
Scotiabank Giller Prize
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The Audlib Project
- Home 2020
- Written by: Gil Adamson, David Bergen, Emily St. John Mandel, and others
- Narrated by: Gil Adamson, David Bergen, Emily St. John Mandel, and others
- Length: 29 mins
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In celebration of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists, Audible is illuminating the art of storytelling with a unique work, The Audlib Project. This Audible Original is an ad-lib collaborative short story, written collectively by all of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists: Gil Adamson (Ridgerunner), David Bergen (Here the Dark), Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Emily St. John Mandel (The Glass Hotel), and Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife).
The 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Audlib Project
A single rose bush in a courtyard serves as the centerpiece for a sequence of stories of vastly different lives with unexpected connections. A young girl dares to test her limits of safety, a woman is pained by a tragic loss and the stigma she now carries because of it, and a neighbour wishes for connection and understanding in a deeply divided time. An expat yearns to be closer to her treasured family members, and a café owner grapples with the changes that gradually eat away at her in small but significant ways.
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How to Pronounce Knife
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- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Told with compassion and wry humour, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world"....
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
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How to Pronounce Knife
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- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-07
- Language: English
- 2020 winner
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Written by: Ian Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A hilarious, surprising, and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto....
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So disappointed
- By Onika Blackman-Lloyd on 2019-12-17
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-21
- Language: English
- 2019 winner
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men....
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Awesome!
- By Louise White on 2018-11-13
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Washington Black
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-28
- Language: English
- 2018 winner
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Bellevue Square
- Written by: Michael Redhill
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity - and then her life - when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park....
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A Mind-Bending Must Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-20
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Bellevue Square
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-10
- Language: English
- 2017 winner
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic....
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Fifteen Dogs
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-06
- Language: English
- 2015 winner
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Us Conductors
- Written by: Sean Michaels
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Locked in a cabin aboard a ship bearing him back to Russia and away from the love of his life, Lev Sergeyvich Termen begins to type his story....
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Perhaps not the topic for me.
- By MEF on 2020-05-18
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Us Conductors
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-30
- Language: English
- 2014 winner
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Hellgoing
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- Written by: Lynn Coady
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line....
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needs breaks
- By Adam Silver on 2020-06-14
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Hellgoing
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- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-19
- Language: English
- 2013 winner
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419
- Written by: Will Ferguson
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 13 hrs
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Will Ferguson takes listeners deep into the labyrinth of lies that is 419, winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize....
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At first I wasn’t sure-but then I fell in love!
- By Travelmug on 2018-02-26
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419
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
- 2012 winner
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Half-Blood Blues
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Kyle Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues - a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, 83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band called the Hot Time Swingers....
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Half-Blood Blues
- Narrated by: Kyle Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-07
- Language: English
- 2011 Winner
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Late Nights on Air
- Written by: Elizabeth Hay
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hay
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman is both a surprise and even more than he imagined....
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Late Nights on Air
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hay
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-18
- Language: English
- 2007 winner
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Runaway
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- Written by: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband....
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Great stories, one quibble on good narration
- By Elizabeth Theis on 2018-09-18
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Runaway
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- Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-22
- Language: English
- 2004 winner
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The Polished Hoe
- Written by: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece....
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One of the worst audio books ever.
- By Lori on 2018-10-26
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The Polished Hoe
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2009-11-13
- Language: English
- 2002 winner
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography....
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No Thanks
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-17
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Barney's Version
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-23
- Language: English
- 1997 winner
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Alias Grace
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Sarah Gadon, Margaret Atwood
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress....
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Loved it.
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-16
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Alias Grace
- Narrated by: Sarah Gadon, Margaret Atwood
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-02
- Language: English
- 1996 winner
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A Fine Balance
- Written by: Rohinton Mistry
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975....
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Could not be better!
- By DB@Canada on 2018-07-28
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A Fine Balance
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-19
- Language: English
- 1995 winner
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