by NRB | 19 May 2016 | Non-fiction |
At the Existentialist Café takes us into the lives and minds of the famous European philosophers of the 20th century. John-Paul Sartre had bulgy eyes that looked off in different directions. When you sat down with him in a Paris café for a yarn about philosophy, it...
by NRB | 23 Apr 2015 | Non-fiction |
This memoir provides a multi-dimensional and complex picture of the author. Patti Miller introduces her memoir of a year spent writing in Paris with a quote from Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), here translated as: ‘Bees ransack flowers here and flowers there, but...
by NRB | 28 Feb 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Tomorrow, 1 March 2014, is the third anniversary of the death of Hazel Rowley, who died of a cerebral haemorrhage in New York (where she had moved a few years before), at the age of 59. She was born in England but came to Australia as an eight-year-old and was...
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