Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Guilty

By Sky Gilbert

Guilty, the first novel from the Toronto playwright and performer Sky Gilbert, explores the fate of Jack, a man so convinced that the world’s troubles are his fault that he’s willing to take the blame ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bombay Ice

By Leslie Forbes

Leslie Forbes, a Canadian-born writer, artist, and broadcaster with four travel books to her credit, has lived in London for the past 20 years, where she has worked for the BBC on such programs as ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Widows

By Suzette Mayr

There’s a lot of sex in The Widows by Suzette Mayr, a comic novel about three old women: straight sex, lesbian sex, remembered sex, substitute sex – and symbolic sex in the form of a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Noise

By Russell Smith

Noise is Russell Smith’s follow up to How Insensitive, his debut novel that nailed a Governor General’s nomination, sold well, and made Toronto scenesters proud of being the shallow poseurs that they are. In Noise, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Childhood

By André Alexis

Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, published in 1994, was André Alexis’s first book, a tight and elegant collection of short stories overlooked for lofty prizes. With his first novel, Childhood, honour will be redeemed. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels