CBC Bookie Awards 2013
Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 at 5:34pm
The nominees for the Bookie Awards, a reader's choice contest managed by the CBC, were announced at the end of March. The Bookie Awards, which is in its third year, includes authors and works from around the world with a special emphasis on Canadian artists and works. The contest is based on popular opinion, and anybody can submit their votes directly on the contest's web page. The polls close on Sunday, April 14th.
Of special note are a few names and titles with origins close to home. In the Page-Turner category is Saskatoon author Xander Richards' Coast: An Act of Burial. Wes Funk's novel Cherry Blossoms is nominated for the Hot and Bothered Award for Steamiest Read, and up for Canadian Author of the Year is Saskatchewan writer Candace Savage, the author behind the recent bestseller A Geography of Blood. Lastly, the film version of Saskatoon author Yann Martel's Life of Pi, which was directed by Ang Lee, is on the list for the Silver Screen Award for the Best Book-to-Screen Adaptation.
So if you haven't already, visit the contest page and cast your vote!
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Cherry Blossoms
- Wes Funk 
Trade paperback
$19.95
Reader Reward Price: $17.96
Frustrated and disenchanted with farm life and marriage, Cherry Markowsky grabs her dog and heads toward a new beginning in the city of Saskatoon. Yet between dealing with a new career, a potential suitor, a drifting son, and newly-discovered quirk of her brother's, Cherry discovers this is only the first of the hurdles she must jump.
A Geography of Blood
- Candace Savage
Hardcover
$26.95
Reader Reward Price: $24.26
oFinalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land-three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town.
But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality-a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past--and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.
Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of plains history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of the Cypress Hills.Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
