RAISE YOU TEN
Author: Barry Callaghan
ISBN: 1-55278-566-1 / 978-1-55278-634-5
Price: $29.95 / $16.95
Non Fiction

The second volume of essays from Canada's Man of Letters. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Raise You Five.

Callaghan's journalism covers an astonishing range, from serious political reporting to autobiography, sports writing, and travel writing. In the late sixties at the Toronto Telegram, he began his career as a books editor and weekly columnist, setting a standard that has rarely been met since. As Peter Newman recently pointed out, Callaghan emerged as one of the most distinctive "personal" journalists in the country.

"Literary criticism and cultural history of the highest order." - Globe and Mail

"Some of the most engaging writing of it's kind to be found anywhere in English Canada" - Toronto Star

A RARE INTEREST IN CORPSES
Author: Ann Granger
ISBN: 0-7553-20433
PRICE: $24.95
Fiction

The first in an addictive new Victorian crime series from this well-loved author.

It’s 1864 when orphaned Lizzie Martin becomes companion to a wealthy widow. She is intrigued to discover that her predecessor ran off without warning, and when the girl's body is found close to the site where the new St. Pancras station is being built, Lizzie feels compelled to find out more. With the help of Inspector Benjamin Ross, Lizzie starts to investigate, risking her life to unearth the truth about the death of a girl whose fate seems interlinked with her own.

RATTLING THE BONES
Author: Ann Granger
ISBN: 9780755320462
Price: $24.95
Fiction

When Fran Varady moved out of her squat in Rotherhithe, she always wondering what had become of ‘mad Edna’, the bag lady who had, in a manner of speaking, been her neighbour. Then a chance meeting reunites them, and Fran is alarmed to discover that someone is following Edna. Who could be interested in a harmless old lady? Determined to protect her, Fran finds herself digging into Edna’s earlier life, and an old love affair and family quarrel come to light. But by rattling the bones of the past, Fran’s detective skills uncover more than she’s bargained for.

REBUS’S SCOTLAND
Editor: Ian Rankin
ISBN: 0 75285 245 0 / 0 75287 771 2
Price: $39.95 / $16.95
Non Fiction

Ian Rankin reveals the locations that have inspired him in writing the Inspector Rebus novels.

Bestselling Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin takes us on an exclusive tour of Rebus country in this beautifully produced book. He explains how certain events and places in his life have found their way into his novels, giving a superb portrait of the author and his most popular creation.

Accompanied by over 120 specially commissioned photographs taken by the partnership who produce the cover shots for the Rebus books, this is part bio of Rebus, part autobiography of Rankin and part story of modern Scotland.

THE RED NECKLACE
Editor: Sally Gardner
ISBN: 9781842555743
Price: $19.95
Children

A dazzling novel set amidst the horrors of the French Revolution.  A time of terror; a charismatic boy, Yann, must find out who he is and rescue Sido, an aristocrat’s daughter – these are the elements in this tremendous adventure by a consummate storyteller; a marvelous tale of the first days of the French Revolution.

RED SKY LAMENT
Author: Edward Wright
ISBN: 0-75286-9302
PRICE: $24.95
Fiction

John Ray Horn was once Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of cheap westerns. Now, after a spell in prison, he lives on the margins of 1940s' Los Angeles. When Owen Bruder, a talented but difficult screenwriter, is charged with being a member of the Communist Party, John Ray agrees to help him. If he can discover Bruder's secret accuser, he might have a chance to clear his name. But Hollywood has become a place run by fear and suspicion. As John Ray's search leads him to powerful figures, his investigation takes a deadly turn.

THE REVENGE OF CAPTAIN PAINE
Author: Andrew Pepper
ISBN: 9780297852384 / 9780297851837
PRICE: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery

A headless corpse in Huntingdon, the disappearance of a female trial witness and the apparent suicide of a wealthy railway contractor: if Pyke thought that leaving the murky world of the Bow Street Runners he could escape the violence of pre-Victorian England, he was very much mistaken.

ROCK VARNISH
Author: Barry Kennedy
ISBN: 1-55278-546-7 / 1-55278-605-6
Price: $24.95 / $14.95
Fiction

Like Barry Kennedy's previous novels, Rock Varnish is a darkly comic, energetic, and highly entertaining romp, an imaginative invention filled with the daydreams and nightmares of one man's awakening to a past beyond forgetting, a future impossible to imagine, and a present, well, best filled with lies and deception ... at least for now.

Writing from his room on Vancouver's east-side, the man — who’d prefer it if we simply called him Smith — recounts a year in the California desert; a year in an Oz-like America where truth may or may not hang out in communities gated against the outside world, in fast food joints, and in the company of a cast of characters as cracked as the sun-baked sands surrounding them.

Convinced that lies might make his dreams come true, the man called Smith concocts a life, a love worth living or dying for, and a longing for reality amid the madness surrounding him.

With much grand humour, and a series of radical, often scary twists and turns, Smith heads on home, having learned at last that man's saddest, shortest, surest road to disaster is to fool himself.

Brimming with the comedy of schadenfreude, Rock Varnish, in a roundabout and curious way, is an homage to the power of No Bells To Toll – Destruction and Creation in the Andes by American anthropologist Barbara Bode.

ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE
A Celebration of 100 Years
Author: William Littler
ISBN: 9781552786482
Price: $39.95
Non Fiction

The Royal Alexandra Theatre is legendary. Built in 1907 with the ambition of being "The most beautiful theatre on the continent", the Alex has more than fulfilled its promise. However the theatre's status as one of the world's great playhouses goes beyond its sheer physical attributes. The Alex has played an important role in the cultural life of Toronto and Canada. Continuously operating as a first-class legitimate theatre, it has presented all the great talents of the last century and has also been instrumental in showcasing new talent and premiering many landmark works.

This handsome retrospective of the Royal Alex's first 100 years chronicles the theatre's illustrious history in stories and images. It will take the reader through the highs and lows of various eras in the theatre's past, from its inception by a young millionaire patron to its early struggle for survival against the Theatrical Syndicate, to its reign as one of the jewels on the North American touring circuit. Go backstage and meet some of the famous and infamous actors, stagehands and managers, even theatre ghosts. Relive all of the great productions that have played the theatre, get a glimpse into the glamour of opening nights and the struggle to find an audience when the neighbourhood is abandoned mid-century as the inner city empties to the suburbs. See Ed Mirvish restore the building and redevelop the neighbourhood into one of North America's premiere entertainment districts.

If you've ever spent an evening at the Alex, or even just heard of the theatre's fame, this book will be a keepsake of the grand old dame of King Street.

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