Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Consumed

By David Cronenberg

Do you think a new esthetic can develop? Cancer beauty? ... Will non-cancerous women be begging their cosmetic surgeons to give them false nodes implants?” Imbued with notions of body modification this unsettling, could Consumed ... Read More »

September 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love Enough

By Dionne Brand

In 1990, Dionne Brand released No Language is Neutral, a poetry collection preoccupied, as much of Brand’s writing is, with the limitations of language to verbalize the experience of the oppressed, and with history’s inability ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Leaving Tomorrow

By David Bergen

The eighth novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner David Bergen continues the Winnipeg writer’s exploration into the complicated lives of ordinary people. Bergen is a master at delving into the psychology of his characters, often ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Come Back

By Rudy Wiebe

Twenty-five years after his eldest son, Gabe, committed suicide, retired professor and recent widower Hal Wiens sees Gabe walking along Whyte Avenue in the snowy Edmonton spring. Following a fruitless chase, Hal returns home alone ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sons and Fathers

By Daniel Goodwin

The fraught nature of male friendships is the subject of Daniel Goodwin’s well-structured and hyper-realistic debut novel. Inverting the title of the Turgenev classic Fathers and Sons, Goodwin presents three men – Michael, Eli, and ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Walt

By Russell Wangersky

Russell Wangersky’s oeuvre includes a pair of story collections (2006’s The Hour of Bad Decisions and 2012’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away), a memoir about his experiences as a volunteer firefighter (2008’s Burning Down the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels