by NRB | 4 Aug 2022 | Non-fiction |
Nathan Hobby explores the life of one of Australia’s most controversial writers. Katharine Susannah Prichard’s novel Coonardoo is her best-known and most accomplished work. Published in 1929, and serialised in the Bulletin, it’s a tragedy about sexual longing...
by NRB | 24 Jun 2014 | Non-fiction |
Absurdity and anger reside in this anthology of personal responses to ASIO’s clumsy and calumnious file-keeping. Meredith Burgmann’s Introduction to this fascinating book foreshadows some of the themes that emerge repeatedly as the contributors discuss their own or...
by NRB | 8 Oct 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The Dreyfus Case, notorious for its betrayals and anti-Semitism, inspires this new thriller from the author of Fatherland. In the Acknowledgments to his new novel Robert Harris thanks his wife: … who has been obliged to share our house with successive waves of Nazis,...
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