Image of cover of book The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olson, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

LYNNE OLSON The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 10 July 2025 | Non-fiction | 1 Comment

Lynne Olson documents how, within the horror of a Nazi concentration camp, the women of the French Resistance continued to resist. In Paris, the granddaughter of Jacqueline Péry d’Alincourt remembers her grandmother entertaining three old friends to afternoon tea....

Image of cover of book Unconventional Women by Sarah Gilbert, reviewed by Suzanne Marks in the Newtown Review of Books.

SARAH GILBERT Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 8 July 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

Sarah Gilbert’s account of this religious order offers a rare insight into the women who chose to separate themselves from the world. In the 1950s and 60s, eight young women left their families to join an enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. Gilbert's book explores...

Image of cover of book Salvage by Jennifer Mills, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.

JENNIFER MILLS Salvage. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

by NRB | 3 July 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 Comments

The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability. There is plenty going on in Australia at the moment that reflects the impacts of climate change. Massive bushfires, years-long droughts, tropical cyclones...

Image of cover of book The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson by Belinda Lyons-Lee, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

BELINDA LYONS-LEE The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 1 July 2025 | Fiction | 0 Comments

The new novel from the author of Tussaud imagines what might have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Have you ever looked closely at your wardrobe in the dark? Have you ever lain in bed, perhaps with the candle flickering on your bedside...

Image of cover of book Upon A Starlit Tide by Kell Woods, reviewed by Amelia Dudley in the Newtown Review of Books.

KELL WOODS Upon A Starlit Tide. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 26 June 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 Comments

Kell Woods blends history, folklore and fairytales in her second novel set on the French coast in eighteenth-century Saint Malo. I know what it is to cry and have no one but the sea there to listen. Lucinde de Leon has always loved the sea. Whenever she can, she...