Drop in and celebrate with us! The store is packed with new and exciting titles, lots of puzzles and beautiful calendars. Take advantage of our anniversary savings and fill out a ballot for one the week’s prize gift certificates.
A huge thank you to Halifax and visitors from all over who have made our store shine!
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Drop in and celebrate with us! The store is packed with new and exciting titles, lots of puzzles and beautiful calendars. Take advantage of our anniversary savings and fill out a ballot for one the week’s prize gift certificates.
A huge thank you to Halifax and visitors from all over who have made our store shine!
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There’s been so much excitement in the literary world lately! And it just keeps on coming with the announcement of the Longlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Here’s the list for this year’s contenders:
Arjun Basu - Waiting for the Man published by ECW Press
David Bezmogis - The Betrayers published by HarperCollins Canada
Rivka Galchen - American Innovations published by HarperCollins Canada
Frances Itani - Tell published by HarperCollins Canada
Jennifer LoveGrove - Watch How We Walk published by ECW Press
Sean Michaels - Us Conductors published by Random House Canada
Shani Mootoo - Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab published by Doubleday Canada
Heather O’Neill - The Girl Who Was Saturday Night published by HarperCollins Canada
Kathy Page - Paradise and Elsewhere published by John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis
Claire Holden Rothman - My October published by Penguin Canada
Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows published by Knopf Canada
Padma Viswanathan - The Ever After of Ashwin Rao published by Random House Canada
And it gets even better with some very exciting news for the Longlisters: the prize purse has been doubled to $140,000, with $100,00 going to the winner and $10,000to each finalist. That makes the Scotiabank Giller Prize the richest fiction prize in Canada!
Best of luck to all the authors!
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September 9th has come and it is now upon us, the Man Booker Shortlist! It won’t be long until we have our finalist now.
The judges praised the ‘depth and range’ of the list, which includes writers from Britain, the United States and Australia.
Here is the Shortlist:
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
J, Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
How to be Both, Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
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It’s that time of the year again! It’s now tme for the 2014 Man Booker Prize! The longlist has been announced, and here are the candidates:
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
J, Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre)
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
Us, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Dog, Joseph O’Neill (Fourth Estate)
Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
How to be Both, Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)
The Man Booker – which is awarded to the best novel of the year in the opinion of the judges – is worth £50,000 to the winner. Previous winners of The Man Booker inclue: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall, and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, Schindler’s Ark by THomas Keneally and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
The judges will meet again to decide upon a shortlist of six titles – which will be announced on Tuesday 9th of September. The winning novel will be revealed on October 14th. The judges for this year’s prize are Sarah Churchwell, Daniel Glaser, Jonathan Bate, Alastair Niven and Erica Wagner under the chairmanship of Anthony Grayling.
You can obtain more information about The Man Booker Prize here.
Best of luck to all the nominees, it looks like a real fantastic line up!
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“A Book is a Present You Can Open Again and Again…”
(They also make a great companion if you’re flying solo!)
As mentioned in the holiday gift guide edition of The Coast, we are honoured to carry The TIBS Guide to Desserts by Tara MacDonald. The result of some good Two If By Sea Café cheer and a lot of good baking, the cookbook is a runaway bestseller and we couldn’t be more indie-pleased!
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“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
A definitive compendium of food wisdom
Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan’s trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page, accompanied by a concise explanation. It’s an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, “What should I eat?”
Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollan’s newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation–the story of our most trusted food expert’s culinary education
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The WFNS Literary Awards shortlist announcement will take place on June 8th at 4:30 pm at The Company House.
The shortlist for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize will be announced at this event.
Fighting Words! The Fed’s Literary Trivia Challenge will start immediately after the announcement.
Bookmark will be at the event selling the nominated books. Come see who is in the running for some of the biggest literary awards in Atlantic Canada! Past WFNS award winners include David Adams Richards, Shandi Mitchell, and Sue Goyette.
Time: Saturday, June 8th @ 4:30 pm
Location: The Company House
Admission: Free, but it is a venue that sells liquor.
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