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WEBQuill and Quire. Improving Canadian book biz was BookNet CEO emeritus Noah Genner’s life’s work. Excerpt from Salvage: Readings from the Wreck. Kev Lambert on May Our Joy Endure and the oblique violence of the super-rich.
What Strange Paradise - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBWhat Strange Paradise, the powerful new novel from Omar El Akkad, begins with a stark and disturbingly familiar image: “The child lies on the shore. All around him the beach is littered with the wreckage of the boat and the wreckage of its passengers. … Facedown, with his arms outstretched, the child appears from a distance as though playing at flight.”
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBMore than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.Chronicling her time in Northern Alberta, Ducks is a remarkable glimpse into the fraught and under-explored daily lives of the people who work in one of Canada’s most contentious ...
Forty years on, In Search of April Raintree remains a …
WEBThis year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, and alcoholism, and follows the lives of sisters April and Cheryl as they are separated from their birth family and placed in foster care ...
Hench - Quill and Quire
WEBOct 1, 2020 · by Peter Nowak. Anna Tromedlov, the anti-hero of Natalie Zina Walschots’s stunning debut novel, Hench, isn’t drawn to villainy because of any deep-seated issues or evil intent. For Anna, temporary work as a henchperson to supervillains is just a way to make ends meet, a logical extension of the gig economy. It isn’t glamorous – data ...
The Adversary - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBOn the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. In particular, he singles out the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as an inestimable source.
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Indians on Vacation - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBIndians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians ...
Indian Horse - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBIn his new novel, Wagamese confronts that legacy head-on, bringing a depressingly believable 1960s residential school to life through the story of Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy from Northwestern Ontario. This stark, moving novel makes clear that residential schools were, in Saul’s words, “hell on earth,” with the priests and nuns ...