Featured Titles: Lump & Knowledge Mindfulness
Lump by Nathan Whitlock
Published by Dundurn Press
World rights available 🌎
A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.
"One of the "must-read, hands-down best books of 2023 so far." - Toronto Star
Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life — a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos through the lives of multiple characters, including a struggling house cleaner, a rich and charismatic yoga guru, and even an ailing dog. What follows is a dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power.
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Lump is both a page-turner and a disquieting and complex take on marriage, illness, and privilege. Whitlock is wry, smart, and never boring. ― Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People
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In Lump, things fall completely, often hilariously, apart for a seemingly perfect Toronto family. With a keen eye and plenty of verve and humour, Nathan Whitlock peels back the facades of a cast of urbanites to reveal messy truths, ugly appetites, and highly questionable decision-making. ― Elyse Friedman, author of The Opportunist
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Parenthood, money, marriage, illness ― everyday mini-tragedies morph into snort-worthy comedy when put under Nathan Whitlock's microscope. Lump drives in shivs of self-recognition on every page, along with lines you'll want to share with the stranger sitting next to you on the subway. ― Andrew Pyper, author of The Residence
Dundurn Press kindly shared with us an impressive Look Book they have created for Lump. Here are some excerpt, you can download the full document by clicking on the button below.
Nathan Whitlock is the author of the novels A Week of This and Congratulations On Everything. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Best Canadian Essays, and elsewhere. He is the coordinator for Humber College’s Creative Book Publishing program, which he also teaches in, and makes the weekly author-interview podcast What Happened Next. He lives with his wife, award-winning author Meaghan Strimas, and their family in Hamilton, Ontario.
Knowledge Mindfulness: The Interconnections That Help Leaders Transform Their Business and Life by Laila Marouf
Published by Forbes Books
World Rights Available 🌎
Knowledge should be the lifeblood of modern organizations—but most leaders are held back by knowledge management processes designed for a simpler world. Knowledge Mindfulness offers a transformative new approach, applying cutting-edge research from the worlds of business, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and the social sciences to reveal more holistic, effective, and humane ways of harnessing knowledge.
As a business leader, award-winning academic researcher, and proud wife and mom, Prof. Laila Marouf offers an entirely fresh perspective, fusing her deep understanding of knowledge management theory and practice with a holistic new framework for managing, elevating, and evolving personal and organizational knowledge processes.
Interwoven with powerful personal stories, Prof. Marouf makes complex theories accessible for busy business leaders, and offers practical tips on how to elevate knowledge processes to drive collaboration, innovation, and resilience in modern organizations.
In Knowledge Mindfulness, leaders will learn to see knowledge as a dynamic system grounded in deep connections between people and anchored in the full richness of the human experience. Knowledge is an emergent system, deriving its power from complex networks of connections between ourselves, others, and the contexts in which we operate.
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A smoothly readable argument for deeper and better thinking in a chaotic world.—Kirkus Reviews
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A smart guide with a fresh perspective on knowledge management.—BookLife by Publishers Weekly
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Knowledge Mindfulness introduces a holistic, interconnected leadership approach that integrates strategies for competitive advantage with corporate and personal well-being.—Foreword Reviews
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Dr. Marouf has written a guide for leaders to engage in a personal journey of knowledge mindfulness in this disorienting age of disruption. She orients this path toward personal knowledge maturity―that is less of a destination but rather a process of renewing one’s knowledge and ability to take action in the world. It uniquely blends what is personal with what is strategic and practical.—Paul R. Carlile, Professor of Information Systems and Senior Associate Dean for Innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business
Laila Marouf holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, where her research focused on knowledge management. As a tenured professor at Kuwait University, she served as Assistant Vice President of Research for External Collaboration and Consultation and headed the Patents Office from 2015-2019.Prof. Marouf has published scores of research articles and received many awards, including the University of Pittsburgh’s 2005 Harold Lancour Award for Excellence and Kuwait University’s Best Young Researcher Award for 2010/2011.
