Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

By Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has been making quite a name for himself recently in science fiction circles. In a handful of years the Thornhill, Ontario novelist has gone from writing pleasant but lightweight fantasy stories involving ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Taylor Smith

Former Canadian diplomat Taylor Smith spent 12 years working with foreign intelligence agencies before she began writing. Inspired by her own observations of the machinations of the CIA and Britain’s MI-6, her thrillers cry out ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Jackie Manthorne

A lesbian detective may seem an obvious twist on the renchcoat-wearing outsider of classic hard-boiled detective fiction. But a dyke detective isn’t just a social outcast who fits the role and catches the crook. Jackie ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Eve Zaremba

A lesbian detective may seem an obvious twist on the renchcoat-wearing outsider of classic hard-boiled detective fiction. But a dyke detective isn’t just a social outcast who fits the role and catches the crook. Jackie ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Matt Hughes

Mystery readers are used to fictional detectives from a wide variety of occupations, but the freelance writer/sleuth is a new species on the Canadian scene. Sid Rafferty, it turns out, is a lot like his ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Jasmine Cresswell

Romance has always been a popular genre. That it accounts for almost half of all mass market paperback sales proves that readers prefer it (even if critics and academics don’t). The publishers of romance understand ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels