Bayeux Arts: Art

About Bayeux

"When the 1994 Booker Prize shortlist was announced, North American book editors were stumped. Many of the titles were by little-known writers. Booksellers, too, were anxious. From whom would the stores place orders for Beside the Ocean of Time by Scotland's George Mackay Brown? In Brown's case, the answer has proved to be a real surprise. The publishing company that holds North American rights to Brown's novel—and world rights to Brown's newest book of poetry, The Sea and The Tower—is Bayeux Arts of Calgary. It is a nine-month-old enterprise currently headquartered in the house of Ashis Gupta."

—The Globe & Mail, Toronto

Bayeux Arts: Who We Are

In the wake of Beside the Ocean of Time, Bayeux's very first book, the company has published over seventy books, with five new books scheduled for Fall 2004 release.

Bayeux Arts Inc. is an independent publishing house located in Calgary, Alberta (Canada's Rocky Mountain province). It produces between six and ten titles per year and is about to commence an active reprint program. The company's list tends to reflect the individual tastes and interests of its founders.

Bayeux remains committed to producing books of beauty that build bridges across cultures. As its name was intended to suggest, the artistic nature of its books represents the cornerstone of its publishing program. Our list is deliberately eclectic and contains books that other publishers often shy away from publishing. We publish these books because they deserve publication and because they deserve to be read.

The events of 9/11 and the subsequent meltdown in the North American corporate world have led Bayeux to launch a new imprint for 2003—GONDOLIER. Gondolier books will focus on Business and Entrepreneurship, with the objective of restoring both subjects to their societal and economic roles not simply as generators of wealth, but roles of innovation and risk without which society would indeed be poorer. Books under the Gondolier imprint will chart a course for business for a new, enlightened planet.