Giller Prize 2019 shortlist

The finalists for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize have been announced:

• David Bezmozgis for Immigrant City
• Megan Gail Coles for Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
• Michael Crummey for The Innocents
• Alix Ohlin for Dual Citizens
• Steven Price for Lampedusa
• Ian Williams for Reproduction

The winner will be announced on November 18, 2019. If you're in Winnipeg, we hope you can join us in celebrating the winner at our annual Giller Light Bash. For more information on that event and to purchase your tickets online, please see this page.

Ted's Run For Literacy Kit Pick Up

Ted's Run for Literacy, the litte race that could, takes place this Sunday in Kildonan Park, and McNally Robinson Booksellers is happy to host their kit pick up this Saturday, September 28th between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Kit pick up will take place in the travel alcove of our Grant Park location, the southwest corner of the store near the mall entrance. There will be limited kit pick up on race day, so please stop by the store if you have the chance, but if you do require a race-day kit pick up, please expect lineups of 10 to 15 minutes.

By the way, if you haven't already, there's still time to register for all three events — the 2km Fun Run/Walk, and the 5km and 10km Runs. 

Ted's Run for Literacy aims to stop the revolving door of childhood poverty by building confidence in children living in under resourced Winnipeg neighbourhoods. All money raised through registration is used to support Can U and Learn and Play; two non-profit organizations who hold similar values.

Giller Prize 2019 longlist

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, which was created in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and recognizes excellence in Canadian literature, unveiled its longlist for the 2019 award.

The longlist includes:

• Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
• Greenwood by Michael Christie
• Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
• The Innocents by Michael Crummey
• Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
• Late Breaking by K.D. Miller
• Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
• Lampedusa by Steven Price
• Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
• Reproduction by Ian Williams

The shortlist will be announced on September 30th, and the winner revealed on November 18th.

If you're in Winnipeg, we hope to see you at our annual Giller Light Bash on November 18th, which takes place inside Prairie Ink Restaurant at our Grant Park location. For more details and to book your seats online, see this page.

Booker Prize 2019 shortlist

The finalists of this year's Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced.

Of particular note, Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian to make the 2019 shortlist. She was nominated for The Testaments, a sequel to her iconic novel The Handmaid's Tale, which will be released September 10th, 2019.

The other finalists includes:

• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
• Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

The winner will be revealed October 14th, 2019.