Nicolas Rothwell

Red Heaven is the story of a child’s journey to adulthood, his loss of those he loves and his fixing of them in memory. It begins in the late 1960s in Switzerland, as the boy’s ideas about life are being shaped by two rival influences. These are his so-called aunts—imperious, strong-willed, ambitious—both exiles, at the mercy of outside political events;...

The new genre-defying book from the two-time Prime Minister's Award-winning author of Red Heaven and Belomor. A Siberian composer named Valentin comes to a remote roadhouse in the Western Desert to find the narrator of Yilkari, whom he first met the night the Berlin Wall fell. They travel on together, leading us deeper into the desert in this mesmerising, unclassifiable...

Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet - where fragments from distant lives intermingle and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion to escape...

Six reveries from acclaimed writer Nicolas Rothwell ranging between subjects near and far, and worlds old and new. Quicksilver begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the...