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KEN HILLMAN A Good Life to the End:  Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

KEN HILLMAN A Good Life to the End: Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 30 Jan 2018 | Non-fiction | 2 comments

Ken Hillman gives us a practical, wise and compassionate analysis of the physical and mental challenges of approaching death. Despite the certainty that we will all face it, we live in a death-denying society and most of us are ignorant of the realities of...
VANESSA BERRY Mirror Sydney. Reviewed by Tom Patterson

VANESSA BERRY Mirror Sydney. Reviewed by Tom Patterson

by NRB | 19 Oct 2017 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

A series of delightful anecdotes about Sydney Vanessa Berry sets out her brief in Mirror Sydney early. This book is a description of Sydney that doesn’t seek to describe its ‘natural beauty’ but instead focuses on the ‘marginalia, the overlooked and the odd’. To...
DINO HODGE (Ed) Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans perspectives: life stories and essays by First Nations people of Australia. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

DINO HODGE (Ed) Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans perspectives: life stories and essays by First Nations people of Australia. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 12 Apr 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The passionate life stories and the essays in Colouring the Rainbow reveal the challenges facing Queer and Trans Indigenous Australians. This powerful collection looks at the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexuality and also places it within an...
STAN GRANT Talking to My Country. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

STAN GRANT Talking to My Country. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

by NRB | 15 Mar 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Part polemic, part memoir, Stan Grant’s new book is a passionate account of the toll of a lifetime of negotiating between two cultures. The contradictions of being black in Australia, shown so vividly in this book, are there right from the beginning, in the...
             

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