Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction
The Stone Carvers
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-8639-7 (0-7710-8639-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-8639-7 (0-7710-8639-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
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Oryx and Crake
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-40084-0 (0-307-40084-0)
July 27, 2010 | $15.00
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
Written by Margaret Atwood
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-40084-0 (0-307-40084-0)
July 27, 2010 | $15.00
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
Galore
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66315-1 (0-385-66315-3)
July 6, 2010 | $22.00
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
Written by Michael Crummey
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66315-1 (0-385-66315-3)
July 6, 2010 | $22.00
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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
The Golden Mean
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35621-5 (0-307-35621-3)
March 23, 2010 | $21.00
On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect...
Written by Annabel Lyon
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35621-5 (0-307-35621-3)
March 23, 2010 | $21.00
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On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect...
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39805-5 (0-307-39805-6)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
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
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39805-5 (0-307-39805-6)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
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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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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37399-1 (0-307-37399-1)
March 9, 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
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37399-1 (0-307-37399-1)
March 9, 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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The Great Karoo
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66406-6 (0-385-66406-0)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
Written by Fred Stenson
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66406-6 (0-385-66406-0)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
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From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
The Great Karoo
eBook | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37258-1 (0-307-37258-8)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
Written by Fred Stenson
eBook | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37258-1 (0-307-37258-8)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
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From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7629-9 (0-7710-7629-0)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and young son, with hopes for a new...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7629-9 (0-7710-7629-0)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
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A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and young son, with hopes for a new...
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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-1-55199-312-6 (1-55199-312-0)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and young son, with hopes for a new...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-1-55199-312-6 (1-55199-312-0)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
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A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and young son, with hopes for a new...
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Nights Below Station Street
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-55199-310-2 (1-55199-310-4)
September 1, 2009 | $15.95
David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-55199-310-2 (1-55199-310-4)
September 1, 2009 | $15.95
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David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who...
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trade paperback.
Nights Below Station Street
Trade Paperback | 232 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7627-5 (0-7710-7627-4)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 232 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7627-5 (0-7710-7627-4)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
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David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who...
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Too Much Happiness
Hardcover | 320 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-0-7710-6529-3 (0-7710-6529-9)
August 25, 2009 | $32.99
An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.
This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....
Written by Alice Munro
Hardcover | 320 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-0-7710-6529-3 (0-7710-6529-9)
August 25, 2009 | $32.99
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An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.
This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....
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eBook.
Too Much Happiness
eBook | pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-305-8 (1-55199-305-8)
August 25, 2009 | $15.00
An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.
This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....
Written by Alice Munro
eBook | pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-305-8 (1-55199-305-8)
August 25, 2009 | $15.00
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An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.
This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....
Also available as a
hardcover.
Galore
Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66314-4 (0-385-66314-5)
August 11, 2009 | $32.95
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
Written by Michael Crummey
Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66314-4 (0-385-66314-5)
August 11, 2009 | $32.95
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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
