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<p>ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015</p> <p><i>Savour</i> is the follow-up to Bateman’s award-winning debut novel, <i>Nondescript Rambunctious</i>, and the second book in a trilogy about a dark, suspected serial killer named Oliver. <i>Savour</i> retains the dark threads of sociopathic depravity that ran through the debut novel, but is once again tempered with a tender ray of humanity.

<p>Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p>Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond in the small town of Seep during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a visiting team of barnstorming Cuban All-Stars.</p> <p>Decades later, Dwight returns to town only to witness his childhood home being moved down the highway on the back of a huge flatbed truck. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino.

<p>Best Books of 2005, <i>Ottawa Xpress</i></p> <p>Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough)</p> <p><i>Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer</i> is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade.

<p>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize</p> <p>A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery.

<p>Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist)</p> <p><i>Black Rabbit & Other Stories</i> is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of brutality, the author remains honest and true to the motivations of his characters and the machinations of the worlds in which they find themselves.

<p>Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p><i>The Beautiful Dead End</i> is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again.

<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005)</p> <p><i>Foozlers</i> is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on the cusp of total breakdown. The groom-to-be in an Indian arranged marriage seeks an escape of the carnal variety. Soon, they will all intersect paths with a gas station attendant and a very “special” car wash operator.

<p>ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015</p> <p>Finalist, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction</p> <p>Winner, National Magazine Award, Silver Medal for Humour, for the story "It Seems Like Sex is a Weird Thing That Used to Happen to Me," from <i>I'm Not Scared of You or Anything</i></p> <p>The characters in <i>I’m not Scared of You or Anything</i> are invigilators, fake martial arts experts, buskers, competitive pillow fighters, drug runners, and, of course, grad students.

<p><i>The Devil You Know</i> is the follow-up volume to Farrell’s critically acclaimed debut collection, <i>Sugar Bush & Other Stories.</i></p> <p>These stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways.

Where did all these pieces of paper come from? Who do they belong to?  The chicken is sure that they belong to him, but so is the fish, and so is the bird, and the snail, and the frog… Using the same small scraps of paper over and over again to create a new animal on each page, Édouard Manceau has created a timeless cumulative tale that will delight and enchant children as they try to figure out just who the pieces of paper do belong to…