NEWS | By The Chapter & Verse Team » Leading Canadian journalist Linden MacIntyre's Giller Prize winning novel The Bishop's Man has taken top spot on the View the full listAmazon.ca bestseller list.

MacIntyre, the co-host of CBC's the fifth estate and the winner of nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism, won the 2009 Giller earlier this month.

The Bishop's Man is a deeply wise and moving novel that explores the guilty minds and spiritual evasions of Catholic priests.

Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the “Exorcist” — an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he’s about to be sorely tested himself. 

While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public controversy, Duncan must confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy and sudden self-knowledge, Duncan discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty secrets either find their way to the light of understanding, or poison any chance we have for love and spiritual peace.

Also making the Top 10 on the Amazon list for bestsellers in Canada were Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell, Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi, A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War by Rick Hillier, The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer, Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and  Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 by John English.

Sarah Palin's autobiography Going Rogue: An American Life came in at Number 15.

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