Prize Watch: the Writers' Trust Pize

The Writers' Trust prize (now renamed and repriced as the Weston after a large commitment by Hilary Weston) has one history and one biography on its shortlist:

• Mordecai: The Life and Times, Charles Foran (Knopf Canada)
• Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-planting Tribe, Charlotte Gill (Greystone Books)
• Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891, Richard Gwyn (Random House Canada)
• Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Grant Lawrence (Harbour Publishing)
• Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, Ray Robertson (Biblioasis)