by NRB | 7 Dec 2023 | Non-fiction |
In Stories for Harry & Ray, Michael Sexton brings together 43 of his essays on sport. The result is a small gem. Fellow Adelaide sportswriter Michael Sexton has a number of impressive books to his name – 1964: A Season, A Game, A State; Chappell’s Last Stand;...
by NRB | 27 Apr 2023 | Fiction |
Set in Sydney and the Adelaide Hills, Kate Morton’s new novel unwinds a mystery stretching across generations. Anyone who has read Kate Morton’s earlier novels will know that she excels at setting the scene, creating interesting and likeable characters, leading...
by NRB | 26 Jan 2023 | Fiction |
Fiona McFarlane’s story of a lost child reveals a cross-section of colonial Australia. ‘The boy met a god by the hollow tree.’ So begins Fiona McFarlane’s second novel, The Sun Walks Down, and so begins a kaleidoscopic tour through the social strata of early...
by NRB | 17 Feb 2022 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Australia’s leading writer of rural crime fiction, Garry Disher, has been quietly crafting an excellent series set in the dry wheatbelt of South Australia. This latest instalment won the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. There are three books now in the...
by NRB | 26 Jun 2014 | Fiction |
The limits of loyalty and discretion are tested in Christine Piper’s Vogel Award-winning novel about a Japanese doctor interned in South Australia during World War II. Christine Piper’s provocative and at times confronting debut tells the story of a Japanese doctor,...
by NRB | 5 Nov 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Garry Disher introduces a new character and Barry Maitland continues his successful Brock and Kolla series. Bitter Wash Road is the latest police procedural from Garry Disher. Introducing a new protagonist, and set in the isolated South Australian wheatbelt, this is a...