Wayne Johnston

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland.
In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's...

The author has written this book to offer knowledge given to him by God through his Holy Spirit and through many years of personal prayer, education and study to anyone everywhere. The book attempts to discuss the process a Christian follows from when he becomes a believer to when they die and are resurrected to eternal life. The book also discusses the above from a personal perspective. .

"Wayne Johnston's family--his mother, father, and three brothers--were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which...

For Bill, the end has always been in view. His life has seen a series of unlikely extensions. When he was young, he hated his father and contemplated suicide. Later in his life he was diagnosed with leukemia and expected to die within months. Bill's childhood was spent on a communal evangelical mission, but eventually Bill began to question his parents' strict religious beliefs. His father reacted with violence and Bill felt trapped between the dishonesty...