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Agent: Angie Abdou has published four books, including three novels: The Bone Cage (a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011), The Canterbury Trail (a Banff Mountain Book finalist in 2011) and Between (2014, Arsenal Press). The latter has been reviewed favourably in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Review, Quill and Quire and Vancouver Sun. In the United States, New York’s Library Journal listed Between as a Top 13 Indie Pick for Spring 2015.

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For The Bone Cage, Angie won the 2012 MacEwan Book of the Year, and in doing so joined a prestigious group of authors, including Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel. Between was named a “Best of 2014″ book by PRISM Magazine, 49th Shelf, and the Vancouver Sun. Angie is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University.

Her nonfiction has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including National Post and Elle Magazine. Agent: Reeve Abraben is a nationally recognized custom gunmaker and a member of the American Custom Gunmakers Guild. A graduate of the Colorado School of Trades, a gunsmithing school, he is an avid collector of antiquarian sporting books, and has complied an extensive library of hunting, African hunting, fishing, gun, and shooting books dating back to the 1850’s. Reeve is a contributing writer for the Journal of the American Custom Gunmaker’s Guild The Gunmaker, and has written technical gun articles for US Gun and GunPro magazines, and sporting columns for the Florida newspaper, The Boca Beacon. ONE EXTRAORDINARY RIFLE: CHRONICLE OF A FINE CUSTOM GUN is Reeve’s nearly complete chronicle about the making of a one-of-a-kind masterpiece African hunting rifle.

Photos and essays detail the building of this collector’s model rifle, valued at over $100,000, which has made its way through the hands of the world’s most renowned artisan gunmakers, and from the walnut orchard in Australia where the wood was harvested for the stock to the checkering cradle in Montana; from the steel mill in Michigan to the engraver’s vise in Arizona — where it now sits waiting for final customization. The book includes photos by award winning firearms photographer Ron Toews and descriptive narrative from many of the contributing artisans. Reeve has also recently completed RIFT VALLEY a novel which takes place on safari during the 1950’s Mau Mau uprising in East Africa. Agent: Alison Acheson’s eighth book, 19 Things: A Book Of Lists for Me, will be published in Fall 2014. Her works are for all ages, from picture books to short fiction for adults.

Her novel, Mud Girl, was a Canadian Library Association finalist for Young Adult Book of the Year, and Grandpa’s Music is on the IBBY List of Books for Children Living With Disabilities. She lives and works in Ladner, in a houseful of boys, and is currently at work on a middle-grade mystery novel set in one of the nearby floathome communities on the Fraser River.

She teaches Writing For Children and Young Adults in the MFA program at the University of British Columbia. Agent: Mariama Ahmed is a writer and freelance content marketer based in Toronto, Ontario.

Her writings and interviews have been featured on CBC’s Fresh Air and Life Rattle Press. When she’s not writing she attends Al Hikmah Islamic Centre for their full time program on the study of the Qur’an.

She also co-host of The Woman Up Podcast, an open discussion with women of all walks of life from almost every continent as they journey into self betterment, one conversation at a time. She is currently working on her first book, a memoir on her personal journey with the niqab as a woman that veils. Agent: A former high school teacher, Don Aker has written nineteen books, among them several novels for teenagers. His young adult fiction has earned him numerous awards, among them the Canadian Library Association’s Honour Book Award for The Space Between, the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine Award for The First Stone, Atlantic Canada’s Ann Connor Brimer Award for The First Stone and Of Things Not Seen, and the Canadian Authors Association’s Lilla Stirling Award for Of Things Not Seen and One on One. The father of two daughters, Don lives with his wife on Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy shoreline.

More information about Don Aker can be found on his website:. Fiction Delusion Road (World Rights Available Ex: Canada (English): (HarperCollins Canada Film Rights Available) Running on Empty A car of his own beckons, and Ethan Palmer sees a route to quick cash. But what will it cost him? (HarperCollins Canada, 2012) The Fifth RuleReef becomes the centre of controversy while he tries to rebuild his reputation and his relationship with Leeza, the only girl he has ever loved. (HarperCollins, 2011) OLA Best Bet, Young Adult Fiction, 2012 “Pacing is fast and suspenseful throughout. Reef and Leeza’s frustrated love story and Reef’s justifiable anger at the manipulative politician Decker are the emotional threads that propel readers through the plot. The climax involves Reef’s going to confront Decker while Leeza races to stop him, and Aker uses short chapters alternating between the characters to keep readers on the edges of their seats.

