by NRB | 23 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Bronwyn Adcock provides a searing insider’s account of the bushfire that terrorised the NSW South Coast during Black Summer, and warns that fires on this scale will happen again. It’s impossible not to be moved by Currowan, the debut book by award-winning journalist...
by NRB | 27 May 2021 | Fiction |
Set during a bushfire, Claire Thomas’s second novel juxtaposes the performance of a play with the inner lives of its audience. We turn to art for strange reasons. We see it as a ticket to help us escape from reality and somehow also as a way to make us more...
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