Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Right Away Monday

By Joel Thomas Hynes

Clayton Reid, the booze-besotted, drug-addicted ne’er-do-well at the centre of Joel Thomas Hynes’s second novel, bears a striking resemblance to Keith Kavanagh, the shiftless antihero of Down to the Dirt, Hynes’s 2004 debut. Both are ... Read More »

June 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bank

By David Bledin

The worlds of banking and literature seldom meet, and probably for good reason. There’s not much drama to be found in the facts and figures of the financial district. Or is there?Bank is the debut ... Read More »

May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shelf Monkey

By Corey Redekop

A decade ago, when Oprah launched her book club juggernaut, stuffy literati worldwide – especially authors of books not chosen – knee-jerkingly condemned the idea of one person dictating what the masses should read. Those ... Read More »

May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mother of Lies

By Dave Duncan

With this novel, Dave Duncan, the prolific Victoria-based science fiction and fantasy writer, brings to a close the duology begun with 2006’s Children of Chaos. Mother of Lies is a solid sequel that carries all ... Read More »

May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Planet Reese

By Cordelia Strube

With this, her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube carries on with the brand of dystopic fiction that has become her trademark. The Strubian novel can be characterized thus: it has an ensemble of emotionally or physically ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Empress Letters

By Linda Rogers

What are the images conjured up by the city of Victoria? For me it’s tea at the Empress Hotel, a fairy-tale legislature, wonderful arts-and-crafts architecture, Butchart Gardens, and hanging baskets of flowers along the main ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Radiance

By Shaena Lambert;

The taut artistry of Radiance makes for a highly provocative exploration of American guilt following the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In her first novel, Vancouver’s Shaena Lambert has woven together a searing narrative ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels