Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Song of Kosovo

By Chris Gudgeon

Song of Kosovo is half galloping Bildungsroman, half treatise on the fraught interplay of truth, lies, and myth in what we end up calling history. Zavida Zankovic, a Serb press-ganged into paramilitary service, finds himself ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Exit Papers from Paradise

By Liam Card

Isaac Sullivan has been bitter ever since his alcoholic father’s on-the-job mishap forced Isaac to quit high school and join the family plumbing business. At 36, the overly intelligent, underemployed plumber and aspiring doctor is ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carnival

By Rawi Hage

At about the halfway point in Rawi Hage’s new novel, a taxi driver named Fly offers a ride to a stripper named Sally. After getting into the cab, Sally spots a copy of Jean Genet’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purchase

By Linda Spalding

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Until the Night

By Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt, a pivotal figure in the Canadian crime fiction scene, returns with the sixth instalment of his series featuring detective duo John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Over the course of the previous books, as ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freak

By Jennifer Hillier

In Jennifer Hillier’s debut thriller, Creep, the Tell Tale Heart Killer abducted and murdered several young Seattle women. Hillier’s tense sophomore effort returns to the setting of the earlier book one year later. High-end escorts ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Mystery

By Louise Penny

Cloistered in a remote Northern Quebec monastery, 24 monks of the Gilbertine order, long thought to have vanished altogether, sing glorious Gregorian plainchants and exist happily with minimal contact from the outside world. For hundreds ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels