Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His nationally bestselling novels include The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and will be made into a film. Johnston is also the author of an award-winning and bestselling memoir, Baltimore's Mansion. He lives in Toronto.
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Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Humorous
978-0-345-80790-8 (0-345-80790-1)
May 6, 2014 | $21.00
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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 in its depiction of humanity.
Percy Joyce, born in St. John's, Newfoundland...
eBook | 400 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Humorous
978-0-345-80791-5 (0-345-80791-X)
September 17, 2013 | $10.99
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Here comes Percy Joyce.
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 in its depiction of humanity.
Percy Joyce, born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the fifties is an outsider from...
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Humorous
978-0-345-80789-2 (0-345-80789-8)
September 17, 2013 | $32.00
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Here comes Percy Joyce.
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 in its depiction of humanity.
Percy Joyce, born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the fifties is an outsider from...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39991-5 (0-307-39991-5)
August 7, 2012 | $22.00
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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 is an astounding work of literature with all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37468-4 (0-307-37468-8)
October 5, 2011 | $9.99
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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...
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39992-2 (0-307-39992-3)
August 9, 2011 | $14.99
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A love story like no other…
A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's beloved, entertaining novels: humour and emotion in fine balance, larger-than-life characters, dreams of ambition that threaten to overpower their makers, the rich evocation of place and history - and here an unexpected, unforgettable relationship between a...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
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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...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-307-37543-8 (0-307-37543-9)
January 8, 2010 | $13.99
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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...
eBook | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37544-5 (0-307-37544-7)
January 8, 2010 | $14.99
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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 earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada. One of the most highly praised elements of the novel is the character Sheilagh Fielding, with whom Smallwood...
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97816-2 (0-676-97816-9)
June 19, 2007 | $22.00
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Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His #1 nationally bestselling novels include The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and will be made into a film. Johnston is also the author...
Paperback | 240 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-3485-5 (0-7710-3485-7)
December 2, 2003 | $9.95
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Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion a series of events and misunderstandings. As Ivan struggles...
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97533-8 (0-676-97533-X)
September 9, 2003 | $22.00
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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...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97459-1 (0-676-97459-7)
March 19, 2002 | $21.00
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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...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-676-97297-9 (0-676-97297-7)
September 26, 2000 | $21.00
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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...
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97215-3 (0-676-97215-2)
September 7, 1999 | $22.00
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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...
