Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

★ Infrared

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston is something of a biographical curiosity and an ever bigger bibliographical one. She was born and reared in Calgary, and educated at elite institutions in New York and Paris. (Roland Barthes supervised her ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girl in Shades

By Allison Baggio

Growing up, Maya Devine never understood why her half-Irish mother dragged her to Hindu temple, or made her stand on the streetcorners of Saskatoon handing out passages from the Baghavad Gita. Maya has always been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Come from Afar

By Gayla Reid

Gayla Reid wins awards – the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Journey Prize, the Marian Engel Award, to name a few – and deservedly so. Her writing is lush and highly charged; her characters fully ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virgin Cure

By Ami McKay

With The Virgin Cure, the long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling 2006 debut, The Birth House, Ami McKay once again examines an element of the lives of girls and women history often ignores. This time, McKay ... Read More »

November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Easy to Like

By Edward Riche

Edward Riche’s third novel concerns Elliot Johnson, a Hollywood screenwriter and oenophile, whose life is a mess. His career is sputtering, his marriage has failed, his money-losing vineyard is under federal investigation, and his son, ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels