Wayne Johnston
Bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John’s area of Newfoundland. The Custodian of Paradise is his seventh novel; among his previous works of fiction are The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. He is also the author of an award-winning and bestselling memoir, Baltimore’s Mansion. He lives in Toronto.
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The Custodian of Paradise
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97816-2 (0-676-97816-9)
June 19, 2007 | $22.00
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough novel based on the life of Newfoundland’s first premier, Joe Smallwood, was published internationally and in several languages. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada, and is regarded as a masterpiece of historical fiction by critics and readers alike...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97816-2 (0-676-97816-9)
June 19, 2007 | $22.00
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough novel based on the life of Newfoundland’s first premier, Joe Smallwood, was published internationally and in several languages. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada, and is regarded as a masterpiece of historical fiction by critics and readers alike...
The Navigator of New York
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97533-8 (0-676-97533-X)
September 9, 2003 | $22.00
Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97533-8 (0-676-97533-X)
September 9, 2003 | $22.00
Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he...
Human Amusements
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97459-1 (0-676-97459-7)
March 19, 2002 | $21.00
Wayne Johnston’s fourth novel is a hilarious send-up of television’s early days, capturing all the nostalgia and innocence of the time.
It is the late 1950s and in lower middle-class Toronto, Audrey Prendergast, whose love for her family blinds her to all else, sees the new medium of television as the only...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97459-1 (0-676-97459-7)
March 19, 2002 | $21.00
Wayne Johnston’s fourth novel is a hilarious send-up of television’s early days, capturing all the nostalgia and innocence of the time.
It is the late 1950s and in lower middle-class Toronto, Audrey Prendergast, whose love for her family blinds her to all else, sees the new medium of television as the only...
Baltimore's Mansion
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-676-97297-9 (0-676-97297-7)
September 26, 2000 | $21.00
Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-676-97297-9 (0-676-97297-7)
September 26, 2000 | $21.00
Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is...
The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97215-3 (0-676-97215-2)
September 7, 1999 | $22.00
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a Canadian bestseller, 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...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97215-3 (0-676-97215-2)
September 7, 1999 | $22.00
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a Canadian bestseller, 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...
The Divine Ryans
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97184-2 (0-676-97184-9)
October 13, 1998 | $19.95
In this beloved, bestselling novel which has been unavailable for some time, young Draper Doyle Ryan tries to come to terms with the mysterious death of his father as he struggles, in touching, comic fashion, with budding adolescence and the strange demands of his proudly eccentric family.
When first published in 1990...
Written by Wayne Johnston
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97184-2 (0-676-97184-9)
October 13, 1998 | $19.95
In this beloved, bestselling novel which has been unavailable for some time, young Draper Doyle Ryan tries to come to terms with the mysterious death of his father as he struggles, in touching, comic fashion, with budding adolescence and the strange demands of his proudly eccentric family.
When first published in 1990...
