Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Hardcover | 352 pages | Bond Street Books | Art - History
ISBN: 978-0-385-66608-4 (0-385-66608-X)
September 25, 2012 | $34.95
Written by Ross King
Hardcover | 352 pages | Bond Street Books | Art - History
ISBN: 978-0-385-66608-4 (0-385-66608-X)
September 25, 2012 | $34.95
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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art-The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three...
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The Purchase
Hardcover | 368 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7935-1 (0-7710-7935-4)
September 25, 2012 | $29.99
In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a...
Written by Linda Spalding
Hardcover | 368 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7935-1 (0-7710-7935-4)
September 25, 2012 | $29.99
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In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a...
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The Purchase
eBook | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7937-5 (0-7710-7937-0)
September 25, 2012 | $14.99
In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a...
Written by Linda Spalding
eBook | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7937-5 (0-7710-7937-0)
September 25, 2012 | $14.99
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In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a...
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The Headmaster's Wager
Hardcover | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66145-4 (0-385-66145-2)
April 24, 2012 | $32.95
From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and...
Written by Vincent Lam
Hardcover | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66145-4 (0-385-66145-2)
April 24, 2012 | $32.95
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From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and...
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Touch
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39945-8 (0-307-39945-1)
April 10, 2012 | $19.95
NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
Written by Alexi Zentner
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39945-8 (0-307-39945-1)
April 10, 2012 | $19.95
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NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
Waiting for Joe
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35917-9 (0-307-35917-4)
September 13, 2011 | $21.00
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35917-9 (0-307-35917-4)
September 13, 2011 | $21.00
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
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Mercy Among the Children
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
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Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however...
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The Navigator of New York
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he...
Written by Wayne Johnston
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
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Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he...
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Runaway
eBook | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-397-3 (1-55199-397-X)
June 22, 2011 | $13.99
“Runaway” is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro...
Written by Alice Munro
eBook | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-397-3 (1-55199-397-X)
June 22, 2011 | $13.99
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“Runaway” is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro...
A Discovery Of Strangers
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $13.99
A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $13.99
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A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
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Touch
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39944-1 (0-307-39944-3)
April 12, 2011 | $29.95
NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
Written by Alexi Zentner
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39944-1 (0-307-39944-3)
April 12, 2011 | $29.95
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NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
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Touch
eBook | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39946-5 (0-307-39946-X)
April 12, 2011 | $13.99
NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
Written by Alexi Zentner
eBook | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39946-5 (0-307-39946-X)
April 12, 2011 | $13.99
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NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39806-2 (0-307-39806-4)
December 7, 2010 | $22.00
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s...
Written by Drew Hayden Taylor
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39806-2 (0-307-39806-4)
December 7, 2010 | $22.00
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A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s...
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Elizabeth and After
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36877-5 (0-307-36877-7)
December 3, 2010 | $13.99
Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...
Written by Matt Cohen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36877-5 (0-307-36877-7)
December 3, 2010 | $13.99
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Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...
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Last Seen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36876-8 (0-307-36876-9)
December 3, 2010 | $13.99
Last Seen, Matt Cohen’s penultimate novel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. Last Seen is a darkly comic story of two brothers and a woman who brings them both back to life. Harold, the older brother, is handsome and charming but dying of...
Written by Matt Cohen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36876-8 (0-307-36876-9)
December 3, 2010 | $13.99
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Last Seen, Matt Cohen’s penultimate novel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. Last Seen is a darkly comic story of two brothers and a woman who brings them both back to life. Harold, the older brother, is handsome and charming but dying of...
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