Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

YOU comma Idiot

By Doug Harris

Given that this good-natured debut by film producer Doug Harris takes the unconventional form of a second-person narrative, the reader should not assume that its title is directed at him. Instead, it likely refers to ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Zero History

By William Gibson

Starting with 2003’s Pattern Recognition, famed science-fiction author William Gibson has been taking apart the techno-thriller and putting the pieces back together in new and interesting ways. Pattern Recognition (for my money, Gibson’s best book ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midway

By David Homel

In his sixth novel, Montreal writer and translator David Homel delves into the relationship between fathers and sons. Ben Allen is at the midway point between his 80-year-old father, Morris, and his teenage son, Tony. ... Read More »

October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Room

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels