Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Bunny and Shark

By Alisha Piercy

A Montreal-based writer and artist, Alisha Piercy has described the thematic preoccupation of her oeuvre as “the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences.” Her debut novel ... Read More »

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blind Spot

By Laurence Miall

Most Western readers know the story of Meursault, a French Algerian who, upon learning of his mother’s death, returns home for her funeral. Though the funeral leaves him unmoved, he subsequently embarks upon a spree ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cloud

By Erin McCormack

The strengths of Cloud relate directly to our conviction in Harry Steen, its elderly narrator. Considering Steen’s generally acquiescent and inward personality, his far-flung and adventure-stuffed story (which recalls any number of old-time “guy lit” ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who by Fire

By Fred Stenson

Alberta author Fred Stenson’s unsettling, cautionary new novel takes its title from “Unetaneh Tokef,” a Jewish liturgical poem associated with the Day of Atonement. Referenced in a Leonard Cohen song that shares a title with ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Broken Hours

By Jacqueline Baker

Posthumously revered for such short stories as “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft eked out a poor existence on a dwindling inheritance, ultimately succumbing to cancer in his ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels