In 1974 I held a one-year lectureship in History at the University of Melbourne. I hated it, from the physical setting to the teaching itself. When I was an undergraduate ten or so years before, the History Department had been housed in the...
You don’t need to have read Jane Eyre to love Wide Sargasso Sea, but if you have, you will never think of it in the same way again. Wide Sargasso Sea writes back to Jane Eyre as a prequel. It traces the life of Rochester’s wife, Antoinette,...
We are giving away a copy of Ann Turner’s Antarctic thriller Out of the Ice. To go in the draw, just email your name and address to editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Ann Turner’ in the subject line by 6pm today, 27 July...
Two Australian thriller writers have each set their latest novels amid the beauty and danger of Antarctica. Antarctica is one of the planet’s last great wilderness areas – for some, a place ripe for plundering, for others, an area that must...
Do you remember the boot sale, when cars pulled up in municipal car parks and displayed items for sale at cheap prices from the back of the vehicle plus, perhaps, a small folding table? Some of the cars hauled trailers but this was thought to be...
A third Le Fanu crime novel in under two years will keep Brian Stoddart’s growing army of readers happy. When the story opens in the 1920s we find Chris Le Fanu undertaking higher duties as Acting Inspector-General of Police for the Madras...
