by NRB | 12 Mar 2020 | Fiction |
Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga takes on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers in his latest novel Amnesty. Set in Sydney, on a day sometime in the recent past, Amnesty concentrates on Dhananjaya Rajaratnam, aka Danny the Cleaner, as he grapples with his...
by NRB | 21 Mar 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
Sylvain Neuvel’s novella The Test, about the demonisation of immigrants, packs a punch and could not be more timely. Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel’s new novella, The Test, is a long way removed from his engaging trilogy of novels about alien invasion and...
by NRB | 4 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
From asylum seekers to politics, climate change and the personal challenges of dealing with cancer, Robert Manne’s essays are a rich canvas and urge us to interrogate prejudice and injustice wherever they threaten to take root. When Robert Manne, Emeritus...
by NRB | 12 Dec 2013 | Fiction |
This quietly powerful novella proves there’s still a lot to add to the asylum-seeker debate. It’s been more than a decade since the infamous Tampa affair, and still Australian political discourse returns time and time again to the same sorry shambles – our...
by NRB | 12 Nov 2013 | Non-fiction |
This anthology of essays, fiction, memoir and poetry contains some powerful and impassioned writing from some of Australia’s best-known writers. The first contribution in this absorbing book, ‘Moonlight’, by Rodney Hall, is a wonderful piece of writing...
by NRB | 17 Oct 2013 | Non-fiction |
This true story outlines one woman’s battle against Australian bureaucracy to be reunited with her husband. In this book Robyn Oyeniyi details the relentless struggle she endured to marry an asylum seeker, reunite him with his children and bring her new family back to...
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