by NRB | 23 Oct 2014 | Fiction |
This sophisticated meditation on the nature of genius was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Richard Powers is primarily a philosopher who’s managed to disguise himself as a literary novelist. He sets up his literary canvases as projects of philosophical...
by NRB | 17 Dec 2013 | Fiction |
Inspired by both his father’s experiences as a prisoner-of-war and the life of Weary Dunlop, Richard Flanagan’s new novel explores trauma and heroism on the Thai-Burma railway. Beside the funeral pyre of Australian soldiers killed by cholera, Dorrigo Evans, surgeon...