The Giller Shortlist

It’s that time of year again, and the Giller Prize shortlist was released today. The 5 who survived the cut:
• Kim Echlin, The Disappeared, Hamish Hamilton Canada
• Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean, Random House of Canada
• Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man, Random House of Canada
• Colin McAdam, Fall, Hamish Hamilton Canada
• Anne Michaels, The Winter [...]

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Barney’s Version, by Mordecai Richler

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, The 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller prize, I had some pretty high expectations for Barney’s Version – and I am happy to say they were met, if not exceeded.  With his trademark acerbic wit, Richler has created an intolerant, cantankerous, curmudgeonly old man that is [...]

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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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