by NRB | 4 Jun 2020 | Non-fiction |
Tanya Heaslip is ‘An Alice Girl’ and she reveals what life was like growing up on a remote property north of Alice Springs. This new memoir from the author of Alice to Prague (reviewed here) starts dramatically. The author, her youngest brother,...
by NRB | 15 Aug 2019 | Non-fiction |
These two memoirs of travel and dislocation present contrasting approaches to venturing into the unknown. Alice to Prague and In Love with the World are very different books with contrasting styles and perspectives and different stories to tell. Yet, fundamentally,...
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