Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

★ Clara Callan

By Richard B. Wright

Is there reason to worry about the Fresh-Face/First-Fiction flash? Here are the four elements currently valued by Canadian book publishing: smart marketing, good writing, flash haircuts, toned skin. Nothing to fear there, unless you are ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Hand

By Eric Wright

Today’s readers of crime fiction have come to expect a writer to supplement a mystery’s central riddle with psychologically apt meditations on the nature of evil. Eric Wright’s latest Charlie Salter mystery bucks this trend, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lightning

By Fred Stenson

Veteran Alberta writer Fred Stenson recently made a bigger name for himself in CanLit with The Trade, a myth-shattering look at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Microsoft-like lock on the 19th-century Canadian fur trade. After chalking ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Slander

By William Deverell

Elizabeth Finnegan is a lawyer with an attitude. A short fuse and a propensity to speak before she thinks get her into trouble, but that doesn’t detract from her brilliance as a defence attorney. At ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

House on Fire

By Charles Foran

Charles Foran has the mixed fortune to be an author whose writing is admired by critics and awards committees, but overlooked by many readers. It’s not for lack of skill, or effort. In addition to ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels