by NRB | 18 Jun 2019 | Non-fiction |
This award-winning memoir is a cry from the heart, revealing, through poetry and prose, the brutality of indefinite detention on Manus Island. Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish/Iranian asylum seeker who sought to come to Australia on a leaky, unseaworthy boat. He was...
by NRB | 8 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
Post-traumatic stress is at the heart of Gregory Day’s lyrical and profound fourth novel. Wesley Cress has spent the Second World War as a soldier under British command on the Greek island of Crete, home of the ancient Minoan civilisation. After his return to...
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...
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