Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Memory Book

By Howard Engel

Canada’s favourite soft-boiled detective, Benny Cooperman, is a little worse for wear in Memory Book, the 11th instalment of this popular series.But fans will be pleased that he has been able to return at all ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Foozlers

By Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne provides a brief glossary at the end of his first novel, Foozlers. One might expect to find the meaning of foozler here, but it’s not necessary. Like the acrobatic adjectives that Tom Wolfe ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Busted Flush

By Brad Smith

Dock Bass is a straight-talking man’s man from upstate New York who likes carpentry and cold beer, but does not suffer fools. He gets himself fired from his job as a realtor. He abandons his ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tenor of Love

By Mary di Michele

Like scratchy ancient recordings remastered and yellowed photographs restored, Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love gives us an Enrico Caruso as bright and clear as prose can render him. Her Caruso comes alive as a ... Read More »

January 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels