By Jim Shilliday - $19.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fictionThe life of Seager Wheeler is one of the most significant - albeit nearly forgotten - Canadian success stories. He was ...

By Roberto Bolano - $37.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM “ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS” (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES...

By Ken Coates Et Al. - $29.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2009 Donner Prize.A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, "Arctic Front" confronts Ca...

By Wayne Tefs - $22.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.In Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch, novelist and editor Wayne Tefs delivers a thrilling novel based...

By Linden Macintyre - $32.00 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2009 Giller Prize.From an award-winning writer and one of Canada’s foremost broadcast journalists, comes a deeply wise and moving novel that explores the guilty minds and sp...

By Catherine Banks - $20.99 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.Bone Cage is a poetic and darkly humorous portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia, where stripping the environment means stri...

By Laurence Hill - $24.95 - add to cart

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Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves— Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in Sout...

By Taras Grescoe - $19.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Taras Grescoe has gone fishing in the world's oceans and rivers, and he's caught a big one - several of them in fact. In his epicurean ...

By Junot Diaz - $15.50 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Although the listener may be a bit confused at times, both Jonathan Davis and Staci Snell do well in narrating Diazs long-awaited novel in S...

By Mohammed Hanif - $19.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize.Teasing, provocative, and very funny, Mohammed Hanif’s debut novel takes one of the subcontinent’s enduring mysteries and out if it spins a t...

By Seth Lerer - $33.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Its history is inseparable from the hi...

By Paulette Jiles - $22.95 - add to cart

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At the end of the Civil War, Britt Johnson, a freed black man, travels with his family from Kentucky to start a new life in Texas. But this wild country holds dangers of its own. When his...

By Christie Blatchford - $22.00 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford...

By Miriam Toews - $32.00 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Rogers Writer's Trust Prize for Fiction.A novel that is at once hilarious and heartrending, The Flying Troutmans is about a family on the verge of spinning off its axle...

By Roland Penner - $28.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Filled with fascinating personal anecdotes and peopled with colourful characters, Roland Penner's A Glowing Dream takes the reader o...