronto’s Ward
or Ashport’s “shanty-town,” just east of the city, to a self-
contained, six-hundred-square-foot row house was the result of
an unimaginably strong hope for the future, a belief in it, and a
commitment to what lay ahead.
For the workers and their families, these houses were far from
modest. The architectural details of these cottages suggested Toronto’s Lost
status, value, and pride of place; they reminded the workers of Villages
where they had come from, with architectural roots from their Ron Brown
homeland. paper $22.99
978-1-4597-4657-2
These “modest hopes” are an undervalued heritage resource and
an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative about
the people who lived in them and built our city.
Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage
planner, with forty years of project experience. He is committed
to environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability, and to
preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories
of our communities’ history. He lives in Toronto.
Leslie Valpy is a conservation practitioner, researcher, and
Don Mills
writer, with a passion for built heritage, history, architecture,
Scott Kennedy
and conservation. Working with both intangible and tangible
paper $30.00
dimensions of heritage, she has participated in a range of projects
978-1-4597-3682-5
throughout Ontario. She lives in Toronto.
ModestHopesTO designmetropolitan.com
metropolitan_sketches45
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 9Non-Fiction
Hard to Be Human
Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws
Ted Cadsby OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4884-2
6 x 9 | 232 pages
Charts; Graphs; Bibliography
Canada October 12, 2021 | $22.99
U.S. November 9, 2021 | $19.99
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology &
Cognition
Rights World, All Languanges
Also available as an ebook Ignite the
Third Factor
ISBN: 9781459748842 Dr. Peter Jensen
paper $19.95
978-0-8876-2767-5
COVER NOT FINAL 9 781459 748842
Powerful strategies to combat the design flaws of the human
brain that make life in the twenty-first century unreasonably
difficult.
If they could study us the way we study them, other animals would be
puzzled by our unique ability to inflict misery on ourselves. We expend
a lot of energy replaying past anguish, anticipating future distress, and
stewing in self-righteous anger. Other animals would call us out for being
oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own
suffering, who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves
The Greenhouse
created. Approach
In our defense, we haven’t yet mastered our neuron-packed brains, whose Chitra Anand
incredible complexity evolved in somewhat haphazard ways over millennia paper $22.99
in a very different world than today’s, giving rise to the five big design flaws 978-1-4597-4285-7
of the human mind: greedy reductionism, which causes us to oversimplify;
certainty addiction, which makes us overconfident; emotional hostage-
taking, where we overreact to threats and engage in rumination; competing
selves, where we are burdened with inner conflict; and misguided meaning,
where we constantly struggle to make sense of things.
Hard to Be Human corrals the best insights from psychology, neuroscience,
physics, and philosophy to reveal powerful strategies for the five big battles
we each face in the war with ourselves. Other animals have a simpler life,
but we can have it easier, too.
Ted Cadsby is a corporate director, consultant, and bestselling author. Ted
led 18,000 employees as the executive vice president of Retail Distribution at
CIBC. He also served as president and CEO of CIBC Securities Inc., chairman
of CIBC Trust Corp., and chairman of CIBC Private Investment Counsel Inc. As
a speaker on decision-making, team effectiveness, and leadership, Ted has
been extensively interviewed by the national media. He lives in Toronto.
HardToBeHuman tedcadsby.com
10 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Non-Fiction
The Rebel Christ
Michael Coren
OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4851-4
5.5 x 8.5 | 176 pages
Canada October 19, 2021 | $19.99
U.S. November 16, 2021 | $16.99
RELIGION / Christian Theology /
Christology
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook The Pagan Christ
Tom Harpur
paper $22.95
ISBN: 9781459748514 978-0-8876-2195-6
9 781459 748514
Christianity is in crisis, and its founder is often misunderstood
and misinterpreted. This book presents the real Jesus: a rebel,
a radical, and a revolutionary.
