“For now, there is Baldie Fitzgerald. He doesn't know it yet, but he too will be changed.”
Sarah. On a wall in a house in Florida she collects postcards and photos from a hundred years ago: Baldie, the young man with one short leg; Ora, the girl with a wandering eye; Jack the chairboy: all three come alive under Sarah's probing gaze.
5.25 x 8, 193 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4. $18.88
Richard King’s new novel, ACCOUNTING FOR CRIME, takes you inside the world of business gone right and people gone wrong in a roman a clef that combines intrigue, love triangles, tough talking cops and cold-blooded mobsters.
The latest in a long line of scriptures, MAPLE VEDAS explores the voyages of the Gods of India – Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, Kali – as they visit the northwestern lands of the globe in the past, the present, and the near future. Peopled with other characters like a prophetic moose, a secretive walrus, and a charming groundhog, the interactions and dialogues of this third millenium testament force you to rethink history, religion, and your place in all of it – wherever you come from.
Colour with Original Artwork by Tara Chartrand, Chris Dyer, Collen MacIsaac. 6 x 9 . 78 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-05-3. $18.88
Rollick with Rolli through coddled lawns and parlour rooms, sloshing tea with gingercats under bluebird moons and slopping wine with bathing bachelorette hieresses in a world plum-stuffed with all things epicurean and bewitching, from English to Egyptian, the pathologic and the philosophic. By Canada’s Charles Anderson (Rolli), recipient of the 2007 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award; and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
With illustrations by the author. Colour. 5.5 x 8.5. 128 pages. $18.88
Hammering, bombastic, poetic, mystic Nietzsche as seen through the mind of the great ontologist Heidegger. Nietzsche’s thought dissected, critiqued, delimited, explored by the author of “Being and Time” one of the most influential modern philosophers of our day, is explored in this insightful new volume, containing never before translated passages from the Nietzschean Nachlass.
By Paul Cantanu. 414 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-02-2. $38.88
Unfictions serves to dramatize the way in which we react to such an information-rich environment in all of its glorious simultaneity--the beginning of a type of 'New Realism' in letters – reflecting faithfully a society so saturated with events and quotations that it can no longer distinguish between them and their relative meanings.
In a touching tale, stark realism, substance abuse and sexual haggling co-exist with the innocent yearnings of youth in this modern struggle of love and idealism seeking its expression in a wasteland of nihilistic greed, narcotic egoism and righteous violence.
The FLQ have bombed the Montreal Stock Exchange. The streets are charged and a referendum is called on secession. Frederick E. Bryson captures a defining moment in Canadian history in his latest novel "Crossing to Tadoussac".
A work that will transport you across the sea to the idealization and mysticism of the East against the realities of its westernization. Reading and reciting this poetry, you will find that laughter often chokes itself on tears while the book yo-yos between meditation and contemplation.
88 pages, Colour, Illustrated. 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-0-9809108-7-2. $18.88
Funny, frenzied, maniacal, and touching - a statement on modernity, as these men contemplate their future while unravelling their lives to their increasing horror. Sitting on the edge of darkness, they wait for the great dawn, the opening of night, which Marcus aims to precipitate with his next play in which he reveals all, on Opening Night.
A short work of sensibility and power that explores the attraction extremism may hold over the more aspiring of a generation. The Jihadist in this tale is not who appears to be. Is he a Westerner enlisting in the Armed Forces? Or a Muslim extremist? The Author plays on the amibiguity to beg the question.
93 pages, Colour, 5.5 x 8.5 with colour interior artwork. ISBN: 978-0-9809108-8-9. $15.88
With his 5th book, James Cummins sets the framework for the synthesis humanity seeks between religion and science, empiricism and skepticism, the subjective and objective. A novel paradigm in which these diverging worlds meet, this new epistemology is more than just an interesting read - it could change the way you see everything around you.
A learned exposition by one of the world's leading Qabalists, this book takes the reader through an exploratory journey through the English Alphabet and the mystic and even subconscious roots of our development of language throughout history.
Richard King will be reading from his "Accounting for Crime" at the Books and Breakfast event, October 30th, at the Sheraton Centre, in downtown Montreal.
Jason Price Everett's piece Intimate Landscapes has been shortlisted for CBC's 2011 Quebec Writing Competition. Find out more about the competition here.
A poem of his, "Pennyante Strychnine," (from his soon-coming collection "Hypodrome") appears in the Spring 2011 issue of CV2 - Contemporary Verse, The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing, vol. 33, issue 4. See it here.
Jason Price Everett is the author of "Unfictions" and soon-coming "Hypodrome".
K. Gandhar Chakravarty, author of "Maple Vedas" and "Kolkata Dreams" is interviewed in South Africa. In the streets of Durban where he performs his music and recites his poetry, he is being hailed a 'Shakespeare' of Canada. Learn about his research into the Nazarites and watch the video here.
Auth0r Richard King joins host Dave Bronstetter for a one-on-one chat about his new book, "Accounting for Crime" on CBC radio's "All In A Weekend". Listen to the interview here.
Watch out for other appeareances cooming soon on CJAD with Anne Lagacé-Dowson in a couple of weeks.
Look for the official launch, May 17, 2011 at Paragraphe Bookstore
Jason Price Everett's "Requiem for Ulrike" appears in the Spring/Summer Issue of Brand Magazine. See an excerpt here. Learn more about his novel Unfictions.
Look for the launch advertisement coming soon: May 19, 2011 at Paragraphe Bookstore in downtown Montreal, and May 25, 2011 at Collected Works Bookstore in Ottawa.
At an open-air clinic, the enigmatic twist of Dr. Mahlon Locke sets events into motions that trickle down through time until they become a relentless flood. Punctuated by unforgiving factoids and vintage postcards, Spoilers confronts the fleeting nature of fame, the human impact of progress, and the consequences of choosing art over love.
193 pages 5.25” x 8” ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4 $18.88
For more information about Spoilers, please visit www.8thHousePublishing.com/Spoilers.html or contact Marion Pynn at (438)764-6624 marion.pynn@8thHousePublishing.com
Who says lawyers have all the fun? Richard King’s new novel Accounting for Crime takes you inside the world of business gone right and people gone wrong in a roman a clef that combines intrigue, love triangles, tough talking cops and cold-blooded mobsters.
“King . . . has talent and wit and Montreal.”
- Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
"King’s first novel, That Sleep of Death, “is a tidily written, gripping little mystery.” - Pat Donnelly, The Gazette
5 x 8 . 308 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-07-7. $18.88
For information please contact: Marion Pynn marion.pynn@8thHousePublishing.com (438) 764 • 6624
Rolli (Charles Anderson) headlines at Vertigo Reading Series, March 27, 2011, 19:00 at the Orange Izakaya, Regina, Canada. Check out his latest collection of verse, "Plum Stuff" here.
