Quicksilver

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Pub Date 13 Jun 2017 | Archive Date 27 Mar 2017
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Winner, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Non-Fiction, 2017 'Nicolas Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction and turns it into an extraordinary drama of spiritual quests and cultural hauntings.'—The Australian

‘If you’re sad that W.G. Sebald only managed to complete four “novels” in his lifetime, and you’ve read them all and you wish there were more, read Belomor…An excellent, excellent book.’—Conversational Reading

‘From exquisitely shaped nuggets of art history to suggestive character studies of eccentrics and esoteric quests…[Belomor] turns on the idea there is an underlying structure and pattern that will reveal itself in only the rarest of conditions; to devote one’s life to looking for it is both the inescapable fate and probable curse of the true thinker.’—Times Literary Supplement

'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.'—The Australian on Belomor

‘A remarkable work, tinged with sadness and verging on poetry, tempered now and then with humour and authentic historical insight.'—The Age on Belomor

Quicksilver begins with the contemplation of a lizard in the outback desert, but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition. In Quicksilver’s six eloquent essays Rothwell’s chief subject is always the Australian inland—its silent, timeless and utterly mysterious heart.

Nicolas Rothwell attended boarding schools in Europe, and graduated from Oxford. He was a foreign correspondent reporting from the Americas, the Pacific and Europe, latterly during the Yugoslav conflict. Since the 1990s he has worked for The Australian newspaper.


Winner, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Non-Fiction, 2017 'Nicolas Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction and turns it into an...


A Note From the Publisher

US release: 22 June 2017
UK release: 30 March 2017

US release: 22 June 2017
UK release: 30 March 2017


Advance Praise

‘Hugely impressive…Magpie brilliance.’—Guardian

‘A caster of spells.’—Australian Book Review

‘Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction and turns it into an extraordinary drama of spiritual quests and cultural hauntings.’—The Australian

‘Divining the sacred, Rothwell moves effortlessly from Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia to the Pilbara.’—Mark McKenna, Australian Book Review
Praise for Rothwell's Belomor
'Four narratives that range from exquisitely shaped nuggets of art history to suggestive character studies of eccentrics and esoteric quests, and from European cities in the midst of destruction to the hidden world of the Australian bush.’—Alex Clark, Times Literary Supplement, Best Books 2013
‘A quiet, meditative journey through the empty ruins of the world.’—Australian Book Review, Best Books 2013
'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.'—The Australian
‘A remarkable work, tinged with sadness and verging on poetry, tempered now and then with humour and authentic historical insight...A contemporary Australian novel of such beauty, it's hard to find a precedent.'—Sunday Age
‘Utterly beyond classification… In Rothwell’s hands, the myriad ways in which storytelling serves as an impetus for self-discovery form the axis around which Belomor’s unnamed narrator navigates.’—Open Letters Monthly
‘If you’re sad that W.G. Sebald only managed to complete four “novels” in his lifetime, and you’ve read them all and you wish there were more, read Belomor…This is an excellent, excellent book.’—Conversational Reading

‘Hugely impressive…Magpie brilliance.’—Guardian

‘A caster of spells.’—Australian Book Review

‘Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction...


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