Crime Scene: CATH FERLA Ghost Girls. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
Steeped in the smells and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, weighted by the sinister atmosphere of a private world of terrible crimes, Ghost Girls is a remarkable debut...
Read MoreKirsten Tranter giveaway
We have a copy of Kirsten Tranter’s new novel Hold to give away. To win, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm today, Tuesday 29...
Read MoreKIRSTEN TRANTER Hold. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
The author of The Legacy and A Common Loss returns with another examination of the nature of grief and loss. Shelley and David have moved into a terrace in Sydney’s...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on as-told-to autobiographies Part 1
I’ve been commissioned to work on the autobiographies and memoirs of notable people six times. Five of these projects were completed with the books being published and...
Read MoreMURIEL BARBERY The Life of Elves. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
The author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog creates an intensely poetic battle between good and evil in The Life of Elves. This story concerns two changeling babies...
Read MoreEaster 2016 Giveaway #2
Here’s another great bundle of books from the NRB Easter Bunny! To enter the draw, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Thursday 24 March...
Read MoreFIONA MCFARLANE The High Places. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir
Everyday life evaporates into unsettling ambiguity in Fiona McFarlane’s new collection of short stories. McFarlane explored the slipperiness of reality in her novel The...
Read MoreEaster 2016 Giveaway #1
What better way to spend the Easter break than with a luscious pile of new books? To enter, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Tuesday 22nd...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Viking traces
Many years ago a letter came to me from a firm of solicitors in Cumberland, England. It had originally been addressed to my father, who had died a few years before and...
Read MoreCrime Scene: AOIFE CLIFFORD All These Perfect Strangers. Reviewed by Ruth Wykes
This taut, beautifully written Australian crime fiction debut takes a fresh approach. This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths...
Read MoreSTAN GRANT Talking to My Country. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan
Part polemic, part memoir, Stan Grant’s new book is a passionate account of the toll of a lifetime of negotiating between two cultures. The contradictions of...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on The Woman in White – book and film
As I wrote in an earlier column, I read Wilkie Collins’s ‘sensational novels’ in my younger days and admired them as good yarns. More recently I read (when I could...
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