returns to Turnstone Press with a new book, What the Bear Said, thirty-five years after Turnstone published its first book and Valgardson's first book of poetry, In the Gutting Shed, in 1976.
A collection of fantastic tales featuring bears, wolves, fish, forests, swamps, harsh winters, insect-infested summers, the unpredictable waters of an inland sea, and people claimed by the forces of nature, What the Bear Said blends Icelandic folklore with the landscape and wildlife of Canada for a delightful and absorbing reading experience.
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This is our Head Book Buyer, Chris Hall's list of his three most anticipated releases for August. They are,
Childhood Under Siege, by is the writer of The Corporation. Childhood Under Siege is a behind the scenes look at the widespread manipulation of children by profit-seeking corporations and of society's failure to protect them.
The Sense of an Ending, by . is an old favourite who seems
to be on the rise again with his last few books, particularly Pulse, his set of short stories released last spring.
Empty Family, by Colm Toibin. I read The Master a few years
ago and found it to be too much Henry James. Unfortunately that made me
write off . I recently read Brooklyn though and now
I know what the fuss is about. Empty Family is due out in paperback this
month and I can now recommend Toibin enthusiastically.
The always outrageous tackles his first graphic novel in The Griff. The bestselling author of Bite Me, Lamb, You Suck joins forces with award winning screenwriter and director to bring you an absurdly entertaining graphic novel about alien invasion. In the grand tradition of Cowboys and Aliens, but considerably more ridiculous, The Griff is vintage , with pictures.
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, author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, has a fantastic interview by on The Winnipeg Review. Click here to read it.
is a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and best-selling author. Erikson was born in Toronto, and now calls the U.K. home. He is an anthropologist and archaeologist by training (and still pursues work in these areas), as well as being a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and an accomplished painter.
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From , the "New York Times"-bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes the magical love story, My Name Is Memory. In My Name Is Memory the main character Lucy is inexplicably drawn to a high school classmate. But when Daniel claims to have known her before, Lucy thinks she?s dealing with a nutcase. Gradually, she learns the truth: Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl, life after life, across continents and dynasties. Lucy might not remember it, but Daniel does. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that they have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully and fatally apart. An imaginative, inspired novel about a love story that lasts more than a lifetime.
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