
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.
Not Wanted on the Voyage - trade paperbackBy Timothy Findley - $19.00
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...
Brown Girl in the Ring - trade paperbackBy Nalo Hopkinson - $15.95
This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when itwon the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been a...


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