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What's New...
Watch for a new Wayne Johnston novel – The Son of a Certain Woman - coming in fall 2013. More details including tour schedule will follow…
 A World Elsewhere
Fiction
Knopf Canada
Hardcover, 320 pages
August, 2011
Now available in trade paperback and ebook formats. Long-listed for the 2013 Dublin Impac Award
Recent reviews of A World Elsewhere
“This is a grand and glorious Gothic romance, an ice palace of a novel.” Eileen Battersby – The Irish Times - see more
"Read it and revel in one of the funniest books that will move you to a deeper sense of the poignancy of human experience" T.F. Rigelhof - The Globe and Mail - see more
"Johnston's facility for inventing characters we worry about, and one we even loathe, along with a gift for word play that's at once witty and poignant make A World Elsewhere a world well worth inhabiting" Joel Yanofsky - The Montreal Gazette - see more
"As in such earlier work as The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams, The Navigator Of New York and in his prize winning memoir, Baltimore's Mansion, Wayne Johnston knows how to tell a good story" Nancy Schiefer - London Free Press - see more
See an author interview - Youtube
Recent author profiles:
The Globe And Mail
The National Post
The Toronto Star
Praise for Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston is prodigiously talented.
-- The Globe and Mail
Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer and his Newfoundland boots and boats, rough politics and rough country, history and journalism is vivid and sharp.
-- Annie Proulx
Unlike most recent bestselling novels that are remembered for the plane flight and then promptly forgotten, Wayne's stories have characters who move in and take up permanent residence.
-- Mary Walsh
[Johnston is] a literary giant who has god-given talent.
-- Will Ferguson, The Globe and Mail
His books are beautifully written, among the funniest I've ever read, yet somehow at the same time among the most poignant and moving.
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