Sarah Gilbert’s account of this religious order offers a rare insight into the women who chose to separate themselves from ...

The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability.

The new novel from the author of Tussaud imagines what might have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr ...

RACHEL MADDOW Prequel: An American fight against fascism. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck by NRB | 13 Feb 2024 | Non-fiction | 0 comments Rachel Maddow’s account of how Nazism gained a foothold among US ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

Ross McMullin’s account of those who fought in World War I is a masterpiece of storytelling, weaving family, community, sporting, and military history into a satisfying whole. In previous books such ...

Nigel Featherstone’s second novel is a story of masculinity and modern Australia. Throwing a clock at his mother in frustration is, for Patrick in Nigel Featherstone’s latest novel, a realisation and ...

This week we’re delighted to bring you an extract from Julie Janson’s new novel Benevolence. In this vivid and very moving novel, Indigenous author Julie Janson takes us back to the early days of ...

This diverse anthology challenges stereotypes by bringing together Autistic women and gender-diverse writers to share their experiences. In their introduction to Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow ...

PHIL CRAIG 1945: The Reckoning. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck by NRB | 3 Jun 2025 | Non-fiction | 1 comment This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war ...

Robert Drewe’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of the Kelly Gang, he gave a cover endorsement to Robert Drewe’s Our Sunshine, ...