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“richard b wright”

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  • Clara Callan

    A Novel

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Richard B. Wright’s celebrated novel is the powerful and moving story of two small-town sisters and their life-changing experiences on the eve of the Second World War. Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • October

    A Novel

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Published to rave reviews, with weeks on the bestseller lists and a place as a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, October is an extraordinary meditation on mortality and memory, from Governor General’s Award–winning author Richard B. WrightVisiting his gravely ill daughter, James Hillyer encounters by chance Gabriel Fontaine, whom he met as a boy while on holiday in Gaspé. At the time, the boys had ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nightfall

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    From the acclaimed writer of the beloved Clara Callan comes a memorable new novel about first loves, love-after-love, and the end of things, set during summer in Quebec City.James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Adultery

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Richard Wright’s bestselling follow-up to Clara Callan is a quietly brilliant story of infidelity and forgivenessDaniel Fielding has it all: a charming wife and daughter, the respect of his co-workers, a nice house in a desirable neighbourhood. What, then, drives him to succumb to the charms of a pretty, young colleague at an overseas book fair? When a passionate indiscretion explodes into ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Life with Words

    A Writer's Memoir

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    From the acclaimed writer of the beloved Clara Callan comes a beautifully crafted, charming portrait of the writing life. Combining his characteristic wit and self-deprecation with his extraordinary imagination and insight, Richard B. Wright has created a deeply affecting memoir that reads like a novel.As a small, watchful boy growing up in a working class family in Midland, Ontario, during the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    In a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels that she must now confess the great secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwright.With a brilliant eye and ear for this rich period of history, Richard B. Wright brings to life the teeming streets of Elizabethan London and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Golden Mean

    A novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great

    by Annabel Lyon ...
    Series Book 1 - The Alexander duology
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeFinalist for the Giller Prize and Governor General's Literary Award for FictionThe startlingly original first novel--now the basis for the forthcoming Netflix series Alexander--by award-winning writer Annabel Lyon reimagining one of history's most intriguing relationships: that between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Excellent Lombards

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    A new classic from the author of Oprah's Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth."This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write... [it is] magnificent." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of CommonwealthMary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inh... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Close to Hugh

    by Marina Endicott ...
    Close to Hugh takes an exuberantly existential look at youth and age, art and life, love and death over one week in the world of gallery-owner Hugh Argylle.On Monday, a fall from a ladder leaves Hugh with a fractured vision of the pain—dying parents, shaky marriages, failure of every kind—suffered by those close to him. His friends are one missed ladder-rung from going under emotionally, ... Read more

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  • The Time in Between

    by David Bergen ...
    In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories.When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to Vietnam, to the streets of Danang and ... Read more

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  • Miller's Valley

    A Novel

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself—an emotionally powerful novel you will never forget.“Overwhelmingly moving . . . In this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays.”—The New York Times Book ReviewFor generations ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Beauty

    by Connie Gault ...
    A spellbinding and highly original novel that gives a new name to the Prairie Novel by one of the most exciting new literary voices in Canada. For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Hay, and Marina Endicott.In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds her self living alone, a young Finnish woman in a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. ... Read more

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