by NRB | 7 Mar 2023 | Fiction |
New Zealand guerilla gardeners meet a US doomsday prepper in this new novel from Booker-winner Eleanor Catton. Twenty-nine-year-old horticulturalist Mira Bunting is looking for some under-utilised land that she and the activist Birnam Wood collective can quietly...
by NRB | 29 Jun 2021 | Non-fiction |
Save Our Sons and Radicals remind us that the anti-war protesters of the 1960s and 70s were many and varied, and so too were their campaigns. These two books canvass the decade 1965-75, during which the Vietnam War dominated political life in Australia. We had...
by NRB | 9 Apr 2020 | Non-fiction |
In this collection of essays Paul Kingsnorth charts the changes in the environmentalism movement and proposes a radical new step. By 2020 the environmentalism movement has become fully corporate. It has finally found a three-piece suit that fits and now comfortably...