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Freehand Books Author Karyn Freedman Wins BC National Book Award

Congratulations to Karyn Freedman (Freehand Books), winner of the 2015 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction! Her memoir One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery was presented the $40,000 award at a ceremony in Vancouver.

University of Alberta Press Author Wins $10,000 Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing

Congratulations to Kevin Timoney, University of Alberta Press author for winning the 2013 Lane Anderson Award for The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem. The award honours the very best science writing in Canada today, in both adult and young reader categories.

Your Guide to Western Canadian History with Alberta Books Released

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) is proud to present Your Guide to Western Canadian History with Alberta Books. As a collective, the catalogue titles provide an invaluable service to the Alberta community, and also chronicle and provide critical historical analyses of people and places throughout Canada and the world. The catalogues have been