by NRB | 15 Jan 2025 | Non-fiction |
Peter Godwin’s memoir charts a life of exile, ranging from the horror of civil war to family eccentricity and life in London and New York. Exit Wounds is a curious title for a memoir, especially when Godwin, early in the book, tells of an illustrated lecture on...
by NRB | 14 May 2020 | Non-fiction |
The anti-apartheid movement in Australia had more of an impact on policies at home than is usually recognised. In his prologue Roger Bell refers to his childhood in country New South Wales where Aborigines lived ‘on the fringes of town’; something akin to the...
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