The Legislative Assembly of Ontario has released its shortlist for this year’s Speaker’s Book Award. Among this year’s nominees are Shawn Micallef, for this book Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (McClelland & Stewart); Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga, for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press); and Trevor Cole, for The Whisky King: The Remarkable True Story of Canada’s most Infamous Bootlegger and the Undercover Mountie on his Trail (HarperCollins).
The Speaker’s Book Award brings awareness to Ontario-centric books of a historical, regional, cultural, or parliamentary nature written by Ontarians.
The winning entries will be announced at a ceremony at the Ontario Legislative Building on March 5.