by NRB | 27 Aug 2019 | Non-fiction |
In this lively and affectionate social history of place, Pam Menzies reveals Port Kembla to be both remarkable and ordinary – a driver of the nation as well as being, like so many places in Australia, on the receiving end of change and globalisation. The book is...
by NRB | 22 Aug 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
In this debut novel Kate Mascarenhas creates a world where time travel is not only possible, it could be linked to a murder … In 1967, four female scientists invent time travel, but only three of them become household names for the right reason. The fourth,...
by NRB | 20 Aug 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
Rob Hart’s dystopian novel about an online fulfilment warehouse describes a world that feels disturbingly familiar. Consumerism and the American Dream are in the firing line in Rob Hart’s debut novel The Warehouse. David Eggers mashed Google, Microsoft and Apple...
by NRB | 15 Aug 2019 | Non-fiction |
These two memoirs of travel and dislocation present contrasting approaches to venturing into the unknown. Alice to Prague and In Love with the World are very different books with contrasting styles and perspectives and different stories to tell. Yet, fundamentally,...
by NRB | 13 Aug 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Who is Evie? JP Pomare’s taut debut thriller has already been shortlisted for crime writing awards. A man holds a young girl against her will. She bolts, reaching the front door of the house, but the man catches up and drags her back inside. He forcibly...
by NRB | 8 Aug 2019 | Fiction |
This collection gives an insight into a trailblazer who created one of the most enduring series in Australian crime fiction. It is hard to believe these days that there was ever a time when there was no market for Australian crime fiction. The strength, the range, the...
by NRB | 6 Aug 2019 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
See you at the Toxteth: The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on crime, published this week, brings together in one volume some of Peter Corris’s best short stories, selected by Jean Bedford, together with his ‘ABC of Crime Writing’ and a selection of...
by NRB | 1 Aug 2019 | Non-fiction |
This second posthumous collection of essays again reveals the passions and intellectual range of the bestselling neurologist, Oliver Sacks. Those who knew of Oliver Sacks as the practising neurologist who wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and...
by NRB | 30 Jul 2019 | Non-fiction |
Australian politicians might rank low in public esteem but as this incisive book from Judith Brett reveals, our system of voting is admirable compared to the rest of the world’s democracies and certainly superior to those of the United Kingdom and the United States....
by NRB | 25 Jul 2019 | Non-fiction |
Peter Lewis examines the history and impact of the internet in Australia, and what might happen next. It is curious how often the story of the Soviet Union is invoked to anchor the story of the internet. There are many parallels between the two. For one, their...
by NRB | 23 Jul 2019 | Fiction |
Sallie Muirden’s fourth novel explores love and life choices. How does anyone ever manage to choose a partner for life? Given the imperfections of every choice, given that we are all complicated individuals with our own distinct bundles of neuroses, Muirden asks...
by NRB | 18 Jul 2019 | Fiction |
Linda Grant’s eighth novel explores the consequences of Brexit-era nationalism on the rich multicultural traditions of London. There are so many novels about London. A massive, diverse city, much like New York it provides endless fodder for novelists. It is also...
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