Wayne Johnston

• Feb-2023
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe Mystery of Right and Wrong is a masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it unfolds. In a novel that grapples w...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Longlisted for the Giller Prize and a national bestseller from one of Canada's most acclaimed, beloved storytellers: THE SON OF A CERTAIN WOMAN is Wayne Johnston's funniest, sexiest novel yet, controversial in its issues, wise, generous and then some...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams with this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope.

A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most bel...

• Jan-2009
• / General Fiction
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In this loving memoir Wayne Johnston returns to Newfoundland-the people, the place, the politics-and illuminates his family's story with all the power and drama he brought to his magnificent novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.Descendents of the I...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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A story that unlocks two dark secrets: the narrator's paternity and the fate of her lost children. In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to an island off the coast of Newfoundland, deserted except for some horses and ...

• Sep-2002
• / Action Adventure
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Book Description The Navigator of New York The race to get to the North Pole frames a young explorer's effort to unearth his family history in Johnston's latest, a captivating narrative that delves into both the noble and the seedier aspects of ...

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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Offering further evidence of his astounding range as a novelist, the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York crafts a hilarious and moving paean to the dawn of the television age. Henry Prendergast grew up ...

• Aug-1999
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, "An absolute stunner--achingly funny, needle-sharp, and packing an unexpected wallop...the literary equivalent of a small-budget movie masterpiece with heart, soul, and brains"(Time Out).

The...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction
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An epic portrait of passion and ambition set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams describes the rise of Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become Newfoundland's first premier. Smal...