Books written by Richard B. Wright
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Clara Callan: A Novel
In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York.
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Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard
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 seasonal rhythms of rural life in Oliver Cromwell’s England as he interweaves the intriguing ...
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The Look Book: Spring 2016 Fiction Sampler
Complete with new beginnings and the promise of satisfying endings, The Look Book sampler offers the best in fiction from across the Simon & Schuster Canada Spring 2016 list.
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A Life with Words: A Writer's Memoir
Getting off at Yonge Street he walked north to Shuter and then east past Massey Hall, where he had once listened to Jazz at the Philharmonic, and north again a few blocks to Ryerson, tucked in behind Yonge Street, bounded by Gerrard to ...
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Adultery
A young woman is brutally murdered at a seaside town in Devon, England. She had been in a car with her older, married lover, and she had just stepped outside for a moment and now she is gone.
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Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard
In a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels the time has come to confess the great secret that has shaped her life --
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Clara Callan: A Novel
Winner in 2001 of Canada's two most prestigious literary awards -- the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize -- Richard B. Wright's celebrated novel Clara Callan is the powerful, moving story of two sisters and their life-changing ...
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Clara Callan: A Novel
Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award.
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Clara Callan
Nora, her flighty, gorgeous younger sister, escapes to New York and becomes a minor radio soap celebrity. told through the sisters' diaries and letters, Clara Callan vividly brings the two sisters to life in a world struggling through the ...
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Nightfall
"Retired university professor James Hillyer barely exists after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties.
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Nightfall
The novel is skillfully grounded in observation, propelled by unforgettable characters, and filled with wisdom about young love and old love.
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Clara Callan
Written in diary and letter form, the novel brilliantly reveals the sisters' stories, as their lives become increasingly complex.Not since Brian Moore wrote I Am Mary Dunne has a male writer captured so well the inner life of female ...
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A Life with Words: A Writer's Memoir
A portrait of the writing life and memoir that reads like a novel.
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The Weekend Man: A Novel
The Weekend Man: A Novel
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The Weekend Man: A Novel
The Weekend Man: A Novel
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Adultery
Adultery uncovers the many shadings of infidelity and the intricacies of emotion that lie just beneath the surface of ordinary life.
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October
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...
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The Age of Longing
The Age of Longing
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The Age of Longing: a Novel
The Age of Longing: a Novel