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.

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 violence, Fielding must confront the ever-widening aftershocks of h...

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 Second World War, Wright gradually discovered that he saw the world through dif...

Native Son is a third person narrative that intimately revolves around an African American named Bigger Thomas in the 1930's. He lives in poverty with his family and is a delinquent. To aggravate his poor life even more, Bigger also lives in a racist society where white people despise black people.One day, Bigger is admitted for a job, which is to be the chauffeur of the Dalton Family, a rich and powerful white family. Through experiencing this new, peculiar and maybe even irritati...

Richard Wright's Black Boy is a searing autobiographical narrative of childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow South, tracing the formation of a fiercely questioning intelligence amid poverty, racial terror, hunger, and religious repression. Written in a spare yet intensely lyrical prose, the book fuses memoir, social testimony, and Künstlerroman, showing how language becomes both refuge and weapon. Its place in African American literature is central: it extends the protest tradition ...

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 woman he fell in love with so many years ago on a summer trip to Quebec...

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 competed for the love of a French-Canadian girl fro...

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 seasonal rhythms of rural life in Oliver Cromwell’s England as he interweaves the intri...

In "Black Boy," Richard Wright compellingly chronicles his tumultuous journey from a childhood steeped in poverty in the Jim Crow South to a fierce assertion of self-identity and personal agency. The narrative, marked by vivid imagery and incisive social commentary, exposes the harsh realities of racial discrimination and the struggle for dignity. As a seminal work in African American literature, the book employs a naturalistic style, wherein Wright's stark prose effectively captures the v...

In "Black Boy," Richard Wright offers a poignant and unflinching memoir of his childhood and early adulthood in the racially charged environment of the Jim Crow South. Written in a stark, evocative prose style that combines lyrical narrative with raw realism, the work captures the complexities of identity and survival under oppressive societal norms. Wright's exploration of hunger'—both physical and spiritual'—serves as a powerful metaphor for his quest for freedom and self-assertion again...

Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor's young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control to their inevitable concl...

Introduction:In the pages of "At Last, I Succeed," a captivating novel unfolds, weaving a tale of resilience, triumph, and the unyielding pursuit of success. Set against a backdrop of adversity and hardship, this story follows the remarkable journey of Sophia, a young woman who defies the odds and emerges as a beacon of hope in a world filled with challenges.The narrative begins with a glimmer of hope after 21 years of an unfruitful marriage. Mrs. Marryan, against all odds,...