What did Jesus — the original Jesus — say about the pressing issues of his
and our day? He didn’t mention homosexuality but did call for the poor and
marginalized to be protected and championed; he never spoke of abortion
but did criticize the wealthy and complacent; he didn’t side with the rulers
Born Again
and wealthy but did condemn those who judged and exploited others and Tom Harpur
turned their eyes away from those in need and from the cry for justice. paper $22.99
This was Jesus the rebel, Christ the radical, who turned the world upside 978-1-4597-4023-5
down and demanded that his followers do the same. Too many of them,
tragically, seem to have misplaced that vital lesson.
Michael Coren is the author of seventeen books, four of them bestsellers,
published in twelve languages. An award-winning columnist, he is also
ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada. He lives in Toronto.
RebelChrist michaelcoren.com @michaelcoren michael.coren.125
“I live on the other side of the faith debate from Michael, but that doesn’t
prevent intense admiration of his insight, clarity, courage, and honesty.”
—Stephen Fry
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 11Non-Fiction
Massey Hall
David McPherson
OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4499-8
8.5 x 8.5 | 240 pages
40 Illustrations, black & white; 32
Illustrations, colour
Canada November 2, 2021 | $39.99
U.S. November 30, 2021 | $34.99
MUSIC / History & Criticism
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook The Legendary
Horseshoe Tavern
ISBN: 9781459744998 David McPherson
COVER NOT FINAL paper $21.99
978-1-4597-3494-4
9 781459 744998
The fascinating story of Canada’s most revered concert hall
and the myriad artists who have graced its stage.
Known for its intimacy and sense of occasion, a night at Toronto’s Massey
Hall is magical for both audiences and performers. For many musicians,
playing the Hall is the surest sign that they have made it. Looking out over
the crowd, performers often comment on the intimacy of the venue and the
sense of joining history as they stand on the stage where Sarah Vaughan, The Flyer Vault
Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and so many other legends have stood. Daniel Tate and
Rob Bowman
Based on scores of interviews and meticulous research, this richly paper $35.00
illustrated book chronicles not only the historical and musical moments 978-1-4597-4542-1
of the past century, but the community of artists and supporters that has
built up around the hall over the years. Covering both emerging artists
such as Shakura S’Aida and William Prince and musical giants from Nana
Mouskouri to the Tragically Hip, this full colour book is a celebration of
music, community, and our shared cultural heritage.
David McPherson is the author of the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe
Tavern: A Complete History and has written for Grammy.com, the Globe and
Mail, SOCANs Words and Music, No Depression, American Songwriter, and
Acoustic Guitar. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
MasseyHall @mcphersoncomm mcphersoncomm
12 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Non-Fiction
The Beatle Bandit
The Bank Robber Who Fuelled the Debate on
Guns, Mental Health, and the Death Penalty OF RELATED
Nate Hendley INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4810-1
5.5 x 8.5 | 212 pages
16 illustrations
Canada November 16, 2021 | $21.99
U.S. December 14, 2021 | $18.99
TRUE CRIME / Heists & Robberies
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
The Court of
Better Fiction
ISBN: 9781459748101 Debra Komar
paper $21.99
978-1-4597-4408-0
9 781459 748101
The sensational true story of how a bank robber killed a man
in a wild shootout, sparking a national debate around gun
control and the death penalty.
On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised
himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then
held up a bank in North York, Ontario.
The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother,
Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan
for violent revolution. The Man with the
Outside the bank, Smith was confronted by Jack Blanc, a former member Black Valise
John Goddard
of the Canadian and Israeli armies, who brandished a revolver. During a
paper $22.99
wild shootout, Blanc was killed, and Smith escaped — only to become the
978-1-4597-4536-0
object of the largest manhunt in the history of the Metropolitan Toronto
Police Force.
Dubbed “The Beatle Bandit,” Smith was eventually captured, tried, and
sentenced to hang. His murderous rampage had tragic consequences for
multiple families and fuelled a national debate about the death penalty,
gun control, and the insanity defence.
Nate Hendley is a journalist and author. His books include The Boy on the
Bicycle, The Big Con, and Bonnie and Clyde: A Biography. Nate lives in
Toronto.