There is no need to have read The First Stone in order to enjoy The Fifth Rule – it stands alone perfectly well-, but anyone who has read the original book will definitely want to read this conclusion to Reef and Leeza’s story. This book will appeal to older readers looking for suspenseful realistic fiction. The Fifth Rule would make an excellent novel to study in the classroom, both for its composition and for its themes and issues.” – Highly Recommended, Canadian Materials The Space Between With his incredible high-wire talent for balancing sensitive subjects with sardonic, teen-friendly humour, Aker delivers another brilliant must-read novel. Agent: Karen Fisher-Alaniz is the author of Breaking the Code: a Father’s Secret, a Daughter’s Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks, 2011). She began writing the memoir when her father, a WWII veteran, started having flashbacks and nightmares more than 60-years after the war. Karen holds a master’s degree in education and is a speaker, writer, and educator.

She teaches a memoir writing class, Legacy Writers, through the community college. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. Agent: Ryan Alexander-Tanner became fascinated by comics at a very young age and not much has changed since then. He received a BFA in 2005 and quickly built a career, first as a comics journalist for Portland, Oregon’s alt-weekly newspaper The Willamette Week and then as a brand illustrator for Dave’s Killer Bread. He went on to co-author (with renowned educator William Ayers) and illustrate TO TEACH: THE JOURNEY, IN COMICS for Columbia University’s Teachers College Press in 2010.

His more recent work has focused on creating comics that make underrepresented peoples and issues more accessible, for clients that include Medium.com, Buzzfeed.com, Talkingpointsmemo.com, Bitchmedia.org, and Planned Parenthood. He has taught classes and workshops and given presentations about how to make and/or teach comics at many institutions, including Stanford, SAIC, Bank Street, and Columbia. He is currently working with client Sarah Mirk on a YA graphic novel about relationships. Agent: Michele Coppola Ames is a freelance editor and writer, as well as a certified language arts teacher with an MA in Education. She worked for 10 years as a children’s book editor for various publishing houses, including Little, Brown; Simon & Schuster; and Penguin. As an editor, she was particularly drawn to young picture books and middle grade novels, and those are the kinds of books she likes to write. At the age of 15, Michele wrote her first novel in a loose-leaf notebook, which she distributed a chapter at a time to three neighbors.

Recently, her children’s opera based on Rumpelstiltskin was performed in New York City, which attracted even more neighbors. She lives in Redding, Connecticut with her husband and three sons, next to a pond that’s home to beavers, geese, turtles, and frogs. Agent: Jessica Lee Anderson is the author of Trudy (winner of the 2005 Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature), Border Crossing (Quick Picks Nomination, Cynsational Book of 2009), as well as Calli (2013 Rainbow List Final Nomination, 2011 YALSA’s Readers’ Choice Booklist Nomination).

She’s published multiple chapter books for Rourke Educational Media and both fiction and nonfiction with Heinemann, Pearson, Seedling Publications, Six Red Marbles, and a variety of magazines including Highlights for Children. Jessica graduated from Hollins University with a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature, and previously instructed at the Institute of Children’s Literature and St. Edward’s University. She is a member of The Texas Sweethearts & Scoundrels and hopes to be more sweetheart than scoundrel. She lives near Austin, Texas with her husband, daughter, and two crazy dogs. Suzanne Alyssa Andrew is the author of Circle of Stones, a novel (Dundurn Press, March 2015). Originally from Vancouver Island, she now lives and writes in Toronto.

Her work has appeared in various print publications including Taddle Creek, The Toronto Star, Broken Pencil, OCAD University’s Sketch magazine, and in digital film and TV co-productions such as the award-winning interactive documentary The Defector. She also writes for story-based digital games and plays bass in an indie rock band.

She studied at Carleton University where she earned a Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Arts degree in English. Agent: Craig Applegath is the founding principal of DIALOG’s Toronto Studio, and a passionate designer who believes in the power of built form to meaningfully improve the wellbeing of communities and the environment they are part of. Since graduating from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design Craig has focused his energies on leading innovative planning and design projects that address the complex challenges facing our communities, as well as on his advocacy of sustainable building design, and urban regeneration and symbiosis. Craig was a founding Board Member of Sustainable Buildings Canada, a Past President of the Ontario Association of Architects, and the current moderator
of SymbioticCities.net. Craig has lectured or taught at Harvard, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, as well as at many professional and sector related conferences around the world. In 2001 Craig was made a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for his contributions to the profession of architecture.

