by NRB | 22 Jun 2021 | Fiction |
The author of Outside Looking In and San Miguel continues to zig and zag when other authors just stay in their comfort zones. Talk to Me is American author TC Boyle’s 18th novel, and while some of its themes and character types are familiar from earlier works, the...
by NRB | 23 Jul 2020 | Fiction |
Laura Jean McKay’s novel asks us to see the world through animals’ eyes. It was just past Goulburn on the Hume Highway, heading back to Sydney last Christmas. The Southern Highlands were aflame, and a southerly had pushed up smoke clouds as thick as a...
by NRB | 22 May 2020 | Extracts, Fiction |
How could Laura Jean McKay know that her novel about a pandemic would be published during an actual pandemic? Unlike Covid, however, the pandemic in her debut novel gives sufferers bright pink eyes and an ability to understand the language of animals. Jean Bennett is...