BeatleBandit natehendley.com
@natehendley natehendley8161
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 13Rare Machines
The Shaytān Bride
A Memoir ˙
Sumaiya Matin OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4767-8
5.5 x 8.5 | 360 pages
Canada September 7, 2021 | $23.99
U.S. October 5, 2021 | $19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY /
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian &
Asian American
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook The Sadness of
Geography
ISBN: 9781459747678 Logathasan
Tharmathurai
paper $19.99
978-1-4597-4502-5
9 781459 747678
The true story of how one woman faced the jinns that tried
to shape her fate and escaped her forced wedding.
Sumaiya Matin was never sure if the story of the Shayṭān Bride was
truth or myth. When she moved from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Thunder Bay,
Ontario, at age six, visions of this devilish bride followed her. At first, the
Shayṭān Bride seemed to be the monster of fairy tales. However, in the
weeks leading to Sumaiya’s own wedding, she discovers that the story —
and the bride herself — are much closer than they seem.
The Shayṭān Bride is the true coming-of-age story of a girl who suddenly
finds herself unravelling the complexities of identity and desire in both A Victory Garden
the physical and spiritual worlds. As she encounters the best and worst for Trying Times
in people, she must decide what she wants for herself and who she wants Debi Goodwin
to become. Sumaiya Matin’s life in love and violence is a testament to the paper $21.99
strength of the heart and one woman’s willpower in facing the complicated 978-1-4597-4505-6
fallout of her decisions.
Sumaiya Matin is a writer and a strategic advisor for the Ontario
government, working on anti-racism initiatives. She lives in Toronto.
ShaytanBride sumaiyamatin.com
@sumaiya_matin sumaiyamatinauthor sumaiya.matin
14 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Rare Machines
Yume
Sifton Tracey Anipare
OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4737-1
5.5 x 8.5 | 536 pages
Canada September 14, 2021 | $25.99
U.S. October 12, 2021 | $19.99
FICTION / Fantasy / Urban
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
The Girl of
Hawthorn
ISBN: 9781459747371 and Glass
Adan Jerreat-Poole
paper $14.99
978-1-4597-4681-7
9 781459 747371
A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and
a young woman teaching English in Japan.
Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for
renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not
sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but
she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best
— even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and
conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle.
Meanwhile, yokai feast and cavort around Osaka and Kyoto as the barrier
between their world and the human world thins. Zaniel spends his nights Evie of the
walking the dream world and serving his demon “bodyguard,” Akki. But Deepthorn
there is a new yokai on the scene, and it has gotten on Akki’s bad side. When André Babyn
Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what paper $21.99
978-1-4597-4557-5
is real and, more importantly, what she really wants … before her life spirals
out of control altogether.
Sifton Tracey Anipare is a Ghanaian Canadian writer who lived and
taught in Japan for four years.
YumeTheNovel faeriedark.wordpress.com
@fae_dark yumethenovel faeriedark
“At its heart, Yume is a compelling story about finding connections — to
others as well as to parts of oneself — in an increasingly disconnected
world. With empathetic characters, terrifying monsters, and a cinematic
feel, Yume is a dream that will keep readers awake at night.”
—Richard Ford Burley, author of Mouse
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 15Rare Machines
I, Gloria Grahame
Sky Gilbert
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Paperback
978-1-4597-4828-6
5.5 x 8.5 | 200 pages
Canada October 5, 2021 | $22.99
U.S. November 2, 2021 | $18.99
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
After Elias
Eddy Boudel Tan
ISBN: 9781459748286 paper $21.99
978-1-4597-4642-8
9 781459 748286
A professor of English literature writes the autobiography
of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame,
while his own sexual desires go frustrated.
Denton Moulton — a shy, effeminate male professor — lives inside his
head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria
Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is
desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies. Does he have
the right to tell this woman’s story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell
Outrageous
anyone’s story at all?
Misfits
A scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, I, Gloria Brian Bradley
Grahame alternates between Gloria’s imagined life with her film-director paper $24.99
husband, Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause, and Denton’s 978-1-4597-4697-8
increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art:
an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The novel
takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars and the puritanical offices
of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the
sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone
else, even in art.
