by NRB | 12 Nov 2024 | Fiction |
Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice (Just Relations, The Grisly Wife); his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century. Queen Elizabeth II visited Brisbane on 9 March 1954 as part of her longest-ever Commonwealth tour. A...
by NRB | 5 Mar 2024 | Fiction |
The new novel from the award-winning author of Too Much Lip entwines Brisbane’s past and present to reveal the impact of colonisation. As I was reading it, Edenglassie received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. It is an ambitious novel and as I read...
by NRB | 14 Jun 2022 | Non-fiction |
The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection. How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories it contains. It opens with Dalton’s letter to his friend Kathleen Kelly, who has ‘bowed out to...
by NRB | 15 Sep 2015 | Fiction |
This novel artfully articulates the search for the perfect self, the perfect emotional and sexual mate, and the perfect life. In the opening sentence of her new novel, The Landing, Susan Johnson pays homage to one of the greatest writers on love and matrimony, Jane...
by NRB | 1 Apr 2014 | Fiction |
The personal is political in this joyful, and poignant, novel of five women friends on the cusp of turning 40. Tiddas is a delightful novel that covers 12 months in the lives of five friends as they struggle with life, love and lust and the consequences thereof. The...
by NRB | 10 Dec 2013 | Fiction |
European high culture in unlikely Australian settings lies at the heart of these two novels by Australian poet Tom Shapcott. Imagine this: a cultivated European gentleman of the late 19th century, highly educated, speaking seven languages, knowledgeable in fine art,...
by NRB | 11 Jul 2012 | Fiction |
These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes at the end of this collection of short stories, there is an image of the Brisbane River swollen and raucous in flood. It occurs six months after the...
by NRB | 29 Mar 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Murder, dispossession and revenge fuel this passionate debut. It may have a body on the first page, but The Boundary is no ordinary crime novel. Yes, there is a lawyer-hero (the troubled Miranda Eversley), there is a good cop and a bad cop, bad lawyers, a weak...