![]() ![]() For about half the book I took it at face value: the tale of a torpedoed seaman haunted by his past as he fights for life on a bare rock in the Atlantic. One of the first grown-up novels I read was William Golding’s Pincher Martin. ![]() on September 25, on the fest’s Suspension Bridge stage at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Nonfiction works include Stolen Continents, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics, and A Short History of Progress. His latest, The Gold Eaters, is set during the Spanish invasion of Peru in the 1500s. Wright's first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the David Higham Prize. Here’s what historian, novelist, and essayist Ronald Wright told us. ![]() Which books put a stamp on their imaginations early on? Which ones revealed to them the full powers of the written word? We asked a group of these much-admired writers to tell us about their finest reading experiences. ![]() The Word Vancouver festival is set for its 2016 edition with a massively inclusive lineup of authors, appearing at venues around town from September 21 to 25. ![]()
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