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BENJAMIN STEVENSON Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret. Reviewed by Naomi Manuell

BENJAMIN STEVENSON Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret. Reviewed by Naomi Manuell

by NRB | 5 Nov 2024 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction. There’s a whiff of unseriousness around some whodunnits. Many readers still think of the form as stuck in detective fiction’s Golden Age with...
ANNA DOWNES Red River Road and LISA KENWAY All You Took From Me. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

ANNA DOWNES Red River Road and LISA KENWAY All You Took From Me. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

by NRB | 3 Oct 2024 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

These two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa Kenway bring fresh takes to the genre. Writers groups are an increasingly popular way for new and established novelists to workshop and complete their manuscripts. It’s always been difficult...
CAROL MAJOR The Asparagus Wars. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

CAROL MAJOR The Asparagus Wars. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

by NRB | 9 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Stretching from France to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Carol Major’s memoir is a meditation on family, grief and love. This memoir by Carol Major comprises three strands woven into one heartbreaking narrative of a woman and her daughter. Written as a...
JULIAN LEATHERDALE Palace of Tears. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

JULIAN LEATHERDALE Palace of Tears. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

by NRB | 23 Jun 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

This generational saga centred on a lavish luxury hotel in the Blue Mountains has all the ingredients of intrigue, scandal and tragedy. Palace of Tears is one of those big sprawling sagas, a narrative of several generations’ loves and losses buttressed by the author’s...

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 city....
             

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