Canada Reads 2009

I had the pleasure of being at the Canada Reads announcement for 2009 in the CBC atrium yesterday. It was informative, entertaining and had just the right amount of ceremony about it. Personally I can’t wait for the radio show, which will be hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (radio broadcaster of my heart) from March 2-6.  [...]

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Narrowing it down…The Giller Shortlist

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada)
Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (Doubleday Canada)
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott (Freehand Books/Broadview Press)
Cockroach by Rawi Hage (House of Anansi Press)
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan (Henry Holt/H.B. Fenn and Company)

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Giller Prize Long list

This year’s Giller Prize longlist:

Rawi Hage for his novel Cockroach
Austin Clarke for his novel More
David Adams Richards for his novel The Lost Highway
David Bergen for his novel The Retreat
Joseph Boyden for his novel Through Black Spruce
Anthony De Sa for his collection of short stories Barnacle Love
Emma Donoghue for her novel The Sealed Letter
Marina Endicott for [...]

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