Fiction
- The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- Ru by Kim Thúy
- The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill
- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
by Alan Bradley - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Non-Fiction
- The Supercharged Hormone Diet
by Natasha Turner - Meals that Heal Inflammation
by Julie Daniluk - Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
- Unquenchable by Natalie MacLean
- Blood, Bones & Butter
by Gabrielle Hamilton - A Train in Winter by
Caroline Moorehead - Thinking Fast and Slow by
Daniel Kahneman
Random House of Canada Limited has become the sole owner of McClelland & Stewart. Established in 1906, McClelland & Stewart is one of Canada’s most revered trade book publishing houses, whose internationally acclaimed authors include such notable Canadians as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Rohinton Mistry, Farley Mowat and Michael Ondaatje. Brad Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Random House of Canada, remarked “McClelland & Stewart is one of the world’s great publishers, and we are committed to making it even greater.”
Please see the press release for further details.
Congratulations to Tim Wynne-Jones and James Bartleman for being appointed to the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada, one of our country's highest civilian honours, was established in 1967, during Canada's centennial year, to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.
The shortlisted titles for The 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction were announced on Jan. 10 - congratulations to Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis!
The winner will be revealed on March 15.
The Canada Reads: True Stories books and celebrity panelists were revealed by Jian Ghomeshi on Q on CBC Radio on Wednesday, November 23.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant will be defended by celebrity panelist Anne-France Goldwater who has been called "Quebec's Judge Judy" thanks to her starring role in the reality-TV courtroom series L'Arbitre.
The debates will air from February 6th to 9th on CBC Radio, and the winning title will be named on February 10th.
Mordecai: The Life & Times!
Foran is also the winner of The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
The winners were announced on November 15 in Toronto - visit the Canada Council website for more information.
• Newfoundland-born novelist Wayne Johnston received the $25,000 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
• Fredericton novelist David Adams Richards received the $20,000 Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
• Gulf Islands novelist Iain Lawrence received the $20,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature.
• Charles Foran for Mordecai: The Life & Times
The winner of the $60,000 prize was announced October 25 - for more information visit the Writers' Trust website.
Also among the finalists was Richard Gwyn for Nation Maker:
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Dame Stella Rimington, Chair of the 2011 judges, commented, "Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending has the markings of a classic of English Literature. It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading."
The winner of the £50,000 prize was announced on October 18 - visit themanbookerprize.com for more information.
