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BC non-fiction prize shortlist


The shortlist for the $40,000 British Columbia non-fiction award was announced last week. To be nominated the author must be Canadian and must have published between Nov. 1, 2007 and Oct. 31, 2008.

Short listed works were:
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio
The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika by Christopher Shulgan
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect by Daphne Bramham
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself by Russell Wangersky

The winner will be announced Feb. 2 in Vancouver.

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