Book Award 2022

Browse through these submissions for the Page Turner Book Award 2022. This is an international writing contest for published authors to showcase their books.

Image of the cover of Whale Rock showing Shannon sitting on the rock.
"Whale Rock" by Diana Plater Plater
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

A woman grieves for her unborn child, an Indigenous elder seeks his mother's story, a Nicaraguan immigrant pines for the revolution, a journalist fights her memory of the horrors of Kosovo. A labourer plunges to his death on a building site. All hell breaks loose...

A bearded old man pushes a wheelbarrow through a ruined city. A dirty, bedraggled dog flops, exhausted, in the wheelbarrow.
"Last Worst Hopes" by Lee Hunt Hunt
Genre: Fantasy

Nehring Ardgour has summoned Skoll and Hati from hell and they have torn the world apart. But all the great who might oppose them are gone. Only the dregs remain: a soldier with an evil hand, an arrogant wizard, an uncertain squire, and an old man with dementia. They are the last worst hopes.

The air shimmers around a knight in armor as he faces a closed and locked castle.
"Bed of Rose and Thorns" by Lee Hunt Hunt
Genre: Fantasy

Sir Ezra wears plate armor to hide his true nature. He is an Elysian Bell, a being of pure and powerful emotions. His secret love for the Queen ended in a night of passion, blood, and her promise to kill him. When the Queen disappears, Ezra must find her, even if it means his death.

Delaney the deer, Rocket the rabbit, Cardinal Red the bird, and Old Coyote hiding in the garden in the neck.
"Life in the Neck New Friends" by Diane Davies
Genre: Childrens Picture Books

Welcome to life in the Neck, a beautiful place where animals form unbreakable connections. Delaney, Rocket, and Cardinal Red meet and learn about friendship, cooperation, and the busy world around them. But when danger comes to the Neck, will their bond be strong enough to beat it?

Watercolor painting of Paris, with tones of blue that connote emotion of isolation.
"PARIS BLUE, a memoir of first love" by Julie Scolnik
Genre: Memoir

Set against a backdrop of classical music and Paris in the late seventies, this true fairytale memoir (with a dark underbelly) evolves from deep romance to sudden heartbreak, and finally to a lifelong quest for answers to release hidden immutable grief. It's about the tenacious grip of first love.

Delaney the deer, Rocket the rabbit, Cardinal Red the bird, and Old Coyote hiding in the garden in the neck.
"Life in the Neck New Friends" by Diane Davies
Genre: Childrens Picture Books

Welcome to life in the Neck, a beautiful place where animals form unbreakable connections. Delaney, Rocket, and Cardinal Red meet and learn about friendship, cooperation, and the busy world around them. But when danger comes to the Neck, will their bond be strong enough to beat it?

The Magical Guide to Bliss title with a woman facing backwards in a long black dress wearing a tiara with a wand.
"The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock your Dreams Spirit & Inner Bliss" by megnocero Nocero
Genre: Non-Fiction

It’s easy to get stuck in life, far short of where you wanted to be; and whether you feel trapped by tedium or pain, it’s hard to keep from despairing that this is all there is and that bliss is just a myth. Shining a glorious light into the darkness, go on a life-changing journey of self-discovery

Sparkle & Shine Title - under it a beautiful butterfly
"Sparkle & Shine: 108 M.A.N.T.R.A.s to Brighten Your Day and Lighten Your Way" by megnocero Nocero
Genre: Non-Fiction

A handbook that sets out to inspire the reader to embrace their magic within through the practice of M.A.N.T.R.A.s, or reinforced positive affirmations; it keeps the reader moving forward on their hero’s journey with daily tools to help with their amazing transformation.

The words Butterfly Awakens against a white backdrop - with butterflies and flowers bursting with color on each diagonal corner
"Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief" by megnocero Nocero
Genre: Memoir

One woman experiences a dark night of her soul after her beloved mother dies from breast cancer that takes her on a transformational physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual quest to find the lighthouse she saw in a vision before her mother passes, leading her to walk El Camino in Spain.

The words Butterfly Awakens against a white backdrop - with butterflies and flowers bursting with color on each diagonal corner
"Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief" by megnocero Nocero
Genre: Memoir

One woman experiences a dark night of the soul after her mother dies from breast cancer-causing her to question life's purpose leading to a physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual quest to find the lighthouse she saw in a vision before her mom passes, walking the famous El Camino in Spain.

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"The Tender Coconut Tamasha" by Joe Chacko
Genre: Mystery & Cozy Mystery

When a series of inexplicable deaths are linked inexplicably to coconuts, Inspector Chatpati's Civil Nuisance Unit is forced to investigate. It's not long before the megacity of Bangalore is riven by rioting and disorder and the Inspector's very future imperilled.

Book cover "Thank You! With Deepest Gratitude" by Michael Floissac. An appreciation of gratitude for Universe, CommuNity, Individual (UNI - reflect "You and I")
"Thank You! With Deepest Gratitude" by Michael Floissac Floissac
Genre: Non-Fiction

Part devotional, autobiography, and workbook, Thank You! With Deepest Gratitude will awaken you to new perspectives on life, and lead you down a path to increased hope, positivity, and appreciation for the world around you.

"God's Headquarters: How is Everything Created? AUDIOBOOK" by irfankarowalia Ali
Genre: Sci-Fi

It's a story of Aydin, who's curious about how, why, where, when, and by whom everything we see is created? And his journey to finding answers to those questions by going to God's Headquarters to see firsthand how the creator is running his operations on this intergalactic scale.

"The Elemental Empires: Arrogance of the Steelon AUDIOBOOK" by irfankarowalia Ali
Genre: Sci-Fi

This is a story of elemental empires where the table of elements comes to life each with its own empire, but King Steelon plans to rule them all with force, little did he know how the others can use their abilities and unite to create a reaction he would have never expected.

"The Galaxiville: Taken by the Unknown AUDIOBOOK" by irfankarowalia Ali
Genre: Sci-Fi

It's a story of a teenager who was a NASA Academy student and his parents who were on a mission to Mars has suddenly gone missing, to find and bring them back home, during this journey he meets the most exotic planets and its lifeforms who will join him in his mission on intergalactic scale.

The Moonians: Conquering Earth by Enslaving Humans
"The Moonians: Conquering Earth by Enslaving Humans BEST COVER" by irfankarowalia Ali
Genre: Sci-Fi

Alien invasion is led by the sinister Alak Una, leader of Moonians aliens from earth's moon attacking with biowarfare, so futuristic it seems that there is no hope for humans. It's their plan to enslave humans by disabling their subconscious by infecting them with a nano-virus similar to COVID-19.

God's Headquarter: Alien Park
"God's Headquarter: Alien Park BEST COVER" by irfankarowalia Ali
Genre: Sci-Fi

Second part of God's Headquarter where aliens and exotic life forms dna drives stolen from headquarter are misused to recreate an alien life forms to create an Alien park to monetize and fund a mad scientist Dr. Birsha's wild ambition to become ruler of the planet earth along with his android army.