The Bishop’s Man – 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner

The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre

Excerpt from the Scotiabank Giller Prize website:

“The Bishop’s Man centres on a sensitive topic – the sexual abuses perpetrated by Catholic priests on the innocent children in their care. Father Duncan, the first person narrator, has been his bishop’s dutiful enforcer, employed to check the excesses of priests and, crucially, to suppress the evidence. But as events veer out of control, he is forced into painful self-knowledge as family, community and friendship are torn apart under the strain of suspicion, obsession and guilt. A brave novel, conceived and written with impressive delicacy and understanding.” 

Linden MacIntyre is the co-host of The Fifth Estate, CBC Television’s flagship investigative affairs program. He is the winner of nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism.  MacIntyre’s most recent book, a boyhood memoir called Causeway: A Passage from Innocent won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction.

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Submitted by Janice B @ CS