"Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and...
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In a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he's kept for more than 30 years. Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, NL. From the author of First snow, last light and The colony of unrequited dreams, which...
"Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and...
Sheilagh Fielding travels to the deserted island of Loreburn off the coast of Newfoundland with two trunks of provisions for an extended stay. She hopes to relearn how to live her life amidst the wildlife that will be her companions, but discovers that another person is on the is...
A novel about Newfoundland that centres on the story of Joe Smallwood, the true-life controversial political figure who ushered the island through confederation with Canada and became its first premier. Narrated from Smallwood's perspective, it voices a deep longing on the part o...
When Devlin is a young child, he and his mother, Amelia are suddenly abandoned by his father, who flees St. John's to practise medicine among the Eskimos.
Spanning five decades of troubled political and social history, this novel paints an epic portrait of Joey Smallwood's relentless ambition for himself and the colony that he lead into Confederation. Shot through this tragicomic elegy for Newfoundland is a fictional romance betwe...
A young man from St. John's attends Princeton University where his life becomes intertwined with the son of the richest man in America.
From award-winning author Wayne Johnston comes a tragicomic tale about a large, wealthy Newfoundland family in which the iconoclastic youngest daughter, Vivvy, finds herself in a battle with her siblings, not just for her own survival, but also for that of a five-year-old orphan ...