by NRB | 17 Jan 2024 | Fiction |
Homelessness, a mother and daughter on the lam – Trent Dalton’s third novel sprinkles magic dust on Brisbane’s grim underbelly. I was bothered by Lola in the Mirror. I enjoyed Trent Dalton’s earlier novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies, and Lola...
by NRB | 23 Nov 2023 | Fiction |
Evoking Sydney in the 1980s, Michael Fitzgerald’s third novel plays with ideas of identity, celebrity, and mortality. I’m not always Zelda, and Zelda is not always me. The voice is not Zelda’s and yet it is, and this is a very strange book, which is not at all what...
by NRB | 21 Feb 2023 | Fiction |
Within the layers of Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel are questions of agency, identity and interpretation. This exquisite novel charts many different intimacies, both physical and metaphorical – intimacies of confidences and private rituals, of eating and touching, and...
by NRB | 7 May 2020 | Fiction |
A successful Israeli writer unexpectedly finds himself dealing with his family’s wartime past in Emuna Elon’s new novel. The image flickered on the wall for just a heartbeat, but even in that fleeting second, Yoel managed to discern that the woman in the...
by NRB | 18 Mar 2013 | Non-fiction |
A return to Patti Miller’s childhood home in country New South Wales sparks this investigation of place, identity and dispossession. ‘D’ya have any blackfella in ya?’ The skinny woman across the room looked directly at me. So begins Patti Miller’s search under...