Fifth House and Red Deer Press shortlisted for Publisher of the Year AND The Unmentionable History of the West is shortlisted for the Alberta Trade Non-Fiction Book Award.Alberta Book Publishing Awards Finalists Announced!
The finalists for the 2007 Alberta Book Publishing Awards have been chosen! Juries have deliberated over 70 entries to select 34 finalists in 12 categories.
Award recipients will be named on Friday, May 11 at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Gala at the Faculty Club in Edmonton. This celebration of our province's publishing community is hosted by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.Trade Non-Fiction Book Award
• NeWest Press (Edmonton)—Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canadaby Barbara Kingscote• Red Deer Press (Calgary)—The Unmentionable History of the West by Nancy Millar• The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)—I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories About the University of Alberta, 1906–2006 by Ellen Schoeck• The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton) with The Hebrew University Magnes Press (Jerusalem)—Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors' Reflections by Danielle Schaub, photographs by Danielle Schaub
The Unmentionable History of the West is a fond romp through the underwear that men and women wore in days gone by. Think of corsets, navy blue bloomers, long underwear with its trap door and brassieres that could kill. Think also of the other unmentionables that came along with being sexual beings. Women had to hide their pregnancies, talk of birth control was illegal, seduction was a crime, prostitution likewise. There were so many silences, so many secrets about the private lives of men and women.
