Will Ferguson

Will Ferguson takes us on a wild romp across the dust bowl of West Texas. The year is 1939. The world is on the brink of war, and the American Dream is rusting out from the inside. Jack McGreary is adrift in the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. He outsmarts the local businessmen, out-argues the local priest, and even outplays a gang of hardened carnies at a seedy fairground. And when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them. Together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest, staging a series of elaborate and often hilarious cons. Young Jack is swept along into a world of hot jazz and cold calculating crimes of the heart, as the sexual tension between him and Miss Rose comes to a boil. Someone is being set up. Are Miss Rose and Virgil playing Jack? Or is Jack playing them?

La nueva novela del autor de Happiness.Jack McGreary es un hombre joven con un alma atormentada y un don para las estafas. Criado por su padre en Paradise Flats, una ciudad fantasmal en los años de la Depresion americana, Jack ha aprendido a vivir de su ingenio. Asi, cuando aparecen Virgil Ray y Miss Rose, dos timadores experimentados, por la ciudad, Jack une sus fuerzas a las de ellos. Juntos se dedican a devastar el suroeste del pais con sus estafas, a menudo elaboradas, ingeniosas y graciosisimas. El joven Jack es arrastrado a un mundo donde el jazz y los crimenes conforman su dia a dia, mientras crece la tension sexual entre el y Miss Rose.Todo el mundo querra leerla...Llena de matices y cautivadora, La herencia de Drake es, sin ninguna duda, lo mejor que ha escrito Will Ferguson. Quill & Quire El escritor mas divertido de todo Canada. National Post Salvajemente hilarante. Glasgow Herald Un escritor con un gran talento y extremadamente divertido. Time Out

Meet Thomas Rosanoff: med student and researcher.Meet his subjects: three homeless men who believe they are God.Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomass life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted medical student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire childhood watched over by researchers lurking behind one-way glass.But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and hes convinced an experiment he has concocted will cure three homeless men of their delusional claims. When the experiment careens out of control, however, Thomas is forced to confront the voices echoing in his own head and the ghosts of his own past.An explosively imaginative tour de force, The Shoe on the Roof questions our definitions of sanity and madness while exploring the magical reality that lies just beyond the world of scientific fact.

Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America''s heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war. Jack''s father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against Fascism. But when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them instead. Together, they go on a crime spree across the Southwest, staging a series of inventive and often hilarious cons, while sexual tension between Jack and Miss Rose grows... Someone is being set up.

Una sátira despiadada del poder de los medios de comunicación, de la industria de la superación personal y de la credulidad de la gente. Para reírse descubriendo qué sucedería si un libro de autoayuda cumpliera sus promesas, las empresas tabaqueras, de bebidas alcoholicas, etc... Se arruinarian. Es el fin del mundo tal y como lo conocemos.

While the rest of the country is joining the new happinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at New York publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. It''s all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book What I Learned on the Mountain. But who is Tupac? And how can Edwin stop the world from succumbing to this plague of HappinessTM?

Una sátira despiadada y divertidísima sobre la industria de la superación personalUna compulsiva crítica del poder que ejercen los medios de comunicación y de nuestro desesperado narcisismo e irredimible credulidad. Para reirse a gusto descubriendo que sucederia si un libro de autoayuda cumpliera sus promesas; el fin del mundo como lo conocemos.

Un editor mediocre descubre un manuscrito de un personaje mediático, una obra de superación personal que garantiza la felicidad. El editor sabe que el autor es un fraude; el libro tiene un gran éxito y todo el mundo abandona sus responsabilidades porque es feliz. El Apocalipsis llega por exceso de bienestar. Sátira del poder de los medios de comunicación y de la industria de la superación personal.

From the Scotiabank Giller Prizewinning novelist of 419 comes a spellbinding literary adventure novel about precious objects lost and found.The world is filled with wonders, lost objectsall realall still out there, waiting to be found:· the missing Faberge eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions · the last reel of Alfred Hitchcocks first film · Buddy Hollys iconic glasses · Muhammad Alis Olympic gold medalHow can such cherished objects simply vanish? Where are they hiding? And who on earth might be compelled to uncover them?Will Ferguson takes readers on a heroic, imaginative journey across continents, from the seas of southern Japan, to the arid Australian Outback, to the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake. Prepare to meet Gaddy Rhodes, a brittle Interpol agent obsessed with tracking The Findera shadowy figure she believes is collecting lost objects; Thomas Rafferty, a burnt-out travel writer whose path crosses that of The Finder, to devastating effect; and Tamsin Greene, a swaggering war photographer who is hiding secrets of her own.The Finder is a beguiling and wildly original tale about the people, places, and things that are lost and found in our world. Both an epic literary adventure and an escape into a darkly thrilling world of deceit and its rewards, this novel asks: How far would you be willing to go to recover the things youve left behind?

