Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth. Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she...
Leacock Medal 2023
The Leacock Medal for Humour is an annual award for Canadian humour writing. For more information about the award, please visit the Leacock Associates website.
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Auteur:Healey, EmmaSommaire: - Auteur:King, ThomasSommaire:
From the #1 bestselling author of Indians on Vacation, Sufferance and 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin For the first time since the pandemic, Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace in small-town Chinook. Sure, his beloved cat...
- Auteur:Rod, CarleySommaire:
Grin Reaping catalogues the foibles of the fictional Boyle family. In a series of fourteen interconnected short stories and musings, Rudy Boyle, a Northern Ontario college English teacher stuck both in middle age and in the middle of...
- Auteur:Caetano, CodySommaire:
The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop...
- Auteur:Syjuco, MiguelSommaire:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR “A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors, and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A...
- Auteur:Nawaz, ZarqaSommaire:
Jameela Green only has one wish: to see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When it doesn't come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque, setting off a series of absurd and unfortunate events.
- Auteur:Johnston, WayneSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland...
- Auteur:Juby, SusanSommaire:
Meet Helen Thorpe. She's smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families...
- Auteur:French, BobbiSommaire:
Winner 2023 Newfoundland Reads. Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted for the 2023 Leacock Medal Award. Finalist for the 2023 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Finalist for the 2023 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction...
