by NRB | 20 Sep 2022 | Fiction |
The author of The Snow Goose tells the story of a London charlady and a Dior dress. This is an old-fashioned book. Not just because the two stories in it were first published in 1958 and 1960, but because the world has changed so much since then. The likes of Mrs...
by NRB | 26 Oct 2021 | Fiction |
Miles Franklin-winner Michelle de Kretser offers unsettling possibilities and questions to ponder in her latest fiction. Scary Monsters is really two novels in one book. The publishers decided to print each novel so that it starts from the opposite end of the book....
by NRB | 11 Aug 2020 | Non-fiction |
James Gardner’s history of the Louvre includes emperors and architects, social and political upheaval, war and revolution – and great works of art. Before the Louvre was a museum, it was a palace, and before that a fortress, and before that a plot of earth, much...
by NRB | 19 Jun 2014 | Non-fiction |
Telling stories he shouldn’t: the gossipy, titillating and always fascinating world of Edmund White’s Paris. There is something deliciously circular about Edmund White’s fiction and memoirs. I have been reading them constantly since I was a teenager in the late 1980s,...