Bedlam
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Conspiracies and paranoia sweep across England in the aftermath
of the French Revolution, landing tea broker James Tilly Matthews in Bethlem
Hospital, a notorious, crumbling home for the insane. Although delusional,
Matthews also appears to be incarcerated for unspecified political reasons, a
pawn in a cruel game of ambition and power.
Extraordinarily evocative of time and place, Bedlam sweeps
the reader into a world teetering between darkness and light, love and hate.
Intellectually daring and profoundly moving, this is another masterwork from a
Governor General’s Award–winning author.
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Critical Praise for
Bedlam
"Stylishly written, full of dazzling, epigrammatic insights into authority, tyranny, jealousy, love and other knotty aspects of human nature."
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The Globe and Mail
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Bedlam
Bedlam, Greg Hollingshead’s new novel, tells a dramatic and compelling story of three ordinary people caught up in the turmoil of the late-18th century, their lives inexorably intertwined in a world where nothing is as it seems. Europe, reeling from the French Revolution, is about explode....
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Spin Dry
When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received rave reviews, won the Georges Bugnet Award for the Novel and was shortlisted for the Smith’s/ Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in a suburban sleep disturbance clinic, Spin Dry follows the story of a woman who undergoes dream deprivation...
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The Healer
Greg Hollingshead’s remarkable novel of betrayal and redemption explores the farthest reaches of human experience, in a story that will immediately capture fans of Bedlam, his latest masterwork. When Tim Wakelin heads north, in search of a story about a local...
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