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Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Award

The readers have voted, and Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho has made the shortlist for a Crime Fiction Lover Award. Sunset and Jericho is the fourth installment of the Wakeland detective series that explores ...

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Gripping fiction from Harbour redraws boundaries
Gripping fiction from Harbour redraws boundaries

 by Brian Lynch, November 2023 Resonating with our troubled times and uncovering hidden sources of our humanity, this group of recent novels from Harbour Publishing crosses generations and widely different w...

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A Kid's Guide to Plants of the Pacific Northwest makes longlist for 2024 Hands-On Science Book Award
A Kid's Guide to Plants of the Pacific Northwest makes longlist for 2024 Hands-On Science Book Award

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the longlist for the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and Philippa Joly's A Kid’s Guide to Plants of the Pacific...

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Finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry: The Ridge and Old Gods
Finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry: The Ridge and Old Gods

The 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced. In the poetry category, Harbour Publishing author Robert Bringhurst is a finalist for his book, The Ridge, which is intensely focused on the e...

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The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award
The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award

Amanda Swinimer's book, The Science and Superpowers of Seaweed: A Guide for Kids has been nominated for the Forest of Reading® Yellow Cedar Award for nonfiction aimed at grades 5-8. This colourful, activity-...

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Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards
Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards

BC authors Samantha Beynon, Philippa Joly, and Amanda Swinimer Awarded Top Honours in the 2023 Moonbeam Prize! Gold Medal in the Cultural Experience Category Oolichan Moon by Samantha Beynon, illustrated ...

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Honouring Voices for the Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Honouring Voices for the Day for Truth and Reconciliation

We would like to recognize this Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As publishers, we will continue to work to bring the truths of Indian Residential Schools—as well as the truths about the infringement of the...

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Maleea Acker's poetry collection, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory--a book cover with a dark background and a hand holding a crumpled ball of read yarn--is featured underneath the words
Hesitating Once to Feel Glory shortlisted for the Butler Prize

The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the shortlist for the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Maleea Acker’s poetry collection Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022) has been shortlisted for the award.

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The Rooftop Garden makes Giller Prize longlist
The Rooftop Garden makes Giller Prize longlist

Menaka Raman-Wilms' novel, The Rooftop Garden, has been longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. “The Rooftop Garden adroitly weaves the themes of friendship, responsibility, and climate change into ...

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Robin Fisher Wins 2022 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award from the British Columbia Historical Federation
Robin Fisher Wins 2022 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award from the British Columbia Historical Federation

Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Robin Fisher on winning the 40th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. On Saturday, former Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon presented the ...

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Oolichan Moon Wins Indigenous Voices Award
Oolichan Moon Wins Indigenous Voices Award

The winners for the sixth annual Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) were announced today, and Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Samantha Beynon and Lucy Trimble, recognized in the Published graphic ...

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Workboats for the World book cover, with book title and line drawing of ship, set in silver against a navy blue background
Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story wins John Lyman Book Award

Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story wins John Lyman Book Award Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Robert G. Allan and Peter A. Robson for winning the John Lyman Book Award

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