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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1975 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1975 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDochertyWilliam McIlvanneyWinner of the Whitbread prize, by one of Scotland's greatest living novelists Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits ...Amazon
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1974 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1974 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1974 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Sacred & Profane Love MachineIris MurdochMontague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficult...Amazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1973 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1973 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Chip Chip GatherersShiva NaipaulThe crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant. Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, who has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will, is a capricious, eccentr...Amazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerPig GirlColleen MurphyDying Girl is in trouble; shes being held captive in a secluded barn by a serial killer. As she fights for her life, her sister tries to file a missing-persons report and draw police attention to the disappearance. With no evidence and little inclination...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistA Man A FishDonna-Michelle St. BernardAmazonConcord FloralJordan TannahillAmazonKill Me NowBrad FraserAmazonRefugeMary VingoeAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDo Not Say We Have NothingMadeleine ThienWinner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistThe BreakKatherena VermetteAmazonThe ParcelAnosh IraniAmazonWillem de Kooning's PaintbrushKerry Lee PowellAmazonYiddish for PiratesGary BarwinAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905Bill WaiserA World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed--descent peoples played leading roles in the story-as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBrown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)Kamal Al-SolayleeAmazonFirewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)Harold R. JohnsonAmazonIn-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with CancerTeva HarrisonAmazonMarconi: The Man Who Networked the WorldMarc RaboyAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Waking Comes LateSteven HeightonThese are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key....Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMarry & BurnRachel RoseAmazonPrairie HarbourGarry Thomas MorseAmazonRegeneration MachineJoe DenhamAmazonThroaty WipesSusan HolbrookAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerThe Party WallLazer LederhendlerShortlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize Selected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016 Catherine Lerouxs first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns t...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistGuanoRhonda MullinsAmazonThe Goddess of FirefliesNeil SmithAmazon
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