Victoria-based Jonathan Manthorpe worked as a foreign correspondent, political reporter and international affairs columnist for nearly 40 years before he turned to writing books. His book, Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada (Cormorant 2019) was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award and was named as one of the Globe and Mail's top 100 books of 2019.

His fifth book, Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence (Cormorant 2020) outlines what is eroding the democracies in the Western world and provides solutions for fixing them. He names external influences from Russia and China as well as the internal pressures of income disparity as chief among the problems threatening the survival of many democratic systems.

BOOKS

Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence (Cormorant 2020) $24.95 978-1-77086-582-2

Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada (Cormorant 2019) $24.95 978-1770865396

Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan (Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2005) 9780230614246

The London Campaign for Patriation of the Canadian Constitution (National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, 1982)

The Power and the Tories: A History of the Conservative Party of Ontario (Macmillan of Canada, 1974) 9780770512187

[BCBW 2020]