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is "419," the worlds most insidious Internet scam. A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine.A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa.And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help"When Laura Curtis, a lonely editor in a cold northern city, discovers that her father has died because of one such swindle, she sets out to track downand cornerher fathers killer. It is a dangerous game shes playing, however, and the stakes are higher than she can ever imagine.Woven into Lauras journey is a mysterious woman from the African Sahel with scars etched into her skin and a young man who finds himself caught up in a web of violence and deceit.And running through it, a dying fathers final words: "You, I love."

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...At once a chilling thriller about a lonely woman avenging her fathers death and an epic portrait of morality and corruption across the globe, Will Fergusons Giller Prize-winning novel plunges into the labyrinth of lies that is 419, the worlds most insidious Internet scam.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour The follow-up to the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and HappinessWill Ferguson spent a three-year period criss-crossing Canada and back again. In a helicopter above the barrenlands of the sub-Arctic, in a canoe with his four-year-old son, aboard seaplanes and along the Underground Railroad, Wills travels have taken him from Cape Spear on the coast of Newfoundland to the sun-dappled streets of Olde Victoria.In his last book, Will told us how to be Canadian; now in this book, he will tell us what it means to be Canadian. Wills journey takes him to far-flung isolated communities as well as deep into Canadas urban centres. From the million-acre farm that is P.E.I. to the tobacco belt of southern Ontario, from the architectural mess that is Montreal to the glorious jumble that is St. Johns, from a renegade republic in northwestern New Brunswick to a tundra buggy in the polar bear migration paths of Hudson Bay, Will explodes the myths of who we are.Funny, poignant and insightful, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is a provocative tribute to our quirky and fascinating country.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWickedly funny and full of surprising twists. Mark Leiren-Young, winner of the Leacock Medal for HumourA once-beloved television sleuth finds herself far from Hollywood and witness to a murder during a small-town theatre productionand is convinced its up to her to solve the case.Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osmans The Thursday Murder Club, Alexander McCall Smiths 44 Scotland Street series and Schitts Creek Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. Turned down for a role on a cable reality show, Miranda is facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected.In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theatre, competing against the local real estate agent for the lead role. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered, live, in front of the audience. But out of 100 witnesses, no one actually saw what happened. Now everyone is under a cloud of suspicion, including the sardonic town doctor, the local high-school drama teacher, an oil-stained car mechanic, an elderly gentleman who may or may not have been in the CIAand Miranda herself. Clearly, the only way to solve this mystery is for Miranda to summon her skills as televisions Pastor Fran and draw on the help of her new sidekick, Susan, a shy bookstore clerk who seems to know everyones secrets. Because the show must go on!

Three locked rooms. Three impossible crimes. One determined sleuth. Miranda Abbott is back in a new mystery from the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder and Mystery in the TitleThe famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page. The Happy Rock bookstore, I Only Read Murder, is hosting not only an author festival but a murder mystery festival, with six of the biggest names in crime fiction.New bookstore majority co-owner and former TV star Miranda Abbott loves nothing more than the idea of hosting literary luminaries. Little does she realize the authors are bringing their egos, their professional jealousies, and their personal grudges along with their books. And they all want the first look at a mysterious posthumous manuscript that has been delivered to the bookstore. This festival of rivals goes from bad to worse when one of the authors turns up dead in a locked room with no windows. And this death is just the beginningno one knows which author will be next. Miranda is on the case, along with Edgar, her almostex-husband; Andrew, her one-person entourage; Ned, the patient police chief; and the good people of Happy Rock. Together, theyll stop at nothing to solve three murders, in three locked rooms, and three impossible crimes.

Miranda Abbott returns! A movie-of-the-week has come to film in Happy Rock and Miranda is the star, at least until her male lead turns up dead. From the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder, a side-splitting mystery of epic movie-of-the-week proportions, featuring the unstoppable Miranda Abbott.Miranda Abbott will once again be a star. After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and they want Miranda back. This time to be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week, filming right here in Happy Rock! Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks this all seems a bit fishy. When Mirandas co-star makes a grand entrance by crashing through the atrium window at The Duchess Hotel and being very much dead, things go from bad to worse. The great citizens of Happy Rock, including Police Chief Ned Buckley, grumpy bookstore owner and soon to be ex-husband Edgar Abbott, Bea of Beas B&B, and the malodorous Owen McCune return to help solve the case in this second Miranda Abbott mystery.

Libro que llena de vigor que llen la vida y que hará cambiar la perspectiva sobre el mundo.