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2006 Nominated

Bedlam

Greg Hollingshead

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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.

Greg Hollingshead

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Greg
Hollingshead

Greg Hollingshead is the author of Bedlam, The Roaring Girl, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and The Healer, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of writing programs at the Banff Centre.

Greg Hollingshead is the author of Bedlam, The Roaring Girl, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and The Healer, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of writing programs at the Banff Centre.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Canada
Original Language
English
Author
Greg Hollingshead
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Nominating Library
National Library Service of Barbados - Barbados, Tshwane Library & Information Service - South Africa

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