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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.
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WEBThe name Quill & Quire dates back to the magazine’s early focus on office supplies and stationary. A “quire” is a measurement of paper. In medieval times, a quire was four sheets of paper folded in half to form eight leaves. It also can refer to any collection of leaves, one within another, in a manuscript or book, or 25 (sometimes 24 ...
Fayne - Quill and Quire
WEBAnn-Marie MacDonald’s first novel in eight years, Fayne, is a reinvention for the bestselling author, who turns her attention away from the Canadian locales of her previous works to the wild borderlands of the British Isles. In this doorstopper of a book – which runs to 736 pages – we follow a young person named Charlotte Bell who comes of age in Fayne, a secluded estate situated on the ...
Dominoes at the Crossroads - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBKaie Kellough’s second book of fiction, the story collection Dominoes at the Crossroads, follows the subversive, polyphonic trail of his novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), and his recent book of poetry, Magnetic Equator.The opening story, “La question ordinaire et extrordinaire 1,” takes place in Montreal during the “Post Climate Crisis Period ...
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry
WEBThe Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry. by Mark Callanan and James Langer, eds. Newfoundland is made of poetry. Its hard-luck weather, resilient humanity, and far-flung geography moved the pen of E.J. Pratt, whom the London Times called “by far the most considerable of Canadian writers of [the 20th] century.”.
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WEBJob Board. Distribution Client Sales Manager Simon & Schuster Canada. Toronto Full-time. Sep, 12 new. Writer in Residence Saskatoon Public Library. Saskatoon Contract. Sep, 09. Distribution Client Sales Manager. Toronto.
The Englishman’s Boy - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBThe Englishman’s Boy. by Guy Vanderhaeghe. In Guy Vanderhaeghe’s latest novel, The Englishman’s Boy, two seemingly disparate narratives intersect to form an impressive whole. Related in alternating chapters, the first tale centres on the Englishman’s boy, a young man who ends up in a posse of cowboys chasing Indians suspected of horse ...
Wounded - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBWalters’ newest title, Wounded, tells the story of the long-anticipated reunion between a Canadian Special Forces officer returning from a gruelling tour of duty in Afghanistan and his family living on base back home. To the novel’s benefit, Walters avoids the pitfalls of the typical YA “issue” novel by delaying that reunion until deep ...
All the Quiet Places - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBBrian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother and maternal uncle, who live in close proximity.
We All Fall Down - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBby Eric Walters. Will Fuller is a typical American teenager. He’s a decent student who dreams of starting a band, has a crush on a girl in his history class, and doesn’t see much of his dad, a high-powered executive who spends more time at the office than at home. As We All Fall Down, the new novel from prolific Mississauga writer Eric ...