Stories from The Wondrous Apothecary
BOOKS AND CONVERSATION, THE WONDROUS APOTHECARY, is the gift to give and get. The Mandala is your guide to a novel which grows straight out of THE TRILOGY OF REMEMBRANCE. Follow the links below for some appetizers [little short stories from that novel] to […]
Venice Biennale
Alexander Wainwright. Venice holds a most cherished place in my heart. If I, Alexander Wainwright, try to tell you why that is, I will sound like thousands of otherwise normal human beings stammering and stuttering to express the ineffable. And so, I will only say that many of the most significant happenings in my […]
Prequel [1st] to The Trilogy of Remembrance
Will you listen to my story of new beginnings from times long past? Think of this as a prequel to a much larger story contained in The Trilogy of Remembrance. My name is James Helmsworth and I am greatly honoured to count myself as friend and art dealer of Britain’s finest visionary, landscape painter, Alexander […]
Banksy and Rinaldo
I approach visual art neither as a painter nor an art critic. My perspective is that of a novelist. What’s the connection? I “create” artists as characters for some of my books [The Remembrance Trilogy, The Drawing Lesson, The Fate of Pryde and Night Crossing]. To do that, I try to imagine what […]
My husband approves of the other men in my life
And David understood. In fact, he was pleased. That’s the happy lot of a novelist, because these other men are entirely fictitious. (It’s rather like having imaginary friends in childhood.) My main “man” for The Osgoode Trilogy (comprised of Conduct in Question, Final Paradox and A Trial of One), was fictional Toronto lawyer Harry Jenkins. […]
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