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.
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBNear the end of Christine Higdon’s evocative and provocative novel Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue, Isla McKenzie wonders how different things will be for the next generation, who “could live through the twentieth century, and even into the twenty-first if they’re lucky.”Isla’s musings are prompted by her hard experience of life with her three sisters – Georgina, Morag, and ...
The Marrow Thieves - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBIn the latest YA novel by Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline, the world has been ravaged by global warming. Cities have crumbled from the coastlines, “breaking off like crust,” and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis have wiped out entire communities. Millions of people have lost their lives, and those who remain have endured trauma that
Montreal Stories - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBAuthor Clark Blaise has been publishing short stories for over 30 years, but many of his books have gone out of print. The Porcupine’s Quill deserves high praise for republishing selected stories in four volumes.
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WEBVivek Shraya has become one of Canada’s most well-known chameleons of the arts and culture. Shraya has received praise in different artistic realms, including five separate nominations for Lambda Literary Awards and a nomination for the Polaris Music Prize; her various accolades reveal an artist with a distinctly …
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WEBB.C. writer Angie Abdou chronicles the rise and fall of swimmer Sadie Jorgensen and wrestler Tom “Digger” Stapleton in her first novel, The Bone Cage.A tale of two athletes, The Bone Cage alternates between the two protagonists’ stories, switching back and forth from chapter to chapter until their paths fatefully cross, changing their individual destinies.
Dundurn Press publisher Kwame Scott Fraser stepping down
WEBNov 13, 2023 · Dundurn Press is looking for a new publisher, as president and publisher Kwame Scott Fraser relocates to Jamaica and steps down from the role he has held for five years.
Who Killed Confederation Life?: The Inside Story - Quill & Quire
WEBWhen Confederation Life went belly-up in 1994, it was the fourth largest insurance company in Canada, with a history stretching back to the late 1800s.
No Great Mischief - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBEvery now and again a story surfaces on the news – there was another one back in August – of a poor soul staggering out of the Outback/Mojave Desert/ barrens of Nunavut, having lost his way, wandered for weeks, and survived on a cruel diet of scorpions/cacti/ muskeg.