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The Globe bestsellers

The lists for Feb. 18, 2012

Richard Gwyn
Awards

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize shortlist announced

Books on Trudeau and pine beetles among the nominees

Richard Wagamese
Review: Fiction

Out of the rot and onto the rink

Jane Smiley reviews Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese

Anna Funder
Review: Fiction

Naziland

J.C. Sutcliffe reviews All That I Am, by Anna Funder

Edem Awumey

The Daily Review, Thu., Feb. 23

The African outsider, looking in

Donna Bailey Nurse reviews Dirty Feet, by Edem Awumey

The Daily Review, Wed., Feb. 22

When it comes to martyrs, the rule is no flame, no fame

Joe Queenan reviews The Friar of Carcassonne, by Stephen O’Shea

the daily review, Tuesday, Feb. 21

Back to the Realm

Lucy Silag reviews The Fathomless Fire, by Thomas Wharton

Writers Festival

Saltspring Island launches a literary fest with ‘hopes and prayers’

After a little back-door manoeuvring, the inaugural Words Without Borders is set to open

The daily review, Monday, Feb. 20

Dances with werewolves

Aidan Johnson reviews The Wolf Gift, by Anne Rice

TRENDS

Kindle Singles: A lifeline for the long short read

Kindle Singles show the potential to absorb the fiction and non-fiction that paper-and-ink journalism no longer wants to bother with

Review: Biography

Gaga about The Lady

The complex reasons for the Burmese people’s faith in Aung San Suu Kyi, and in democracy and rule of law itself, are compellingly detailed in Peter Popham’s exhaustive new biography

Review: Non-fiction

In the beginning was the void

Ray Jayawardhana reviews A Universe From Nothing, by Lawrence Krauss

Simon Houpt

The newspaper biz used to be so cool

Where’s Robert Redford when we need him?

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