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TOBY FABER Faber & Faber: The untold story. Reviewed by Ann Skea

TOBY FABER Faber & Faber: The untold story. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 12 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

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...
HILARY SPURLING Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

HILARY SPURLING Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

by NRB | 7 Dec 2017 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

This biography of Anthony Powell is a fine examination of the creative process and the time between the two world wars. For those who have read and loved – or, as in my case, wallowed in – the 12 novels of A Dance to the Music of Time, this...
NICK RICHARDSON The Game of Their Lives. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

NICK RICHARDSON The Game of Their Lives. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 25 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The Game of Their Lives is a compelling account of Australian Rules football and the men who played it in a time of war. Central to this story is the exhibition match played between teams from the Australian Imperial Force’s 3rd Division and the training units at...

STEVEN CARROLL A World of Other People. Reviewed by Tony Bremner

by NRB | 3 Sep 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

The novelist reveals himself a poet in this story of love in wartime London that channels TS Eliot. Steven Carroll is a fine writer, with a Proustian ability to explore the minutiae of the instant. He loves to tell us that ‘while this is happening here, over there...
             

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