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was the
founder of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, has had more than forty
plays produced, and published seven novels and three poetry collections.
Toronto has even named a street after him. Sky lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
IGloriaGrahame
“Brilliant. An important addition to Two-Spirited literature.”
—Tomson Highway
16 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Rare Machines
Persephone’s Children
A Life in Fragments
Rowan McCandless OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4761-6
5.5 x 8.5 | 328 pages
65 Illustrations, black & white;
Bibliography
Canada October 12, 2021 | $22.99
U.S. November 9, 2021 | $19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY /
Personal Memoirs
Rights World, All Languages All We Knew But
Also available as an ebook Couldn’t Say
ISBN: 9781459747616 Joanne Vannicola
paper $19.99
978-1-4597-4422-6
9 781459 747616
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves
an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity
through writing.
She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never
supposed to tell.
Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a
Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive
relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally
inventive essays, including a contract, a crossword puzzle, and a Borderline Shine
metafictional TV script, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented Connie Greshner
relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge paper $19.99
to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and 978-1-4597-4612-1
intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency.
It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her
history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown,
unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.
Rowan McCandless is an award-winning author of fiction and creative
non-fiction. She has been longlisted for the Journey Prize and has won the
Constance Rooke Creative Non-Fiction Prize. She received gold for One of a
Kind Storytelling at the National Magazine Awards. Rowan lives in Winnipeg.
PersephonesChildren rowanmccandless.com
@RowanMcCandless rowanmccandlesswrites
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 17Rare Machines
Nothing Will Be Different
A Memoir
Tara McGowan-Ross OF RELATED
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Paperback
978-1-4597-4873-6
5.5 x 8.5 | 240 pages
notes
Canada October 26, 2021 | $21.99
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY /
Personal Memoirs
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook Alone: A Love
Story
ISBN: 9781459748736 Michelle Parise
paper $22.99
978-1-4597-4690-9
9 781459 748736
In this memoir-in-essays, a neurotic party girl scrambles to
rationalize her life as she knows it after finding a lump in her
breast.
Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend.
She should be happy. Yet Tara can’t stay sober. She’s terrible at monogamy.
Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She
spends most of her time putting out social fires, barely pulling things off,
and feeling sick and tired.
Then, in the autumn following her twenty-seventh birthday, an abnormal People You Follow
lump discovered in her left breast serves as the catalyst for a journey Hayley Gene Penner
of rigorous self-questioning. Waiting on a diagnosis, she begins an paper $21.99
intellectual assessment of her life, desperate to justify a short existence 978-1-4597-4714-2
full of dumb choices. Armed with her philosophy degree and angry
determination, she attacks each issue in her life as the days creep by and
winds up writing a searingly honest coming-of-age memoir about learning
to live before getting ready to die.
Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer.
She is the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a
critic of experimental and independent Montreal theatre, and an editor for
Insomniac Press. She is the author of Girth and Scorpion Season. She lives in
Montreal.
NothingWillBeDifferent @girthgirl girthgirl
18 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Rare Machines
Seven Down
David Whitton
OF RELATED
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Paperback
978-1-4597-4857-6
5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pages
Canada November 2, 2021 | $21.99
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FICTION / Epistolary
Rights World, All Languages
Also available as an ebook
Business
J.P. Meyboom
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978-1-4597-4705-0
9 781459 748576
In a series of interviews, seven hotel employees — all, it turns
out, sleeper agents — puzzle out the events of a botched
assassination attempt.
Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, front desk, management.
Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will
send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as
they know them.
The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being Jacintha
debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts Lorraine Davies
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the desperation and secret rage that might cause anyone of us to sign up,
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Both sinister and absurd, this set of interview transcripts is a puzzle to
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and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind
geopolitical machinations.
David Whitton is the author of The Reverse Cowgirl, a story collection.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies,
including Darwin’s Bastards, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize
Stories. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA
program. He lives in Toronto.
SevenDown @davidwhitton whitton
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 19Kids & Teens
The Underground Railroad
Next Stop, Toronto!
Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, and Karolyn Smardz Frost OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4896-5
8 x 8 | 136 pages
Illustrations, black & white
Canada October 5, 2021 | $19.99
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YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People &
Places / United States / African American
& Black
Rights World Emancipation Day
Also available as an ebook Natasha L. Henry
ISBN: 9781459748965 paper $28.99
COVER COMING SOON 978-1-5548-8717-0
9 781459 748965
Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and
made Toronto their home.
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! is a richly illustrated book
that explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom-
seekers before the American Civil War. This newly revised edition traces Talking About
pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made Freedom
the trip north in search of liberty, and offers new biographies, images, Natasha L. Henry
and information based on a 2015 archaeological dig in downtown paper $19.99
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Toronto. Within its pages are stories of courageous men, women, and
children who overcame barriers of prejudice and racism to create homes,
institutions, and a rich and vibrant community life in Canada’s largest
city. These brave individuals established organizations not only to help
newcomers but to also oppose the ongoing slavery in the United States.
Based entirely on original research, this book offers fresh insights into the rich heritage of
African Americans who became African Canadians and helped to build Toronto as we know the
city today. This exciting new edition will be of interest to readers young and old who want to
learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto’s history.
Adrienne Shadd is a researcher, writer, curator, and editor. She is co-author of We’re Rooted Here
and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History. Adrienne lives in Toronto.
Afua Cooper is a poet, performer, scholar, historian, and a professor at Dalhousie University and
is co-author of We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s
History.
Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, historian, and award-winning author who teaches at
Acadia and Dalhousie. Her book I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land won the Governor General’s Award
for Non-Fiction. She lives in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
UndergroundRailroadTO
“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.”
—Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Illegal
20 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Kids & Teens
Lost Shadow
Song Dog Adventure #2
Claire Gilchrist OF RELATED
INTEREST
Paperback
978-1-4597-4825-5
5 x 8 | 216 pages
Canada September 21, 2021 | $13.99
U.S. October 19, 2021 | $9.99
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Wolves,
Coyotes & Wild Dogs
Rights World, All Languages
Ages 9-12
Also available as an ebook Street Shadows
Song Dog Adventure #1
ISBN: 9781459748255 Claire Gilchrist
paper $13.99
978-1-4597-4471-4
9 781459 748255
In the sequel to Street Shadows, city coyote Pica is carried
far away, into the land of wolves. Will she survive and make it
back to Scruff?
Winter is here, and coyotes Pica and Scruff are having trouble finding
enough food to survive. Their only option may be to steal food from
humans: Scruff thinks it’s a necessary risk, but Pica thinks it’s too
dangerous. After a bitter fight, the unthinkable happens: Pica gets locked
into a delivery truck and driven far away from the city, into the land of the
wolves. The Lost Scroll
Pica knows that she must call on all of her strength and courage to survive of the Physician
in this new landscape. She has to get back to Scruff, who has no idea what Alisha Sevigny
happened to her. The clock is ticking, and leg traps, wolves, and a giant, icy paper $12.99
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mountain range stand between Pica and her home.
Claire Gilchrist is an author and middle school teacher. She loves all canids,
and has done extensive research on urban coyotes as well as worked as an
educator for the Co-Existing with Coyotes Program in Vancouver, B.C. She
currently splits her time between White Salmon, Washington, and Victoria,
B.C.
LostShadow clairegilchrist.com @gilchristwrites gilchristwrites
“Fans of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan will greatly enjoy this
book, as will all animal lovers.”
—CM Magazine, for Street Shadows
Dundurn Press Fall 2021 21Recent Highlights
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22 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Safe Harbour The Jigsaw Puzzle King
Christina Kilbourne Gina McMurchy-Barber
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The Sadness of Geography The Sadness of Geography
Logathasan Tharmathurai (Tamil Edition)
Logathasan Tharmathurai
978-1-4597-4502-5
5.5 x 8.5 | 232 pages
translated by M. Rishan Shareef
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24 Dundurn Press Fall 2021Recent Highlights
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