A globe-trotting romp through the world of ultra-competitive chess, in which the author submits himself to humiliating defeats and the tutelage of ornery mentors in his search for glory--a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty...
Leacock Medal 2020
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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Author:Chapin, SashaSummary: - Author:Lamb, JamieSummary:
Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada's most famous small town--Stephen Leacock's Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular the formidable Maureen Poole. Based on...
- Author:Richardson, BillSummary:
From one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver's beloved West End neighbourhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson's I Saw Three Ships take their...
- Author:Jacobs, Heidi L. MSummary:
Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor laments she will never be like the literary heroines she reads about. Not only does she live in what she thinks the most unromantic region in the world, she is named after one of literature's least...
- Author:Goodwin, DanielSummary:
Half-way into his life, Lewis Morton discovers that the man he has presented to the world for thirty years is not necessarily the man he actually is, or ought to be.
- Author:Crawford, MarkSummary:
A Chinese medical student, a Jamaican Tim Horton's manager, an Indian father of three, and a 17-year-old Syrian refugee walk into a curling club. It's Monday night at a small-town rink and it's the first-ever Learn to Curl class for new...
