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John Vaillant
photo credit: Michael Lionstar

John Vaillant author of The Tiger

John Vaillant introduces The Tiger, his account of a Siberian tiger who stalked and killed a would-be poacher.


Sara Gruen
photo credit: Terence W. Bailey

Sara Gruen author of Ape House (available Sept. 7)

Sara Gruen, author of the bestselling Water for Elephants, has a new novel coming on Sept. 7, inspired by the bonobos and scientific research at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines. In this video Sara and scientist Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh talk about Ape House and Great Ape Trust's language competent bonobos.


Tom McCarthy
photo credit: Erinn Hartman

Tom McCarthy author of C (available Sept. 7)

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.


Congratulations to our Man Booker Prize longlist nominees:

Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America
David Mitchell for The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Rose Tremain for Trespass
Damon Galgut for In a Strange Room
Tom McCarthy for C (available Sept. 7)

The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 7 and the winner will be revealed on Oct. 12 in London.


The National Business Book Award winner has been announced - congratulations to:

Jeff Rubin, who won for his book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

The $20,000 prize is presented annually to an outstanding Canadian business-related book. The winner was announced on June 9 at a luncheon in Toronto. Also nominated was
John DeMont for Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled.


The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker has been awarded the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award! The prize, worth €100,000 is the richest prize for a single novel - click here for more information.


Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner is the
2010 CBC Canada Reads 2010 winner!

The announcement was made on March 12, 2010 after a week of debates on CBC Radio, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
CBC Canada Reads
Check out the CBC Canada Reads website for more information!


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