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SUE WOOLFE Do You Love Me Or What? Reviewed by Carmel Bird

SUE WOOLFE Do You Love Me Or What? Reviewed by Carmel Bird

by NRB | 9 Mar 2017 | Fiction | 0 comments

These short stories from Sue Woolfe offer alienation, yearning and brilliance. The final story in this collection of eight pieces is an extract from the personal papers of an unnamed fiction writer, with footnotes by Professor Amelia Broughton, who has prepared...

THOMAS KENEALLY and ROSIE SCOTT (eds) A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

by NRB | 12 Nov 2013 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

This anthology of essays, fiction, memoir and poetry contains some powerful and impassioned writing from some of Australia’s best-known writers.  The first contribution in this absorbing book, ‘Moonlight’, by Rodney Hall, is a wonderful piece of...
             

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