Kate Heartfield's Mercutio reaches Canadian shelves with a Shakespearean detour

Kate Heartfield's alternate-history fantasy Mercutio arrives in Canadian paperback, hardcover, and ebook editions on August 18.

Kate Heartfield's Mercutio reaches Canadian readers today, with paperback, hardcover, and ebook editions arriving on August 18. The date gives the novel a distinct territory-specific release moment after its UK hardcover and ebook publication in May. A Canadian edition with its own calendar Mercutio begins near

Florence in 1289, where the young title character meets the poet Dante Alighieri on a battlefield. Their alliance opens a crack between the human world and Faerie, sending the pair into a historical fantasy that uses the shape of Shakespeare's Verona as a launch point rather than a boundary. Heartfield's author page

keeps the edition map unusually clear. The Canadian formats are dated for August 18, while the US paperback follows in June 2027. The ebook and audiobook are already available in the US, and the worldwide audiobook released alongside the UK edition. Readers shopping across borders should therefore check the format and

territory attached to each listing. Mercutio before Romeo and Juliet The novel's angle is a character who is famous for the space he occupies in someone else's tragedy. Heartfield moves him into the foreground, pairs him with Dante, and builds a long journey through war, exile, politics, friendship, and dangerous

magic. You do not need a working knowledge of the play to follow the adventure, but the Shakespearean echoes give familiar names new weight. For Canadian readers, August 18 is the straightforward next step: choose the print or ebook edition that matches your shelf, then let the book's alternate history redraw the

character you thought you knew.

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