Subscribe via RSS 2.0by McNally Robinson - Wednesday Feb 27 2008 8:51 pm
Posted in: Awards
From the Fifteenth District Gets the Axe
From the Fifteenth District, 's collection of stories set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, has been voted off by the 2008 Canada Reads panel.
The following books are still in the running:
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by (defended by Zaib Shaikh)
- King Leary by (defended by Dave Bidini)
- Icefields by (defended by Steve MacLean)
- Brown Girl in the Ring by (defended by Jemeni)
For coverage on the Canada Reads website, click here.
For the CBC News story, click here.
McNally Robinson Booksellers will be hosting our own Canada Reads event at our Grant Park location on February 28 at 8 pm.
| By Mavis Gallant - $18.99 - add to cart | |
Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the sout...
| By Timothy Findley - $19.00 - add to cart | |
Not Wanted on the Voyage is the story of the great flood and the first time the world ended. It is a brilliant, unforgettable drama filled with an extraordinary cast of remarkable characters: the t...
| By Paul Quarrington - $19.95 - add to cart | |
Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2008.Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey’s greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund “Blue” Herm...
| By Thomas Wharton - $18.95 - add to cart | |
At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse... Nearly sixty feet be...
| By Nalo Hopkinson - $15.95 - add to cart | |
This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been ...
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