Gabriel Tait Canadian author

Canadian fiction / The Meeks trilogy

A man invents a better life.
The truth follows him there.

From the Prairies to Toronto, three novels about the stories we tell to survive, and what happens when they stop protecting us.

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Torn-paper collage of a young man, a cassette tape and a Toronto street
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Book one

Meeks

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Book two

The
Ranleigh Tapes

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Book three

Echo

Coming late 2027

Book one / 2023

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A Canadian psychological novel

Ranleigh Meeks believes a better life is waiting for him. He is right. That is where the trouble begins.

Meeks follows one man’s increasingly desperate pursuit of the person he believes he was meant to become. Darkly funny, emotionally raw and deeply unsettling, it asks how much of ourselves we can abandon before there is no one left to come home.

“A distinctly human perspective.”

Erin Strong, Goodreads
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Next / The Ranleigh Tapes

A Canadian confessional novel

Ranleigh Meeks has survived the one thing he cannot forgive himself for. Now he has to say it out loud.

Six months sober, Ranleigh sits across from his sponsor with a tape recorder and a promise to leave nothing out. The Ranleigh Tapes is intimate, darkly funny and devastating, a confession about shame, memory and the courage required to tell the truth.

Cowards don’t do 5th steps.

“I had to read plenty of the pages while wiping away tears.”

Kathy Barrett, Goodreads
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Toronto / Book two / 2025

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Next / Echo / Coming late 2027

Toronto / Book three

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Someone is killing the people Toronto has forgotten. Ten years ago, Ranleigh Meeks was one of them.

The final book in the Meeks trilogy

Coming late 2027

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The author

Gabriel
Tait

Toronto, Canada

Gabriel Tait is the Toronto author of Meeks and The Ranleigh Tapes. Gabriel has created an endearing, infuriating character in Ranleigh Meeks, someone who can make you laugh, break your heart and keep you rooting for him through it all.

Sober since 2001, Tait brings lived experience to his writing about addiction and recovery. His novels make room for humour, tenderness and uncomfortable truths.

Echo, the final book in the Meeks trilogy, is coming in late 2027.

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