He is working on his first book that explores how the planning and design of cities needs to respond to the combined threats of climate change and ecological overshoot. More information on Craig Applegath can be found on DIALOG’s website at Agent. Agent: Ujwal is a cultural anthropologist and a pioneer in the field of consumer research who has worked with global brands such as Microsoft, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Lowe’s, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, and General Electric. He has dedicated the better part of a decade to the study of human behavior online. So much so that 15 months ago, he became the only researcher to have collaborated with the online community reddit.com to predict the upcoming U.S election’s focus on fairness and corporate collusion. Together with his business partner, disruptive research firm MotivIndex co-founder Jason Partridge, Ujwal is writing a book that aims to change the way business leaders think about human motivation and disrupt the research industry as it stands today.

Agent: Katherine Ashenburg is the author of three books and many magazine and newspaper articles. She wrote for The New York Times travel section and on design for Toronto Life, among others. Her books include “Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario” (winner of the Ontario Historical Society award), “The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die” (short-listed for two important prizes) and “The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History” (one of The Independent’s Ten Best History Books of the year and one of the New York Public Library’s 25 Best Books of the year), which was published in 12 countries and six languages. In former incarnations, she was a producer at CBC Radio and The Globe and Mail’s Arts and Books editor. She won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine awards in 2012 for her article on old age.

She is currently working on a novel. More information about Katherine Ashenburg can be found on her website: Photo Credit: Joy von Tiedemann Fiction Sofie & Cecilia (Forthcoming March 2018, Knopf Canada) Non-Fiction All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean (Annick Press, 2016) “All the Dirt” was chosen as one of the best Canadian books for kids and teenagers in 2017 by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. It is also a finalist for four readers’ choice awards across the country — in the Maritimes, Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. Agent: Tony Babinski is a Montreal-based writer, director, producer, and creative director.

He is the author of 20 Years Under the Sun, the definitive biography of Cirque du Soleil (Harry N Abrams Publishing) and coauthor of Conversational Capital (Financial Times Press). He is the creative director of STROBE, a multimedia experience that took place at the 5th Annual Dubai Film Festival; a principal creator and director of video content for the Ajax Experience in Amsterdam; a principal creative architect of the C2mtl Conference; and director of behind-the-scenes web documentaries for Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA, as well as a biography of Aldo Bensaddoun—founder of the ALDO retail chain. His recent projects include award-winning design and branding for SNACKBOX in Times Square, and creative direction of the 2011 and 2012 multi-media Bell Gala in Toronto. Currently, he is the screenwriter and executive producer of The Human Fly, a $15 million feature now in development.

Tony Babinski is working on a business book about brand reinvention. For more information: jesse@transatlanticagency.com. Agent: Martha Baillie was born in Toronto. After studies in Edinburgh and Paris, followed by extensive travel in Asia, Baillie returned to Toronto where she lives with her family. She is the author of four novels, and has been published in Canada, Germany and Hungary. Her poems have appeared frequently in journals such as Descant, Prairie Fire and the Antigonish Review. Her non-fiction piece, “The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach,” was published in 2007, by Brick: a literary journal.

More information about Martha Baillie can be found on her website: Author photo Mark Raynes Roberts Fiction If Clara (Coach House Books, 2017) The Search for Henrich Schlogel (Pedlar Press Canada, 2014) The Incident Report (Pedlar Press Canada, 2008) Longlist, 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist, Canada Also Reads, National Post The Shape I Gave You (Knopf Canada, 2006) National Bestseller, Great Reads: Best of 2006 – 2008, Toronto Public Library Madame Balashovskaya’s Apartment (Turnstone Press, Canada, 1999, Ebersbach, Germany, 2001, Kossuth, Hungary, 2002) Agent. Agent: Denise Balkissoon is a freelance journalist who has won a National Magazine Award for her work with The Grid, been nominated for multiple NMAs for her work with Toronto Life magazine, and has also been published in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and The Walrus. Denise explores interactions between communities, cities, countries and the world, documenting how people live their everyday lives.

She is also the co-founder the Ethnic Aisle, a blog about race and multiculturalism featuring city commentary by a wide spectrum of writers and artists. She lives in Toronto. More information about Denise Balkissoon can be found on her website: Author photo by Kevin Gonsalves Agent. Agent: After a career in teaching and with the Ontario Ministry of Education, Bob Barton became a professional storyteller. He is a founding member of the Storytellers School of Toronto and has been a feature storyteller at festivals across North America, England and Australia. He has won several awards for his efforts in promoting literacy and was the first recipient of The National Symposium on Arts Education Award for innovation and advocacy in Arts Education in Canada. More information on Bob Barton can be found on his website: Honours Award of Excellence in Continuing Education, OISE, University of Toronto, 2007First recipient of The National Symposium on Arts Education Award for innovation and advocacy in Arts Education in Canada, 2000 Trouble on the Voyage An eleven-year-old ship’s boy recounts the fight for survival during an Arctic expedition in 1631 when the ship must over winter trapped in ice.

(Napoleon and Company, 2010) The Bear Says North (Groundwood Books, 2003) Nominated for Silver Birch Award – Non-fiction Ontario Library Association, 2004-2005. Agent: Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, and educator and the author of 17 books of poetry and fiction as well as books for both teens and children. His work has been widely performed, broadcast, anthologized and published nationally and internationally, and has been commissioned by the CBC. His debut adult novel, Yiddish for Pirates, is a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Literature and the prestigious 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He received a PhD.

In music composition, a B.A., B.F.A and a B.Ed. And taught middle school and high school for nearly ten years. He has taught writing at McMaster University and at Mohawk College, to street-involved youth, and at Offcentre Art and Creativity Workshops. He was the Fall 2013 Young Voices eWriter-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library and will be Writer-in-Residence at Western University in 2014-2015. Barwin is winner of the 2013 City of Hamilton Arts Award (Writing), the Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year 2011, and co-winner of 2011 Harbourfront Poetry NOW competition, the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award, and the KM Hunter Artist Award. He has received major grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council for his work. His YA novel, Seeing Stars was shorted listed for both the Crimewriters of Canada Arthur Ellis Award as well as the Canadian Library Association YA Book of Year, and his picturebook, The Magic Mustache, was chosen as a “Best Bet” by Macleans.

His latest book of poetry is Moon Baboon Canoe, winner of the Hamilton Literary Arts Award for Poetry. Barwin has given hundreds of readings and performances in Canada and internationally. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his family and a fear of the family car. More information about Gary Barwin can be found at his website: Forthcoming Yiddish for Pirates (Random House Canada 2016, New Face of Fiction) FINALIST: 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 Governor General’s Award for Literature Advance quotes: “Across time and across continents, Gary Barwin’s novel “parrots” in an altogether new way. In a ferment of salty witticism, parroty puns and unforgettable Yiddish vocabulary, this is a novel borne not just on the wings of its feathery narrator, but on its own jubilant and alluring language; its own voice.

Playful, mocking, using history with audacious abandon, Yiddish for Pirates is a resplendent enjoyment. But, literally viewed from above, the novel also admonishes us about man’s inexhaustible zeal for butchery, for incessant genocide, and for affliction. We have had animal narrators throughout literary history, but Aaron the African grey parrot, from the shoulder of his pirate master, will lift you to new heights.” – 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation “ Yiddish for Pirates is simply not like anything else.

In Yiddish for Pirates Barwin strikes a moving, masterful note. Yiddish for Pirates has an unmatched spryness in both thought and language. It doesn’t conform well to any category or trope of literature, but instead makes a place as a fresh, new thing that draws from sea shanties and Talmud, history and fantasy, romance, adventure, linguistics, fashion, and the adventure serial of the early days of movies. This book is as irrepressible as my enthusiasm for it. You’ll never read anything else like it, and that’s a shonde.” – S. Bear Bergman, The Globe and Mail “Gary Barwin’s new novel combines swashbuckling and stories of the diaspora, told with some of the most original language play since Ulysses.” – Joyland “ Rarely does one encounter a work of Canadian literature this exuberant, impassioned, and enthralled with the very nature and essence of storytelling.

