MICHAEL REDHILL

Returning from an exhibition of his photographs, J G Hallam's ship is lost in a violent storm on Lake Ontario - and the strongbox holding the photographs is lost. A century and a half later, Professor David Hollis speculates that this important historical record lies in the landfill where the city's new Union Arena is to be built.

Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller PrizeJean Mason has a doppelganger.Shes never seen her, but others* swear they have.*others | noun. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants - the regulars of Bellevue Square.Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesnt rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist theyve seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Curiosity grows to obsession and soon Jeans concerns shift from the identity of the woman, to her very own.Funny, dark and surprising, Bellevue Square takes readers down the existentialist rabbit hole and asks the question: what happens when the sense youve made of things stops making sense?

In the last jittery years of the eighteenth century, England is hungry for marvels. In rides Doctor Gustavus Katterfelto, a celebrity conjurer who once performed for Kings and now lives by his wits, with his battered stage gear and his black cat Cleo.He is joined by Roger Gossage, a young Moroccan Jew stranded in Britain. When a river accident leaves Katterfelto injured and Roger combing the Severn for lost property, he finds a dented silver horn, cold as a grave coin. When breathed into, it answers with a womans voice - she speaks of far-off cities, strange machines and in riddles, and soon "the Oracle of Clevelode" is the sensation of the Midlands. Crowds pack Duvernets theatre and fields at dusk. Doom-preachers chant her phrases. Rival magicians and zealots circle. But then a shadowy Constable of the Night sets a trap.As hysteria rises, Roger begins to suspect the horn is not a trick at all. In Nottingham a scientific committee is formed to test the oracle. What begins as theatre becomes obsession, and ends in a public trial for "pretending to sorcery", with Roger fighting to save Katterfelto and the voice inside the horn.Told as a breathless true account, The Trial of Katterfelto is a darkly comic historical fever dream about spectacle, belief, and the price of hearing the future.

National Bestseller · Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award · Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canadian-Caribbean Region) · Finalist for the Giller Prize · Finalist for the Trillium Book Award · Finalist for the City of Toronto Book AwardIn 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloanes art while visiting a Toronto gallery. Flush with the confidence of youth, she strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, and eventually the two become lovers. Introduced to a constancy of love she has never known, Jolene relaxes into the rituals of being someones other half. She learns Martins story and cherishes it as her own. He becomes a fixture in her life, a star in her sky.And then, he vanishes. There is no hint of his fate, no chain of cause to be followed. Over a long fall, the shock slowly hardening into fact, Jolene sheds her life, losing everything, including her oldest friend, Molly, to inexpressible grief.Ten years pass, Jolene slowly learns to stop trying to make sense of it all. But before she can fully return to life, the opportunity to confront a ghost arises. Word has come from Molly, of all people, that someone named Sloane has been exhibiting artworks identical to Martins in Irish galleries. Jolene travels to Dublin, where she reluctantly reconnects with Molly and together, they find themselves lost in a jumble of pasts as they try to piece together what happened to Martin Sloane.An exquisitely crafted novel, Martin Sloane is about the mysteries of love and art, the weight of history, and what it means to bear memory for the missing and the dead.

An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lostgreat books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classicsis a readers delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, being lovers of books, weve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory. Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics.Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekaras Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greenethe slightly ditzy cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a childrens book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Goldings Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoirs account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welless Othello, and much, much more.

In 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloanes work while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, and eventually they become lovers. And then, without warning, without a word, he vanishes. There is no hint of his fate, no chain of cause and effect to be followed. Over the following months, Jolene sheds her life, losing everything, including her oldest friend, Molly, to her grief. Ten years pass, and Jolene begins to live with Martins disappearance. But then the opportunity to confront her ghost arises. Word comes from, of all people, Molly, that someone named Sloane has been exhibiting in Irish galleries. Jolene travels to Dublin, where she is reluctantly reunited with her old friend. Together, the two women become lost in a jumble of pasts as they try to piece together what happened to Martin Sloane. Seamlessly crafted and beautifully written, Martin Sloane evokes the mysteries of love and art, the weight of history, and what it means to bear memory for the missing and the dead.