Author Linden MacIntyre\u2018s fascination with British Major General Sir Hugh Tudor has been matched by readers\u2019 interest in his book on the First World War veteran with a tarnished legacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn Accidental Villain: A Soldier\u2019s Tale of War, Deceit and Exile\u201d shot to the top of the original non-fiction list this week and was No. 2 on the Canadian list, beat out only by the work of a certain Mark Carney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the Star, MacIntyre wrote that Tudor was considered a hero after serving on the Western Front in the Great War, but \u201chis heroism soured to infamy\u201d after the two years he spent in Ireland commanding the Royal Irish Constabulary, which was charged with defeating the Irish Republican Army and other Irish rebels opposed to British rule.<\/p>\n
The conflict resulted in a ceasefire and Anglo-Irish treaty (which in turn led to an Irish civil war), but Tudor\u2019s tactics had made him a target for assassination. He moved to Newfoundland, MacIntyre wrote, where his \u201dformula for survival\u00a0\u2026 was to keep his head down and his mouth shut.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spent years untangling the mystery of this man\u2019s life, fascinated by the damage he did to others and to himself by his determination to do his duty in a dirty British war,\u201d said MacIntyre, a Giller Prize winner and longtime investigative journalist.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0She Didn\u2019t See It Coming, Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada (3)*<\/p>\n
2. We Are All Guilty Here, Karin Slaughter, William Morrow (1)<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0My Friends,\u00a0Fredrik Backman, Simon & Schuster (16)<\/p>\n
4. For Richer for Poorer, Danielle Steel, Delacorte (1)<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking (15)<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0Don\u2019t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria (8)<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (11)<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0The Woman in Suite 11, Ruth Ware, Simon & Schuster (6)<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster (20)<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking (14)<\/p>\n
1. An Accidental Villain, Linden MacIntyre, Random House Canada (1)<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, Penguin (59)<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (24)<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0Children Like Us, Brittany Penner, Doubleday Canada (3)<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0The Serviceberry,\u00a0Robin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (38)<\/p>\n
6. Semi Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, Alyson Stoner, St. Martin\u2019s (1)<\/p>\n
7. The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac (2026 Canadian edition), Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac (1)<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green, Penguin Young Readers Group (10)<\/p>\n
9. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (158)<\/p>\n
10. Empire of AI, Karen Hao, Penguin Press (3)<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0She Didn\u2019t See It Coming, Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n
3. On Wings of Blood (deluxe edition), Briar Boleyn, Mira\u00a0<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0Finding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n
7. The Guest Children, Patrick Tarr, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n
8. Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice, ECW<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0I Hope You Remember, Josie Balka, Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0Value(s),\u00a0Mark Carney, Signal<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0An Accidental Villain, Linden MacIntyre, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart\u00a0<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0Children Like Us, Brittany Penner, Doubleday Canada<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0Outsider, Brett Popplewell, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n
6. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations<\/p>\n
7. The Lobster Trap, Greg Mercer, McClelland & Stewart<\/p>\n
8. 52 Ways to Reconcile, David A. Robertson,\u00a0McClelland & Stewart<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism, Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0Anatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0T Is for Terry, Denise Dias, No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry, Scholastic<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0Sunrise on the Reaping,\u00a0Suzanne Collins, Scholastic<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0Glorious Rivals, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters #29), Tracey West, Graham Howells, Scholastic<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, Dav Pilkey, Graphix<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han,\u00a0Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Penguin Young Readers Group<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #12), Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik, Graphix<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0Karen\u2019s Ghost (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #11), D.K. Yingst, Ann M. Martin, Graphix<\/p>\n
1. In Too Deep, Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell<\/p>\n
2. The Cleaner, Mary Watson, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
3. Kiss Her Goodbye, Lisa Gardner, Grand Central<\/p>\n
4. Holly, Stephen King, Pocket<\/p>\n
5. The Housemaid\u2019s Secret, Freida McFadden, Quercus<\/p>\n
6. Do Not Disturb,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n
7. The Tenant,\u00a0Freida McFadden,\u00a0Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n
8. Missing Persons, James Patterson, Adam Hamdy, Little, Brown<\/p>\n
9. Tom Clancy Shadow State, M.P. Woodward, Berkley<\/p>\n
10. Wicked Dreams, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, Zebra<\/p>\n
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada\u2019s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author Linden MacIntyre\u2018s fascination with British Major General Sir Hugh Tudor has been matched by readers\u2019 interest in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-84754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}