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By Scott MacDonald
October 12, 2010
3:44 PM

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Matthew Hooton wins Not the Booker Prize

Okay, so winning the Not the Booker Prize is not like, well, winning the Booker, but we’re sure Victoria, B.C. author Mathew Hooton is pleased as punch anyway. His debut novel, Deloume Road, published by Knopf Canada last spring, was just named co-winner of the Guardian‘s annual consolation prize (determined by online vote), tying with U.K. author Lee Rourke’s The Canal. According to Guardian blogger Sam Jordison:

Deloume Road is a novel with real, haunting power. I’m still puzzling over its strange, unsettling conclusion, still delighted by its evocation of the Vancouver Island wilderness. Alone on our shortlist, it has been greeted with warmth by almost everyone who has read it.

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Brian Lam, publisher of Arsenal Pulp Press

Carol Jensson and Judie Glick at the launch of the New Granville Island Market Cookbook

Robert Ballantyne, Associate Publisher at Arsenal Pulp Press, and Wesley Yuen, old friend of Brian Lam.

Judie and Carol at the end of the launch.

Susan Safyan, editor of Arsenal Pulp Press, handing out wine at the launch of the New Granville Island Market Cookbook

the spread, contributed by the vendors at Granville Island Market in support of the New Granville Island Market Cookbook by Judie Glick and Carol Jensson

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