Alex Neve

Finding love is easy. Finding yourself is harder. Kate has always known that Gavin is the love of her life. What she doesn’t know is whether she’s Wife Material. That belief began at fifteen, courtesy of words from her best friend, Amber, but it’s shaped Kate’s life, always at the back of her mind when browsing Tinder for another casual hook-up, or wondering about her propensity for running away when faced with messy, deep emotions. Now, twenty years later, Amber has died, and returning home for the funeral means resisting her feelings for Gavin and confronting shame from her past. Determined to change herself from one-night-stand to lifelong commitment, Kate attempts a radical rebrand: fewer F bombs, no more sleeping around and way more floral dresses. But as she searches for her movie happy ending, and as Gavin re-emerges in her life, will Kate decide whether becoming ‘good’ means becoming losing herself? Or will she finally accept the truth about who she is, what she wants, and who she chooses to love? A hilarious, sex-positive and spicy contemporary romance that readers of Daisy Buchanan and Caroline O'Donoghue will love.

Sometimes love doesn't follow the rules On the eve of her forty-second birthday, Esme's husband announces he's leaving her for a twenty-something sound bath practitioner. Desperate to avoid becoming her mother (who left her marriage in tatters and abandoned Esme as a child), she throws herself into her work, but when she meets new office temp Callum, Esme finds herself in the middle of what appears to be a second sexual awakening. Inexplicably drawn to Callum and the potential of someone eleven years her junior, Callum and Esme embark on a secret affair that gives Esme back the joy she was missing in her staid, joyless marriage. The two grow closer, but Esme knows that she can never be more than a secret, physical connection - she's too old, too career-driven, she's approaching the end of fertility. What could a young, handsome aspiring actor want with her, anyway? But when Esme is forced to choose between what society deems acceptable and her feelings for Callum, will she follow her heart, or her head? A sharp, sexy, funny love story about ageing, leaving your baggage behind, and the power of dating like a man. Fans of The Idea of You, Daisy Buchanan, Caroline O'Donoghue and the film *Babygirl *will love this.

The 2025 Massey Lecture delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve. In this lecture, Alex Neve will lay out the unprecedented and daunting challenges humanity faces and offer a vision, both aspirational and pragmatic, that is grounded in the vital truth enshrined over 75 years ago in the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The series was created in honour of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, former Governor General of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to provide a forum on radio where major contemporary thinkers could address important issues of our time.

From award-winning journalist Sarah Cox comes the inspiring and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who stood up against the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that propelled it forward. In 2010, the BC government announced its plan to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River. Although Site C would flood land of great significance to First Nations and some of Canada's best farmland, BC Hydro, Premier Gordon Campbell, and his successor, Christy Clark, insisted it was necessary to generate jobs and clean energy. In this powerful work, Cox reveals the true costs and hidden dangers of the project, as told to her by the local farmers, ranchers, and First Nations leaders who tried to stop the dam and the wholesale destruction of their valley in courts of law and the court of public opinion. This modern-day David-and-Goliath story, told in frank and moving prose, stands as a much-needed cautionary tale during an era when concerns about global warming have helped justify a renaissance of environmentally irresponsible hydro megaprojects around the world.