by NRB | 4 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction |
The award-winning author of Velocity and Dreamtime Alice returns with the searing, soul-baring memoir of her marriage to Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Mandy Sayer is 22 and still tap-dancing on street corners when she meets Yusef Komunyakaa during...
by NRB | 30 Jul 2013 | Fiction |
Dominic Knight’s third novel is a return to the snappy observational humour and romance of his debut Disco Boy. In today’s celebrity-obsessed world, we can imagine the pumped-up egos and diva behaviours encountered by those working in the entertainment industry....
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