Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Afloat

By Jennifer McCartney

Before I get started, a quick point addressed to Jennifer McCartney: Dear Jennifer, The title of Franz Ferdinand’s latest album, You Could Have It So Much Better, sprang to mind when I first looked at ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Effigy

By Alissa York

Effigy is inspired in part by a terrible footnote in the history of the West: the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah in 1857, in which a group of Mormons and Pauites massacred a party of ... Read More »

March 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Helpless

By Barbara Gowdy

Like much of Barbara Gowdy’s previous work, Helpless is a love story. It is far from a straightforward one, however. Instead, Gowdy takes readers into the world of a child-abducting pedophile. We watch Ron, an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Adam’s Peak

By Heather Burt

Two families live side by side in a middle-class Montreal neighbourhood: the Frasers, who emigrated from Scotland in the 1960s, and the Vantwests, who left life on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rollback

By Robert J. Sawyer

In Rollback, bestselling Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer explores both the nature of time and the questions surrounding the scientific ability to fundamentally alter the human lifespan. In the process, he also delves deeply ... Read More »

March 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Orphan Love

By Nadia Bozak

The characters in Nadia Bozak’s first novel are bashed up and beaten down, disappointed and disenfranchised. The story follows a runaway punker named Bozak – who is presumably not the author but a character with ... Read More »

February 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Garcia’s Heart

By Liam Durcan

With this remarkable debut novel, Liam Duncan, a neurologist and the author of the much-lauded short story collection A Short Journey by Car (2004), has firmly ensconced himself within the hallowed ranks of doctors making ... Read More »

February 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels