by NRB | 1 Nov 2018 | Non-fiction |
Leslie Jamison illuminates her own downhill slide into alcoholism and eventual uphill lurch into continuous sobriety by a scholarly investigation of the lives and works of numerous alcoholic literary luminaries. It isn’t often that a member of Alcoholics Anonymous,...
by NRB | 23 Dec 2016 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
Unusually, this year Jean only features one crime novel, but as usual our picks are widely different. Linda’s close following of Australian women’s fiction is evident, while Jean has returned to some classics. Jean’s picks: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean...
by NRB | 28 Jul 2016 | Fiction |
You don’t need to have read Jane Eyre to love Wide Sargasso Sea, but if you have, you will never think of it in the same way again. Wide Sargasso Sea writes back to Jane Eyre as a prequel. It traces the life of Rochester’s wife, Antoinette, from before she...
by NRB | 3 Nov 2015 | Fiction |
This counterpoint to Albert Camus’s classic The Stranger might just be a classic in itself. The murder that takes centre-stage in Kamel Daoud’s debut novel, The Meursault Investigation, actually took place in an earlier novel: Albert Camus’s The Stranger (1942)....
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