by NRB | 10 Sep 2015 | Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 21 Jul 2015 | Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 23 Dec 2014 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
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....
by NRB | 4 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction |
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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