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Winnipeg Free Press
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Last call for kids' book club star reviewers
Parents of young readers: it's not too late to get the kids signed up for the Free Press Summer Reading Challenge for Kids. McNally Robinson Booksellers has curated four books for each of the three selected age groups (7-9 years, 10-12 years and 13-15 years); once kids have read the books, they're encouraged to submit a review (with star rating out of five), which could be featured later this month in the Free Press books pages. (We try to get every young reader in at least once.) The first batch of Summer Reading Challenge reviews ran on July 26 and can be read at the next round is slated to run Saturday, Aug. 30. For the complete list of books, the reviewer guidelines and to register, see ● ● ● Winnipeg author Jason Pchajek is hanging out on the West Coast this weekend as part of this year's WorldCon in Seattle, Wash. Pchajek will be talk about and signing copies of his debut novel, 2023's Bounty, published by Ravenstone (an imprint of Turnstone Press), at the annual American sci-fi convention, according to a recent social media post by the publisher. Buy on Set in Winnipeg in 2120, the novel follows a bounty hunter working for an eco-terror task force who gets tangled up with a troubling new face in the city's anti-establishment scene. In one of his own social media posts, Pchajek indicated a sequel to Bounty, which he referenced as Bounty 2, has been written and is awating notes from the publisher. And in another post, he mentioned having written a 'fantasy heist novel' he's shopping around to publishers. ● ● ● A major LGBTTQ+ literary award has is mired in controversy after a number of nominated authors withdrew their works from the prize's long list due to the inclusion of an anti-trans author. John Boyne, who is gay but refers to himself as a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), was included on the 2025 Polari Prize long list for his novella Earth. This prompted almost half of the 24 authors in contention for the prize to withdraw, including Sacha Coward, Jason Okundaye, Sanah Ahsan and others. In an Aug. 11 statement on social media, the Polari Prize apologized for 'the hurt and anger caused,' but that they are 'committed to going forward this year' and 'will be undertaking a full review of the prize processes.' ● ● ● Canadian-adjacent author and musician Daniel Levitin has landed on the six-book short list for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which was announced on Aug. 12 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The California-born Levitin, who is the James McGill professor emeritus of psychology, neuroscience and music at Montreal's McGill University, was shortlisted for his book Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness its Therapeutic Power (published in Canada as I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine), his follow-up to the bestselling 2006 book This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. Buy on The other finalists for the Trivedi Science Book Prize, which comes with a £25,000 (around $46,700), are Tim Minshall's Your Life is Manufactured, Neil Shubin's Ends of the Earth, Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, Sadiah Qureshi's Vanished and Masud Husain's Our Brains, Our Selves. The winner will be announced Oct. 1. books@ Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
BBC News
09-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Green light for housing plan on edge of Ravenstone
A proposal to build homes on a field near Ravenstone has been West Leicestershire District Council has granted planning permission to Gladman Developments for the construction of 105 houses on a 9.9-acre (four hectare) area of farmland off Wash Lane.A meeting of the authority's planning committee on Wednesday, heard there had been objections to the scheme over the loss of the greenfield site and concerns about the effect of additional planning officers, who recommended the application be approved, said the site had been allocated for housing in the council's local plan strategy. About 20% of the homes will be affordable properties, but some planning committee members argued the proportion should be Ball, agent for Gladman, told councillors the firm had agreed to pay more than £1m towards education provision in the area and £100,000 towards extra health officers also said highways officials at Leicestershire County Council had not objected to the said the company would pay £500,000 towards transport improvements in the Coalville area and that the money would be used to improve junctions on the nearby voted by six to four to approve the plan.
