Set in the 1850s in London, England, this story, told through the interwoven voices of several narrators, relates the adventures of a troubled but charismatic prize-fighting evangelist whose career finally takes him to British Columbia and the greatest match of his life when he challenges the Devil to a battle in the ring.
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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Ethel Wilson was the only child of an English Wesleyan minister missioned in South Africa. She was orphaned at age 10 and sent to Vancouver to live with her maternal grandmother and several aunts. One of the first Canadian writers to capture truly the rugged and unsurpassed beauty of the BC landscape, she died in 1980.
Awarded to the author of the best work of fiction. The author must be a BC/Yukon resident or have lived in BC or the Yukon for three of the past five years.
This prize is one of a series in the BC Book Prizes awards.
2010 Finalist
Through a sequence of possibly intertwined events, Turner creates a challenging portrait of our modern age, drawing solely on the actions of people rather than their appearance - whether advertising executives or soldiers, tailors or doctors - they fall in love, have children, fight in wars, and flee their homes. In "8 X 10" there are no names, no racial or ethnic characteristics, and only a vague sense of time. Turner's characters, familiar yet implacable, are both no one and everyone.
2010 BC Book Prize Winner
Against the stark and haunting landscape of Canada's Far North, fifteen-year-old Trista chronicles the events of her life from her room in the Polar Girls' Prison. Caught in the decline of sexual abuse, drunkenness, and failed motherhood, Trista tries to make sense of her past. No other novel has ever told of the lives lived amidst the clash of cultures in this remote region
2010 Finalist
Aristotle must postpone his dream of succeeding Plato at the Academy in Athens when he is forced to tutor Alexander, a prince of Macedon. Aristotle's resentment at his situation is soon overcome by the boy's intellectual potential and his capacity for surprise.
2010 Finalist
Explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave and are left, and whether it’s ever possible to move on.
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