Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Mount Pleasant

By Don Gillmor

Money carries a very different set of connotations and implications in the works of Canadian authors born between (roughly) 1930 and ’60 and those born after. For authors such as Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, Alice ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The ’Geisters

By David Nickle

Connoisseurs of dark fantasy experience genuine joy in encountering authors who revel in the genre as much as they do. Two new books from ChiZine Publications set out to feed the desires of genre aficionados ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Always Watching

By Chevy Stevens

Dr. Nadine Lavoie, a Victoria psychiatrist, has spent her life helping others come to terms with their demons, but now she must confront her own. Nadine is claustrophobic, though she doesn’t remember the incident that ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Studio Saint-Ex

By Ania Szado

All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.)” Certain readers may remember this dedication to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s cherished classic, The Little Prince, the most translated book in the French language. In ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Little Thing

By Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley, best known as the enthusiast behind the East Coast–based CanLit booster blog Salty Ink, has returned with his second novel. While Salty Ink offers a spirited (if somewhat sycophantic) take on our nation’s ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Open Pit

By Marguerite Pigeon

In 2005, during a time of increasing globalization, a group of Canadian human-rights activists travels to El Salvador. Before they get to see the sights or meet the locals, they’re taken hostage by a former ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels