by NRB | 7 Apr 2016 | Fiction |
Inspired by family history and written in wonderfully fluid prose, Salt Creek brings to life the harsh beauty and the racially troubled past of the Coorong. In the Author’s Note at the end of this debut novel Lucy Treloar reveals that although the events that...
by NRB | 28 May 2015 | Non-fiction |
One Life provides a loving appreciation of a woman of her time who paved the way for the women of now. A few years after her mother died, Kate Grenville got out the papers she had left and found a number of exercise books with stories of her forebears, her childhood...
by NRB | 15 Dec 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Timothy Cootes! The Paris Review 208 This issue of the iconic literary magazine includes fiction from Zadie Smith, Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk; poetry from Frederick Seidel and John Ashbery; and interviews with...
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