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Monday morning, amidst a first-rate buffet of coffee, chocolate chip cookies, and fresh orange juice at the Four Seasons Hotel, a disheveled group of journalists and bankers gathered to hear the shortlist announced for the 14th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize. Only the second year that the final contenders were culled from an initial longlist of 15 books, this annum the task fell to the jury of staunch decipherers David Bergen, Camilla Gibb and Lorna Goodison. All three affected a slightly bemused expressions when founder Jack Rabinovitch reminded them of the fact in his opening statements, presumably as the memory of tackling so many novels in just under a month physically caught up with them. Cookies and coffee indeed: it’s a miracle they could even read their entries out at the podium.

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...

The tiny island nation of Grenada, one more piece of paradise in the Caribbean, is probably best known as the site of one of the more absurd military interventions in U.S. history (itself subsequently dramatized in an equally ludicrous film starring Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge).