2026
$23.95 CAD / $17.95 USD
Softcover: 9781069236241
eBook: 9781069236258
Tell Me I Can’t
by James Piccoli
January 2026 • Memoir
James Piccoli barreled through all the obstacles thrown in his way en route to the WorldTour. Unscrupulous European team owners, unimaginative Canadian sports bureaucrats, and even some unusually bad racing luck couldn’t stop him. Follow along as he meets cycling legends in Italy, encounters hostile police in Texas, surfs couches in New Mexico, gets stranded in Taiwan, and ultimately triumphs at the sport’s highest level. This is the story behind the headlines, a raw, unfiltered look at the underbelly of international cycling.
“If you get results as a junior cyclist, teams find you, agents find you, national teams surround you with coaches and resources and equipment and education. But if you find out a couple years later that pro cycling (or some other highly competitive, bad risk/reward career) is in your soul, there is no ladder or guidebook or path. Most (rightly) give up. James Piccoli carved his way into the WorldTour.”
—Phil Gaimon, professional cyclist and author of Draft Animals
“James was a gifted cyclist with an equally gifted mind for the sport and the world around it. Too often, he was misunderstood by archaic management teams simply because he was ahead of his time. In a brutal sport where non-conformists and outside-the-box thinkers are seen as threats, voices like James’s are more often quieted than celebrated. This book, however, lifts James up—and rightly so.”
—Alex Dowsett, author of Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling
My Year in Fairyland
by Sarah Ellis
June 2026 • Memoir
Sarah Ellis's wife had been toughing it out with MS for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. The year of waiting brought astonishing moments of playfulness and joy. Ordinary concerns fell away. Ellis tells the story of her extraordinary sojourn in fairyland, the preparation, the journey, life in an altered state, and the return to the real world, forever changed.
“I've never read anything quite like this memoir, and I’m grateful to have done so now. It’s an unforgettable book—its own kind of miracle.”
—Bill Richardson, CBC host and author of The Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast
“An unforgettable, very moving book.”
—Susan Cooper, author of The Dark is Rising