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Spring 2010
Bitter Medicine
The Doctrine of Affections
Fall 2009
Good to a Fault
postcard and other stories
Harmonics
Spring 2009
Buying Cigarettes for the Dog
Open Arms
Suburban Legends
Fall 2009
Good to a Fault
Pathologies
Mother Superior
It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems
SPRING 2010
Bitter Medicine In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness on familial relationships. More |
The Doctrine of Affections April 2010 Parisian society as he comes out of retirement for one final concert. A sessional instructor competing for the prestigious Interdisciplinary Chair in Aretha Franklin studies gets sidetracked by her obsession with a mysterious student in a yellow hat. A dying doo-wop DJ and his wife try to bridge the estrangement wrought by illness as they travel in search of the horns, drums, and vocals of highlife. More. |
FALL 2009
Good to a Fault Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Freehand Books is pleased to be making Marina Endicott’s award-winning and bestselling novel available in a new paperback format. More |
postcard and other stories September 2009 A high school math teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother. A displaced Toronto book designer deliberates dreams, daydreams and delusions that result from a lone encounter with philosopher Mark Kingwell.More. |
Harmonics "I heard the tone wood trees/of my neighbour’s lot resonate/with sustain enough to shatter crystal." Jesse Patrick Ferguson brings the art forms of music and poetry into conversation with each other in this compelling debut collection. Modelled on the fundamental tones and overtones of the harmonic series, poems in Ferguson’s arrangement riff on one another, and words, phrases and images resonate sympathetically, with all the energy and buzz of a firmly plucked mandolin string. More. |
SPRING 2009
BUYING CIGARETTES FOR THE DOG April 2009 A man steps out for a pack of smokes and winds up walking around the planet; a woman sun-tanning by a pool finds herself covered in chicken feet; a guerrilla army of cows infiltrates a big city; a man hires a bodyguard to protect him from his poodle. More |
OPEN ARMS February 2009 A broken heart, that old phrase; I didn’t realize it would feel like a plate breaking in the middle of your chest. Bessie Smith Connolly has lived with her Nova Scotia grandparents since she was small. But at seventeen—grieving the death of her steadfast grandfather, smarting from a split with the boy she loves—she escapes to Saskatoon to be with her mother, Isabel. More. |
SUBURBAN LEGENDS Celebrated poet Joan Crate’s fourth book weaves a sequence of poetic revisions and reveries, cleverly colliding suburban routine with subconscious fantasy. The specter of Snow White haunts the corridors of this collection, first as a retro-, then as a made-over fairy-tale reflection of the lives of contemporary women. More. |
FALL 2008
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GOOD TO A FAULT 6 x 9, paperback, 376 pages In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively, Anne Tyler, and Alice Munro, acclaimed author Marina Endicott gives us one of the most most profound, most memorable reads of the year. Absorbed in her own failings, Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. More |
PATHOLOGIES 5.5 x 8.5, paperback, 272 pages “In simple terms, pathology is the scientific study of the way things go wrong.” In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. More |
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MOTHER SUPERIOR 5.5 x 8.5, paperback, 296 pages Mother Superior introduces Saleema Nawaz as a truly bold new voice in fiction. Gorgeous, sensuous prose and edgy, taboo-breaking subject matter combine to create a collection quite unlike anything else being published today. These seven stories and two novellas are a heady blend of misfits and mothers, of sisters and mysterious others. More |
IT'S HARD BEING QUEEN: THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD POEMS 6 x 8.5, paperback, 96 pages In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada’s best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time. In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates the peripatetic art, life, and times of Dusty Springfield. More |
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