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RACHEL PERKINS, STEPHEN GAPPS, MINA MURRAY and HENRY REYNOLDS (Eds) The Australian Wars. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

RACHEL PERKINS, STEPHEN GAPPS, MINA MURRAY and HENRY REYNOLDS (Eds) The Australian Wars. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 7 Apr 2026 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The Australian Wars presents the confronting facts of white settlement, the massacres of First Nations Australians, and their resistance. This is a difficult book to read. Its subject matter is the killing of hundreds of thousands of First Nations people by Europeans...
LARRY BUTTROSE Everyone on Mars. Reviewed by Sue Woolfe

LARRY BUTTROSE Everyone on Mars. Reviewed by Sue Woolfe

by NRB | 24 Sep 2024 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Not just astronauts and science experiments: Larry Buttrose’s stories imagine what it would be like if we had to live on Mars. One of the most memorable opening lines in fiction is Ford Maddox Ford’s ‘This is the saddest story I have ever heard.’ The Good Soldier is...
KEVIN JARED HOSEIN Hungry Ghosts. Reviewed by Ann Skea

KEVIN JARED HOSEIN Hungry Ghosts. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 24 Apr 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Kevin Jared Hosein’s debut novel is both a mystery story and a window into the lives of Caribbean indentured labourers and their families. The place is Trinidad, ‘sometime in the 1940s’.  Four boys ventured to the river bank to perform a blood oath. Two brothers...
MELISSA LUCASHENKO Edenglassie. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

MELISSA LUCASHENKO Edenglassie. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 5 Mar 2024 | Fiction | 2 comments

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...
KATE FULLAGAR Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

KATE FULLAGAR Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 10 Oct 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Kate Fullagar puts the lives of Wangal man Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip into a larger context beyond the brief years they spent together. What we regard as the modern history of Australia commenced with Britain establishing a colony in New South Wales in...
CASSANDRA PYBUS Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

CASSANDRA PYBUS Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 4 May 2021 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Cassandra Pybus places Truganini centre stage in Tasmania’s history, restoring the truth of what happened to her and her people. The subtitle Cassandra Pybus has chosen is a powerful pointer to how she sees Truganini:  not as the ‘last of the Tasmanian...

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