Manitoba Authors on our Winnipeg Bestseller List by D - Friday, Sep 02, 2011 at 9:52am

We are very proud to have these Manitoba authors on our bestseller list this week. The complete Bestseller list is available under the Bestsellers heading on the right.

Hardcover Fiction
1.Irma Voth, Miriam Toews.

Hardcover Non-Fiction
4. Portraits of Winnipeg, Robert J. Sweeney.

Books for Young People
4. The Archaeolojesters #1, Andreas Oertel.

Categories: Awards, Winnipeg

Manitoba Reads finalists by D - Monday, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:17am

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival, McNally Robinson Booksellers and CBC Manitoba Scene are proud to announce the four finalists of the first-ever Manitoba Reads contest. Based on the popular Canada Reads model, voters narrowed a field of 16 books written by Manitoba authors down to eight. Four public figures have agreed to serve as panelists, each choosing one of the final eight as their top pick.

On September 24 at the closing Mainstage show of THIN AIR 2011, the panellists will debate the books down to a single title--the book that Manitobans are invited to read! The debate will then be broadcast the following morning on CBC's Weekend Morning Show.

The Manitoba Reads panellists and their selections:

Alison Gillmor, freelance arts and entertainment columnist,
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas

Vincent Ho, Composer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
The Life of Helen Betty Osborne by David Alexander Robertson

Paul Jordan, Chief Operating Officer at The Forks
Bandit by Wayne Tefs

Niigonwedom James Sinclair, Writer/Professor at the University of Manitoba
Where Nests the Water Hen by Gabrielle Roy

Categories: Winnipeg

McNally Robinson BTV Book Club by D - Friday, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:30pm

Join Breakfast Television's Jenna Khan and Krista Strang of McNally Robinson as they wrap the August BT Book Club choice, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, on Monday, August 29th, at 8:30 am. Categories: Winnipeg

Join The Dudely Book Club by D - Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:59pm

Looking for a book club for guys, that reads guys books, and talks about books in ways guys talk? Consider the Dudely book club. We are looking for up to ten guys who like to read books written for guys. The first meeting of the Dudely book club will be the last Tuesday of September, September 26th. The first book will be Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

To join please contact our Winnipeg event coordinator, John Toews, at 453-0424 ex 227 or email at events@grant.mcnallyrobinson.ca. The cost of the nine sessions of the book club is $40.00 and entitles book club members to a 20% discount on all book club titles.

Categories: Book Clubs, Winnipeg