15 June 2005
Thomas Wharton Shortlisted for Sunburst Award

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Thomas Wharton’s The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books (Gaspereau Press, 2004) has been shortlisted for the 2005 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. The jury announced the shortlist on 7 June 2005. Fellow nominees are Guy Gavriel Kay for The Last Light of the Sun (Viking), Jeffrey Moore for The Memory Artists (Viking), Kenneth Oppel for Airborn (HarperCollins) and Geoff Ryman for Air (St. Martin’s).

The Sunburst Award is presented annually and was created to recognize excellence in Canadian fantastical literature. The prize is named after the debut novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, one of Canada’s first published authors in this genre. This year’s winner will be announced 5 October 2005 during the Harbourfront Reading Series. The event will also feature readings from all five shortlisted authors.

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