by NRB | 16 May 2017 | Fiction |
Very very sharp and very very funny: Fay Weldon is on form as she follows up her 1980s hit The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Nearly 60 years ago, in a Hobart pub called The Man at the Wheel, I had a conversation with the novelist Christopher Koch on the subject of...
by NRB | 8 Dec 2016 | Fiction |
Not Working is a novel for the millennial generation. The 21st century is one giant tangle of paradoxes. We have better and easier access to information than ever before, yet we seem less certain about anything. We are more educated than our grandparents could have...
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