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MICHAEL WILDING Growing Wild. Reviewed by Inez Baranay

MICHAEL WILDING Growing Wild. Reviewed by Inez Baranay

by NRB | 3 May 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Growing Wild is the entertaining and instructive memoir of a writer and publisher who always took notice, and always took notes. If you’re starting your writing and publishing life in 2016, can you quite imagine how different things were before the tsunami of...
ALAN SAMPSON Schools of Fish. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

ALAN SAMPSON Schools of Fish. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 23 Feb 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Alan Sampson’s memoir explores parenting, education, and the dangers of pursuing a narrow concept of success. This heartfelt winner of the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize is a well-paced story of parenting and career challenges, and the crisis that drove Alan Sampson to...
ADRIAN SIMON Milk-Blood. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

ADRIAN SIMON Milk-Blood. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 4 Feb 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Adrian Simon’s Milk-Blood is a character study in grit. This dramatic memoir provides another perspective on the infamous true crime story of Warren Fellows, an Australian drug trafficker sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand – and Simon’s father. Reading...
JAMES FRY That Fry Boy. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

JAMES FRY That Fry Boy. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 8 Dec 2015 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

This memoir of a shattered childhood and teenage alcoholism reveals how any child might end up on the same self-destructive path.  That Fry Boy opens in the mid-1990s in the Sydney suburb of Epping as 13-year-old James Fry sneaks into his parents’ bedroom to...

NIGEL FEATHERSTONE I’m Ready Now. Reviewed by Walter Mason

by NRB | 11 Jun 2013 | Fiction | 3 comments

A nuanced and thoroughly original novella about the special link between mother and son.  A newly widowed Tasmanian woman travels to Sydney to start a new life and begins her journey in the in-between space of her gay son’s stark one-bedroom flat in the inner...
             

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