Eastmall

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ANNUALS

- The Canadian Children's Annual
- The 1980 Comics Annual

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Humour:
- All You Need Is Enough Rope:
- Athlete's Foot: How I Failed at Sports
- A Prairie Memoir: Never Come Home Without the Cows

War
- Never Leave Your Head Uncovered: A Canadian Nursing Sister in World War Two
- One Man's War

CARTOONS

- Breeding As A Sport: 101 Student Howlers
- The Weasel Symphony
- When's the Last Time You Cleaned Your Navel?

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Annuals
- The Canadian Children's Annual (eleven editions)
- The 1980 Comics Annual

Fiction
- James Parsons and His Magnificent Mouth of Adventure
- Susan Super Sleuth

Nonfiction
- Canada's Monsters

COMICS

- The 1980 Comics Annual

FICTION

- Eastmall
- Umbelliferae

HISTORY

- The Lovesickness Diet; or, These Flames in Which I Fry

HUMOUR

Cartoons
- Breeding As A Sport: 101 Student Howlers
- When's the Last Time You Cleaned Your Navel?

Illustrated Prose Works
- All You Need Is Enough Rope: a light-hearted look at cottage life
- Duffer Golf: or How to Break 100
- The Lovesickness Diet; or, These Flames in Which I Fry

MEDICINE & MENTAL HEALTH

- Total Encounters: The Life and Times of the Mental Health Centre
- Penetanguishene

MYTHOLOGY? OR BIOLOGY?

- Canada's Monsters

NEWFOUNDLAND

- Eastmall
- Umbelliferae
- Mother Die

"NOVELTY BOOK" SERIES

- Breeding As A Sport: 101 Student Howlers
- Duffer Golf: or, How to Break 100
- The Weasel Symphony
- When's the Last Time You Cleaned Your Navel?

NOVEL

- Eastmall
- Umbelliferae

PARANORMAL

- Love From Above: Heidi Gardiner's Encounter With The Afterlife
- Mysterious Moments In The Paranormal

Book Summary

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Eastmall
by Percy Janes
Cover painting by Laura Urquhart
304 pages, trade paperback, $8.95
ISBN 0-919676-28-6

Family warfare is at the core of Eastmall, a powerful novel with the exciting setting of St. John's, Newfoundland. It documents the struggle between brothers, sons of a wealthy and respected family. Craig Wareham, determined to amass a quick fortune, plans to create a building complex "so big in scale and striking in appearance nobody would be able to question his supremacy." Adamantly set against "Eastmall" is Morley, with his conviction that St. John's should be saved from the greedy hands of the developers - including his brother. Readers will find Janes' depiction of the Newfoundland dialect of some of his characters fascinating!

About the Author

Percy Janes is a Newfoundland literary icon. Author of the great Canadian classic House of Hate (Margaret Laurence wrote that Saul Stone is "one of the most terrifying and yet tragic father figures in all Canadian literature"), Janes wrote numerous other reknowned works. His native province now offers an award in his name each year for the best first novel written by a Newfoundlander.

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Reviews

Three Reviewers: "It's a book that's very relevant to today's Edmonton - or Toronto, New York, London - in fact, anywhere the issue of progress is being discussed."

Robert White
The Edmonton Sun

"Eastmall is a family saga, a powerful melodrama which explores the mystery of hate in a modern historic setting. Janes' evocation of St. John's and its people is poetic, humorous and accurate."

Patricia Morley
Ottawa Citizen

"Janes portrays our world - he captures not just the effects of money and progress on Newfoundland, but in microcosm presents a valid commentary on modern life."

David West
Vancouver Sun