Quill and Quire

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★ Pavel & I

By Dan Vyleta

Pavel Richter, the meek yet oddly alluring protagonist of Dan Vyleta’s debut novel, seems to have an innate talent for suffering. A former American G.I., Pavel is still living in Berlin two years after the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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By Austin Clarke

When Austin Clarke confounded the oddsmakers and walked away with the 2002 Giller Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe, murmurs spread through some of Canada’s tonier, gated literary communities that the wrong writer had ... Read More »

September 22, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Good to a Fault

By Marina Endicott

If an insurance agent causes a car accident, what’s her liability? At first blush, it sounds like a bad joke. Yet it’s this question of liability and damages – automotive, spiritual, and otherwise – that ... Read More »

September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ What They Wanted

By Donna Morrissey

Readers were enthralled by the difficult yet somehow fulfilling life of the title character and his fragile bride in Donna Morrissey’s Commonwealth Prize-nominated 2005 novel Sylvanus Now. This sequel shifts the focus to Sylvanus and ... Read More »

September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels