36 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday November 10, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com www.oakvillebeaver.com 16 page ONLINE FLYER thebrick.com Look for our Biggest Sale of the Year Flyer in today's paper! (Only in selected areas) @ · Daily Specials · Online Events PLUS Don't Miss `Wild One' Daily Specials Online! Mississauga South 1607 Dundas St.E. 629-2900 RON KUZYK / OAKVILLE BEAVER AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Authors Wayne Johnston and Charlotte Gray chat before speaking at the Bookers Books and Brunch Authors event on Sunday. See in store for complete details. Burlington QEW & Walker's Line 333-5533 Mississauga SuperStore 3025 Ridgeway Dr. 569-0677 Mississauga North #2, 5800 McLaughlin Rd. 502-7500 Authors explore famous Canadians By Melanie Cummings SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The interior lives of famous Canadians is put into the spotlight in the novels of authors Dennis Bock, Charlotte Gray and Wayne Johnston. Each of the writers titillated an audience of rapt voyeurs at the Oakville Club last Sunday as part of the ongoing Books and Brunch Authors events organized by Bookers. The female influences on the lives of medical innovator Norman Bethune, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and former Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood are the respective subjects of Bock's The Communist's Daughter, Gray's Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell and Johnston's The Custodian of Paradise. Bock delved into a time of Bethune's life when the numerous biographies already written about him fall silent. See Authors page 37