by NRB | 9 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction |
Craig Munro examines the author-editor relationship through the lives of four Australian editors. Like most editors, sometimes I wish that I had a whip that I could use with authors. However, as Craig Munro demonstrates in his engaging tour through Australian letters,...
by NRB | 24 Apr 2020 | Extracts, Non-fiction |
This week’s extract is from Cathy Perkins’s biography of Australian poet Zora Cross. Largely unknown today, she was a sensation when, still in her 20s, she published the bestselling Songs of Love and Life in 1917. Frankly erotic by the standards of...
by NRB | 29 Nov 2016 | Non-fiction |
Arnott reveals the literary growth of an important Australian artist, bringing to life a complex, contradictory human being. Georgina Arnott was surprised to realise that existing biographies, autobiographical works and critical studies of Judith Wright merely skimmed...