by NRB | 12 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction |
Toby Faber delivers a slice of publishing history replete with (now) famous authors. Toby Faber is the grandson of Geoffrey Faber who, in 1929, established the publishing firm Faber & Faber. He tells the story of Faber & Faber mostly through original...
by NRB | 3 May 2016 | Non-fiction |
Growing Wild is the entertaining and instructive memoir of a writer and publisher who always took notice, and always took notes. If you’re starting your writing and publishing life in 2016, can you quite imagine how different things were before the tsunami of...
by NRB | 22 Mar 2016 | Fiction |
Everyday life evaporates into unsettling ambiguity in Fiona McFarlane’s new collection of short stories. McFarlane explored the slipperiness of reality in her novel The Night Guest – shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin award – where the central character, Ruth,...
by NRB | 1 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
2014 saw an interesting year for Australian literature – an Australian again winning the Man Booker Prize, plenty of controversy over the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and many great new books published. Test your own memory of the past year...
by NRB | 10 Jan 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Recently, I was walking up Watkin Street from Wilson towards King in Newtown on a Saturday afternoon. The street was parked solid and as one car pulled away another, whose driver must have been lurking and dwelling on the spot, slid in. The look of satisfaction on the...
by NRB | 3 Apr 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Some writers of popular and big-selling fiction claim that they would be able to write literary novels. I heard Lee Child and Matthew Reilly state this on Jennifer Byrne’s television program, and in a recent article on Bryce Courtenay in the Sydney Morning...
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