"WINNER. ...evokes a Canadian west that is, like the American southwest, timeless and powerful and hauntingly beautiful. Dianne Warren's absolutely authentic characters, with all their loneliness..."
"SHORTLISTED. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for..."
"SHORTLISTED. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely..."
"SHORTLISTED. After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers."
"SHORTLISTED. In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three..."
"Not shortlisted. My own first novel, historical fiction set in post-WWII England and Indonesia, dealing with the moral struggle of a homeward-bound soldier."
