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Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007 at 5:10pm

2007 Giller Finalists See Average Sales Increase of Almost 400%

The five finalists for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize have seen an average sales increase of 388% in the first week after the shortlist was announced. In the week ending October 14, 2007, A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin saw the highest percent increase at 1200%, followed by Effigy by Alyssa York with 564%. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje and The Assassin’s Song by M.J. Vassanji, already selling at a robust rate before the shortlist announcement, increased by 83% and 70% respectively, while Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air has seen a 22% bump in sales.

Last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, saw a 464% increase in sales in the week following the announcement and remained in the Top 100 books for more than 7 months after the prize was awarded.

Now that is worth crowing about.

See also:

Winnipeg's Giller Light Bash

2007 Scotiabank Giller Shortlist

Scotiabank Giller Longlist

David Bergen Named to 2007 Giller Jury

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A Secret Between Us

- Daniel Poliquin , Don Winkler

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When young Lusignan sets off from Ottawa to the First World War with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, he has already survived a tragicomic Catholic childhood and a writing career that has brought him both acclaim and disgrace. Shortly before the men depart for Europe, Lusignan has an encounter with a fellow officer, the aristocratic Essiambre d'Argenteuil, that proves to be the defining moment of his life.Returning from Europe a hollow man, Lusignan keeps the memory alive by shadowing Amalia Driscoll, a woman whose strait-laced proprieties were challenged by this same d'Argenteuil. He encounters Concorde, the untutored young maid struggling to get by in the Flats district of Ottawa, and the Capuchin monk Father Mathrun, who longs for martyrdom in a foreign land. Providing the backdrop to Poliquin's incisive character study is a vivid evocation of a pivotal era in Canadian history.