Giller Prize 2019 shortlist
Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 at 2:52pm
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.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Canadian LitTed's Run For Literacy Kit Pick Up
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:10pm
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.
Categories: Site News, Winnipeg, Event NewsGiller Prize 2019 longlist
Saturday, Sep 07, 2019 at 4:28pm
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.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegBooker Prize 2019 shortlist
Friday, Sep 06, 2019 at 5:55pm
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.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegWhat To Read: September & October 2019
Saturday, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:10pm
A collection of recent books particularly recommended by Chris Hall. Look for our in-store What To Read display tables.
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq. Softcover. $19.99. RRC Price $17.99. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows friendship and parents' love, she knows boredom and bullying. She knows the raw power of the ice and sky, the energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this and becomes a heroine readers will never forget. (Penguin. September)
Crashed by Adam Tooze. Softcover. $27.00. RRC Price $24.30. Crashed is a reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today. It was the greatest crisis to have struck Western societies since the end of the Cold War, but is it over? Tooze takes us through a narrative of the haphazard nature of economics, the erratic path of debt around the world, and the unseen ways different regions and groups are in deeply unequal relationships. (Penguin. September)
See more What To Read picks after the jump...
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