Congratulations to Bill Waiser, whose Saskatchewan: A New History has just been named to the Toronto Globe and Mail's top 100 books of 2005 list. Bill was also a finalist once again this year for the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Saskatchewan: A New History was nominated in the nonfiction and scholarly writing categories.

Congratulations, too, to Gordon Barnhardt, editor of Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award in the publishing in education category.