by NRB | 18 Aug 2022 | Fiction |
In her latest novel Kim Kelly blends a slice of Sydney’s history with an Irish love story. In February 1900, Sydney was sweltering in the sort of summer heat that, as The Rat Catcher’s Patrick O’Reilly says, sent ‘ale sizzling down your throat as if the amber...
by NRB | 4 Aug 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Historical novelist Kim Kelly (author of Walking, Sunshine and Wild Chicory) turns to the 21st century in her new novel to deliver a tale of intrigue and literary ambition. What a strange year 2020 has been. The world has already had bushfires, floods, pandemics,...
by NRB | 17 Mar 2020 | Fiction |
Kim Kelly’s newest novel is a story of love, ambition and prejudice in the medical world. When Kim Kelly stumbled across the true story of how a brilliant German–Australian orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Max Herz, had been interned as an enemy alien during World War I,...
by NRB | 5 Mar 2019 | Fiction |
Kim Kelly’s Sunshine, set in the aftermath of the First World War, offers hope amid loss and despair. The lives of three men and a woman, returned after World War I, intersect in a new offering from Kim Kelly – an historical novella set in the fictional hamlet...
by NRB | 12 Apr 2018 | Fiction |
An Australian Pride and Prejudice? This love story spans race and class in colonial Australia. In Kim Kelly’s new novel, her seventh, a simple scaffold of romantic historical fiction allows for a more sophisticated commentary on race, privilege and the place of women....
by NRB | 18 Feb 2016 | Fiction |
The author of big historical novels like Black Diamonds and Paper Daisies turns to the novella form in Wild Chicory for a very personal story. What does it take to move your family halfway around the world? Who tells the stories of ordinary people? Brigid is nine...
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