Belomor - Softcover

Nicolas Rothwell is the award-winning author of Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway and Journeys to the Interior. He lives in Darwin, and is the Australian newspaper’s roving northern correspondent.

'A captivating meditation on art, human history and spirituality... hugely impressive.'
Alex Clark, Guardian UK

‘Masterful and unforgettable.’
Pico Iyer

‘A caster of spells.’
Australian Book Review

‘Melancholy, singular, exhilarating, Belomor reads like a haunted history of the world.’
Delia Falconer

‘Belomor is exhilarating, challenging and draining...The existence of a final page, a final sentence, presupposes some sort of climax, but Belomor would be better suited to looping back and beginning all over again.’
Adelaide Advertiser

‘His writing wafts across the consciousness like smoke, so it’s fitting that the title of Rothwell’s book is also a Russian cigarette.’
Qantas magazine

‘Rothwell’s writing resists easy description. He roams the borderlands between memoir and fiction and insinuates himself into gaps between time and place...His prose is lush and often beautiful.’
Weekend Australian

‘At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell’s ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged.’
Sydney Morning Herald

‘Thoughout these pages, Rothwell proves adept at navigating the cross-currents of European cultural history. Nevertheless, the main emphasis of Belomor falls elsewhere, on the physical, cultural and spiritual complexion of a seemingly very different world: the vast, enigmatic spaces of the north of Australia that Rothwell has traversed for many years. This frequently oblique but almost always compelling book seeks to reconcile those apparently opposed worlds, tracing subtle but significant affinities between Europe’s historically determined self-consciousness and what might be called the Dreamtime.’
Saturday Age, Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald

‘A peculiar and bewitching work of Australian literature...a hymn of praise to the north and its inhabitants.’
Herald Sun


'A captivating meditation on art, human history and spirituality... hugely impressive.'
Alex Clark, Guardian UK

Masterful and unforgettable.’
Pico Iyer

A caster of spells.’
Australian Book Review

Melancholy, singular, exhilarating, Belomor reads like a haunted history of the world.’
Delia Falconer

Belomor is exhilarating, challenging and draining The existence of a final page, a final sentence, presupposes some sort of climax, but Belomor would be better suited to looping back and beginning all over again.’
Adelaide Advertiser

His writing wafts across the consciousness like smoke, so it’s fitting that the title of Rothwell’s book is also a Russian cigarette.’
Qantas magazine

Rothwell’s writing resists easy description. He roams the borderlands between memoir and fiction and insinuates himself into gaps between time and place His prose is lush and often beautiful.’
Weekend Australian

At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell’s ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged.’
Sydney Morning Herald

Thoughout these pages, Rothwell proves adept at navigating the cross-currents of European cultural history. Nevertheless, the main emphasis of Belomor falls elsewhere, on the physical, cultural and spiritual complexion of a seemingly very different world: the vast, enigmatic spaces of the north of Australia that Rothwell has traversed for many years. This frequently oblique but almost always compelling book seeks to reconcile those apparently opposed worlds, tracing subtle but significant affinities between Europe’s historically determined self-consciousness and what might be called the Dreamtime.’
Saturday Age, Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald

A peculiar and bewitching work of Australian literature a hymn of praise to the north and its inhabitants.’
Herald Sun