Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

The Mole Chronicles

By Andy Brown

Montreal author and Conundrum Press founder Andy Brown’s intelligent and experimental first novel tells the tale of a nameless narrator obsessed with his cancer (specifically, melanoma) and the benign/malignant proportions of his life. As a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Law of Dreams

By Peter Behrens

Almost everyone in Canada has ancestors who immigrated to this country from afar; that past journey is part of the universal Canadian memory. Peter Behrens’ first novel reflects his own family’s experience, forced out of ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shoot Me

By Lesley Crewe

Some books have great openings. Shoot Me, the second novel by Cape Breton-based freelance magazine writer Lesley Crewe, opens with: “Hildy took a sip of her tea. It was cold. How bloody irritating.” Not an ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Art of Salvage

By Leona Theis

In 2000, Leona Theis’s first book, Sightlines, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards but failed to garner much attention outside her home province. Her newest offering, The Art of Salvage, may very well follow a similar ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Consolation

By Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill, author of many works of drama, poetry, and fiction, including the Giller-nominated novel Martin Sloane, sifts through the countless layers that form a city and a person in this, his second novel. Redhill ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels