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Product Description: The extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction—literally: Wayne Johnston’s acclaimed novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, draws heavily on this definitive biography. And no wonder! Set against a colorful background in stirring times it has, as its hero, a character whose career defied both convention and the odds...read more

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9781629147260 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, February 17, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction—literally: Wayne Johnston’s acclaimed novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, draws heavily on this definitive biography.
9780771037085 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction – literally: Wayne Johnston’s acclaimed novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, draws heavily on this definitive biography.

By Richard Gwyn (trans)

Paperback:

9780956735980 | Gardners Books, July 27, 2012, cover price $14.90

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Hardcover:

9780307356444 | Random House of Canada Ltd, September 27, 2011, cover price $37.00

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9780307356451 | Reprint edition (Vintage, August 21, 2012), cover price $23.00

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Product Description: In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live without a liver transplant. A novelist and poet, he lost nine years of his life as a vagrant alcoholic roaming the Mediterranean. This memoir is an account of his ""lost"" years: of addiction and reckless travel, serial hospitalizations, living under sentence of death, the life-saving gift of a hepatic graft, recovery, and at last, redemption via friendship, imagination, intellect, love, and fatherhood...read more

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9780956012555 | Dufour Editions, July 15, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live without a liver transplant.

Lucas, a musician and translator living in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, finds his life turned upside down when he and his girlfriend Nuria are kidnapped by a religious cult that believes that the lovers are reincarnations of members of the extinct Cathar sect.

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9780385518550 | Doubleday, March 20, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Lucas, a musician and translator living in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, finds his life turned upside down when he and his girlfriend Nuria are kidnapped by a religious cult that believes that the lovers are reincarnations of members of the extinct Cathar sect.

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9780307276872 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, March 11, 2008), cover price $13.95

Colin Evans was a proud welshman who lived his whole life in wales, yet whose teaching took him all over the world. He published little poetry in his lifetime and was modest about his acheivement. This posthomous volume gives an account of a life lived to the full.

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9781902638706 | Gardners Books, June 13, 2006, cover price $9.20 | About this edition: Colin Evans was a proud welshman who lived his whole life in wales, yet whose teaching took him all over the world.

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9781550417746 | Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, January 30, 2006, cover price $5.95

Set in the bohemian under-belly of Barcelona, this novel skilfully combines an urban thriller and a gothic historical drama focusing on Catharism, a 13th century heretical sect.

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9781902638546 | Parthian Books, July 15, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Set in the bohemian under-belly of Barcelona, this novel skilfully combines an urban thriller and a gothic historical drama focusing on Catharism, a 13th century heretical sect.

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Product Description: Featuring 36 Welsh poets writing in English, this impressive anthology explores the idea that poetry not only reflects a state of astonishment before the world but also serves as inspiration for that feeling. Collecting work from Welsh poets living in Wales and those who have traveled further, the poetry constructs both an outward-looking "Welsh-ness" and incites a deeper reflection on what poetry is and might be...read more
By Richard Gwyn (editor)

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9781902638287 | Parthian Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Featuring 36 Welsh poets writing in English, this impressive anthology explores the idea that poetry not only reflects a state of astonishment before the world but also serves as inspiration for that feeling.

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By Justine Coupland (editor) and Richard Gwyn (editor)

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9780333969007 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 22, 2003, cover price $170.00

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Product Description: Uniquely themed, this collection of 22 diverse poems reveals characters whose actions are ruled by water. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard Gwyn and Lluis Penaranda (illustrator)

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9781902638140 | Parthian Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Uniquely themed, this collection of 22 diverse poems reveals characters whose actions are ruled by water.

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Product Description: In this book Richard Gwyn demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication. Focusing on language and communication issues he demonstrates that it is possible to observe and analyze patterns in the ways in which health and illness are represented and articulated by both health professionals and lay people...read more

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9780761964742 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 18, 2001, cover price $164.00 | About this edition: In this book Richard Gwyn demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication.

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9780761964759 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 18, 2001, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: In this book Richard Gwyn demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication.

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Product Description: From a famed Welsh writer, this collection offers 42 poems packed with exotic smells, metaphysical surprises, myths of home, and the occasional jack wielding a punch. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard Gwyn and Tessa Waite (illustrator)

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9781902638065 | Parthian Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: From a famed Welsh writer, this collection offers 42 poems packed with exotic smells, metaphysical surprises, myths of home, and the occasional jack wielding a punch.

Product Description: Featuring a new epilogue bringing various aspects of Gwyn’s analysis up-to-date – in particular a new section on Quebec – Gwyn explores the various options available to post-referendum Canada. Nationalism Without Walls, a profound examination of Canadian nationhood by one of our leading political commentators, remains essential reading for everyone trying to come to terms with the nature of Canada...read more

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9780771037177 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, November 1, 1995, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Featuring a new epilogue bringing various aspects of Gwyn’s analysis up-to-date – in particular a new section on Quebec – Gwyn explores the various options available to post-referendum Canada.

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9780771037207 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, April 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Featuring a new epilogue bringing various aspects of Gwyn’s analysis up-to-date – in particular a new section on Quebec – Gwyn explores the various options available to post-referendum Canada.

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Product Description: Book by Gwyn, Richard

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9780771037337 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1985, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Book by Gwyn, Richard

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