by NRB | 15 Jan 2019 | Non-fiction |
The scholarly essays and personal reflections collected in Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre probe the broader meanings of one episode of shocking violence while also demonstrating the restorative power of historical truth-telling. In 1838, a group of armed...
by NRB | 18 Apr 2017 | Non-fiction |
This immensely satisfying biography of Queen Victoria humanises its subject. The final words of Julia’s Baird’s biography of 493 pages are ‘Victoria endured’. Victoria endured to the age of 81 years when the average life span of her subjects was 46 and only one in 20...
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