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ANNE SEBBA The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

ANNE SEBBA The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

by NRB | 19 Jun 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

British historian Anne Sebba’s account of the Nazi death camp describes the dissonance of beautiful music in a place of suffering and death. A monstrous, life-and-death version of sing for your supper, The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz fascinates as it horrifies with...
SUZANNE LEAL The Deceptions. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart

SUZANNE LEAL The Deceptions. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart

by NRB | 18 Mar 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

The deceptions in Suzanne Leal’s third novel span World War II Czechoslovakia and the Holocaust to present-day Sydney. The genesis of this novel was the story of a Czech gendarme who had formed a relationship with a young Jewish woman he was guarding. Leal had...
ARNOLD ZABLE The Watermill. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

ARNOLD ZABLE The Watermill. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 12 May 2020 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Arnold Zable finds resilience and inspiration among the survivors of extraordinary suffering. In his quartet of stories, based on real people and events, Arnold Zable travels to places whose histories feature, within living memory, genocidal regimes that visited...
PHILIPPE SANDS East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

PHILIPPE SANDS East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 11 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

East West Street fuses biography, family memoir and journalism, culminating in an account of the Nuremberg trials told with the pace of a legal thriller. The idea that a government shouldn’t have impunity to murder its own citizens because it finds them undesirable or...

Crime Scene: DEREK B MILLER Norwegian by Night. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 22 Oct 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Simply one of the best crime novels of the year. Transcending genre, and blending genres, Norwegian by Night is partly a getaway/chase/escape thriller; partly a police-procedural; partly a social novel about family, displacement, guilt, grief and war, and, throughout,...
             

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