Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

None So Blind

By Barbara Fradkin

With the 10th novel in her Inspector Green mystery series, Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin demonstrates just why two of the earlier instalments have been awarded the Arthur Ellis from the Crime Writers of Canada. None ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bunny and Shark

By Alisha Piercy

A Montreal-based writer and artist, Alisha Piercy has described the thematic preoccupation of her oeuvre as “the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences.” Her debut novel ... Read More »

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blind Spot

By Laurence Miall

Most Western readers know the story of Meursault, a French Algerian who, upon learning of his mother’s death, returns home for her funeral. Though the funeral leaves him unmoved, he subsequently embarks upon a spree ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cloud

By Erin McCormack

The strengths of Cloud relate directly to our conviction in Harry Steen, its elderly narrator. Considering Steen’s generally acquiescent and inward personality, his far-flung and adventure-stuffed story (which recalls any number of old-time “guy lit” ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who by Fire

By Fred Stenson

Alberta author Fred Stenson’s unsettling, cautionary new novel takes its title from “Unetaneh Tokef,” a Jewish liturgical poem associated with the Day of Atonement. Referenced in a Leonard Cohen song that shares a title with ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels