The long-awaited biography of one of Canada’s most intriguing and beguiling artists.Do artists really thrive in big cities, or do they just learn to imitate New York? Is it a contradiction for an artist to be fiercely local and profoundly identified with international art movements? If the brilliant colourist and regionalist pioneer Greg Curnoe stood for any one thing, it was making trouble. An intriguing rebel throughout his life, he challenged ideas about what ar...

Keanu Reeves: actor, musician, dog lover. He's the internet's boyfriend. The poetic petrolhead. The guru on a surfboard. Part samurai, part samaritan. He is, very simply, 'The One'.'James has been my movie guru for years and now he's my spiritual guru too! From now on I'm going to ask myself: 'What would Keanu do?'Jo WhileyIn this hilarious book of pocket philosophy, film critic and Keanu fan James King reveals what...

The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.

Read James King's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.A magnificent debut about a man's odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the rideBill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer's and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, wher...

Scaling Up - Beginner's Guide To Scaling Your Business (Economies of Scale)Knowing the right steps for your startupWould it not be great, if your business does not only grow at a rapid level, but its structure and system even support and enhance such a rapid growth rate?Every healthy business needs to grow – we know that. And it is in the interest of every business owner not only to grow his business at a very rapid rate, but to keep...

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is one of the world's most important contemporary artists.His life and art have been dedicated to investigating the large-scale human incursions into the surface of the earth, to dealing with climate change, and to demonstrating the proliferation of toxins that threaten the very existence of civilization. This narrative—focused on the aesthetic means that Burtynsky has utilised to frame those issues—describes in detail the unf...

It's 1966. Just finishing college, James Stone, 22, is accepted into Peace Corps training for Nigeria Project 29. Inexperienced but curious to explore the world and his sexual orientation, Jim unwittingly becomes embroiled in political and tribal maneuverings during training in Los Angeles that tremendously impact his daily life and very survival while in Nigeria. Often scared, confused, manipulated, will Jim catch on to the undercurrents engulfing him? Will he find inner strength to endur...

A quiet Sunday, a vicious assault. One man’s resurrection is another’s good luck.When Alfie set out on his morning cycle ride, the last thing he expected was to be the only witness to attempted murder. The perpetrator of the crime was the only person who knew Alfie had seen him at the scene. And Alfie was easy to find. Scared out of his wits, he kept his head down and waited, as a weird sequence of events unfolded.Suspenseful and gripping, the short story h...

In the midst of three of the Wests greatest cities reside towering Ancient Egyptian obelisks that date back over 3,000 years. So how exactly did 60+ feet tall obelisks go from Alexandria to London, New York City, and Paris, and what do these obelisks hieroglyphics say? Each one of the obelisks, dubbed Cleopatras Needle, has its own travel story, and James King tells of the spire that made its way to London. As fate would have it, the story would be a deadly one. Along the way, King transla...

Jack is the intimate, extraordinary story of the gregarious, irascible trailblazer who propelled Canada into a cultural coming of age and changed the business and flavour of book publishing forever. Jack McClelland, credited with bringing Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Leonard Cohen, Farley Mowat, and Pierre Berton, among others, to centre stage, became famous as the hard-drinking, chain-smoking publicity hound whose flamboyant stunts, calculated to bring at...

CRUCI~FICTIONakaSANTA . . . LIA ~ HOLY . . . LEGENDis the story recorded on the bleached pages of an old bilingual Bible, shot through with a large caliber rifle. The inside was used to record the words, lives, and friendship of three orphans with a red pencil, a blue pen, and a green crayon.In Southern Colorado there is a vast mountain valley walled by two mountain ranges, the San Juans and the Sangre de Cr...

Updated for Christmas 2013!James King is tired of ‘Step Into Christmas’. He’s tired of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’. He’s tired – if it’s possible – of ‘Fairytale of New York’. It’s time for a new Christmas Classic.‘It’s Chriiiistmaaaas’ is a festive journey through the decades via the most cherished seasonal songs of the last century – from ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ to ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’. But beneath the nostalgia, are serious questions: is it al...