Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

The Carnivore

By Mark Sinnett

The Carnivore opens with a dramatic description of a flooded intersection in downtown Toronto during the first hours of Hurricane Hazel’s 1954 descent on the city. In this early stage of the storm, no one ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Valentine’s Fall

By Cary Fagan

Cary Fagan is a prolific writer for both adults and children, with several picture books, novels, and short-story collections under his belt. His writing has garnered praise and awards, including the Toronto Book Award and ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fear the Worst

By Linwood Barclay

Tim Blake’s teenaged daughter Sydney has vanished. Her supposed co-workers claim never to have heard of her. The police begin to turn their investigation toward Blake. As the days stretch into weeks, the lack of ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

David

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »

September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generation A

By Douglas Coupland

Generation A, Douglas Coupland’s 11th novel, is a great bookend to Generation X, the novel that launched his career. The term “Generation A” was in fact coined by Kurt Vonnegut, but Coupland embraces it and ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels