- After More Than a Thousand Votes and Emails, Here is the Shortlist for Salty Ink’s 2009 Judge A Book By its Cover Competition.
- The Winner to be announced on March 5th, Along With a A Chance to Win a Free Copy of the Winning Novel.
- Click Here to Read All About the Competition and See the Longlist.
Migration Songs by Anon Quon (Invisible Publishing, design by Megan Fildes & art by Sydney Smith)
From the Back Cover: Joan is on the brink. Cough drop addict, school bus driver, mixed race daughter of a Maoist English father and a Chinese-Canadian mother, Joan struggles for meaning after a friend’s death reveals a secret life. Migration Songs is a lost letter from your past, an intimate experience full of humour and grace.
“A strong debut from a new hopeful voice.”
Sue Carter Flinn, The Coast
“An engaging tale, peppered with memorable scenes and lovingly drawn characters.”
- Sarah Steinberg, Quill & Quire
The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes (Coteau Books, design by Duncan Campbell)
From the Back Cover: The lives and dreams of four vital, engaging, women revolve around mysterious events at a Fort William military aircraft factory in 1941. Loyalty and betrayal, love and worthiness, friendship and ambition are the themes which connect the characters in this lively, quirky, fast-paced novel.
- A 2009 Globe and Mail “Book of the Year”
- Longlisted for the 2009 Giller Prize.
Hit and Mrs. by Leslie Crewe (Nimbus Publishing, design by Heather Bryan)
From the Back Cover: Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they’re all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda’s philandering husband’s Visa Platinum). But at the LaGuardia airport washroom, Bette accidentally switches bags with a young mother who’s actually smuggling diamonds for the mob, and things start going terribly wrong. When they kill an aggressive cab driver with pepper spray, the four friends know this is not going to be the trip of shopping and Broadway shows they’d expected.
“If you’re in the mood for a cute chick-lit mystery with some nice gals in Montreal, Hit & Mrs. is just the ticket.”
- Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
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