by NRB | 26 Nov 2015 | Fiction |
The Women’s Pages is as captivating as it is irresistibly clever. In the closing moments of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Lockwood, the novel’s narrator, visits the graves of Catherine, Edgar and Heathcliff, the soil covering Heathcliff’s grave...
by NRB | 13 Aug 2015 | Non-fiction |
These two collections give richly personal insights into how books and reading are critical to a strong and resilient culture. To borrow Giulia Giuffrè’s metaphor for libraries and bookshops, entering the pages of these anthologies is like ‘entering...
by NRB | 19 Nov 2013 | Fiction |
The author of The Household Guide to Dying delivers a collection of short stories infused with hope. Debra Adelaide is one of those rare writers who is able to document everyday lives with wit, pathos and vivacity. She presents us with properly rounded characters...
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