NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Wickedly 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 production—and is convinced it’s up to her to solve the case.Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday...

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 ...

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist of 419 comes a spellbinding literary adventure novel about precious objects lost and found.The world is filled with wonders, lost objects—all real—all still out there, waiting to be found:· the missing Fabergé eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions· the last reel of Alfred Hitchcock’s first film· Buddy Holly’s iconic glasses· Muhammad Ali’s Olympic gold medalHow can...

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 Happiness™Will 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, Will’s travels have taken him from Cape Spear on the...

Meet Thomas Rosanoff: med student and researcher.Meet his subjects: three homeless men who believe they are God.Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomas’s 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 lur...

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological research. In his trademark irreverent style, Will Ferguson cele...

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 ...

Believing that “literary icons don't answer letters from ordinary people,” Noreen Olson nonetheless contacted iconic Canadian writer and humourist Paul Hiebert after reading his book Sarah Binks. To her surprise, Hiebert wrote back. Thus began a rich correspondence between two kindred spirits that ended only with Hiebert’s death in 1987.Love and Kisses, Paul Hiebert charts this correspondence, covering a vast array of subjects: from chickens to religion, literature to ageing. Lette...

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 father's death and an epic portrait of morality and corr...

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is "419," the world’s 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 Ni...

Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in human history took place in Rwanda—over one million people were killed in 100 days.Each chapter in The Hope that Remains focuses on a Rwandan survivor and their journey to escape the violence and chaos that overtook their country. Two of the featured stories follow individuals who fl...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Wickedly 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 production—and is convinced it’s up to her to solve the case.Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday...