by NRB | 30 Jul 2024 | Fiction |
Winner of the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award, photographer Kirsty Iltners’ first novel explores both darkness and light. If you want to freeze something fast, you increase the shutter speed – but it makes the image darker. Tom’s memories of his first encounter with Adeline...
by NRB | 10 Jun 2021 | Fiction |
Jen Craig’s novella immerses the reader in the mind of its protagonist as she reflects on reading, writing and remembering. Superficially, Jen Craig’s novella Panthers and the Museum of Fire is the narrator Jen’s response to the draft of a recently completed...
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