18 May 2005
Thomas Wharton Wins Alberta Book Award

Gaspereau Press is delighted to announce that author Thomas Wharton has won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction for The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books (Gaspereau Press 2004). The Book Publishers Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta announced the winners of this year’s Alberta Book Awards at their gala on 14 May 2005 at The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton. The awards are granted annually and were created to recognize excellence in Alberta writing and publishing.

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books is Thomas Wharton’s third work of fiction. It begins in a small town in the mountains when a young boy is given a suitcase filled with battered old books. This opens a lifelong pursuit of the elusive creature known as the logogryph. Describing imaginary books and alternate realities, Wharton explores the mysterious alchemy called reading.

This book is a Smyth-sewn paperback with a jacket and full sleeve. The text was typeset by Andrew Steeves in Caslon types and printed on Rolland Zephyr laid paper. The jacket was printed letterpress. The inside features illustrations by Wesley Bates.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com