by NRB | 7 Nov 2024 | Non-fiction |
Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) – which...
by NRB | 29 Jun 2023 | Non-fiction |
Stan Grant remains committed to responding with love as he interrogates Whiteness in Australia and around the world. In The Queen is Dead Stan Grant uses the death of the person he calls ‘The White Queen’ as a springboard to discuss not only fundamental questions...
by NRB | 7 Apr 2022 | Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Undertaking explores the impact of colonialism on one small island. Mr Lloyd is an artist who describes himself as ‘half married’ to his artist, art-dealer, wife. She now prefers another man and his ‘loud’, ‘declamatory’ art and...