Colin McAdam s debut novel, "Some Great Thing", won the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada and was nominated for the Governor General s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers Trust Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, "Fall", was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. He has written for "Harper s "and lives in Toronto.