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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2004
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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About the Author

Colin McAdam is a Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, England and Canada. After completing a doctorate in England, he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he now lives.

Book List in Order: 4 titles



  • “A powerful, poetic, bawdily funny, and tenderly sad novel about class, about love, about drink, about poetics, about land, and about money” (O, The Oprah Magazine).   Real estate developer Jerry McGuinty is a self-made man from a blue-colla...



  • Noel thinks he's been allowed into the inner circle of his elite boarding school when he discovers his senior-year roommate is the handsome and popular Julius, a boy who cares only for the fleeting joys of teenage life: sneaking out to parties, playi...



  • Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth -- at times brutal, other times deeply moving -- is about the simple truths that transcend species, t...



  • “Stark and beautiful, horrifying and lyrical, Black Dove's pages thrum with flight, transformation, grief, revenge, transcendence, the remorseless power of stories and the very nature of creation. Ever since reading, Black Dove has drifted in and o...




Award-Winning Books by Colin McAdam

A Beautiful Truth
2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colin McAdam has published 4 books.

Colin McAdam does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Black Dove, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing, was published in April 2004.

No. Colin McAdam does not write books in series.