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TIM WINTON The Shepherd’s Hut. Reviewed By Tom Patterson

TIM WINTON The Shepherd’s Hut. Reviewed By Tom Patterson

by NRB | 9 Aug 2018 | Fiction | 1 comment

The Shepherd‘s Hut is more than a novel: it has the shape and pattern of a very Australian, very modern, epic. Tim Winton can be hard on his characters. He drowned the Lambs’ favourite son, then only half gave him back. He sent Scully on a chase through Europe...
ROGER AVERILL Relatively Famous. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

ROGER AVERILL Relatively Famous. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

by NRB | 1 May 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

A playful real-but-fake fictional world is conjured in Relatively Famous.  The title of Roger Averill’s new novel establishes the theme and slightly arch tone that underlie this intriguing metafictional fiction. Narrator Michael Madigan is the son of famous...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on book tours

The Godfather: Peter Corris on book tours

by NRB | 25 Apr 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I’ve never heard an author say, ‘I’m really looking forward to my upcoming book tour. Can’t wait to go to five or six cities in a week and give talks and do signings. Let me at it!’ The book tour is very common in the United States and, by all accounts, it can be...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on book tours

The Godfather: Peter Corris on literary biography

by NRB | 7 Feb 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I’ve been reading biographies of two writers I admire in part – Norman Mailer and George Orwell. Literary biography is something I enjoy and the best examples of it, such as Richard Ellmann on Oscar Wilde and Norman Sherry on Graham Greene,  have given me enormous...
             

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