Thursday Feb 28 2008 8:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park, in Prairie Ink Restaurant
Join in this celebration of Canadian literature. Host welcomes five dynamic presenters to defend their selection from the list. The audience will get their chance to ask the hard questions and to cast a vote on which book should win the title. Before the night is done, we will know what Winnipeg prefers to read.
List of 2008 Contenders:King Leary by (Random)
Advocated by Jem Rolls, Performance Poet and 5 star Fringe Veteren, hailing from England.Not Wanted on the Voyage by (Penguin)
Advocated by Lesley Hughes, journalist, broadcaster, outspoken media activist and humorist.Brown Girl in the Ring by (HB Fenn)
Advocated by Anita Daher, Author of Young Adult Novels, Recipient of the 2007 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.Icefields by (Newest)
Advocated by Kathy Strub, McNally Robinson Book Club mediator and facilitator of book talks throughout the city.From the Fifteenth District by (McClelland & Stewart/Random)
Advocated by Morley Walker, Winnipeg Free Press columnist and book reviewer.
| 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 charact...
| 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 t...
| 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 th...
| 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 six...
| 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 “...
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