by NRB | 28 Aug 2020 | Extracts, Fiction |
We’re delighted to bring you an extract from Sam Coley’s debut novel State Highway One, winner of the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Told with intimacy and pace, it’s a story of reconnecting with home and confronting the wounds of the past. Alex hasn’t seen his...
by NRB | 9 May 2019 | Fiction |
Shortlisted for the the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2017, this debut novel from Julie Keys explores the life of a woman artist in Sydney in the 1920s. The first couple of times I passed her house there was no one around. Not that I saw anyone much at that...
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