Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

The Condesa of M.

By George Szanto

Jorge, a Canadian professor of criminology, is honeymooning in west central Mexico with Rissa, his second wife, and her 10-year-old daughter, Kikki. He’s also pursuing, on behalf of PEN Canada, the case of Mono Loro, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Russländer

By Sandra Birdsell

Imagination thrives on history and geography, and Sandra Birdsell’s imagination is fecund. The Russländer is her fifth book and the first to probe her maternal ancestral origins, her Mennonite roots in Russia. Birdsell – who ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Streak of Luck

By Richelle Kosar

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spadework

By Timothy Findley

Since his earliest novels, Timothy Findley has explored the many ways people betray their own better natures. Spadework continues this trend in showing how demons of anarchy and ambivalence conspire to destroy one man’s responsibility ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ariadne’s Dream

By Tess Fragoulis

Tess Fragoulis’s first novel sets out to retell, without doggedly adhering to the original’s constraints, the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, who gave her lover, Theseus, the thread that helped ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels