BOOKS 

The Cat Who Played Guitar

Liona is has released her first children’s book!

The Cat Who Played Guitar is a charming and humorous story about a beautiful cat who is determined to play the classical guitar like his owner, Liona. Written in rhyming poetry, the story was inspired by Liona’s playful real-life cat, Muffin, who lived to be almost twenty. This whimsical story teaches kids that nothing in life comes without tremendous focus and effort.

Muffin often used to sit beside Liona, listening to her composing and practicing on her guitar. He loved to run around her music room, playing with her old guitar strings or jumping inside her guitar cases. When Liona returned from her frequent international trips, Muffin would be waiting by the door to greet her. In the ‘90s Liona acquired a miniature guitar in Spain that sparked the idea to write a fable in which Muffin would learn to play it. She asked her dress designer to sew a tiny tuxedo and Muffin was enticed to pose on stage by dangling shrimp above his head. The resulting photo led to the fantastical illustrations for the book, painted in watercolours by award-winning illustrator Laura Fernandez.

Available now:
Amazon (Worldwide)
Audible (Audiobook read by Liona)
Indigo (Canada)

No Remedy for Love

Few people’s lives are as romantic and adventurous as Liona Boyd’s has been. She has performed around the world, sold millions of albums, won five Juno awards, serenaded numerous heads of state, and, for eight years, dated Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.  

Continuing her story in a new memoir, Liona recounts how she lost her ability to perform, details her divorce, and chronicles the emotional roller-coaster ride that followed. After six years of searching for answers, reinventing her technique, and learning to sing, she returned to Canada and a new career, creating five new albums as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist.  

Liona shares the joys of composing and recording her own music and her cast of international friends, who include singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and her friend and pen pal of over thirty years, HRH Prince Philip.  

Liona reveals her love affairs, spiritual journeys, personal and musical struggles, and greatest triumphs. Writing with candour and passion, she gives a behind-the-scenes tour of her fascinating world.

Available now:

Dundurn.com (use code Liona20 to save 20% at checkout)
Amazon.ca
Indigo.ca
iBooks

In My Own Key

Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world's most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million. The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundaries, both musically and romantically.

In this colourful and best selling memoir originally published in 1998, Liona serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada, and Mexico, exacting music studies in Toronto, down-and-out years in London and Paris, her eight-year romance with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, drug experimentation in a Mexican artists' colony, and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.

It all makes for a rousing, fiesty passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramirez guitar.

Available now:
Dundurn.com (use code Liona20 to save 20% at checkout)
Amazon.ca
Indigo.ca
iBooks