by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 10, 2025
Coexistence: Stories Billy-Ray BelcourtPublisher: Hamish Hamilton Book Description A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature’s most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada’s west coast, on...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
The Other Valley Scott Alexander HowardPublisher: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Description For fans of Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exquisite literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley, where bereaved residents can...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
A Reluctant Mother Deirdre Simon DorePublisher: Ronsdale Press Book Description “Plot twists galore, along with symbols (deer, and oh yes, those ravens); and multiple perspectives abound. It takes nearly to the novel’s end to truly unravel the many up-and-down turns...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Black Sunflowers Cynthia LeBrunPublisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book Description I will die, I will die. And nobody will know my grave. And nobody will come and remember, Only the nightingale will sing. Inspired by a real-life story, Black Sunflowers illuminates...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories Shashi BhatPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Book Description A breathtaking and sharply funny collection about the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman, from the Governor General’s Literary...
