Annabel Lyon Books In Order

Edie Books In Publication Order

  1. All-Season Edie (2008)
  2. Encore Edie (2011)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Golden Mean (2009)
  2. The Sweet Girl (2012)
  3. Consent (2020)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Oxygen (2000)

Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Books In Publication Order

  1. Sasquatch at Home (By:Eden Robinson) (2011)
  2. Imagining Ancient Women (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada&#146s Best New Women Writers (1987)

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All-Season Edie

Eleven year old Edie Jasmine Snow has a ‘perfect’ thirteen year old sister, two loving parents, and a cat named Dusty. She also has a grandmother she suspects is a witch and a grandfather who insists on calling her Albert. Framed by family summer vacations at the lake, All Season Edie follows Edie through a tumultuous year in which her beloved grandfather becomes ill. In the face of family tragedy, Edie tries to practice witchcraft, learns to dance the flamenco, meets the Greek god Zeus doing his Christmas shopping at the mall, ruins the most important party of her sister’s life and realizes that her family is both completely strange and absolutely normal. 20080307

The Golden Mean

What would it have been like to sit at the feet of the legendary philosopher Aristotle? Even more intriguing, what would it have been like to witness Aristotle instructing the most famous of his pupils, the young Alexander the Great? In her first novel, acclaimed fiction writer Annabel Lyon boldly imagines one of history’s most intriguing relationships and the war at its heart between ideas and action as a way of knowing the world. As The Golden Mean opens, Aristotle is forced to postpone his dream of succeeding Plato as the leader of the Academy in Athens when Philip of Macedon asks him to stay on in his capital city of Pella to tutor his precocious son, Alexander. At first the philosopher is appalled to be stuck in the brutal backwater of his childhood, but he is soon drawn to the boy s intellectual potential and his capacity for surprise. What he does not know is whether his ideas are any match for the warrior culture that is Alexander s birthright. But he feels that teaching this startling, charming, sometimes horrifying boy is a desperate necessity. And that what the boy thrown before his time onto his father s battlefields needs most is to learn The Golden Mean, that elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy s will to conquer. Also at stake are his own ambitions, as he plays a cat and mouse game of power and influence with Philip, a boyhood friend who now controls his fate. Exploring a fabled time and place, Annabel Lyon tells her story, breathtakingly, in the earthy, frank, and perceptive voice of Aristotle himself. With sensual and muscular prose, she explores how Aristotle s genius touched the boy who would conquer the known world. And she reveals how we still live with the ghosts of both men. From the Hardcover edition.

Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada&#146s Best New Women Writers

Seven stories by seven up and coming Canadian women writers, handpicked by Canada’s leading lady of fiction and read by noted women actors this is the idea behind a compelling audio compilation of the best new short fiction. Margaret Atwood Presents features stories by Annabel Lyon, Caroline Adderson, Nancy Lee, and Sheila Heti. Brilliant, daring, funny, and frequently, these writers pull no punches when it comes to depicting society as they see it. In ‘Sally, In Parts,’ Nancy Lee from Vancouver explores a young woman’s unusual relationship with her body. In ‘Cancer,’ Toronto writer Kristi Ly Green describes a primary school class’s ambivalent responses towards a poor little rich girl. Lisa Moore of St. John’s, Newfoundland, brings a haunting, sensuous intensity to a tale of love in ‘Haloes,’ while Toronto’s Sheila Heti upends traditional forms in the sharp urban parable ‘The Princess and the Plumber.’

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