The shortlist for the annual $10,000 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, sponsored by the Center for Fiction, formerly known as the Mercantile Library, is:
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld (Harper)
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (Ecco)
The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil (Grove Press)
The Invention of Exile by Vanessa Manko (Penguin Press)
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique (Riverhead Books)
The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson (Little, Brown)
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas (Simon & Schuster)
The short-listed writers will read from their books on December 8 at the Center for Fiction, and the 2014 winner will be announced on December 9 at the Center for Fiction's Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner.
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Liam McIlvanney's Where the Dead Men Go won the NZ$1000 (about US$830) Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which honors the best crime, mystery or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident, Books+Publishing reported.
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Finalists have been announced for the Lane Anderson Award, which recognizes the best Canadian science books published the previous year, Quillblog reported. Three adult and three young reader titles are in contention for the $10,000 prize in each category. The finalists are:
Adult
Manitoba Butterflies: A Field Guide by Simone Hébert Allard
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway by Arno Kopecky
The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem by Kevin P. Timoney
Youth
Before the World Was Ready by Claire Eamer, illustrated by Sa Boothroyd
Chitchat: Celebrating the World's Language by Jude Isabella, illustrated by Kathy Boake
Pterosaur Trouble by Daniel Loxton with Jim W.W. Smith