by NRB | 28 Feb 2020 | Fiction |
Evie Wyld won the Miles Franklin Award for her last novel, All the Birds, Singing. Her latest, set on the coast of Scotland, contains both beauty and violence. The Bass Rock opens with a small girl, who we will shortly meet as the grown-up Viv, finding the body of a...
by NRB | 23 Jul 2013 | Fiction |
Why does this woman choose to live alone on an isolated sheep farm on a remote English island? A haunting new novel from the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In this neo-gothic pastorale, something or someone is brutally killing Jake Whyte’s sheep and prowling...
by NRB | 13 Jun 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Things that go bump in the night add to the suspense in this cautionary tale of young adult friendships. Marketed as Young Adult, Sweet Damage is the second novel from Rebecca James delving into the nature of friendship and relationships in a way that works for older...
by NRB | 3 Sep 2012 | Fiction |
Witchcraft, the gothic, religious persecution and the aesthetics of a talking head: the NRB editors discuss Jeanette Winterson’s new novel. Linda Funnell: This short book is like a little black cat: sleek and swift and twisting, an omen of trouble, its eyes full of...
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