Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

The Haunting of L.

By Howard Norman

The link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people,” Susan Sontag wrote in her classic series of essays, On Photography. Howard Norman’s noir thriller is a prolonged meditation on the relationship between photography ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dance of Knives

By Donna McMahon

Vancouver sci-fi writer William Gibson is known for his pioneering depictions of the anarchic, post-apocalyptic city. With Dance of Knives, first-time novelist and fellow Vancouverite Donna McMahon has put her stamp on that futuristic vision. ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Cherubs for Melanie

By James Hawkins

Some families are haunted by tragedy. For the Gordonstones, it all began with the supposed accidental drowning of six-year-old daughter Melanie, followed by her mother’s suicide a decade later. Now the girl’s restaurateur father has ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Calculating God

By Robert J. Sawyer

A new novel from Toronto science-fiction author Robert J. Sawyer is always a major event; Maclean’s once called him “the genre’s northern star – in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere.” Calculating God ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels