by NRB | 12 Oct 2021 | Fiction |
The Airways is Jennifer Mills’ third novel and ranges from Sydney to Beijing as it explores themes of infection and the banality of violence. Someone recently tweeted that if we gave male violence the same attention as Covid, men would have been under curfew for...
by NRB | 1 Jul 2019 | Giveaways |
This Monday we’re giving away two very different novels about life outside Australia’s cities: Jennifer Mills’s Dyschronia, set in a small coastal town and longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award, and previous Miles Franklin winner Sofie...
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