Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

★ The Parcel

By Anosh Irani

As engrossing as any thriller, Anosh Irani’s fourth novel offers readers so much more. An aggregate of storytelling accomplishments, The Parcel captivates with its vividly rendered characters and commands the reader’s attention by way of ... Read More »

July 28, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

New Albion

By Dwayne Brenna

As aficionados of the theatre know, the Victorian age was arguably one of the bleakest eras for the art form, complete with grubby dressing rooms, dingy performance halls, pathetic wages, unappreciative audiences, and stale, torrid ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Gaslight

By Steven Price

Steven Price’s By Gaslight is a 19th-century sensation novel rewritten with a noir sensibility: Wilkie Collins meets Raymond Chandler. And it goes some way toward meeting our expectations for books of that kind – that ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waste

By Andrew F. Sullivan

If a slaughterhouse had glass walls, what you’d witness through them might resemble the events in Andrew F. Sullivan’s debut novel, which is certainly an early candidate for feel-queasy book of the year. Unfolding in ... Read More »

June 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels