Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

By Nino Ricci

Seven years after the publication of his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning novel, The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci hits readers hard with a scorched-black account of a tormented man’s decline into sleeplessness and self-destruction. Sleep, ... Read More »

September 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Jennifer Quist

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Wendi Stewart

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Lawrence Hill

If the statistics are to be believed, we are facing a global refugee crisis. According to the United Nations, there were a staggering 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes by the end of ... Read More »

September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels