Awards, awards... say what you will about them, but it does get the book out there a little better. So, I hereby announce that Apastoral: A Mistopia received the Mrs Dunsters (yes) Award for Fiction at the New Brunswick Book Awards, 'bleating out' (I mean probably just bullying itself forward very rudely) Varlerie Sherrard's charming young adult novel A Bend in the Breeze and Megan Rose Allen's fine collection The Summer the School Burned Down. There it is. Now go and buy it? Yes, do that.