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MIREILLE JUCHAU The World Without Us. Reviewed by Annette Marfording

MIREILLE JUCHAU The World Without Us. Reviewed by Annette Marfording

by NRB | 10 Sep 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

This is a story of loss and grief, motherlessness and environmental destruction – but also of survival, renewal and the importance of community. Mireille Juchau’s third novel is set in an alternative community in northern New South Wales. Run-off...
MURRAY MIDDLETON When There’s Nowhere Else to Run. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

MURRAY MIDDLETON When There’s Nowhere Else to Run. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 21 Jul 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

This powerful collection dissects love, death, sex and alienation in modern Australia. 2015 Vogel Award winner Murray Middleton has written something close to a great contemporary Australian novel in this terse collection of stories. Losers, victims and spectators...
NRB Editors nominate their favourite books of 2014

NRB Editors nominate their favourite books of 2014

by NRB | 23 Dec 2014 | Fiction, Non-fiction | 2 comments

From crime to literature, through ASIO and memoir to the bush – our Editors failed to coincide on a single title. Not all of these books were published in 2014, but they were our stand-out reads of the year. Jean’s picks: Elizabeth is Missing Emma Healey....
MANDY SAYER The Poet’s Wife. Reviewed by Kylie Mason

MANDY SAYER The Poet’s Wife. Reviewed by Kylie Mason

by NRB | 4 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

The award-winning author of Velocity and Dreamtime Alice returns with the searing, soul-baring memoir of her marriage to Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Mandy Sayer is 22 and still tap-dancing on street corners when she meets Yusef Komunyakaa during...

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