Fiction
- Home by Toni Morrison
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
- I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
- Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre
- In One Person by John Irving
- The Ambitious City by Scott Thornley
- The Bellwether Revivals
by Benjamin Wood
Non-Fiction
- Bombshell by Suzanne Somers
- The Big Miss by Hank Haney
- The End of Growth by Jeff Rubin
- Passion Capital by Paul Alofs
- Rob Rainford's Born to Grill
by Rob Rainford - Canadian Whisky by Davin de Kergommeaux
Congratulations to Tim Wynne-Jones and James Bartleman for being appointed to the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada, one of our country’s highest civilian honours, was established in 1967, during Canada’s centennial year, to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.
. CBA’s Lifetime Achievement Award is given in recognition of Ms. Atwood’s outstanding and longstanding contribution to the book industry. This award, which is bestowed at the discretion of CBA Board of Directors, allows booksellers and other industry stakeholders to explicitly recognize an author’s cultural impact on Canadian literary culture. Past recipients include Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Pierre Berton, Charles Burchell and Stephen King.
Congratulations to our winners of the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards!
NONFICTION:
• Charles Foran for Mordecai: The Life & Times
(also the winner of The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction)
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - Text:
• Christopher Moore for From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
The winners were announced on November 15 in Toronto - visit the Canada Council website for more information.
Congratulations to Julian Barnes, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sense of an Ending!
Dame Stella Rimington, Chair of the 2011 judges, commented, "Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending has the markings of a classic of English Literature. It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading."
The winner of the £50,000 prize was announced on October 18 - visit themanbookerprize.com for more information.