Shortlist Announced for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

Shortlist Announced for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
by McNally Robinson - Sunday Mar 30 2008 11:39 am
Posted in: Awards

The titles on this year's shortlist for the Leacock Prize are:

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
King John of Canada by Scott Gardiner
And God Created Manyberries by Ron Wood

The winner of this year's award will be announced during a luncheon at Orillia’s Stephen Leacock Museum on April 30.

See:

The Gum Thief - hardcover
By Douglas Coupland - $32.00

The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore. In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel – sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virgi...

Spanish - hardcover
By Will Ferguson - $32.00

Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America’s heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is ...

King John Of Canada - hardcover
By Scott Gardiner - $32.99

This is a funny, biting political satire set in the not-too-distant future. A series of minority governments, and endless Quebec referendums (designed to lose narrowly, to keep the money coming) ha...

And God Created Manyberries - trade paperback
By Ron Wood - $19.95

Fictional political satire, written in the form of tongue-in-cheek banter in a small-town prairie saloon. The result is a refreshing antidote to political correctness, sloppy thinking and lazy jour...