Short List for the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction is:

On the Farm/ Stevie Cameron
Mordecai: The Life & Times/ Charles Foran
Defiant Spirits/ Ross King
The Geography of Arrival/ George Sipos
The Love Queen of Malabar/ Merrily Weisbord

Winner to be announced on Monday, February 14.

http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them ~ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye; set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."

~ Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, served as Prime Minister