Posted on 16 Mar 2017 in Non-Fiction |
Baum’s memoir is replete with examples of emotional deftness of the highest order. I have very much enjoyed Caroline Baum’s published essays, and it is a delight to see two of them appearing as familiar landmarks in this big map of a memoir....
Posted on 14 Mar 2017 in Fiction |
Mothering Sunday gives us a moving exploration of a particular day, and opens up a rich look at the nature of writing. Graham Swift’s wonderful novella concerns one particular Mothering Sunday, that of 30 March 1924. Mothering Sunday was a sort of...
Posted on 10 Mar 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In the television program Life on Mars a character from the present has gone back to the past and at a moment of plot crisis shouts in frustration, ‘I need my mobile!’ ‘Your mobile what?’ someone responds. This illustrates the effect time and...
Posted on 9 Mar 2017 in Fiction |
These short stories from Sue Woolfe offer alienation, yearning and brilliance. The final story in this collection of eight pieces is an extract from the personal papers of an unnamed fiction writer, with footnotes by Professor Amelia Broughton, who...
Posted on 8 Mar 2017 in Giveaways & Quizzes |
We have one copy of Scoundrel Days to give away. To go in the draw, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SCOUNDREL in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm March 9, 2017. As we are unable...
Posted on 7 Mar 2017 in SFF |
World building is the real star of Lotus Blue, the debut science fiction novel for Australian author Cat Sparks. Very quickly in this novel Sparks creates a vision of a future Australia – an already ancient land – that’s further weighed down by...