by NRB | 13 Feb 2024 | Non-fiction |
Rachel Maddow’s account of how Nazism gained a foothold among US politicians in the 1930s holds lessons for the present. When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in early 1933, he embarked on a long-term plan not only to keep the United States out of a future...
by NRB | 1 Feb 2024 | Fiction |
Robyn Cadwallader’s third novel is set against the anti-Semitism of the thirteenth century and England’s expulsion of the Jews. ‘What you doing there, girl? Why stand and shiver when the sun shines? You must’ve heard the story of Little Hugh before. They recite it...
by NRB | 24 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction |
Winner of the 2018 Nib Literary Award and longlisted for the 2019 Colin Roderick Award. Helen Lewis traces her father’s experiences in World War II and how he witnessed the devastating results of the Holocaust. Part memoir, part war history, The Dead Still...
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