2008 Finalists

This is a selection of our 2008 Finalists section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

John A.: The Man Who Made Us - hardcover
By Richard Gwyn - $37.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded...

 

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People - hardcover
By Lorna Goodison - $29.99 - add to cart

Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction."Throughout her life my mother, Doris, lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children...

 

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust - hardcover
By Anna Porter - $37.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of t...

 

Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick - trade paperback
By Kevin Bazzana - $24.99 - add to cart

Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician. The composer Arnold Schoenberg cal...