Goose Lane Editions announced today that it will publish Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation on October 4, 2016. Authored by acclaimed Toronto Star investigative reporter Kevin Donovan, Secret Life will provide the behind-the-scenes account of one of the most explosive investigative news stories of the decade.
Page Two client Dr. Deborah MacNamara – author of the recently-published Rest, Play, Grow – spoke to the United Nations yesterday, June 1, 2016 at a special Conference on “The Importance of Fatherhood and Motherhood for Integral Development.” We’re delighted to share that the conference can be streamed via UN Web TV.
Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing, edited by Anne Giardini and Nicholas Giardini and published by Random House Canada, is a Canadian bestselling book in the category of Nonfiction for the week of May 15, 2016.
Joining the Page Two team as our new, multitasking publishing associate is Gabrielle (“Gabi”) Narsted, who will support authors’ book projects from conception to publication.
We are pleased to welcome agency clients Jason Partridge and Ujwal Arkalgud, represented by Page Two principal Jesse Finkelstein in partnership with Transatlantic Agency. Ujwal and Jason are writing a book that aims to change the way business leaders think about human motivation and disrupt the research industry as it stands today.
Congratulations to our client Mindy Mackenzie whose recently-released The Courage Solution landed on the Wall Street Journal‘s Best-Selling Books list for the week ending May 8, 2016.
This weekend Pailin Chongchitnant landed on the Globe and Mail bestseller list with her gorgeous cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen. The book gives authentic Thai recipes that anyone can try at home and explains the basic principles that underlie Thai dishes.
Simplified Chinese rights to Daniel Jones’s Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance have been sold to Beijing Standway Books Co. by Susie Li of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd., on behalf of Trena White, principal of Page Two and associate agent of the Transatlantic Agency.
Last month, Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White attended the Vancouver launch of client Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary.
As the photos below demonstrate, the launch was a huge success.
Anne Collins, publisher of Knopf Random Canada, has acquired Canadian English rights to Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing, a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision, and wit.
We’re delighted to announce the launch of BC Books Online, an initiative enabling librarians, booksellers, educators, and the public alike to easily browse thousands of books from the province’s publishers, for the first time through one central website.
Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White are the latest guests to speak about self publishing on ProSpeak, an online professional speakers series curated and hosted by Geoffrey X Lane.
