by NRB | 12 Jun 2020 | Extracts, Fiction |
We’re thrilled to continue this series of extracts from recent Australian books with an extract from award-winning author Carmel Bird’s latest novel Field of Poppies. What lies beneath the poppy field? There are rich and varied layers to Field of Poppies, which ranges...
by NRB | 26 Jan 2016 | Fiction |
The Best Small Fictions 2015 showcases microfiction and the potency of small things. What happens to time, space and meaning when fiction gets brief and small? This is an international anthology of 55 pieces of sub-1000-word fiction – microfiction, although there are...
by NRB | 19 Nov 2015 | SFF |
The author of An Instance of the Fingerpost explores what happens when words create worlds. What if Alice’s Wonderland was a science fiction creation rather than a fantastic one? By what previously undiscovered scientific laws would that be possible? In Arcadia, Pears...
by NRB | 2 Jan 2014 | Giveaways |
Test your feline intuition with this special quiz celebrating our literary cats. Answers are posted below. Good luck! 1 TS Eliot wrote a book of poems that inspired the hit musical Cats. What was the title of the original book? 2 What is the name of Lewis...
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