Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Strip

By Andrew Binks

The toned body of John Rottam pirouettes through Andrew Binks’s second novel. The young dancer traverses the country, migrating from ballet to burlesque, while navigating gay romantic life at the advent of the AIDS crisis. ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A

By André Alexis

Novelist and playwright André Alexis caused a considerable stir in 2010 with an essay in his collection Beauty & Sadness that tore the skin off Canadian book reviewing and the state of literary culture in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Troop

By Nick Cutter

Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Craig Davidson couldn’t have come up with a less inspired pseudonym than Nick Cutter for this pure-genre outing, but that’s the only knock against an otherwise outstanding tale of terror, full ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Really Dead

By J.E. Forman

Really Dead begins with Pam, a reality show production assistant, finding a severed foot on a Caribbean beach. The ankle shows a tattoo resembling one belonging to another PA, Kate Bond, who has disappeared from ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

PostApoc

By Liz Worth

Liz Worth’s debut novel is grim, dark, and unflinching. As the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact, Ang is barely hanging on. Her close companions, all of whom were part of an underground music ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels