John Bemrose

John Bemrose’s debut novel, The Island Walkers, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Bemrose is an arts journalist and contributing editor at Maclean’s. He has written for CBC Radio, the National Film Board and the Globe and Mail, and has also written a play, Mother Moon, and two poetry collections. His second novel, The Last Woman, set in the heart of Ontario’s cottage country, tells of the abrupt reappearance – after ten years absence – of local man Billy.