London Book Fair 2013

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Friday, November 16, 2012

2013 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction longlist

The jury for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one of Canada's largest literary non-fiction prizes, has released its longlist of finalists for 2013. One hundred and forty-three books were nominated for the $40,000 prize by 45 publishers from across the country. From that entry, the prize jury has selected the following longlist of ten books

A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape Candace Savage
A Season in Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda Robert Fowler
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring Nahlah Ayed
here we are among the living: a memoir in emails Samantha Bernstein
Pinboy: A Memoir George Bowering
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age Modris Eksteins
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile Taras Grescoe
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy Andrew Preston
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen Stephen R. Bown
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades Marcello Di Cintio

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