Posted on 5 Oct 2017 in Fiction |
Sixty Seconds gives a powerful insight into how ordinary people cope with extraordinary events. ‘Christ. The whole lot’s fucked. You think life is OK … but everything can go to shit in a second.’ And in those words lies the essence of Sixty...
Posted on 4 Oct 2017 in Giveaways & Quizzes |
Ah, spring … Forget your hayfever and revel in these four great titles. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘SPRING #1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the...
Posted on 3 Oct 2017 in Fiction |
In The Necessary Angel, CK Stead articulates the careless lives of privileged Parisians in a contemporary world of chaos, terrorism and war. The title references lines by Wallace Stevens: ‘I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, you...
Posted on 29 Sep 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
My maternal grandfather Robert Kennedy was a Scot hailing from the north of the country, possibly from a fishing community. Somehow he managed to get training as a chef. A story in the family mentioned Europe – Belgium – but there are no details....
Posted on 28 Sep 2017 in Crime Scene |
A debut novel set in a small Australian town, The Dark Lake is a police procedural with a hefty dose of romantic tension. DS Gemma Woodstock and Rosalind Ryan went to the same school. Back then Woodstock was obsessed with Ryan, who seemed to have...
Posted on 26 Sep 2017 in Non-Fiction |
Rosie Waterland gives a clear-eyed reckoning of her life in this new memoir. In Every Lie I’ve Ever Told, Rosie Waterland tells stories from her ruptured childhood – first laid bare in her 2016 memoir The Anti-Cool Girl – interlacing them with...