Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

By Michael Blair

This first novel was one of five finalists in the inaugural Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize in 1999 and in many ways epitomizes current mainstream Canadian crime fiction. Even if the references to Canadian places and events ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Will Ferguson

Edwin de Valu, the hero of Will Ferguson’s Generica, is a bitter junior editor who, by publishing a self-help book that leaves its readers in a state of blissful contentment, unwittingly ends the world as ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Theresa Kishkan

Inishbream was first published, in a slightly different form, as a limited edition in 1999. The novella is the story of a Canadian traveller, the unnamed female narrator, who drifts to the small titular island ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Emma Richler

There’s a lot going on in Sister Crazy, Emma Richler’s debut novel that manages to mix references to St. Francis of Assisi, champagne, cowboys, nuns, and famous films like Jules et Jim without hitting a ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels