Comments on: The Shadow Giller Jury is back!

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:34:52 +0000

Thanks, Trish. We look forward to your thoughts. And I am sure there is a lot of rewarding reading ahead of us.

By: Trish Osuch (@trishosuch)

Trish Osuch (@trishosuch) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:21:31 +0000

Looking forward to this, as always! I’ll be reading as many of the longlisted titles as possible as well. Will be sure to chime in. Good luck, Shadow Giller team!

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:41:22 +0000

David: I agree — just because crime novels show up on the complete publication list doesn’t mean many make the longlist. And those that do (Clara Callan is another winner with a “crime” element) tend to be more literary than crime.

I am virtually certain that when the longlist is announced a week from today you will have read more of them than any of the Shadow jurors — your interest and commitment to Canadian fiction is a tribute to the breadth of your reading. I’m hoping (fingers crossed) that I will have read and reviewed three or four here — I would not be at all surprised if you know more than half the list. Whatever (and I don’t try to predict Giller longlists), your comments will certainly be welcome when the list is announced

By: David

David — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:11:10 +0000

I’m really looking forward to the Giller longlist and to following the shadow jury’s reviews. I reckon it could potentially be another very strong list, just from the books I’ve read and the reviews I’ve seen of those I haven’t.
As Guy says, a lot of crime novels are eligible but then they always are – very few make it to the longlist. One novel I’ve read this year that was sort of a Crime novel which I could see as having an outside chance of making the longlist would be Matt Lennox’s ‘The Carpenter’, but it’s ‘Crime’ in the way that some of David Adams Richards’ books could be categorised as ‘Crime’.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:16:34 +0000

Guy: Well, we have a lot of crime in Canada.

Actually, the third winner of the prize, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is pretty much a crime novel, although I don’t think “crime novelist” shows up very often in descriptions of Atwood.

There is an opening on the Shadow Jury for a crime specialist if you would be interested.

By: Guy Savage

Guy Savage — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:44:11 +0000

There’s a fair number of crime novels, Kevin