by NRB | 12 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction |
Toby Faber delivers a slice of publishing history replete with (now) famous authors. Toby Faber is the grandson of Geoffrey Faber who, in 1929, established the publishing firm Faber & Faber. He tells the story of Faber & Faber mostly through original...
by NRB | 18 Dec 2018 | Non-fiction |
The iconic poet continues to fascinate and Sylvia Plath’s letters shed light on her astonishing work ethic, her marriage to Ted Hughes, and the final years of her life. This second volume of Sylvia Plath’s letters takes up her correspondence from where Volume I...
by NRB | 13 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I was exposed to poetry in primary school – Walter de la Mare, perhaps, and ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar almost certainly. The greatest impact was from the Australian bush ballads by Lawson, Paterson, Gordon, et al. A fourth-grade teacher, Mr Harry, was an...
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