by NRB | 24 Jun 2021 | Non-fiction |
Edmund Richardson recounts the hazardous life of ‘one of the greatest archaeologists of the age’. Nineteenth-century archaeologist James Lewis (alias Charles Masson), who sought traces of Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, was clearly an excellent storyteller, and in...
by NRB | 18 May 2021 | Non-fiction |
Laura Bates has produced a confronting examination of extreme misogyny in Men Who Hate Women. Best known for creating the Everyday Sexism Project, in Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates has produced a book that is more polemic than a considered work of traditional...
by NRB | 13 May 2021 | Non-fiction |
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a trailblazer in the law in the US. This collection of speeches and key cases gives an insight into her work. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a justice of the Supreme Court of America from 1993 until her death in September 2020. In October 2019, the...
by NRB | 4 May 2021 | Non-fiction |
Cassandra Pybus places Truganini centre stage in Tasmania’s history, restoring the truth of what happened to her and her people. The subtitle Cassandra Pybus has chosen is a powerful pointer to how she sees Truganini: not as the ‘last of the Tasmanian...
by NRB | 8 Apr 2021 | Non-fiction |
Is freedom of speech under threat in Australia’s universities? In Open Minds authors Evans and Stone examine the evidence. In 2018 two incidents occurred that prompted the federal government to initiate an investigation into the internal operations of...
by NRB | 1 Apr 2021 | Non-fiction |
These six essays provide insights into the world of surfing both as individual passion and national symbol. In his introduction to this collection of Australian surf writing, Jock Serong asks whether surfing is a sport or a culture. It is estimated there are between...
by NRB | 16 Mar 2021 | Non-fiction |
Investigative journalist Brian Deer reveals how the anti-vax movement began with an elaborate fraud designed to enrich its perpetrator. One way to view the history of the world is as a struggle between superstition and science. In trying to understand what is...
by NRB | 23 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction |
Stuart Clark ranges across myths, archaeology and astronomy to chart the history of our obsession with the stars. On a mountain in ‘Australia’s Warrumbungles range’, English astronomer Stuart Clark stood under the clear night sky and experienced the sublime: There was...
by NRB | 11 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction |
These stories range widely across different experiences of disability, and question why disabled people must always be the ones to adapt to the world. In her introduction to this remarkable collection of personal essays, Carly Findlay writes that she didn’t identify...
by NRB | 9 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction |
Craig Munro examines the author-editor relationship through the lives of four Australian editors. Like most editors, sometimes I wish that I had a whip that I could use with authors. However, as Craig Munro demonstrates in his engaging tour through Australian letters,...
by NRB | 2 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction |
Subtitled ‘A lifelong love affair with the most subtle and sophisticated game known to humankind’ Ramachandra Guha’s memoir explores one man’s multiple connections with cricket, from boyhood fandom to clear-eyed assessments of the state of the game. Timing matters,...
by NRB | 17 Dec 2020 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
We’ve crunched the numbers and come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run this year, based on reader views. Is your favourite book among them? Here’s a chance to catch up on some you may have missed, or to revisit books that have resonated with...
JUNE WRIGHT Mother Paul series. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm6 December 2024June Wright has faded from view, but in 1948 her novel Murder in the Telephone [ … ]
ANDREW O’HAGAN Caledonian Road. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey5 December 2024This new novel from the author of Mayflies is set in London, but Glasgow is [ … ]
IAIN RYAN The Dream. Reviewed by Ben Ford Smith3 December 2024Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and [ … ]
MARINA YUSZCZUK Thirst. Reviewed by Ann Skea28 November 2024Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in [ … ]