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Joseph Boyden, Priscila Uppal, and Hal Wake are this year’s judges, and the winner, announced in April, will be presented with $7,500, and the other finalists get a $750 gift certificate for Amazon.ca. The Quill & Quire’s Stuart Woods selected the six finalists.

Full Shortlist:
No Place Strange by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden (Key Porter Books)
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant (Knopf Canada)
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon (Random House Canada)
Goya’s Dog by Damian Tarnopolsky (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
 Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic (Random House Canada)
Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir (Douglas & McIntyre)

Watch the YouTube video below to hear Jessica discussing her truly unique gem of a novel.