by NRB | 1 Jun 2021 | Fiction |
The new novel from Briohny Doyle, author of The Island Will Sink and Adult Fantasy, explores motherhood and capitalism. In 2015, 35- year-old mother of seven Akon Guode drove her car into a lake in Melbourne’s outer west, resulting in the deaths of three of her...
by NRB | 27 Jun 2013 | Non-fiction |
Sydney in the 1890s: shame, syphilis and infanticide. If you were unmarried and pregnant, or married and unable to afford another child, you had very few choices in Sydney in the late 1800s. There was no contraception, no safe abortion, no support for poor families...
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