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Wayne Grady


Wayne Grady’s eight books of non-fiction include The Dinosaur Project, The Quiet Limit of the World, Chasing the Chinook, and The Bone Museum. He is also a prolific magazine writer, an equally prolific editor of Canadian travel, fiction, and nature writing, and the translator of many French authors into English, including Antonine Maillet and Herménégilde Chiasson. His most recent book, the bestselling Tree: A Life Story, was written in collaboration with David Suzuki. Wayne Grady lives near Kingston, Ontario.

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A Very Bold Leap
Written by Yves Beauchemin
Translated by Wayne Grady

Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-1258-7 (0-7710-1258-6)

August 4, 2009 | $21.00



The third novel in the highly acclaimed quartet, The Charles the Bold Series, about a young man growing up in Montreal from the 1960s to 2000.

The last lines of volume two, The Years of Fire, have young Charles Thibodeau defiantly shouting “Montreal! You’re going to be hearing from me! I’m going...

Also available as an eBook.

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A Very Bold Leap
Written by Yves Beauchemin
Translated by Wayne Grady

eBook | pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-302-7 (1-55199-302-3)

August 4, 2009 | $21.00



The third novel in the highly acclaimed quartet, The Charles the Bold Series, about a young man growing up in Montreal from the 1960s to 2000.

The last lines of volume two, The Years of Fire, have young Charles Thibodeau defiantly shouting “Montreal! You’re going to be hearing from me! I’m going...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Years of Fire
Written by Yves Beauchemin
Translated by Wayne Grady

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction
978-0-7710-1257-0 (0-7710-1257-8)

March 4, 2008 | $21.00



The second novel in the highly acclaimed series Charles the Bold, about a young man growing up in east-end Montreal.

“Montreal! You’re going to be hearing from me! I’m going to make your ears ring!”

These are the last words in this hypnotically interesting saga that follow the adventurous life of our bold...


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Bringing Back the Dodo
Written by Wayne Grady

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Science - Biology; Science - Evolution; Nature
978-0-7710-3505-0 (0-7710-3505-5)

March 6, 2007 | $21.99



This is a strikingly thought-provoking book about how the forces of evolution and extinction have shaped the living world, and the part that humans play therein. These elegant and penetrating essays speak to some of our most fundamental questions about the human and animal worlds, and confirm Grady’s standing as one...


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The Beothuk Saga
Written by Bernard Assiniwi
Translated by Wayne Grady

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-0799-6 (0-7710-0799-X)

September 6, 2001 | $22.99



This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local...


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Toronto the Wild
Written by Wayne Grady

Hardcover | pages | Macfarlane Walter & Ross | Nature; Travel - Canada
978-0-921912-90-3 (0-921912-90-0)

September 21, 1995 | $13.95



Shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award

“City dwellers,” writes Wayne Grady, “are conditioned to look for ‘Nature’ outside the city: at the cottage, at summer camp, up north. Somewhere else.” These, he maintains, are not the only places to look. Nature lush, untamed, and fertile is thriving right where we...