2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

M.G. Vassanji

A Globe and Mail Best Book It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolve…

American Raj: Liberation or Domination?

Eric S. Margolis

Fire and Fury: The Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-45

Randall Hansen

Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

Trevor Herriot

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpiece

Eric Siblin