by NRB | 4 Oct 2016 | Fiction |
Southern Ruby is an epic story with deep themes, presented in an entertaining way. Southern Ruby, the seventh novel by Australian author Belinda Alexandra, is an epic traversing two continents and three generations in pursuit of one central question: are we the...
by NRB | 27 May 2014 | Non-fiction |
This book examines human behaviour and moral choices in a hospital fighting for its patients’ lives and its own in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It was like a knife, death. Always waiting to cut. The medical profession is predicated upon saving lives and...
by NRB | 5 Dec 2013 | Fiction |
A natural disaster provokes emotional and ethical dilemmas for the characters in Kathryn Heyman’s new novel. We each have our own floodline: that high watermark that represents the upper limits of our capacity to cope with the challenges life presents to us. Depending...
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