James P Reynolds

Mercy Among the Children David Adams Richards Doubleday, Canada, 2000 Mercy Among the Children co-won the 2000 Giller Prize. Richards shared the honour with Michael Ondaatje, who won for Anil’s Ghost. The Giller Prize was only six years old at the time this book was published, but it was the first and only time they [...]

The Friends of Meager Fortune David Adams Richards Doubleday, Canada, 2006 David Adams Richards is a well known Canadian literary figure. He has won many awards, and in 2009 was made a Member of the Order of Canada, ”for his contributions to the Canadian literary scene as an essayist, screenwriter and writer of fiction and non-fiction”. [...]