The Ned Kelly Awards are run by the Australian Crime Writers Association and have been going since 1995. I was lucky enough to be one of three judges of the Best Fiction category of the Ned Kelly Awards for this year. As it’s been impossible...
On Friday 3 August I listened to The World Today on ABC Radio National and made notes. ABC radio is my chief source of news and I had the impression that I’d heard nothing but bad news on this and many other similar broadcasts for as long as I...
Hotel du Lac is a small classic that won the 1984 Man Booker Prize for Anita Brookner. When I found Hotel du Lac recently on my shelves I was amazed to realise that it was a different book from the one I read in the 1980s – or rather, I was a...
Howrey casts us into the infinite reaches of the universe to ponder our aloneness. The word ‘planet’ is derived from the Greek word for ‘wanderer’. Greek astronomers thought the planets were inexplicable celestial bodies wandering through space...
From time to time discussion still arises about the difference between literary and popular fiction, and their respective merits. Those of us interested in the topic (and I imagine this would include many NRB readers) are often divided. Michael...
Known for her Rowland Sinclair historical crime series and her YA Hero trilogy, Sulari Gentill delivers something very different with this new novel. What if you wrote of someone writing of you? In the end, which of you would be real? Crossing the...
