Darkest Place is Australian thriller writer Jaye Ford’s fifth book of stand-alones involving women under threat who are definitely not victims. In 2011 Jaye Ford released Beyond Fear, telling the story of a girls’ weekend away at an isolated...
In True Girt Hunt successfully blends his tongue-in-cheekiness and sometimes dark humour with detailed research. Following on from the death of Governor Macquarie, the cliffhanger ending of his 2013 bestseller Girt, Hunt’s new volume opens with the...
Our last run-up-to-Christmas giveaway, just in time for you to put these under the tree – or keep them for yourself. To enter the draw to win all four great books email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #5 in the subject line and...
It is 5.40 pm on a spring afternoon in Earlwood. I’ve been in the flat all day – listening to the radio, watching golf on TV and enjoying the reading of EL Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate (1989) as an audio book. I’ve listened to The World Today on Radio...
Not Working is a novel for the millennial generation. The 21st century is one giant tangle of paradoxes. We have better and easier access to information than ever before, yet we seem less certain about anything. We are more educated than our...
Juliet Marillier’s fine new fairy tale weaves stories within stories in complex and riveting ways. This is the third volume to follow the adventures of the healer Blackthorn and her friend and companion Grim, set in the northern Irish part of...
