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New Beginnings is a unique publishing venture to aid in the effort of Tsunami Disaster Relief. In an unprecedented publishing move, the world's leading writers, including Canada's own Margaret Atwood, are coming together to publish material from their forthcoming works in a single volume.

All proceeds raised in Canada from this unique venture will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.

The authors included in this exciting collection have won many of the world's top literary awards, including a Nobel Prize and several Booker Prizes, and are considered to be some of the world's best. Some of these participating writers include:

Margaret Atwood
Stephen King
Ian McEwan
Maeve Binchy
J.M. Coetzee
Mark Haddon
Nick Hornby
Scott Turow
Alexander McCall Smith
Paulo Coelho
Tracy Chevalier
Nicholas Evans
Helen Fielding