MAD BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW
Author: Ranulph Fiennes
ISBN: 9780340951682 / 9780340951835
Price: $39.95 / $29.95
Biography / Non Fiction

Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced George Lazenby as James Bond. In his autobiography he describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to both poles on land. He tells of how he discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman and attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole – the expedition that cost him several fingers, and very nearly his life. His most recent challenge was scaling the north face of the Eiger, one of the most awesome mountaineering challenges in the world. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, 3rd Baronet, looks back on a life lived at the very limits of human endeavour.

MAGGIE'S TREE
Author: Julie Walters
ISBN: 0-297-851047
Price: $24.95
Fiction

The darkly funny debut novel from the Oscar-nominated star.

As their friend Helena is the toast of Broadway, stand-up comedienne Cissie O’Brien, the nation’s darling, takes beautiful actress Maggie Salt to see her. But Maggie is troubled, and on arrival disappears into the winter night. As the search for their friend continues, cracks occur in the lifelong relationships of Cissie, Helena and her husband Mark. Suddenly Cissie haunted by the outing of her relationship with her lover Jenny, disappears too. Meanwhile, Maggie has been rescued by a stranger …

THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE
Author: Emma Darwin
ISBN: 0-7553-30633
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Weaving together two unforgettable stories of Waterloo and its aftermath. Emma Darwin’s The Mathematics of Love is one of the most intelligent and moving novels you will ever read, set against an extraordinary backdrop. It is a major debut, and Emma Darwin’s is an outstanding new voice.

MATTERS OF HART
Author: Marianne Ackerman
ISBN: 1-55278-535-1 / 1-55278-600-5
Price: $24.95 / $14.95
Fiction

After a best-selling debut novel, Jump, Montreal writer Marianne Ackerman is back with Matters of Hart, a picaresque tale of one man's journey to the edge and back again.

When a stranger crashes Hart Granger's 50th birthday party in Montreal, conversation stops. Hart and his sister Amanda recall a lie Hart told her when they were kids.

"We had an older brother named Bill," Hart once whispered to the impressionable five-year-old. "He had to leave the family to make room for you..."

Embellished at every turn, the story haunted her childhood.

Suddenly, the lie incarnate is standing in front of them — Neil Springer, a baby their mother put up for adoption when she became pregnant at 17. Neil is tall, dark, handsome, 55 but he looks much younger, and he once played forward for the NHL. Hart is plumpish, divorced, bored by life, a child prodigy with many unrealized ambitions.

While Amanda is thrilled to have a new big brother, the towering presence of an affable, small-town American sends Hart into a tailspin. He flees to California. Given a chance to fake his own death on September 11, 2001, he leaps. The decision lands him in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where he is drawn into the tragic fate of an ailing Cree artist, and confronted with the deepest meaning of brotherhood.

Set in Montreal, Los Angeles and Vancouver amid a backdrop of international terrorism, Matters of Hart is emotionally gripping and often wickedly funny. It's a Rip Van Winkle story about a guy whose destiny is shaped by desperation and imagination. Stylistically innovative, the novel tracks Hart's journey from multiple perspectives. First, through the eyes of five women in his life: Amanda recalls how the saga of the banished brother shaped her destiny. A German girl is inspired by meeting Hart on the night of his 'death'. His ex-wife, Sandrine, is liberated by his apparent demise and strikes up with a younger man. Hart's mother relives the secret that haunted his adolescence. And Wanda, a born-again Christian, enters a spiral of jealousy as her husband Neil grows besotted by his newfound family.

Then close-up on Hart: a scribbled confessional account of his seven-month stay in Vancouver, which he writes while traveling across Canada by train.

Finally, Hart's dramatic return to Montreal. Back from the dead, he's a changed man.

A briskly-told tale that veers easily from sardonic humour to pathos, Matters of Hart is a novel for troubled times. It offers solid proof that the rumours are premature — irony is alive and well in the 21st Century.

MEETING POINT
Author: Roisin McAuley
ISBN: 0 7553 0856 5
Price: $24.95
Fiction

From the author of Singing Bird, a gripping journey to the heart of human relationships, set in the French Riviera and Northern Ireland, and perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy.

When Claire Watson meets John Rock on holiday, the attraction is instant — but so is the feeling they have met before. Uneasy memories from a decade earlier begin to surface, but when past and present finally collide, Claire is unprepared for the astounding consequences.

MONDO COCKTAIL
Author: Christine Sismondo
ISBN: 1-55278-511-4
Price: $24.95
Non Fiction

Part travelogue, part instruction manual, part bar philosophy, part discursive history, Mondo Cocktail: A Shaken and Stirred History fits into a larger genre than your average bartending book. It is a whimsical examination of the drinks that have captured our imagination and have symbolically identified us.

