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The Gargoyle$32.95 add to cart

With total advances (not including film rights) approaching the two million-dollar mark, Andrew Davidson has rocked the publishing world with his debut novel The Gargoyle.

Growing up in Pinawa, home of Atomic Energy of Canada's former Whiteshell Laboratories, he traveled the world before moving back to Winnipeg in 2008 to finish what Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) describes as "a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel."

Andrew kindly took the time to answer some questions for our website readers. The full interview follows.

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Traveling this summer? Let an audio book tell you a story as the highway miles unfold and banish that age-old question: "Are we there yet?" Plan on soaking up the sun? Sit back and listen. Going for a walk? Riding a bike? Swimming? — well maybe not. You can take an audio book on CD almost anywhere.

Between the Covers (BTC) is an audio book company on a mission to make you listen. This ambitious collaboration between Goose Lane Editions and CBC Radio is based on the finest audio adaptations from current CBC Radio programming and the extensive CBC archives. The BTC Audiobooks collection includes works of fiction by a vast range of Canadian writers, including Stephen Leacock, W.O. Mitchell, Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood, David Bergen, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Guy Vanderhaeghe and Miriam Toews.

Since its inception in 1997, BTC Audiobooks collection has grown to over 60 titles, encompassing readings, poetry, and dramatizations.

 

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Breaking Dawn$23.99 add to cart

Midnight Release of Breaking Dawn
where: Grant Park location only, Winnipeg
when: Friday Aug 01 2008 12:01 pm

From 12:01 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., the 4th volume of Stephanie Meyer's hugely popular Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, will be available for purchase at the Grant Park location. Vouchers can be bought in advance at a special price. Buy your voucher today or pick up your book at midnight and read until the dawn breaks.

Breaking Dawn Launch
where: Kids Bookstore, Saskatoon
when: Saturday Aug 02 2008 9:00 am

Come celebrate the release of the 4th and final novel in Stephenie Meyer's breathtaking Twilight series! 30% off book vouchers are on sale now until 11:00 pm, August 1. Vouchers can be exchanged for books starting at 9:00 am on August 2 in the Kids Bookstore. Customers wanting to purchase the book on August 2 will pay regular price, and can purchase the book from the Cash Circle on the Main Floor. Teens are invited to participate in our Twilight essay-writing contest. For more information, please contact the Kids Bookstore at 955-1477.

Watch this space for details on our next writing workshop.

Previous authors who have led our workshops include Rae Bridgman (The Serpent's Spell) and Rob Keough (Gem Lakes).

 

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher$28.95 add to cart

UK author Kate Summerscale has been awarded the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The book revisits the murder of a three-year-old boy in Victorian England and a Scotland Yard detective's efforts to solve the case.

The prize, worth $60,000, is awarded annually to the best work of non-fiction.

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De Niro's Game$14.95 add to cart

De Niro's Game, a novel by Canadian novelist Rawi Hage, has won the 13th annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The award is the world's richest literary prize ($160,000 CDN)and honors a single work of fiction written in English.

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Winners of the 20th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced recently. The awards are sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, whose mission is to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature.

According to the press release,

Winners were chosen by a jury of judges who come from all walks of literary life: journalists, authors, booksellers, librarians, playwrights, illustrators. In all, 85 judges participated in the selection of winners from the pool of 463 books that were nominated by 190 publishers.

A complete list of winners follows.

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The Road Home$21.95 add to cart

Rose Tremain has won this year's Orange Prize for her novel The Road Home.

Although Tremain is one of Britain's most celebrated novelists, she has never won a major literary prize until now.

In an interview with the Guardian, she said

I was a bit upset not to have been longlisted for the Man Booker. In this country, prizes are like bumps in the road, sleeping policemen. You can't pretend they are not there, and anyone who says they don't care about them is being disingenuous. So to have won one of the major prizes feels great.

For the 2008 shortlist, click here.

For a list of previous Orange Prize winners, click here.

For the complete story in The Guardian, click here.

Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes has won for Best Overall Book.

Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age has won for Best First Book.

The prize was established in 1987 to "encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin", according to the award's website.