by NRB | 16 Feb 2017 | Non-fiction |
This anthology of Ellis’s writing reflects his wide range of interests and concerns. Scene 1: A man came up to me in a pub. I was reading Goodbye Jerusalem or Goodbye Babylon – one of the big books. ‘He’s an angry man, Ellis,’ he said. ‘He’s much to be angry about,’ I...
by NRB | 30 May 2012 | Fiction |
There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read Wendy James’s fourth novel and not think of the real-life case of Keli Lane, jailed for the murder of her baby Tegan, whose body has never been found. In...
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