Giller shortlist: the view from Q&Q

October 7, 2008 | 11:20 AM | By Derek Weiler

The Scotiabank Giller Prize jury has just announced its shortlist. Watch Q&Q Omni later today for more, but in the meantime, the Q&Q review of each shortlisted title is linked below.

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada)
Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (Doubleday Canada)
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott (Freehand Books/Broadview Press)
Cockroach by Rawi Hage (House of Anansi Press)
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan (Henry Holt/H.B. Fenn and Company)

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