The city has announced the four finalists for this year's City of Vancouver Book Award. The shortlisted titles are:

• Grant Arnold and Michael Turner's Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre);
• Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (Knopf Canada);
• Brett Josef Grubisic's The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press);
• Michael Kluckner's Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)