by NRB | 18 Mar 2021 | Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 12 May 2020 | Non-fiction |
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...
by NRB | 11 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction |
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...
by Jean Bedford | 22 Oct 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
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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