Yiddish for Pirates is many things: a postmodern pastiche, an episodic picaresque, a compendium of tales competing to see which can stand tallest, and a virtual catalogue of Jewish humour through the ages.” – Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire “Delightfully odd. Start by imagining that Leo Rosten (of The Joys of Yiddish) and Terry Pratchett (of approximately 1 million fantasy novels) had a love-child. Then suspend your disbelief’s disbelief. Barwin engages with the little-known history of Jewish pirates with verve and humor.” – Leah Falk, Jewniverse “All my life I have been waiting for the romantic tale of a Kabbalistic Jewish pirate as filtered through a uniquely Canadian perspective. Today, my prayers have been answered and then some.” Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure “ Yiddish for Pirates is a rollicking story, a linguistic typhoon, and the most audacious and original novel I’ve read in a long time.

Gary Barwin has the imagination of David Mitchell and a galleon full of dictionaries.” Emily Schultz, author of The Blondes “Gary Barwin is a gifted writer and a whiz-bang storyteller. Both are on vivid display in his hilarious tragicomic epic, Yiddish for Pirates. Narrated by a five-hundred-year-old wisecracking parrot, naturally, this swashbuckling tale had me hanging on for dear life.

A wild and wonderful ride.” Terry Fallis, author of Poles Apart and No Relation “What an accomplishment! What an imagination!

The wit, the wordplay, and the subversive humour make this a thoroughly original and delightful novel.” Lauren B. Davis, Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated author of Our Daily Bread and Against a Darkening Sky Poetry Moon Baboon Canoe (Mansfield Press 2014) Winner of the Hamilton Literary Arts Award for Poetry Children’s Seeing Stars (Fitzhenry and Whiteside 2001) The Magic Mustache(Annick Press 1999). Agent: Amy writes to help interpret reality and sometimes to escape it. Her limited concept of home decorating involves stacks of books—in corners, on tables, where the TV used to be. With a background in teaching English as a Foreign Language and educational writing for grades K-12, she loves making science, history and mythology fascinating and accessible to younger readers. Her work has appeared in various publications including Stories for Children Magazine and Reading Local: Portland.

In 2014 she won the Pacific Northwest Plein Air Writers People’s Choice award for her poem, Snowbound: Day 6, Imagined. She enjoys collaborating, particularly with Jason Baskin, her husband and in-house illustrator.

Agent: Eliott Behar developed an early interest in international human rights, criminal justice and human psychology. Following his graduation from law school he became a Crown Attorney in Toronto, where he prosecuted cases ranging from fraud to murder, argued numerous complex appeals at the Ontario Court of Appeal, appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada, and provided legal advice to the Attorney General on issues ranging from hate crimes to child abductions. In 2008, Eliott became a war crimes prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, an experience that provided the impetus for his book, Tell it to the World. After his trial was completed he returned to Canada, where he worked with a small, specialized trial unit prosecuting police officers charged with serious criminal offences.

TELL IT TO THE WORLD: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo (Dundurn Press) Finalist, The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction, 2015 Agent. Agent: Holly Bennett is an award-winning novelist of series fiction and novels for teens. After many years as editor-in-chief of Today’s Parent magazine’s special editions, she is now working as a freelance writer/editor and editor of Education Canada. She and her husband John have three boys and read untold numbers of wonderful children’s books with them while they were growing up. But Holly’s not sure what flipped the switch and turned her from a person who loves reading stories to a person who loves writing them.

She now describes herself as addicted to fiction writing: “I just find it enormously fun and satisfying work.” Born in Montreal, Holly lives in Peterborough, Ontario with a houseful of musicians (everyone in the family but her) and a nice quiet dog. More information about Holly Bennett can be found on her website: Author photo by Mark Peter Drolet Fiction RedwingRowan both desires and fears his dead sister’s continuing presence in his life. (Orca, 2012)Nominated, Shining Willow 2013, Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Award ShapeshifterSet in the wild, magical landscape of Iron Age Ireland, Shapeshifter is a tale of rapacious evil, quiet courage and the healing power of love. (Orca, 2010)In order to escape the sorcerer who wants to control her gift of song, Sive must transform herself into a deer, leave the Otherworld and find refuge in Eire, the land of mortals.

Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic 2011 Nominated, Snow Willow Award 2011, Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice CCBC Best Books, 2011 TriState YA Review Group Book of Note, 2011 Resource Links “The Year’s Best”, 2011 “A modern retelling of an old and recognizable Celtic myth, which gives the sense of ‘real people’ without losing the mythic arc of the story. Lyrical writing draws the reader into a fantasy realm in a way that blurs the lines between reading and experiencing.” – Sunburst Award jury”Bennett artfully weaves traditional Irish folklore into her story of Sive. The enchantment of Bennett’s interpretation of the legend of Sive is a perfect match to her prose which, at times, is as liquid as we imagine Sive’s songs to be.” – VOYA Warrior’s Daughter Luaine is daughter to the greatest of Irish warriors, the legendary Cuchulainn. Agent: Andrea Bennett is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and editor. Her first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014, and her nonfiction has been published by the Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, the Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Reader’s Digest and others. The Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve magazine, she is is currently working on travel guides to Montreal and Quebec City for Moon Travel. For more information about Andrea, you can check out her website, or find her on Twitter: @akkabah.

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Agent: Michael Betcherman has numerous credits in both documentary and dramatic television. His screenplay won the Gold Award as Best Thriller at the Houston International Film Festival.

He is also the writer/creator of two highly-acclaimed online novels written in email form and delivered to readers email by email, as the story unfolds over the course of a few weeks. He has contributed to numerous publications including The Walrus, Red Herring, and The Literary Review of Canada. In prior incarnations he was an entertainment lawyer and a professional basketball player. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter. Forthcoming Face-Off (Razorbill, 2014) Seventeen-year-old Alex Petrovic is thrilled to be playing goal for his Canadian team in an international hockey tournament.

After a game against an Eastern European team, he shakes hands with the opposing goalie, Stefan Divac, and finds himself staring at a lookalike. At first he dismisses it as a coincidence. Then his mother sees Stefan, and the truth comes out: he is Alex’s identical twin. The encounter uncovers dark family secrets and draws Alex’s attention away from hockey and on to his home country’s tragic history. And just as Alex and Stefan learn to be brothers off the ice, their rivalry deepens on the ice.

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Will the twins be torn apart again? Fiction Breakaway Finalist for the 2012 John Spray Mystery Award. Agent: Author and musician Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie and Juno as well CBC’s Canada Reads. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written 11 books, including On a Cold Road, Tropic of Hockey, Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and Home and Away. He has made two Gemini Award-nominated documentaries and his play, the Five Hole Stories, was staged by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Company, touring the country in 2008. His third book, Baseballissimo, is being developed for the screen by Jay Baruchel, and, in 2010, he won his third National Magazine Award, for “Travels in Narnia.” He writes a weekly column for the Saturday Post and, in 2011, he published the Toronto Book Award-nominated Writing Gordon Lightfoot.

He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, and Village Voice. He is the co-curator of the Joe Burke Wolfe Island Literary Festival.

More information about Dave Bidini can be found on his website: Non-Fiction Keon and Me (Penguin Canada, 2013) Writing Gordon Lightfoot The Man, The Music and the World in 1972 (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) Finalist, 2012 Toronto Book Award Home and Away In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer (Greystone, 2010)World Rights Available Ex: Canada (English): Greystone Books, September 2010 US: Skyhorse Publishing Australia/New Zealand: University of Queensland Press Agent. Agent: Publisher’s Weekly called Joanne Bischof’s debut novel BE STLL MY SOUL a “gem.” It went on to final in the 2013 Christy Awards and win the Grace Award for historical romance. Her second novel, THOUGH MY HEART WAS TORN was an INSPY finalist; her third book MY HOPE WAS FOUND completed the Cadence of Grace series published with the Waterbrook Press imprint of Random House. Joanne is currently at work on a stunning single title Appalachian romance set at the turn of the century in which a lion-tamer reveals his secrets to a young small town nurse who discovers her own gypsy heart.

Joanne has a deep passion for Appalachian culture and loves writing stories that shine light on grace and goodness. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her husband and their three children.

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Anyone else built a Geoff Hamilton cloche recently? Used mine last year for sweetcorn so I could plant it out nice and early mid April. But the snow broke it - it was just cheap b&q plastic covering (very thin).

Just rebuilt it, strengthened the frame, and covered it with 600 guage polytunnel cover this time Probably overkill but atleast it will last. Oh for anyone doesnt know - the guy built them on gardener's world ages ago. Basic wooden frame with the blue pipe struts. I add bamboo cane (or dowel) supports. Much stronger than just pinning the plastic down over some bent pipes, but maybe less flexible in use.