The wait is over! Book 2 in the Ava Lee series, The Disciple of Las Vegas is now available! Get yours from Amazon (www.amazon.ca) or Chapters/Indigo (www.chapters.ca). The book is also available as an ebook through Kobo, iBooks and is coming soon on Kindle. Official launch date is July 2011.
Quill and Quire: Bruce Westwood of Westwood Creative Artists has brokered a significant multi-feature film deal for the first four books of Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee series, published by House of Anansi Press's Spiderline imprint. Robin Cass and Sandra Cunningham have teamed up to purchase the film and television rights for the first four books […]
The Water Rat of Wanchai has been named an Editor’s Pick in the upcoming July issue of Canadian Living magazine.
The first book in the Ava Lee series will launch in the UK, Australia and New Zealand under the title: The Deadly Touch of the Tigress. The book will be available through Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk); WH Smith (www.whsmith.co.uk) and other fine booksellers. It will also be available as an ebook through Kobo, iBooks and is coming […]
By Vit Wagner, The Toronto Star. After a string of demanding, high-profile jobs in journalism, the federal government and private business, Hamilton sat down in his Burlington, Ont. home and started writing a crime novel. Less than three months later, he had finished it and was well into a second. By the time he signed […]
By Mark Medley, National Post One Thursday evening last month, Sarah MacLachlan, the president and publisher of Toronto’s venerable House of Anansi, threw a party. Dubbed the Winter Warm-Up, the evening featured readings from a quartet of Anansi authors, including Kingston essayist Iain Reid, critical darling Alison Pick, poet and novelist Zoe Whittall, and the […]
The Water Rat of Wanchai By Ian Hamilton Anansi, 424 pages The Water Rat of Wanchai is the first book in what Anansi intends as a new mystery imprint called Spiderline. If the other novels are half as good as this debut by Ian Hamilton, the readers are going to celebrate. Hamilton, a nationally known […]
Written by Melanie Cummings Special to Burlington Post New author Ian Hamilton considers himself lucky — to have a very thorough family doctor. In a very roundabout way, it was the good doctor and a pesky aortic aneurysm that catapulted the Burlington resident's new career in novel writing. The physician ordered an ultrasound during a […]
Vicki from Bookgaga thinks: “The Water Rat of Wanchai is a brisk, entertaining read. [...] The action is explosive . . . [Ava Lee] quickly captivates the reader. [...] [Ian] Hamilton leaves the reader wanting more . . .”