Mondo Cocktail gives a careful anatomy of 12 classic cocktails, and teaches the reader far more than the proper method of making these concoctions. The book gives the reader all the requisite knowledge they will need for opening cocktail party conversation about the history of the libation and its cultural importance. Additionally, it supplies them with entertaining trivia from where and how Ernest Hemingway drank his Daiquiri, to Abraham Lincoln's sordid past as a Bourbon distiller, to the birth of the FDA as a precursor to prohibition, to the world's most expensive cocktail and more.

THE MONEYPENNY DIARIES
Author: Kate Westbrook
ISBN: 0 7195 6741 6
Price: $24.95
Fiction

"My heart breaks for James" — so begins the explosive, true, private diaries of Miss Jane Moneypenny, personal secretary to Secret Service Chief M and colleague and confidant of James Bond.

From her childhood in wartime Kenya to her death in 1990, Jane Moneypenny lead an extraordinary life. At the heart of British Intelligence she had a ringside seat at the political intrigues that shaped world history. But contrary to popular belief, she was not simply a bystander while James Bond saw all the action.

But a life of espionage has personal as well as political ramifications. For Jane Moneypenny, the price was high. Romantic relationships with outsiders were necessarily built on lies — sometimes on both sides — and you could never trust the motives of anyone you met.

So many secrets and yet no one she could confide in, Jane Moneypenny found herself breaking the first rule of espionage. Unbeknownst to anyone, she kept a secret diary. This became an outlet to which she could commit her innermost thoughts and classified secrets without fear of reprisal. But it should never have been released.

THE MOONLIT CAGE
Author: Linda Holeman
ISBN: 0-7553-24617 / 0-7553-22940
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

"There is a beautiful imagination at work here and a touch of genuine narrative magic."– Globe and Mail on The Linnet Bird

Enthralling, unusual and richly textured, The Moonlit Cage is a novel you will never forget. It is the story of two people as extraordinary as the Victorian age they lived through – Darya, the brutalized but courageous wife of an Afghan tribesman, and David Ingram, the enigmatic Englishman who saves her life, and in doing so sets her on the journey of a lifetime.

From the cruel landscape of the Northwest Frontier to the polite restraints of London society, this is a story of love, loss and redemption that will possess the senses to the very last page.

MR JONES’ RULES
Author: Dylan Jones
ISBN:0-340-920858
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man, from the editor at GQ.

It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise. They there are the minor irritations: how do you stop your trousers sliding off their hangers? And finally there are all those things you ought to know, but don’t; how to jump-start a car, how to buy lingerie, how to tie a Windsor Knot, how to behave at a lap-dancing club … the list is endless.

Fear not. In Mr. Jones' Rules, the high respected editor of GQ magazine draws on his wealth of experience and impressive contacts book, to give the final answers to these questions and more.

MRS. ZHIVAGO OF QUEEN'S PARK
Author: Olivia Lichtenstein
ISBN: 9780752886459
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Chloe Zhivago is a successful London psychotherapist in her early forties. She’s also a wife and mother to two adolescent children. Is there any woman of Chloe’s age who hasn’t asked herself: Is this ALL there is? So when Chloe meets a deeply romantic and undeniably sexy Russian called Ivan, how tempting it is to have a little flirtation, a little adventure … Dotted with recipes such as ‘Mutton Dressed as Lamb’ and ‘Recipe for Trouble’, Mrs. Zhivago of Queen’s Park is a wonderful mixture of head and heart, intellingence, humour and poignancy.

MY MOTHER'S LOVERS
Author: Christopher Hope
ISBN: 1-55278-604-8
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big game hunter and knitting devotee, who once boxed three rounds with Ernest Hemingway, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She was free with her favours too and her multitude of lovers refracted the story of whites in Africa, whose sorry history started with Empire and ended with hasty departure.

When Katheen dies, her only son Alexander returns to Johannesburg to carry out her final wishes. Her legacy, which he must deliver in person, includes a cache of firearms for a former apartheid enforcer; a wig that once belonged to a Liberian boy soldier; and her knitting needles, which he must present to Bamadodi, the Rain Queen. What he inherits is her house and her gardener, who, like Alexander, is also an exile. But when Cindy moves into the house, Alexander must confront the final element of his mother’s legacy – his capacity for love.

My Mother's Lovers is Christopher Hope’s most ambitious novel yet. Bitingly funny, outrageously inventive and peopled with a fantastical cast of characters, it shows how the hunger to be loved and to belong affects us all.

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