49th Shelf

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A powerful excerpt from Niigaan Sinclair's #GGBooks-winning Wînipêk about the colonialist statues in #Winnipeg ... and two that are now anything but. ENTER TO WIN as well! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… @McClellandBooks #INDIGENOUS

What would #GGBooks winner Jordan Abel tell his ten-year-old self about 2024? Hint: It's not anything to do with books! You could WIN his celebrated novel, EMPTY SPACES, right here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/2024… @McClellandBooks

Read our Chat with Chimwemwe Undi, #GGBooks winner for #POETRY! And ... you could win her collection! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… @HouseofAnansi

Come check out our Chats with 2024 #GGBooks winners! Start with @trevcorkum in conversation with Katia Grubisic, who won for her translation of a Marie-Claire Blais novel, Nights Too Short to Dance 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… @CanadaCouncil @_secondstory

Congratulations to Anne Michaels, winner of the 2024 @GillerPrize. Check out HELD and all the other #gillerprize finalists here: 49thshelf.com/Award-Winners/…

Last chance to enter for a chance to win the #gillerprize shortlist! Ends tonight at midnight. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/3… @GillerPrize

According to the @guardian, Leatherface was “the greatest British punk band of the modern era" & it's central to Chris MacDonald's memoir DAYS AND DAYS. Chris recos other great music books here! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/1… @ecwpress @hockeyesque @eamonmcgrath @LizWorthTarot #punk

Read an excerpt from Andrea Curry's memoir Finding Otipemisiwak and enter for a chance to WIN it! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/1… @Arsenalpulp #Giveaway #Indigenous

Don't miss the chance to win Deepa Rajagopalan's Peacocks of Instagram - and the other finalists for the @GillerPrize! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07/2… @HouseofAnansi

Got a thing for horror? Nick Cutter, whose gruesome new book is THE QUEEN, has ideas for you: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/3… @ecwpress @andrewpyper @nickcutter @GalleryBooks @AFSulli #thriller #thrillerreaders

In this month's Notes from a Children's Librarian, books that further readers' understanding of treaties, dovetailing nicely with #Indigenous education 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/0… #librarian #kidlit @AnnickPress @GoodMindsBooks

Who knew mason jars could be such conduits to contemplation? An excerpt from the gorgeous new art book 300 Mason Jars, by Joanne Thomson 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/0… @HHPublishing

Anna Dowdall, whose literary whodunit is THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, recos 9 books in which the journey is intimately connected to escape and survival. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @radiant_press @coachhousebooks @cormorantbooks @guernica_ed @McClellandBooks

Tasneem Jamal, whose new novel, I Never Said That I Was Brave, is a tale of female friendship and betrayal, recommends amazing books using first-person narration. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @Lynn_Coady @lethal_heroine @McClellandBooks @HouseofAnansi

Who would recommend horror stories for kids? Spencer Miller, that's who, and here's why! @49thkids 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… #kidlit #halloween2024 #HorrorThriller

We are thrilled to share an excerpt from The Coincidence Problem by @geistmagazine 's Stephen Osborne. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @ecwpress

Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals is shortlisted for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction! Here, she writes about why Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage means so much to her. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @bookhugpress @CanadaCouncil

Enter for a chance to win THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB and check out Tom Ryan's list of #NovaScotia reads that "scratch the autumnal itch!" 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @SimonSchusterCA @NimbusPub @ConundrumCanada @HarperCollinsCa

Erin Steele, whose new book is an addictions memoir and queer coming-of-age story, shares books that "weave beauty like a glinting, gold thread through pain." Not surprisingly, Toews, Thien, Maté, Maclear, & Hay are on this excellent list. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/1… @caitlinpress