Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Forty Words for Sorrow

By Giles Blunt

With Forty Words for Sorrow, a portrait of a string of murders in small-town northern Ontario, author Giles Blunt has delivered something Canadian crime writers could hitherto never quite get right: a uniquely Canuck template ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Restlessness

By Aritha van Herk

As a writer, Aritha van Herk is like an ideal lover: constant and naughty. While she passionately rejects plot and its romance, and blends the roles of writer and reader, van Herk’s lascivious imagination tries ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mystical Rose

By Richard Scrimger

Rose Rolyoke, the protagonist of Richard Scrimger’s new novel Mystical Rose, stands in the heady company of Margaret Laurence’s Hagar Shipley and Carol Shields’ Daisy Goodwill. They’re all aging Canadian women looking back at the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Luminosity

By Frank & Gillian

This first novel by the duo Frank and Gillian, who have previously collaborated on a number of books and plays for young people, has a promising, ingenious plot. Richard and Breetz have been best friends ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breaking News

By Robert MacNeil

Meet Grant Munro, veteran anchor of New York’s The Evening News. Fifty-something, lean and tanned, Munro is a venerable success, loyal to his wife Winona, both dashing and earnest on the screen, but a little ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Choke Hold

By Todd Babiak

We love our bad boys. We love their jaunty imprudence. We love their freedom, even as we recognize that a world dominated by those freedoms would be quite unlivable. We love Jeremy Little, the hero ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels