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Mar 26, 2021

Check out all the media for Lisa Moore and her latest novel February! Read Vit Wagner’s profile of Lisa in the Toronto Star. And listen to her in conversation with Shelagh Rogers on CBC’s “The Next Chapter.” Reviews: “. . . exquisitely mindful . . . [Lisa Moore] gets life . . . [and] offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very...

Mar 26, 2021

Anansi Review Crew: February by Lisa Moore

As Helen O’Mara learns the night of February 14, 1982, when her husband Cal dies along with 83 other men aboard the Ocean Ranger, a risk can change everything. February begins twenty-five years after the tragedy as Helen tries to gather her courage to take another risk: moving forward while still trapped in that one fateful month-long past. The novel...

Mar 26, 2021

WIN A TRIO OF BOOKS BY LISA MOORE

For the next week, we’ll be holding a contest in which you can win Caught, Alligator, and February by award-winning author Lisa Moore. Settle into the Fall season by giving yourself a chance to win these three uniquely Canadian novels!

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore and James Langer in Nova Scotia

Lisa Moore and James Langer toured the east coast — Sandy Cove, NS; Bear River, NS; Annapolis, NS; Saint John, NB. House of Anansi Press President Sarah MacLachlan was their chauffeur and official tour photographer. She files this report: James Langer and Lisa Moore read from their new works and talked with audiences in Saint John, New Brunswick and Annapolis...

Mar 26, 2021

Canada Reads 2013 Winner: February by Lisa Moore

To celebrate Lisa Moore’s Canada Reads win, we are giving away our very last SIGNED FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER of February. Enter to win HERE Contest closes February 28, 2013. More Lisa Moore news: > Read a chapter of Lisa Moore’s forthcoming novel Caught in the eBook version of February! > Signed paperback copies of February are available for purchase from...

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore and David French at Soulpepper Theatre

Soul in the summer! Lisa Moore (February) and playwright David French helped raise the roof off of Soulpepper Theatre as we celebrated a night of Newfoundland music, literature, and theatre with the Soulpepper launch of Of the Fields, Lately by David French. Anansi has collected three of the Mercer Family plays into one volume, Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately,...

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore will pick the perfect book for your summer goals

Want Lisa Moore to pick the perfect book for you this summer? Send your summer goals to contests@houseofanansi.com. *Contest closes at midnight on June 19th. Canadian residents only please, excluding Quebec. Your entry may be read to the Internet by Lisa Moore.

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore on re-reading [guest post]

Lisa Moore is the bestselling author of the novels February, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Alligator, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her third novel, Caught, was released this month. Watch for her blog posts, throughout the month of June. “What about the idea that the function of action is to express the characters?  This is wrong....

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore on reading with Patrick Watson [guest post]

Sarah MacLachlan, President and Publisher of House of Anansi It was June 19 and we were going to the midnight set of The Courtyard Revue — part of the Luminato Festival — curated by the wonderful Jason Collett with help from our own Damian Rogers (Anansi’s new Poetry Editor). We were tired and Lisa was wondering what her publisher had...

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore on the Inspiration for Caught [guest post]

Lisa Moore is the bestselling author of the novels February, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Alligator, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her third novel, Caught, is launching this month. Watch for her posts throughout June, right here, Inside the House. The idea for Caught grew out of a lore about ’70s drug culture in Newfoundland that...

Mar 26, 2021

Read an Excerpt from Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore

An excerpt from Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore. Orlando, Florida. I’m here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It’s very early; I’m jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I’m on the median. A...

Mar 26, 2021

Lisa Moore on the radio: 30th anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine’s Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. Lisa Moore’s latest novel, February, is the story of Helen O’Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. This moving book was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named a...

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