James P Reynolds

Monkey Beach Eden Robinson Alfred A. Knopf, Canada. 2000 Monkey Beach, Robinson’s debut novel, won the Ethel Wilson Prize and was nominated for the two biggest Canadian prizes: the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize. A British Columbia writer, her first book was an award winning collection of short stories called Traplines. Monkey Beach, [...]

Unless Carol Shields 4th Estate, U.S.A. 2002 Unless was Carol Shields last novel. She died in 2003, a few months after its publication. It was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. It won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Like much of her work, Unless is [...]