Thursday, March 28

2005 Awards

2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed of John the Painter, First ModernJohn VaillantOn a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden Spruce of the Queen Charlotte Islands. With its rich colours, towering height and luminous needles,...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistRiding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and BooksTed BishopAmazonThe Incendiary: The Misadventures TerroristJessica WarnerAmazonThe Molly FireMichael MitchellAmazonWritten in the Flesh: A History of DesireEdward ShorterAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerProcessionalAnne ComptonProcessional is Anne Comptons second book of poems, the follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut, Opening the Island. Here, Compton is at the head of a poetic procession, leading readers through a house affected by daily life and the extraordinary, stoppin...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLittle theatresErin MouréAmazonOver the Roofs of the WorldOlive SeniorAmazonThe Burning AlphabetBarry DempsterAmazonUnderwood LogW.H. NewAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerTruth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative TraditionFred A. ReedThe Nur community is one of the most significant religious and social movements in contemporary Turkey, with millions of adherents and a strong institutional and educational system throughout the country. This volume presents a picture of its spiritual dim...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistAll that GlittersFred A. Reed and David HomelAmazonAmerica: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New PowerJane BrierleyAmazonReturn from AfricaWayne GradyAmazonYesterday, at the Hotel ClarendonSusanne de Lotbinière-HarwoodAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Crazy ManPamela PorterAfter a freak farm accident, twelve-year-old Emaline, dealing with her disability and the abandonment of her father, finds salvation in Angus--a patient from the local mental hospital who has been hired to work in their fields. Reprint....Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistAfterFrancis ChalifourAmazonHannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian BachBarbara NickelAmazonMella and the N’anga: An African TaleGail NyokaAmazonSwimming in the Monsoon SeaShyam SelvaduraiAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2005 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 BSFA - Novel WinnerRiver of GodsIan McDonaldA superpower of two billion people, a dozen new nations from Kerela to the Himalayas, artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, a...Amazon2005 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCentury RainAlastair ReynoldsAmazonForty Signs of RainKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSusanna ClarkeAmazonNewton's WakeKen MacLeodAmazonStamping ButterfliesJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2005 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe AccidentalAli SmithFrom the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'A beg...Amazon2005 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Long Way DownNick HornbyAmazonShalimar the ClownSalman RushdieAmazonThe Ballad of Lee CottonChristopher WilsonAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

2005 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Dark Tower VII: The Dark TowerStephen KingThe final installment in the epic series completes the quest of Roland Deschain, who works to outmaneuver the increasingly desperate acts of his adversaries and confronts losses within his circle of companions....Amazon2005 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistAbarat: Days of Magic, Nights of WarClive BarkerAmazonJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSusanna ClarkeAmazonThe Queen of SinisterMark ChadbournAmazonThe Water RoomChristopher FowlerAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker - Novel

2005 Bram Stoker – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerIn the Night RoomPeter StraubA dazzling chilller from the bestselling author of KOKO and LOST BOY LOST GIRL....Amazon2005 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistDeep in the DarknessMichael LaimoAmazonThe Dark Tower VII: The Dark TowerStephen KingAmazonThe Wind CallerP. D. CacekAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke - Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year

2005 Arthur C. Clarke – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel WinnerIron CouncilChina MiévilleRebellion and war race to take control of New Crobuzon in the award-winning Iron Council by China Miéville. It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy cit...Amazon2005 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel ShortlistCloud AtlasDavid MitchellAmazonMarket ForcesRichard MorganAmazonRiver of GodsIan McDonaldAmazonThe System of the WorldNeal StephensonAmazonThe Time Traveler's WifeAudrey NiffeneggerAmazon